Nominations for the 61st GRAMMY Awards were unveiled this morning and Rapper Kendrick Lamar leads the way with eight nominations for his work from the BLACK PANTHER Soundtrack. Lamar is up for Record of The Year with All The Stars, (ft. SZA), Album of the Year for Black Panther: The Album, Song of The Year with All The Stars, Best Rap Performance for King’s Dead, Best Rap/Sung Performance for All The Stars, Best Rap Song for King’s Dead and Win and Best Song Written For Visual Media with All The Stars.
Not far behind is Toronto’s Drake with seven nods including God’s Plan nominated for Record of the Year, Song of The Year and Best Rap Song categories. His Disc SCORPION is up for Album of the Year, Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance with Sicko Mode and also, Best Rap Performance on Nice For What.
Female artists are front and center also with Lady Gaga and Cardi B getting five nominations each. Among the Lady Gaga‘s nominations, she gets four nods for her work on the A STAR IS BORN Soundtrack for Bradley Cooper collaboration, Shallow in the categories of Song of The Year, Record of the Year, Best Pop Duo/Group Performance and Best Song written for Visual Media categories with Shallow.
Cardi B also gets five nominations including Record of The Year for I Like It and the Album of The Year with debut disc, Invasion of Privacy, Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for Maroon 5 collaboration Girls Like You, Best Rap Performance for Be Careful and Best Rap Album for Invasion of Privacy.
Nominees for the highly-competitive BEST NEW ARTIST category include:
CHLOE X HALLE
LUKE COMBS
GRETA VAN FLEET
H.E.R.
DUA LIPA
MARGO PRICE
BEBE REXHA
JORJA SMITH
See Nominees in the major categories below:
Album of the Year
H.E.R. – H.E.R.
Brandi Carlile – By the Way, I Forgive You
Drake – Scorpion
Various Artists – Black Panther: The Album
Kacey Musgraves – Golden Hour
Post Malone – Beerbongs & Bentleys
Cardi B – Invasion of Privacy
Janelle Monáe – Dirty Computer
Record of the Year
Cardi B – I Like It
Brandi Carlile – The Joke
Childish Gambino – This Is America
Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper – Shallow
Drake – God’s Plan
Kendrick Lamar & SZA – All the Stars
Post Malone & 21 Savage – Rockstar
Zedd & Maren Morris – The Middle
Song of the Year
Kendrick Lamar & SZA – All the Stars
Ella Mai – Boo’d Up
Drake – God’s Plan
Shawn Mendes – In My Blood
Brandi Carlile – The Joke
Zedd & Maren Morris – The Middle
Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper – Shallow
Childish Gambino – This Is America
Complete list of Nominees here.
The 61st annual GRAMMY Awards air Sunday, February 10, 2019 on CBS.
(Photo credit: Universal Music)
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