The Nominees for the 2015 Grammy Awards Are Out

The nominees for the upcoming 57^th Grammy Awards have officially been released.

Nominations for the upcoming Grammys have been announced via the award body’s official Twitter account. Other celebrities and the Recording Academy also announced the nominations. The first four categories were announced by Ed Sheeran and Pharrell Williams on CBS This Morning.

It is for the first time that two dozen more of the 83 total categories will gradually be revealed from 9AM to 2PM ET on various celebrity Twitter accounts.

Evan Greene, the CMO at the Recording Academy, was quoted in an interview saying:

“We considered announcing everything at once, but that wasn’t conducive to our goal of celebrating each nominee. So, we decided to let each announcement live its own moment.”

The final category, which is the Album of the Year, will be revealed at 9PM ET during A Very Grammy Christmas that will feature performances from Ariana Grande, Maroon 5 and Tim McGraw.

Here is the partial list of nominees in their respective categories:

Best New Artist

Bastille
Iggy Azalea
Brandy Clark
Haim
Sam Smith

Record of the Year

“Fancy” – Iggy Azalea ft. Charli XCX
“Chandelier” – Sia
“Stay With Me (Darkchild Version)” Sam Smith
“Shake It Off” Taylor Swift
“All About That Bass” Meghan Trainor

Song of the Year

“Chandelier” – Sia
“All About That Bass” – Meghan Trainor
“Shake It Off” – Taylor Swift
“Stay With Me (Darkchild Version)” – Sam Smith
“Take Me to Church” – Hozier

Best Rap Performance

“305” – Childish Gambino
“0 to 100/The Catch Up” – Drake
“Rap God” – Eminem
“i” – Kendrick Lamar
“All I Need Is You” – Lecrae

Best Alternative Music Album

This Is All Yours, alt-J
Reflektor, Arcade Fire
Melophobia, Cage the Elephant
St. Vincent, St. Vincent
Lazaretto, Jack White

Best Rock Album

Ryan Adams, Ryan Adams
Morning Phase, Beck
Turn Blue, The Black Keys
Hypnotic Eye, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Songs of Innocence, U2

Best Rock Song

“Ain’t It Fun” – Paramore
“Blue Moon” – Beck
“Fever” – The Black Keys
“Gimme Something Good” – Ryan Adams
“Lazaretto” – Jack White

Best Country Album

Riser, Dierks Bentley
The Outsiders, Eric Church
The Way I’m Livin’, Lee Ann Womack
12 Stories, Brandy Clark
Platinum, Miranda Lambert

Best Country Songs

“American Kids” – Kenny Chesney
“Automatic” – Miranda Lambert
“Give Me Back My Hometown” – Eric Church
“I’m Not Gonna Miss You” – Glen Campbell
“Meanwhile Back at Mama’s” – Tim McGraw ft. Faith Hill

Best Pop Vocal Album

Ghost Stories, Coldplay
Bangerz Miley, Cyrus
My Everything, Ariana Grande
Prism, Katy Perry
x, Ed Sheeran
In the Lonely Hour, Sam Smith

Best Urban Contemporary Album

Sail Out, Jhene Aiko
Beyonce, Beyonce
X, Chris Brown
Mali Is, Mali Music
G I R L, Pharrell Williams

Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media

American Hustle 
Guardians of the Galaxy
Frozen 
Get On Up: The James Brown Story 
The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Pop Solo Performance

“All of Me” John Legend
“Chandelier” Sia
“Stay With Me” Sam Smith
“Shake It Off” Taylor Swift
“Happy” Pharrell Williams

Best Reggae Album

Ziggy Marley, Fly Rasta
Lee “Scratch” Perry, Back on the Controls
Sean Paul, Full Frequency
Shaggy, Out of Many, One Music
Sly & Robbie & Spicy Chocolate, The Reggae Power
Soja, Amid the Noise and the Haste

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album

Cheek to Cheek, Lady Gaga & Tony Bennett
Sending You a Little Christmas, Johnny Mathis
Nostalgia, Annie Lennox
Partners, Barbra Streisand
Night Songs, Barry Manilow

Best Americana Album

The River & The Thread, Rosanne Cash
Terms of My Surrener, John Hiatt
Bluesamericana, Keb’ Mo’
A Dotted Line, Nickel Creek
Metamodern Sounds in Country Music, Sturgill Simpson

The Grammy Awards or the Grammys is a tribute by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States that recognizes outstanding achievements in the music industry.

It is has been that for one to be eligible for a nomination in next year’s awards, recording must be released between Oct. 1, 2013 and Sept. 30, 2014.

The 57^th Grammy Awards will be aired on February 8 next year on CBS.

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