2016 GRAMMY NOMS REVEALED
Kendrick Lamar leads the field with 11 noms overall, including a pair for his collaboration with Taylor Swift on "Bad Blood." Swift and The Weeknd are next with seven apiece.
Here are the nominees in the Big Four categories, announced by Alicia Keys on CBS This Morning, followed by a selection of additional categories. The complete list is at grammy.com.
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Alabama Shakes, Sound & Color
Kendrick Lamar, To Pimp a Butterfly
Chris Stapleton, Traveller
Taylor Swift, 1989
The Weeknd, Beauty Behind the Madness
RECORD OF THE YEAR
D’Angelo and the Vanguard, “Really Love”
Mark Ronson, “Uptown Funk!”
Ed Sheeran, “Thinking Out Loud”
Taylor Swift, “Blank Space”
The Weeknd, “Can’t Feel My Face”
SONG OF THE YEAR
Kendrick Lamar, “Alright”
Taylor Swift, “Blank Space”
Little Big Town, “Girl Crush”
Wiz Khalifa f/Charlie Puth, “See You Again”
Ed Sheeran, “Thinking Out Loud”
BEST NEW ARTIST
Courtney Barnett
James Bay
Sam Hunt
Tori Kelly
Meghan Trainor
Best Rap Album
2014 Forest Hills Drive, J. Cole
Compton, Dr. Dre
If Youre Reading This It’s Too Late, Drake
To Pimp a Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
The Pinkprint, Nicki Minaj
Best Rap/ Sung Collaboration
“One Man Can Change the World,” Big Sean f/Kanye West & John Legend
“Glory,” Common & John Legend
“Classic Man,” Jidenna f/Roman GianArthur
“These Walls,” Kendrick Lamar f/Bilal, Anna Wise & Thundercat
“Only,” Nicki Minaj f/Drake, Lil Wayne & Chris Brown
Best Rap Performance
“Apparently,” J. Cole
“Back to Back,” Drake
“Trap Queen,” Fetty Wap
“Alright,” Kendrick Lamar
“Truffle Butter,” Nicki Minaj ft/Drake & Lil Wayne
“All Day,” Kanye West f/Theophilus London, Allan Kingdom & Paul McCartney
Best Rap Song
“All Day,” Kanye West f/Theophilus London, Allan Kingdom & Paul McCartney
“Energy,” Drake
“Trap Queen,” Fetty Wap
“Alright,” Kendrick Lamr
“Glory,” Common & John Legend
Best Pop Vocal Album
Piece by Piece, Kelly Clarkson
How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful, Florence + the Machine
Uptown Special, Mark Ronson
1989, Taylor Swift
Before This World, James Taylor
Best Pop Solo Performance
“Heartbeat Song,” Kelly Clarkson
“Love Me Like You Do,” Ellie Goulding
“Thinking Out Loud,” Ed Sheeran
“Blank Space,” Taylor Swift
“Can’t Feel My Face,” The Weeknd
Best Pop Duo/ Group Performance
“Ship to Wreck,” Florence + the Machine
“Sugar,” Maroon 5
“Uptown Funk,” Mark Ronson. f/Bruno Mars
“Bad Blood,” Taylor Swift f/Kendrick Lamar
“See You Again,” Wiz Khalifa f/Charlie Puth
Best Alternative Music Album
Sound & Color, Alabama Shakes
Vulnicura, Björk
The Waterfall, My Morning Jacket
Currents, Tame Impala
Star Wars, Wilco
Best Rock Album
Chaos and the Calm, James Bay
Kintsugi, Death Cab for Cutie
Mister Asylum, Highly Suspect
Drones, Muse
.5: The Gray Chapter, Slipknot
Best Rock Performance
“Don’t Wanna Fight,” Alabama Shakes
“What Kind of Man,” Florence + the Machine
“Something From Nothing,” Foo Fighters
“Ex’s & Oh’s,” Elle King
“Moaning Lisa Smile,” Wolf Alice
Best Rock Song
“Don’t Wanna Fight,” Alabama Shakes, songwriters (Alabama Shakes)
“What Kind of Man,” John Hill, Tom Hull & Florence Welch, songwriters (Florence + The Machine)
“Hold Back The River,” Iain Archer & James Bay, songwriters (James Bay)
“Ex’s & Oh’s,” Dave Bassett & Elle King, songwriters (Elle King)
“Lydia,” Richard Meyer, Ryan Meyer & Johnny Stevens, songwriters (Highly Suspect)
Best R&B Performance
“If I Don’t Have You,” Tamar Braxton
“Rise Up,” Andra Day
“Breathing Underwater,” Hiatus Kaiyote
“Planes,” Jeremih f/J. Cole
“Earned It (Fifty Shades Of Grey),” The Weeknd
Best R&B Song
“Coffee,” Brook Davis & Miguel Pimentel, songwriters (Miguel)
“Let It Burn,” Kenny B. Edmonds, Jazmine Sullivan & Dwane M. Weir II, songwriters (Jazmine Sullivan)
“Really Love,” D’Angelo & Kendra Foster, songwriters (D’Angelo and the Vanguard)
“Shame,” Warryn Campbell, Tyrese Gibson & DJ Rogers Jr, songwriters (Tyrese)
“Earned It (Fifty Shades of Grey),” Ahmad Balshe, Stephan Moccio, Jason Quenneville & Abel Tesfaye, songwriters (The Weeknd)
Best R&B Album
Coming Home, Leon Bridges
Black Messiah, D’Angelo and the Vanguard
Cheers to the Fall, Andra Day
Reality Show, Jazmine Sullivan
Forever Charlie, Charlie Wilson
Best Country Album
Montavallo, Sam Hunt
Pain Killer, Little Big Town
The Blade, Ashley Monroe
Pageant Material, Kacey Musgraves
Traveller, Chris Stapleton
Best Country Duo/ Group Performance
“Stay a Little Longer,” Brothers Osborne
“If I Needed You,” Joey + Rory
“The Driver,” Charles Kelley, Dierks Bentley & Eric Paslay
“Girl Crush,” Little Big Town
“Lonely Tonight,” Blake Shelton f/Ashley Monroe
Best Country Song
“Chances Are,” Hayes Carll, songwriter (Lee Ann Womack)
“Diamond Rings and Old Barstools,” Barry Dean, Luke Laird & Jonathan Singleton, songwriters (Tim McGraw)
“Girl Crush,” Hillary Lindsey, Lori McKenna & Liz Rose, songwriters (Little Big Town)
“Hold My Hand,” Brandy Clark & Mark Stephen Jones, songwriters (Brandy Clark)
“Traveller,” Chris Stapleton, songwriter (Chris Stapleton)
Best Country Solo Performance
“Burning House,” Cam
“Traveller,” Chris Stapleton
“Little Toy Guns,” Carrie Underwood
“John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16,” Keith Urban
“Chances Are,” Lee Ann Womack
Best Americana Album
The Firewatcher's Daughter, Brandi Carlile
The Traveling Kind, Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell
Something More Than Free, Jason Isbell
Mono, The Mavericks
The Phosphorescent Blues, Punch Brothers
Best Musical Theater Album
An American in Paris
Fun Home
Hamilton
The King and I
Something Rotten!
Best Arrangement, Instrumental or a cappella
“Bruno Mars,” Vocally Challenged
“Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy,” Pentatonix
“Do You Hear What I Hear?,” Committed
“Ghost of a Chance,” Bob James & Nathan East
“You and the Night and the Music,” John Fedchock New York Big Band
Best Dance Electronic Album
Our Love, Caribou
Born in the Echoes, The Chemical Brothers
Caracal, Disclosure
In Colour, Jamie xx
Skrillex and Diplo Present Jack Ü, Skrillex and Diplo
Best Dance Recording
“We’re All We Need,” Above and Beyond f/Zoë Johnston
“Go,” The Chemical Brothers
“Never Catch Me,” Flying Lotus f/Kendrick Lamar
“Runaway (U & I),” Galantis
“Where Are Ü Now,” Skrillex and Diplo w/Justin Bieber
Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media
Empire: Season 1
Fifty Shades of Grey
Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me
Pitch Perfect 2
Selma
Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media
“Earned It (Fifty Shades of Grey),” Ahmad Balshe, Stephan Moccio, Jason Quenneville & Abel Tesfaye, songwriters (The Weeknd)
“Glory,” Lonnie Lynn, Che Smith & John Stephens, songwriters (Common & John Legend)
“Love Me Like You Do,” Savan Kotecha, Max Martin, Tove Nilsson, Ali Payami & Ilya Salmanzadeh, songwriters (Ellie Goulding)
“See You Again,” Andrew Cedar, Justin Franks, Charles Puth & Cameron Thomaz, songwriters (Wiz Khalifa f/Charlie Puth)
“Til It Happens to You,” Lady Gaga & Diane Warren, songwriters (Lady Gaga)
Score Soundtrack for Visual Media
Birdman
The Imitation Game
Interstellar
The Theory of Everything
Whiplash
Best Music Video
“LSD,” A$AP Rocky
“I Feel Love,” The Dead Weather
“Alright,” Kendrick Lamar
“Bad Blood,” Taylor Swift f/Kendrick Lamar
“Freedom,” Pharrell Williams
Best Music Film
Sonic Highways, Foo Fighters
Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown, James Brown
What Happened, Miss Simone, Nina Simone
The Wall, Roger Waters
Amy, Amy Winehouse
