Beyonce Leads Grammy Nominees With 11 Nods
Beyonce’s Cowboy Carter got 11 Grammy nominations, it was announced earlier today. The singer, who has more Grammy awards than any other artist with 32, is nominated for Record, Song and Album of the Year, and is also nominated in the pop, rap, country and Americana fields. These mark her first nominations in country and Americana. “16 Carriages” is up for Best Country Solo Performance, “II Most Wanted” featuring Miley Cyrus is up for Best Country Duo/Group Performance, “Texas Hold ‘Em” is noninated for Best Country Song, Cowboy Carter is nominated for Best Country Album, and “Yaya” is up for Best Americana Performance. You can see the rest of her nominations below.
Other big nominees include Charli XCX, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar and Post Malone, all who have seven nominations. Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan and Taylor Swift have six nominations each.
There were some rather surprising nominations in the major categories: the Beatles, who broke up in 1970, had a “new” song called “Now And Then,” which is up for Record of the Year. The song was built around a demo by their late singer/songwriter John Lennon, and included guitar by another late member, George Harrison and featured their two surviving members, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. Another surprise was former rapper, Andre 3000 of OutKast, who is nominated for Album of the Year for his instrumental album New Blue Sun.
The 67th Annual Grammy Awards will take place on February 2 at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles and will air on CBS and Paramount+.
Here are the nominations in some of the more important categories.
Record of the Year
“Now and Then,” The Beatles
“Texas Hold ’Em,” Beyoncé
“Espresso,” Sabrina Carpenter
“360,” Charli XCX
“Birds of a Feather,” Billie Eilish
“Not Like Us,” Kendrick Lamar
“Good Luck, Babe!,” Chappell Roan
“Fortnight,” Taylor Swift featuring Post Malone
Album of the Year
“New Blue Sun,” André 3000
“Cowboy Carter,” Beyoncé
“Short n’ Sweet,” Sabrina Carpenter
“Brat,” Charli XCX
“Djesse Vol. 4,” Jacob Collier
“Hit Me Hard and Soft,” Billie Eilish
“The Rise And Fall of a Midwest Princess,” Chappell Roan
“The Tortured Poets Department,” Taylor Swift
Song of the Year
“A Bar Song (Tipsy),” Sean Cook, Jerrel Jones, Joe Kent, Chibueze Collins Obinna, Nevin Sastry and Mark Williams, songwriters (Shaboozey)
“Birds of a Feather,” Billie Eilish O’Connell and Finneas, songwriters (Billie Eilish)
“Die With a Smile,” Dernst Emile II, James Fauntleroy, Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars and Andrew Watt, songwriters (Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars)
“Fortnight,” Jack Antonoff, Austin Post and Taylor Swift, songwriters (Taylor Swift featuring Post Malone)
“Good Luck, Babe!,” Kayleigh Rose Amstutz, Daniel Nigro and Justin Tranter, songwriters (Chappell Roan)
“Not Like Us,” Kendrick Lamar, songwriter (Kendrick Lamar)
“Please Please Please,” Amy Allen, Jack Antonoff and Sabrina Carpenter, songwriters (Sabrina Carpenter)
“Texas Hold ’Em,” Brian Bates, Beyoncé, Elizabeth Lowell Boland, Megan Bülow, Nate Ferraro and Raphael Saadiq, songwriters (Beyoncé)
Best New Artist
Benson Boone
Sabrina Carpenter
Doechii
KhruangbinRaye
Chappell Roan
Shaboozey
Teddy Swims
Best Pop Solo Performance
“Bodyguard,” Beyoncé
“Espresso,” Sabrina Carpenter
“Apple,” Charli XCX
“Birds of a Feather,” Billie Eilish
“Good Luck, Babe!,” Chappell Roan
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
“Us.,” Gracie Abrams featuring Taylor Swift
“Levii’s Jeans,” Beyoncé featuring Post Malone
“Guess,” Charli XCX and Billie Eilish
“The Boy Is Mine,” Ariana Grande, Brandy and Monica
“Die With a Smile,” Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars
Best Pop Vocal Album
“Short n’ Sweet,” Sabrina Carpenter
“Hit Me Hard and Soft,” Billie Eilish
“Eternal Sunshine,” Ariana Grande
“The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess,” Chappell Roan
“The Tortured Poets Department,” Taylor Swift
Best Dance/Electronic Recording
“She’s Gone, Dance On,” Disclosure
“Loved,” Four Tet
“Leavemealone,” Fred Again.. and Baby Keem
“Neverender,” Justice and Tame Impala
“Witchy,” Kaytranada
Best Dance Pop Recording
“Make You Mine,” Madison Beer
“Von Dutch,” Charli XCX
“L’Amour de Ma Vie (Over Now Extended Edit),” Billie Eilish
“Yes, And?,” Ariana Grande
“Got Me Started,” Troye Sivan
Best Dance/Electronic Album
“Brat,” Charli XCX
“Three,” Four Tet
“Hyperdrama,” Justice
“Timeless,” Kaytranada
“Telos,” Zedd
Best R&B Performance
“Guidance,” Jhené Aiko
“Residuals,” Chris Brown
“Here We Go (Uh Oh),” Coco Jones
“Made for Me (Live on BET),” Muni Long
“Saturn,” SZA
Best Traditional R&B Performance
“Wet,” Marsha Ambrosius
“Can I Have This Groove,” Kenyon Dixon
“No Lie,” Lalah Hathaway featuring Michael McDonald
“Make Me Forget,” Muni Long
“That’s You,” Lucky Daye
Best R&B Song
“After Hours,” Diovanna Frazier, Alex Goldblatt, Kehlani Parrish, Khris Riddick-Tynes and Daniel Upchurch, songwriters (Kehlani)
“Burning,” Ronald Banful and Temilade Openiyi, songwriters (Tems)
“Here We Go (Uh Oh),” Sara Diamond, Sydney Floyd, Marisela Jackson, Courtney Jones, Carl McCormick and Kelvin Wooten, songwriters (Coco Jones)
“Ruined Me,” Jeff Gitelman, Priscilla Renea and Kevin Theodore, songwriters (Muni Long)
“Saturn,” Rob Bisel, Carter Lang, Solána Rowe, Jared Solomon and Scott Zhang, songwriters (SZA)
Best Progressive R&B Album
“So Glad to Know You,” Avery*Sunshine
“En Route,” Durand Bernarr
“Bando Stone and the New World,” Childish Gambino
“Crash,” Kehlani
“Why Lawd?,” NxWorries (Anderson .Paak and Knxwledge)
Best R&B Album
“11:11 (Deluxe),” Chris Brown
“Vantablack,” Lalah Hathaway
“Revenge,” Muni Long
“Algorithm,” Lucky Daye
“Coming Home,” Usher
Best Rap Performance
“Enough (Miami),” Cardi B
“When the Sun Shines Again,” Common and Pete Rock featuring Posdnuos
“Nissan Altima,” Doechii
“Houdini,” Eminem
“Like That,” Future and Metro Boomin featuring Kendrick Lamar
“Yeah Glo!,” GloRilla
“Not Like Us,” Kendrick Lamar
Best Melodic Rap Performance
“Kehlani,” Jordan Adetunji featuring Kehlani
“Spaghettii,” Beyoncé featuring Linda Martell and Shaboozey
“We Still Don’t Trust You,” Future and Metro Boomin featuring the Weeknd
“Big Mama,” Latto
“3:AM,” Rapsody featuring Erykah Badu
Best Rap Song
“Asteroids,” Marlanna Evans, songwriter (Rapsody featuring Hit-Boy)
“Carnival,” Jordan Carter, Raul Cubina, Grant Dickinson, Samuel Lindley, Nasir Pemberton, Dimitri Roger, Ty Dolla $ign, Kanye West and Mark Carl Stolinski Williams, songwriters (¥$ [Kanye West and Ty Dolla Sign] featuring Rich the Kid and Playboi Carti)
“Like That,” Kendrick Lamar Duckworth, Kobe “BbyKobe” Hood, Leland Wayne and Nayvadius Wilburn, songwriters (Future and Metro Boomin featuring Kendrick Lamar)
“Not Like Us,” Kendrick Lamar, songwriter (Kendrick Lamar)
“Yeah Glo!,” Ronnie Jackson, Jaucquez Lowe, Timothy McKibbins, Kevin Andre Price, Julius Rivera III and Gloria Woods, songwriters (GloRilla)
Best Rap Album
“Might Delete Later,” J. Cole
“The Auditorium, Vol. 1,” Common and Pete Rock
“Alligator Bites Never Heal,” Doechii
“The Death Of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce),” Eminem
“We Don’t Trust You,” Future and Metro Boomin
