2024 โคGrammy Nominations Announced: Lady Gaga & kendrick Lamar Lead Albumโข of the Year โRace
LOS ANGELES,CA – โฃNominationsโ for the 2024 Grammy Awards are here,setting the stage for a competitive awards season culminating โฃin a ceremony on February 1,2025,in Los angeles.โข Lady Gaga โฃand Kendrick Lamar are considered frontrunners in the coveted Album of the Year category,according to Billboard music magazine journalist Paul โGrein,who identifies Lamar asโ a “slight favorite” but cautions againstโ underestimating Gaga’sโค widespread appeal.
The nominations include a โขdiverse range of artists and genres. Miley Cyrus’s “Something Lovely” and Teddy Swims’s “I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 1)”โ are among the nominated โworks. Three rap albums received nods: tyler the Creator’s Chromakopia, clipse’s Let God Sort Em Out,โค andโฃ GNX.
Notably, Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl was ineligible โfor consideration as it was releasedโ after the nomination deadline.
Bad Bunny garnered sixโ nominations, including โคchances for Album of the Year, Best Recording, and Best Song. The k-pop โคgenre isโฃ represented with nominations for Golden, from the Netflix film K-pop: Demon โฃHunter, and “APT,” a collaboration between Rosรฉ and Bruno Mars. Rei Ami,a vocalist from the fictional group Huntr/x featured on “Golden,” expressed surprise at the song’s success,stating,”I never thought we’d be this accomplished. We’re stillโฃ processing it.”
The Record of โthe Year category features “APT” alongside Lady Gaga’s “Abracadabra,” Kendrickโ Lamar and SZA’s “Luther,” and โBad โคBunny’s “DtMF.”
Competing for Best New โฃArtist are Olivia Dean, the girl group Katseye, Leon Thomas, and Alex Warren.โฃ Thomas, โฃwho blends R&B and soul, is also nominated for Albumโ of the Yearโข with his record Mutt.
Over 15,000 members of the US National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciencesโ will determine the winners.
