Rapper Kendrick Lamar on Monday received a near-record number of Grammy Award nominations, with pop superstar Taylor Swift leading for the most prestigious categories.
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The Grammy awards will air live from the Staples Center on February 15 at 8 p.m., on CBS.
“Kendrick Lamar, revered Compton, California, rapper behind March’s epic T, leads the pack with 11 nominations, including album of the year and song of the year for “. Lamar, Swift and The Weeknd will face off in the category of album of the year, going up against Alabama Shakes and Chris Stapleton.
Also up for Song of the Year is Little Big Town’s “Girl Crush” and “See You Again” by Whiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth.
Locally, Melbourne singer Courtney Barnett, 28, is up for Best New Artist while Perth group Tame Impala are in the Best Alternative Music Album category.
He was nominated for two awards Monday including Album of the Year for “Sound & Color” by Alabama Shakes.
Australian country artist Keith Urban was nominated for best country solo performance for his song John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16.
The full list of nominees is available via Billboard. And today, it nominated Lamar in 11 categories for the 2016 ceremony.
Other prominent Grammy nominees included D’Angelo, the R&B singer who returned to the scene after a 14-year gap by releasing his album “Black Messiah” with little prior publicity. Which means he now has the second most nominations for an artist in a single year in the Grammys’ history-just behind Michael Jackson’s 12 nods in 1984. Indeed, even if Lamar wins in every category he’s nominated in, the most Grammy statuettes he can hope to collect is nine, because he is nominated opposite himself in the rap song and music video categories. He also observed that the cast album for the Broadway hit “Hamilton”, which uses a variety of musical genres in its score, didn’t get an album of the year nomination.
Taylor Swift’s “1989” and the Weeknd’s “Beauty Behind the Madness”, both up for the coveted album of the year award, are huge commercial hits that use familiar sonic elements (including textures lifted from 1980s-era pop and R&B) to tell vivid personal stories set in an age of digital distraction.
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All four of the artists we mentioned, as well as The Weeknd, were nominated for Album of the Year.
