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Story: Jack Foley
IT probably comes as no surprise, but rap and R&B dominate
the 46th Grammy award nominations, with ever-popular Beyonce Knowles,
rapper, Jay-Z, and OutKast each leading the field with six nominations.
Nine further artists share five nominations, including controversial
rapper, Eminem, teen favourite, Justin Timberlake, and Missy Elliott.
The Grammy nominations were announced on Friday, December 5,
by artists including Dido at a press conference at the Beverley
Hills Hilton, and will be presented at a ceremony in Los Angeles
on Sunday, February 8.
Beyonce heads up the record of the year category, with her timeless
single, Crazy in Love, but she faces stiff competition from the
Blackeyed Peas/Justin Timberlake collaboration, Where is the Love?,
which enjoyed a long stint at number one in the UK, as well as
from Coldplay's timeless Clocks (from A
Rush of Blood To The Head), Eminem's Lose Yourself (from 8
Mile) and OutKast's excellent, Hey Ya.
Chad Hugo and Pharrell Williams have three nominations each,
for their work together as the production team, The Neptunes,
having collaborated with fellow nominees Timberlake and Jay-Z,
among others, during the past year.
Another artist to score five nominations was rapper, 50 Cent,
whose popularity has soared since the release of his single, In
Da Club, while rock band, Evanescence, soul singer, Luther Vandross,
and country artist, Ricky Skaggs, also bagged five nominations.
Radiohead and Coldplay head the UK contingent, with Radiohead
nominated for best alternative album, for Hail to the Thief, and
best rock performance by a duo or group with vocals for the song
There There.
The late Beatle George Harrison is nominated in the best male
pop vocal performance, best pop vocal album and best pop instrumental
performance.
While other Brits to feature include David Bowie, in the best
male rock vocal category, Dido, for best female pop vocal, Groove
Armada, for best dance, and veterans Rod Stewart and Sting.
Fighting it out for the best rock album, meanwhile, will be Audioslave,
Evanescence, The Foo Fighters, Matchbox Twenty and Nickelback.
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The Grammys are regarded as the most prestigious music prize
in the world, and are handed out by the National Academy of Recording
Arts and Sciences.
Jazz singer, Norah Jones, was last year's runaway winner, after
scoring a surprise sweep, with eight awards, including album of
the year, pop vocal album and female pop performance.
Selected nominees for the 46th Grammy Awards...
Album of the year: Under Construction - Missy Elliott,
Fallen -Evanescence, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below - Outkast, Justified
- Justin Timberlake, Elephant -The White Stripes
Record of the year: Crazy in Love - Beyonce Knowles with
Jay-Z, Where is the Love - Black Eyed Peas, Clocks - Coldplay,
Lose Yourself - Eminem, Hey Ya! - Outkast.
Song of the year: Beautiful - Linda Perry (Christina Aguilera),
Dance With My Father - Richard Marx and Luther Vandross, I'm With
You - Avril Lavigne and The Matrix, Keep Me In Your Heart - Jorge
Calderón and Warren Zevon, Lose Yourself - J. Bass, Eminem
and L. Resto
Best new artist: Evanescence, 50 Cent, Fountains Of Wayne,
Heather Headley, Sean Paul
Best female pop vocal performance: Beautiful - Christina
Aguilera, Miss Independent - Kelly Clarkson, White Flag - Dido,
I'm With You - Avril Lavigne, Fallen - Sarah McLachlan
Best male pop vocal performance: Any Road - George Harrison,
Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Michael McDonald, Send Your Love
- Sting, Cry Me A River - Justin Timberlake, Keep Me In Your Heart
- Warren Zevon
Best pop vocal album: Stripped - Christina Aguilera, Brainwashed
- George Harrison, Bare - Annie Lennox, Motown - Michael McDonald,
Justified - Justin Timberlake
Best male rock vocal performance: New Killer Star - David
Bowie, Down In The Flood - Bob Dylan, If I Could Fall In Love
- Lenny Kravitz, Gravedigger - Dave Matthews, Return Of Jackie
& Judy -Tom Waits
Best female rock vocal performance: Are You Happy Now?
- Michelle Branch, Losing Grip - Avril Lavigne, Trouble - Pink,
Time Of Our Lives - Bonnie Raitt, Righteously - Lucinda Williams
Best rock album: Audioslave - Audioslave, Fallen - Evanescence,
One By One - Foo Fighters, More Than You Think You Are - Matchbox
Twenty , The Long Road -Nickelback
Best rock performance by a duo or group with vocal: Times
Like These - Foo Fighters, There There - Radiohead, Calling All
Angels - Train, Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes, Disorder
In The House - Warren Zevon and Bruce Springsteen
Best rap album: Under Construction - Missy Elliott, Get
Rich Or Die Tryin' - 50 Cent, The Blueprint - The Gift & The
Curse, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below - Outkast, Phrenology -The
Roots
Best pop performance by a duo or group with vocal: Misunderstood
- Bon Jovi, Hole In The World - Eagles, Stacy's Mom - Fountains
Of Wayne, Unwell - Matchbox Twenty, Underneath It All - No Doubt
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