You know, with all the recent drama between Taylor Swift and the American Music Awards, we nearly forgot that there is another major night for music that is quickly approaching. The 62nd Annual Grammy Awards promises to be a solid reminder of the year’s most inescapable hits with nominees that were both widely beloved and memed to the heavens. Lizzo leads the nominations this year with eight, while Billie Eilish and Lil Nas X follow closely behind with six each. The three mega stars were the chief sources of this year’s biggest entries into the current pop culture zeitgeist, and each have the potential to take home some major awards, including Best New Artist, Record Of The Year, and Album Of The Year.
The Pop category was notably dominated by the women, recognizing Eilish, Lizzo, Swift, Beyonce, and Ariana Grande. Conversely, women were mostly absent from all the rap categories, with the exception of one nomination for the song “Clout,” which features Cardi B. If anyone needs a little help locating some particularly skilled female lyricists who happened to kill it in 2019, we have more than a few suggestions. On the bright side, other nominees throughout the categories include some solid AVC favorites, including Tank And The Bangas, Brittany Howard, H.E.R, and Vampire Weekend.
The Grammy nominees were announced on CBS This Morning with the help of the ceremony’s returning host Alicia Keyes and two-time nominee Bebe Rexha. The ceremony itself will air on January 26, 2020 on CBS.
See a partial list of the nominees below. A full list can be found on the Grammys website.
Record Of The Year
“Hey, Ma,” Bon Iver
“Bad Guy,” Billie Eilish
“7 Rings,” Ariana Grande
“Hard Place,” H.E.R.
“Talk,” Khalid
“Old Town Road,” Lil Nas X Featuring Billy Ray Cyrus
“Truth Hurts,” Lizzo
“Sunflower,” Post Malone & Swae Lee
Album Of The Year
“I, I,” Bon Iver
“Norman F—ing Rockwell!,” Lana Del Rey
“When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?,” Billie Eilish
“Thank U, Next,” Ariana Grande
“I Used To Know Her,” H.E.R.
“7,” Lil Nas X
“Cuz I Love You” (Deluxe) , Lizzo
“Father of the Bride,” Vampire Weekend
Song Of The Year
“Always Remember Us This Way” — Natalie Hemby, Lady Gaga, Hillary Lindsey & Lori McKenna, songwriters (Lady Gaga)
“Bad Guy” — Billie Eilish O’Connell & Finneas O’Connell, songwriters (Billie Eilish)
“Bring My Flowers Now” — Brandi Carlile, Phil Hanseroth, Tim Hanseroth & Tanya Tucker, songwriters (Tanya Tucker)
“Hard Place” — Ruby Amanfu, Sam Ashworth, D. Arcelious Harris. H.E.R. & Rodney Jerkins, songwriters (H.E.R.)
“Lover” — Taylor Swift, songwriter (Taylor Swift)
“Norman F—ing Rockwell” — Jack Antonoff & Lana Del Rey, songwriters (Lana Del Rey)
“Someone You Loved” — Tom Barnes, Lewis Capaldi, Pere Kelleher, Benjamin Kohn & Sam Roman, songwriters (Lewis Capaldi)
“Truth Hurts” — Steven Cheung, Eric Frederic, Melissa Jefferson & Jesse Saint John, songwriters (Lizzo)
Best New Artist
Black Pumas
Billie Eilish
Lil Nas X
Lizzo
Maggie Rogers
Rosalia
Tank And The Bangas
Yola
Best R&B Album
1123, BJ The Chicago Kid
Painted, Lucky Daye
Ella Mai, Ella Mai
Paul, PJ Morton
Venture, Anderson .Paak
Best R&B Performance
“Love Again,” Daniel Caesar & Brandy
“Could’ve Been,” H.E.R. & Bryson Tiller
“Exactly How I Feel,” Lizzo & Gucci Mane
“Roll Some Mo,” Lucky Daye
“Come Home,” Anderson .Paak & André 300
Best Traditional R&B Performance
“Time Today,” BJ The Chicago Kid
“Steady Love,” India.Arie
“Jerome,” Lizzo
“Real Games,” Lucky Daye
“Built For Love,” PJ Morton & Jazmine Sullivan
Best R&B Song
“Could’ve Been,” Dernst Emile Ii, David “Swagg R’celious” Harris, H.E.R. & Hue “Soundzfire” Strother, Songwriters (H.E.R. Ft. Bryson Tiller)
“Look At Me Now” — Emily King & Jeremy Most, Songwriters (Emily King)
“No Guidance,” Chris Brown, Tyler James Bryant, Nija Charles, Aubrey Graham, Anderson Hernandez, Michee Patrick Lebrun, Joshua Lewis, Noah Shebib & Teddy Walton, Songwriters (Chris Brown Ft. Drake)
“Roll Some Mo,” David Brown, Dernst Emile Ii & Peter Lee Johnson, Songwriters (Lucky Daye)
“Say So,” Pj Morton, Songwriter (Pj Morton Ft. Jojo)
Best Urban Contemporary Album:
Apollo XXI, Steve Lacy
Cuz I Love You (Deluxe), Lizzo
Overload, Georgia Anne Muldrow
Saturn, Nao
Being Human In Public, Jessie Reyez
Best Pop Solo Performance
“Spirit,” Beyoncé
“Bad Guy,” Billie Eilish
“7 Rings,” Ariana Grande
“Truth Hurts,” Lizzo
“You Need To Calm Down,” Taylor Swift
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
“Boyfriend,” Ariana Grande & Social House
“Sucker,” Jonas Brothers
“Old Town Road,” Lil Nas X & Billy Ray Cyrus
“Señorita,” Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello
Best Pop Vocal Album
The Lion King: The Gift, Beyoncé
When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, — Billie Eilish
Thank U, Next, Ariana Grande
No. 6 Collaborations Project, Ed Sheeran
Lover, Taylor Swift
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
Sì, Andrea Bocelli
Love (Deluxe Edition), Michael Bublé
Look Now, Elvis Costello & The Imposters
A Legendary Christmas, John Legend
Walls, Barbra Streisand
Best Rap Performance
“Middle Child,” J.Cole
“Suge,” DaBaby
“Down Bad,” Dreamville ft. J.I.D, Bas, J. Cole, Earthgang & Young Nudy
“Racks In The Middle,” Nipsey Hussle ft. Roddy Ricch & Hit-boy
“Clout,” Offset ft. Cardi B
Best Rap/Sung Collaboration
“Higher,” DJ Khaled ft. Nipsey Hussle & John Legend
“Drip Too Hard,” Lil Baby & Funna
“Panini,” Lil Nas X
“Ballin,” Mustard ft. Roddy Ricch
“The London,” Young Thug ft. J. Cole & Travis Scott
Best Rap Song
“Bad Idea” — Chancelor Bennett, Cordae Dunston, Uforo Ebong & Daniel Hackett, songwriters (Ybn Cordae ft. Chance The Rapper)
“Gold Roses” — Noel Cadastre, Aubrey Graham, Anderson Hernandez, Khristopher Riddick-tynes, William Leonard Roberts Ii, Joshua Quinton Scruggs, Leon Thomas Iii & Ozan Yildirim, songwriters (Rick Ross ft. Drake)
“A Lot” — Jermaine Cole, Dacoury Natche, 21 Savage & Anthony White, songwriters (21 Savage ft. J. Cole)
“Racks In The Middle” — Ermias Asghedom, Dustin James Corbett, Greg Allen Davis, Chauncey Hollis, Jr. & Rodrick Moore, songwriters (Nipsey Hussle ft. Roddy Ricch & Hit-boy)
“Suge” — Dababy, Jetsonmade & Pooh Beatz, songwriters (Dababy
Best Rap Album
Revenge Of The Dreamers III, Dreamville
Championships, Meek Mill
i am > i was, 21 Savage
IGOR, Tyler, The Creator
The Lost Boy, YBN Cordae
Best Rock Performance
“Pretty Waste,” Bones UK
“This Land,” Gary Clark Jr.
“History Repeats,” Brittany Howard
“Woman,” Karen O & Danger Mouse
“Too Bad,” Rival Sons
Best Metal Performance
“Astorolus – The Great Octopus,” Candlemass ft. Tony Iommi
“Humanicide,” Death Angel
“Bow Down,” I Prevail
“Unleashed,” Killswitch Engage
“7empest,” Tool
Best Rock Song
“Fear Inoculum,” Danny Carey, Justin Chancellor, Adam Jones & Maynard James Keenan, Songwriters (Tool)
“Give Yourself A Try,” George Daniel, Adam Hann, Matthew Healy & Ross Macdonald, Songwriters (The 1975)
“Harmony Hall,” Ezra Koenig, Songwriter (Vampire Weekend)
“History Repeats,” Brittany Howard, Songwriter (Brittany Howard)
“This Land,” Gary Clark Jr., Songwriter (Gary Clark Jr.)
Best Rock Album
Amo, Bring Me The Horizon
Social Cues, Cage The Elephant
In The End, The Cranberries
Trauma, I Prevail
Feral Roots, Rival Sons
Best Alternative Music Album
U.F.O.F., Big Theif
Assume Form, James Blake
i,i, Bon Iver
Father of the Bride, Vampire Weekend
Anima, Thom Yorke
Best Dance Recording
“Linked,” Bonobo
“Got To Keep On,” The Chemical Brothers
“Piece Of Your Heart,” Meduza & Goodboys
“Underwater,” Rüfüs Du Sol
“Midnight Hour,” Skrillex & Boys Noize With Ty Dolla $ign
Best Dance/Electronic Album
LP5, Apparat
No Geography, The Chemical Brothers
Hi This Is Flume (Mixtape), Flume
Solace, Rüfüs Du Sol
Weather, Tycho
Best Contemporary Instrumental Album
Ancestral Recall, Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah
Star People Nation, Theo Croker
Beat Music! Beat Music! Beat Music!, Mark Guiliana
Elevate, Lettuce
Mettavolution, Rodrigo y Gabriela
Best Americana Album
Years To Burn, Calexico And Iron & Wine
Who Are You Now, Madison Cunningham
Oklahoma, Keb’ Mo’
Tales Of America, J.S. Ondara
Walk Through Fire, Yola
Best American Roots Performance
“Saint Honesty,” Sara Bareilles
“Father Mountain,” Calexico With Iron & Wine
“I’m On My Way,” Rhiannon Giddens With Francesco Turrisi
“Call My Name,” I’m With Her
“Faraway Look,” Yola
Best American Roots Song:
“Black Myself,” Amythyst Kiah, songwriter (Our Native Daughters)
“Call My Name,” Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O’donovan & Sara Watkins, songwriters (I’m With Her)
“Crossing To Jerusalem,” Rosanne Cash & John Leventhal, songwriters (Rosanne Cash)
“Faraway Look,” Dan Auerbach, Yola Carter & Pat Mclaughlin, songwriters (Yola)
“I Don’t Wanna Ride The Rails No More,” Vince Gill, songwriter (Vince Gill)
Best Bluegrass Album
Tall Fiddler, Michael Cleveland
Live In Prague, Czech Republic, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver
Toil, Tears & Trouble, The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys
Royal Traveller, Missy Raines
If You Can’t Stand The Heat, Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen
Best Country Album
Desperate Man, Eric Church
Stronger Than The Truth, Reba McEntire
Interstate Gospel, Pistol Annies
Center Point Road, Thomas Rhett
While I’m Livin’, Tanya Tucker
Best Country Solo Performance
“All Your’n,” Tyler Childers
“Girl Goin’ Nowhere,” Ashley McBryde
“Ride Me Back Home,” Willie Nelson
“God’s Country,” Blake Shelton
“Bring My Flowers Now,” Tanya Tucker
Best Country Duo/Group Performance
“Brand New Man,” Brooks & Dunn with Luke Combs
“I Don’t Remember Me (Before You),” Brothers Osborne
“Speechless,” Dan & Shay
“The Daughters,” Little Big Town
“Common,” Maren Morris ft. Brandi Carlile
Best Country Song
“Bring My Flowers Now” — Brandi Carlile, Phil Hanseroth, Tim Hanseroth & Tanya Tucker, Songwriters (Tanya Tucker)
“Girl Goin’ Nowhere” — Jeremy Bussey & Ashley Mcbryde, Songwriters (Ashley Mcbryde)
“It All Comes Out In The Wash” — Miranda Lambert, Hillary Lindsey, Lori Mckenna & Liz Rose, Songwriters (Miranda Lambert)
“Some Of It” — Eric Church, Clint Daniels, Jeff Hyde & Bobby Pinson, Songwriters (Eric Church)
“Speechless” — Shay Mooney, Jordan Reynolds, Dan Smyers & Laura Veltz, Songwriters (Dan + Shay)
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lizzo’s been around a minute, i never understand how the grammy’s choose who is and who isnt a new artist
The poll white people over 40. If the majority of white people over 40 just heard of the artist for the first time this year, they’re new.
Well then color this one unknown artist, because this 40+ year old white guy has no idea who Lizzo or any of these people are.
Lizzo has a killer voice, both singing and rapping, and the production on some of her songs is excellent (some of them, it sounds like the producer was trying to make her sound less distinctive, which is a crime).Billie Eilish has an interesting voice, her lyrics can be funny, and the production on her album is impeccable. Listening to the album is like hearing an astute teenager’s brain. Mileage varies depending on how appealing/excruciating that last bit sounds.Lil Nas X owns the shit out of being a gay rapper in a campy cowboy outfit. I don’t think I’ve actually heard the song, I’m just glad he exists.
The music died with Andy Gibb.
It’d be fun to make them define “new” like how the Oscars get all technical about why or why not something falls into a category. There is so much music though and with streaming we all listen to whatever we want unlike prior when it was CD’s, radio, MTV or local scenes. I have no idea how anything gets a nomination. At least movies are sorta finite per year.
Not to mention that truth hurts was actually released in 2017. Fucking grammys
Definitely the white people over 40 thing, but I’m also guessing first full album? Lizzo and Maggie Rogers both had LPs before 2019 but their first full album was 2019. Too lazy to look up the rest.
That’s definitely a list of musics.
Music: confirmed
While I’m not a fan of the Grammys, they at least know how various music genres work. So happy Rival Sons got a nomination, and even happier that Billie Eilish is in the generic pop categories where she belongs. Because sadly, living in Los Angeles, #2 media market in the country, there is no radio station for new rock, and Eilish (along with Lana Del Rey and EDM DJs) are being shoehorned into “alternative rock” stations despite their work having no resemblance to the style. We listen to alt and rock stations to AVOID pop, and yet, thanks to corporate radio, Ryan Seacrest, et al, it’s still being shoved down our throats, whether we want to hear it or not. Meanwhile, Gary Clark, Jr. can’t get airplay to save his life.
Billie Ellish is a tweaking no talent meth head that makes terrible
whisper autotuned music. I think she is so depressed because her daddy
and brother touched her in her no-no place. She should do music a favor
and kill herself.
Billie Ellish is a tweaking no talent meth head that makes terrible
whisper autotuned music. I think she is so depressed because her daddy
and brother touched her in her no-no place. She should do music a favor
and kill herself.
More Gary Clark, Jr., please.
Taking the category name at face value (which I know is probably a mistake), 7empest was almost certainly the best metal performance since Bleed.
I have no clue what Sevenempest is, but anyone who approved that spelling should be chained to a boulder and thrown into the Mariana Trench.
Billie Ellish is a tweaking no talent meth head that makes terrible
whisper autotuned music. I think she is so depressed because her daddy
and brother touched her in her no-no place. She should do music a favor
and kill herself.
Lizzo getting noms in the R&B category and Ari Lennox not getting anything?
this is avclub not the the root, they don’t know ari here.
I’ve long since given up on the other categories, but I’ve barely even heard of any of the Rock nominees. Shit, I’m old.
Ah, yes. Andre 300.
Uh, that’s André 300. God, get it right!!
Must’ve lost a lot of weight…
Lil Nas X for Record of the Year? sure. The song is blah but it broke chart recordsBut Album of the Year?
You’re gonna wanna get that Lil Nas X record in vinyl. Just put it on, sit back, and listen from start to finish. There’s the song about the horse, the one about riding the horse, that other song about the road that he rode the horse on — all cultural touchstones.
I heard if you start the Album right when you hit play on a YouTube video about horseback riding (any one), it syncs up perfectly, provided you start the album on Old Town Road and put it on repeat.
That’s a lot of music I’m completely unfamiliar with… and no K-Pop groups…
Bon Iver’s showing is absolutely wild. I mean, I’m here for it, but damn.
behold the power of adult contempo
Adult Contemporary? Maybe? I don’t know. Stop making me feel old. Regardless, it’s easily the best album of the year, and deserves whatever accolades it gets (in whatever category it gets them).
I know it’s probably good and I will get to it, I am just being mean, his self-titled was much more egregious in that and he has risen out of it better than Iron + Wine (who is still stuck in backing sax tracks) who can’t seem to get out of that quicksand.
I can’t wait for Album of the Year and they have to announce on air that “Norman Fucking Rockwell” by Lana Del Rey is one of the nominations.
I feel great about this! I never thought I would get to this point in my life and still not listen to nearly anybody nominated for a Grammy(tm)! Good job, me!Questions: 1) If 21 Pilots fight 21 Savages who wins?
2) Should we take dead people off ballots?
3) I know not much about Country but legit surprised Miranda Lambert only got one nomination
4) Very glad the Chance album hardly got any noms, it was the second biggest disappointment of the year behind the Sleater Kinney album.
If 21 Pilots fights anyone, they lose
1) Depends if they’re fighting on land or in the air.2) Never. 87% of all Grammys are awarded posthumously.3) Country has its own awards ceremony, so Dale Grammy (the guy who picks Grammy nominees) just throw darts at album covers in his rec room.4) There’s a good chance that Sleater-Kinney album will age well, depending how they follow it up. They’ve done two “transitional” albums since ending hiatus, and hopefully they’ll arrive someplace for the next one.
Nice to see Tyler Childers getting some recognition; Sturgill Simpson produced so maybe they’ll let him in (though I guess it was the CMAs where he busked outside and not the Grammys). & I love the Pistol Annies.
No Misbehavin? The grammy committee must have been running around the house with a pickle in their mouth
Happy to see Nao here.
So glad that Imagine Dragons isn’t being recognized. I don’t even know if they did anything new this year. I’m just glad to not hear a song of theirs. Watch though, they’ll probably perform.
Phallus shaped wrenches crossed for wins from Tool!
Glad to see Norman F***ing Rockwell and Igor get recognized. Just wish Titanic Rising (my AOTY so far) got nominated for something.
Traditional Pop Vocal? Oh good lord, even Elvis Costello deserves better than that.
Well Costello has done alot of different types of music. That’s one of the reasons I’m a fan.
Shit it takes a lot of people to write a pop song these days. I haven’t heard any of these.
And then Lizzo gets sued for wearing orange…
Giving trophies for music is like dancing along to sports.In saying that, I hope Lizzo and Billy Eilish win absolutely everything just so I can watch all the incel fucks implode.