Beyoncé is the most nominated artist for the 59th annual Grammy Awards. She is vying for nine trophies in categories across several genres, including Urban, Rap, and even Rock. Drake, Rihanna, and Kanye West are next in line with eight noms. Chance the Rapper has seven.
Beyoncé and Adele are this year’s only artists who are in the running for the three highest-profile awards — Album, Record and Song of the Year. Adele won all three of these awards five years ago.
Justin Bieber, Drake, and two members of the Danish pop group Lukas Graham were each nominated in two of the top three categories.
Here are the nominees — and a handful of top contenders that were passed over—in each of these categories, as well as Best New Artist.
For the full list, go to Grammy.com
Album of the Year
The nominees are Adele’s 25, Beyoncé’s Lemonade, Justin Bieber’s Purpose, Drake’s Views,and Sturgill Simpson’s A Sailor’s Guide to Earth.
Adele’s previous album, 21, won in this category five years ago. This marks the first time that an artist’s follow-up to an Album of the Year winner has been nominated in this category since Bob Dylan’s Love and Theft (the follow-up to Time Out of Mind) was a 2001 finalist.
This is Beyoncé’s third nom in this category. She previously made the finals with I Am…Sasha Fierce and Beyoncé. Beyoncé has amassed 20 Grammys, but just one of those awards has come in one of the Big Four categories.
Purpose represented a comeback from Bieber, whose antics (remember the egging incident?) had come to overshadow his music. The album reached #1 and spawned three #1 singles. The songs updated his sound and allowed him to segue into a mainstream pop career.
With 13 weeks at #1, Drake’s Viewsis the year’s top album in terms of what the music industry calls “multi-metric consumption.” The album’s success has dramatized the increasing importance of streaming. This is Drake’s first nomination in this category.
The nom for Simpson’s album is a surprise. The album is also nominated for Best Country Album. Simpson’s previous album, Metamodern Sounds in Country Music, won Best Americana Album.
Passed over: David Bowie’s final studio album, Blackstar, which was released just two days before his death in January 2016. Also: Paul Simon’s Stranger to Stranger, Chance the Rapper’s Coloring Book, Radiohead’s A Moon Shaped Pool, Sia’s This Is Acting, Rihanna’s Anti, Maren Morris’s Hero.
Record of the Year
The nominees are Adele’s “Hello,” Beyoncé’s “Formation,” Lukas Graham’s “7 Years,” Rihanna’s “Work” (featuring Drake), and twenty one pilots’ “Stressed Out.”
This is Adele’s third nom in this category. She was nominated for her breakthrough hit “Chasing Pavements,” and won for “Rolling in the Deep.”
This is Beyoncé’s fifth nomination in this category (counting one with Destiny’s Child). This puts her in a tie with Barbra Streisand as the female artist who has amassed the most noms in this category in Grammy history.
Lukas Graham’s “7 Years,” a reflection on the passage of time, is the kind of thoughtful, well-crafted single that Grammy voters have favored for decades.
This is Rihanna’s third nom in this category. She was previously nominated for “Umbrella” (featuring Jay Z) and for her featured role on Eminem’s “Love the Way You Lie.” This is Drake’s first nom in this category.
twenty one pilots are the first rock group or duo to make the finals in this category since Imagine Dragons scored with “Radioactive” three years ago.
Passed over: Justin Bieber’s “Love Yourself,” the Weeknd’s “Starboy” (featuring Daft Punk), Justin Timberlake’s “Can’t Stop the Feeling!,” the Chainsmokers’ “Closer” (featuring Halsey), Drake’s “One Dance” (featuring WizKid & Kyla), Sia’s “Cheap Thrills” (featuring Sean Paul), and Zayn’s “Pillowtalk.”
Song of the Year
The nominees for this songwriters’ award are “Formation” (which Beyoncé co-wrote with Khalif Brown, Asheton Hogan and Mike WiLL Made-It); “Hello” (which Adele co-wrote with Greg Kurstin); “I Took a Pill in Ibiza” (written by Mike Posner); Love Yourself” (which Bieber co-wrote with Ed Sheeran and Benny Blanco); and “7 Years” (which Lukas Graham members Lukas Forchhammer and Morten Ristorp co-wrote with Stefan Forrest and Morten Pilegaard).
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