52nd Grammy Award Nominations [NEWS]

The 52nd annual Grammy Awards will take place on January 31st 2010 in Los Angeles at the Staples Center. Last night the 2010 nominations were announced during the Grammy Nominations Concert which was hosted by LL Cool J and featured performances from Maxwell, Black Eyed Peas and others. Check out (the most interesting) nominations below…

We’re posting live as the nominations are announced, so this list will be constantly updated

It’s 3.30am here in London right now. I need to get some sleep. I haven’t tallied up how many everyone got, but I know Beyonce got a massive 10 nods.

Let us know what YOU think about this years nominations!

Best New Artist

• Zac Brown Band
• Keri Hilson
• MGMT
• Silversun Pickups
• The Ting Tings

Song of the Year

• Lady GaGa – “Poker Face”
• Maxwell – “Pretty Wings”
• Beyonce – “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)”
• Kings of Leon – “Use Somebody”
• Taylor Swift – “You Belong With Me”

Record of the Year

• Beyonce – “Halo”
• The Black Eyed Peas – “I Gotta Feeling”
• Kings of Leon – “Use Somebody”
• Lady GaGa – “Poker Face”
• Taylor Swift – “You Belong To Me”

Album of the Year

• Beyonce – “I Am…Sasha Fierce”
• The Black Eyed Peas – “The E.N.D”
• Lady GaGa – “The Fame”
• Dave Matthews Band – “Big Whiskey & the GrooGrux King”
• Taylor Swift – “Fearless”

Best Rap Album

• Common – “Universal Mind Control”
• Eminem – “Relapse”
• Flo  Rida – “R.O.O.T.S”
• Mos Def – “The Ecsastic”
• Q-Tip – “The Renaissance”

Hit the jump for the rest of the Grammy Nominations!

Best Female R&B Vocal Performance

• Beyonce – “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)”
• Melanie Fiona – “It Kills Me”
• Lalah Hathaway – “That Was Then”
• Ledisi – “Going Thru Changes”
• Jazmine Sullivan – “Lions, Tigers & Bears”

Best Male R&B Vocal Performance

• Anthony Hamilton – “The Point Of It All”
• Maxwell – “Pretty Wings”
• Musiq Soulchild – “Sobeautiful”
• Pleasure P – “Under”
• Charlie Wilson – “There Goes My Baby”

Best Female R&B Vocal Performance

• Beyonce – “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)”
• Melanie Fiona – “It Kills Me”
• Lalah Hathaway – “That Was Then”
• Ledisi – “Going Thru Changes”
• Jazmine Sullivan – “Lions, Tigers & Bears”

Best Male R&B Vocal Performance

• Anthony Hamilton – “The Point Of It All”
• Maxwell – “Pretty Wings”
• Musiq Soulchild – “Sobeautiful”
• Pleasure P – “Under”
• Charlie Wilson – “There Goes My Baby”

Best R&B Performance By A Duo or Group With Vocals

• Jamie Foxx & T-Pain – “Blame It”
• India.Arie & Musiq Soulchil – “Chocolate High”
• Musiq Soulchild & Mary J. Blige – “Ifuleave”
• Rober Randolph & The Clark Sisters – “Higher Ground”
• Calvin Richardson & Ann Nesby – “Love Has Finally Come At Last”

Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance

• Beyonce – “At Last”
• Anthony Hamilton – “Soul Music”
• Boney James & Quinn – “Don’t Let Me Be Lonley Tonight”
• Ann Nesby – “Sow Love”
• Calvin Richardson – “Woman Gotta Have It”
  

Best Urban/Alternative Performance

• The Foreign Exchange – “Daykeeper”
• Rober Glasper & Bilal – “All Matter
• India.Arie & Dobet Gnahore – “Pearls”
• Eric Roberson, Ben O’Neill & Michelle Thompson – “A Tale of Two”
• Tonex – “Blend”

Best R&B Song

• Jamie Foxx – “Blame It”
• Jazmine Sullivan – “Lions, Tigers & Bears”
• Maxwell – “Pretty Wings”
• Beyonce – “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)”
• Pleasure P – “Under”

Best R&B Album

• Anthony Hamilton – “The Point Of It All”
• India.Arie – “Testimony: Vol2, Love & Politics”
• Ledisi – “Turn Me Loose”
• Maxwell – “Blacksummers’night”
• Charlie Wilson – “Uncle Charlie”

Best Contemporary R&B Album

• Beyonce – “I Am…Sasha Fierce”
• Jamie Foxx – “Intuition”
• Pleasure P – “The Introduction of Macrus Cooper”
• Trey Songz – “Ready”
• T-Pain – “Thr33 Ringz”

Best Rap Performance By a Duo or Group

• Beastie Boys & Nas – “Too Many Rappers
• Eminem, Dr Dre & 50 Cent – “Crack a Bottle”
• Fabolous & Jay-Z – “Money Goes, Honey Stay”
• KiD CuDi, KanYe West & Common – “Make Her Say?
• KanYe West & Young Jeezy – “Amazing”

Best Rap/Sung Collaboration

• Beyonce & KanYe West – “Ego
• Keri Hilson, KanYe West & Ne-Y0 – “Knock You Down”
• Jay-Z, Rihanna & KanYe West – “Run This Town”
• The Lonely Island & T-Pain – “Im On A Boat”
• T.I & Justin Timberlake – “Dead & Gone”

Best Rap Song

• Drake – “Best I Ever Had”
• KiD Cudi – “Day N Night”
• T.I & Justin Timberlake – “Dead & gONE”
• Jay-Z – “D.O.A (Death of Auto-tune)”
• Jay-Z, Rihanna & KanYe West – “Run This Town”

Best Rap Solo Performance

• Drake – “Best I Ever Had”
• Eminem – “Beautiful”
• Jay-Z – “D.O.A (Death of the Auto-Tune)”
• KiD CuDi – “Day ‘N’ Night”
• Mos Def – “Casa Bey”

Best Pop Performance

• The Black Eyed Peas – “I Gotta Feeling”
• Bon Jovi – “We Weren’t Born To Follow”
• The Fray – “Never Say Never”
• Daryl Hall & John Oates – “Sara Smile”
• MGMT – “Kids”

Best Female Pop Vocal Performance

• Adele – “Hometown Glory”
• Beyonce – “Halo”
• Katy Perry – “Hot N Cold”
• Pink – “Sober”
• Taylor Swift – “You Belong With Me”

Best Male Pop Vocal Performance

• John Legend – “This Time”
• Maxwell – “Love You”
• Jason Mraz – “Make It Mine”
• Seal – “If You Don’t Know Me By Now”
• Stevie WOnder – “All About The Love Again”

Best Pop Vocal Album

• The Black Eyed Peas – “The E.N.D”
• Colbie Caillat – “Breakthrough”
• Kelly Clarkson – “All I Ever Wanted”
• The Fray – “The Fray”
• Pink – “Funhouse”

Best Dance Recording

• The Black Eyed Peas – “Boom Boom Pow”
• David Guetta & Kelly Rowland – “When Love Takes Over”
• Lady GaGa – “Poker Face”
• Madonna – “Celebration”
• Britney Spears – “Womanizer”

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE NOMINATIONS?