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Northwest legend Brandi Carlile gets six Grammy nominations

caption: FILE: Brandi Carlile in the KUOW studios, December 1, 2016.
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FILE: Brandi Carlile in the KUOW studios, December 1, 2016.
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On Friday, the Recording Academy announced its nominees for the Grammy Awards, which will be held on Feb. 10.

Kendrick Lamar, who helmed the Black Panther soundtrack, leads this year's field with eight nominations; Americana artist Brandi Carlile surprised with six nominations, including in the categories of album and record of the year. Country artist Kacey Musgraves earned four nominations, for album and country album of the year. Previous Grammy favorite Taylor Swift was shut out from all categories except best pop vocal Album for reputation.

This year, for the first time, in the four main categories — album of the year, record of the year, song of the year (a songwriting award), and best new artist — the number of nominees has expanded to eight from five. Female artists became the majority of nominees in the album of the year, song of the year and best new artist fields.

Record of the Year


  • "I Like It" — Cardi B, Bad Bunny & J Balvin
  • "The Joke" — Brandi Carlile
  • "This Is America" — Childish Gambino
  • "God's Plan" — Drake
  • "Shallow" — Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
  • "All the Stars" — Kendrick Lamar & SZA
  • "Rockstar" — Post Malone featuring 21 Savage
  • "The Middle" — Zedd, Maren Morris & Grey

Album of the Year

  • Invasion Of Privacy — Cardi B
  • By The Way, I Forgive You — Brandi Carlile
  • Scorpion — Drake
  • H.E.R. — H.E.R.
  • Beerbongs & Bentleys — Post Malone
  • Dirty Computer — Janelle Monáe
  • Golden Hour — Kacey Musgraves
  • Black Panther: The Album -- Various artists


Song of the Year

  • "All The Stars" — Kendrick Duckworth, Solána Rowe, Al Shuckburgh, Mark Spears & Anthony Tiffith (Kendrick Lamar & SZA)
  • "Boo'd Up" — Larrance Dopson, Joelle James, Ella Mai & Dijon McFarlane (Ella Mai)
  • "God's Plan" — Aubrey Graham, Daveon Jackson, Brock Korsan, Ron LaTour, Matthew Samuels & Noah Shebib, songwriters (Drake)
  • "In My Blood" — Teddy Geiger, Scott Harris, Shawn Mendes & Geoffrey Warburton (Shawn Mendes)
  • "The Joke" — Brandi Carlile, Dave Cobb, Phil Hanseroth & Tim Hanseroth (Brandi Carlile)
  • "The Middle" — Sarah Aarons, Jordan K. Johnson, Stefan Johnson, Marcus Lomax, Kyle Trewartha, Michael Trewartha & Anton Zaslavski (Zedd, Maren Morris & Grey)
  • "Shallow" — Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando & Andrew Wyatt (Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper)
  • "This Is America" — Donald Glover & Ludwig Goransson (Childish Gambino)


Best New Artist

  • Chloe x Halle
  • Luke Combs
  • Greta Van Fleet
  • H.E.R.
  • Dua Lipa
  • Margo Price
  • Bebe Rexha
  • Jorja Smith


Best Pop Solo Performance

  • "Colors" — Beck
  • "Havana (Live)" — Camila Cabello
  • "God Is A Woman" — Ariana Grande
  • "Joanne (Where Do You Think You're Goin'?)" — Lady Gaga
  • "Better Now" — Post Malone

Best Pop Vocal Album

  • Camila — Camila Cabello
  • Meaning Of Life — Kelly Clarkson
  • Sweetener — Ariana Grande
  • Shawn Mendes — Shawn Mendes
  • Beautiful Trauma — P!nk
  • Reputation — Taylor Swift


Best Dance Recording

  • "Northern Soul" — Above & Beyond featuring Richard Bedford
  • "Ultimatum" — Disclosure featuring Fatoumata Diawara
  • "Losing It" — Fisher
  • "Electricity" — Silk City & Dua Lipa featuring Diplo & Mark Ronson
  • "Ghost Voices" — Virtual Self


Best Rock Song

  • "Black Smoke Rising" — Jacob Thomas Kiszka, Joshua Michael Kiszka, Samuel Francis Kiszka & Daniel Robert Wagner, songwriters (Greta Van Fleet)
  • "Jumpsuit" — Tyler Joseph, songwriter (Twenty One Pilots) "MANTRA" — Jordan Fish, Matthew Kean, Lee Malia, Matthew Nicholls & Oliver Sykes, songwriters (Bring Me The Horizon)
  • "Masseduction" — Jack Antonoff & Annie Clark, songwriters (St. Vincent)
  • "Rats" — Tom Dalgety & A Ghoul Writer, songwriters (Ghost)


Best Rock Album

  • Rainier Fog -- Alice in Chains
  • M A N I A -- Fall Out Boy
  • Prequelle — Ghost
  • From the Fires — Greta Van Fleet
  • Pacific Daydream -- Weezer


Best Urban Contemporary Album

  • Everything Is Love — The Carters
  • The Kids Are Alright — Chloe x Halle
  • Chris Dave And The Drumhedz — Chris Dave And The Drumhedz
  • War & Leisure — Miguel
  • Ventriloquism — Meshell Ndegeocello

Best Rap Album

  • Invasion Of Privacy — Cardi B
  • Swimming — Mac Miller
  • Victory Lap — Nipsey Hussle
  • Daytona — Pusha T
  • Astroworld — Travis Scott


Best Country Album

  • Unapologetically — Kelsea Ballerini
  • Port Saint Joe — Brothers Osborne
  • Girl Going Nowhere -- Ashley McBride
  • Golden Hour — Kacey Musgraves
  • From A Room: Volume 2 — Chris Stapleton


Best Jazz Vocal Album

  • My Mood Is You — Freddy Cole
  • The Questions — Kurt Elling
  • The Subject Tonight Is Love — Kate McGarry with Keith Ganz & Gary Versace
  • If You Really Want — Raul Midón with The Metropole Orkest, conducted by Vince Mendoza
  • The Window — Cécile McLorin Salvant


Best Gospel Album

  • One Nation Under God — Jekalyn Carr
  • Hiding Place — Tori Kelly
  • Make Room — Jonathan McReynolds
  • The Other Side — The Walls Group
  • A Great Work — Brian Courtney Wilson

Best Latin Pop Album

  • Prometo — Pablo Alboran
  • Sincera — Claudia Brant Musas
  • (Un Homenaje al Folclore Latinoamericano en Manos de los Macorinos), Vol. 2 — Natalia Lafourcade
  • 2:00 AM — Raquel Sofía
  • Vives — Carlos Vives


Best Americana Album

  • By The Way, I Forgive You — Brandi Carlile
  • Things Have Changed — Bettye LaVette
  • The Tree Of Forgiveness — John Prine
  • The Lonely, The Lonesome & The Gone — Lee Ann Womack
  • One Drop Of Truth — The Wood Brothers


Best Comedy Album

  • Annihilation — Patton Oswalt
  • Equanimity & The Bird Revelation — Dave Chappelle
  • Noble Ape — Jim Gaffigan
  • Standup for Drummers — Fred Armisen
  • Tamborine — Chris Rock


Best Song Written For Visual Media

  • "All The Stars" — Kendrick Duckworth, Solána Rowe, Alexander William Shuckburgh, Mark Anthony Spears & Anthony Tiffith (Kendrick Lamar & SZA), Track from: Black Panther
  • "Mystery Of Love" — Sufjan Stevens (Sufjan Stevens), Track from: Call Me By Your Name
  • "Remember Me" — Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez (Miguel, featuring Natalia Lafourcade), Track from: Coco
  • "Shallow" — Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando & Andrew Wyatt (Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper), Track from: A Star Is Born
  • "This Is Me" — Benj Pasek & Justin Paul, songwriters (Keala Settle & The Greatest Showman Ensemble), Track from: The Greatest Showman

Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical

  • Boi-1da
  • Larry Klein
  • Linda Perry
  • Kanye West
  • Pharrell Williams


Find a full list of this year's nominees here.

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