Taylor Swift is pretty much a Grammy staple these days having been nominated every year since 2012.
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The hip-hop artist’s other nominations include best rap album and best pop duo/group performance for Bad Blood – a remix of one of the tracks on Swift’s 1989 album.
Fans who didn’t know the rules were outraged on Adele’s behalf, wondering why she hadn’t been listed along the likes of Taylor Swift, The Weeknd and this year’s nom leader Kendrick Lamar.
Sheeran repeats in the Song of the Year category with “Thinking Out Loud” where he will be up against Little Big Town with “Girl Crush” and Wiz Khalifa together with Charlie Puth with “See You Again”.
Record of the year: D’Angelo makes it here, in the singles category, where he will do battle with Mark Ronson & Bruno Mars’ “Uptown Funk”, Ed Sheeran’s snoozer “Thinking Out Loud”, and you guessed it, Swift (“Blank Space”) and the Weeknd (“I Can’t Feel My Face”).
Other nominees: Courtney Barnett (“Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit”), James Bay (“Chaos and the Calm”) and Tori Kelly (“Unbreakable Smile”).
The 58th Grammy Awards will air February 15, 2016.
Overall, nine artists scored four nominations each, and an additional 17 are up for three awards apiece. Indo-British director Asif Kapadia features in the nominees list of Best Music Film category for Amy, his documentary on late singer Amy Winehouse. The sleeper in this grouping is R&B artist D’Angelo, who, after a 14-year hiatus from the industry, put out “Black Messiah”, which was hailed by music critics and spawned the nominated cut, “Really Love”.
And in the world of country, Chris Stapleton, who released his first solo album, “Traveller”, this year, received two nominations, including for his song of the same title. The Weeknd? Seven. Drake? Nicki Minaj earned four nominations, including Best Rap/Sung Collaboration (“Only”), Best Rap Performance (“Truffle Butter”), and Best Rap Album for The Pinkprint. – Mavericks’ lead singer Raul Malo, in a statement about the band’s nominations for Americana album and American Roots song.
While it may be (another) tough year for rock, Louisiana artists fared decently.
In the classical categories, local nominees include conductor Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra for best orchestral performance; composer Andrew Norman, conductor Gil Rose, and Boston Modern Orchestra Project for best contemporary classical composition; and both Boston Baroque and Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra in the best opera recording category.
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Saxophonist Jimmy Greene, the father of one of the children killed in the Sandy Hook school shooting, earned two nominations for an album inspired by his late daughter Ana Márquez-Greene.
