56th GRAMMY Awards (Nominees)

Grabbed from GRAMMY website

Music's BIGGEST night on January 26.

I have to admit that its popularity in me declined for the past few years (part of which realizing that Mimi was not a fave of this award giving body).

Anyway on with the show, the nominees are mostly chart topping hits (see Billboard).  The show is known to give weirdest collaborations (e.g. Eminem and Elton John).

Jay-Z leading the way with 9 nominations but shutted down in all major categories.   Macklemore and Lewis will represent the LGBTs in this show with Same Love nominated as Song of the Year.

IMO, Wrecking Ball should have been nominated in Female Pop Vocal, hell even Song of the Year.

Record of the Year:

• Get Lucky (Daft Punk feat. Pharell)
• Radioactive (Imagine Dragons)
• Royals (Lorde)
• Locked Out Of Heaven (Bruno Mars)
• Blurred Lines (Robin Thicke feat. Pharell)

Song of the Year:

• Just Give Me A Reason (P!nk feat Nate Ruess)
• Locked Out Of Heaven (Bruno Mars)
• Roar (Katy Perry)
• Royals (Lorde)
• Same Love(Macklemore & Ryan Lewis)

Album of the Year:

• The Blessed Unrest (Sarah Bareilles)
• Random Access Memories (Daft Punk)
• Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City (Kendrick Lamar)
• The Heist (Macklemore & Ryan Lewis)
• Red (Taylor Swift)

Best New Artist

• Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
• Kendrick Lamar
• James Blake
• Ed Sheeran
• Kacey Musgraves 

 Complete list of nominees is here.