The Recording Academy has announced the nominations for the 58th Annual GRAMMY Awards in all 83 categories.
Reflecting a diverse blend of talented music makers, this year’s nominees were selected from more than 21,000 submissions entered. As the only peer-based music award, the GRAMMY Awards are voted on by The Academy’s membership body of creators across all disciplines of music, including recording artists, songwriters, producers, and engineers.
Final-round GRAMMY ballots will be mailed Dec. 16 and the preeminent award for excellence in music will be presented Monday, Feb. 15, 2016, live from STAPLES Center in Los Angeles and broadcast on CBS at 8 p.m. (ET/PT).
We have to admit that this year’s list of R&B nominations are very commendable, and we can’t be mad at any of them. Looks like things are starting to turn around for the better, if only they would start broadcasting all of them and giving the artists the shine they deserve.
This year, Kendrick Lamar leads nominations with 11, followed by Taylor Swift and The Weeknd, who each earn seven. In the R&B categories and some additional D’Angelo, Miguel, Jazmine Sullivan, Tyrese and more have received multiple noms. One of the standout picks was rising singer Kehlani having her second mixtape ‘You Should Be Here‘ nominated under Best Urban Contemporary Album.
Congrats to all of the R&B nominees, check them out below… What do you think?
BEST R&B PERFORMANCE
“If I Don’t Have You”
Tamar Braxton
Track from: Calling All Lovers
“Rise Up”
Andra Day
Track from: Cheers To The Fall
“Breathing Underwater”
Hiatus Kaiyote
Track from: Choose Your Weapon
“Planes”
Jeremih Featuring J. Cole
“Earned It (Fifty Shades Of Grey)”
The Weeknd
Track from: Fifty Shades Of Grey (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
BEST TRADITIONAL R&B PERFORMANCE
“He Is”
Faith Evans
Track from: Incomparable
“Little Ghetto Boy”
Lalah Hathaway
“Let It Burn”
Jazmine Sullivan
“Shame”
Tyrese
“My Favorite Part Of You”
Charlie Wilson
BEST R&B SONG
“Coffee”
Brook Davis & Miguel Pimentel, songwriters (Miguel)
Track from: Wildheart
“Earned It (Fifty Shades Of Grey)”
Ahmad Balshe, Stephan Moccio, Jason Quenneville & Abel Tesfaye, songwriters (The Weeknd)
Track from: Fifty Shades Of Grey (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
“Let It Burn”
Kenny B. Edmonds, Jazmine Sullivan & Dwane M. Weir II, songwriters (Jazmine Sullivan)
Track from: Reality Show
“Really Love”
D’Angelo & Kendra Foster, songwriters (D’Angelo And The Vanguard)
Track from: Black Messiah
“Shame”
Warryn Campbell, Tyrese Gibson & DJ Rogers Jr, songwriters (Tyrese)
BEST URBAN CONTEMPORARY ALBUM
Ego Death
The Internet
You Should Be Here
Kehlani
Blood
Lianne La Havas
Wildheart
Miguel
Beauty Behind The Madness
The Weeknd
BEST R&B ALBUM
Coming Home
Leon Bridges
Black Messiah
D’Angelo And The Vanguard
Cheers To The Fall
Andra Day
Reality Show
Jazmine Sullivan
Forever Charlie
Charlie Wilson
RECORD OF THE YEAR
“Really Love”
D’Angelo And The Vanguard
“Uptown Funk”
Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars
“Thinking Out Loud”
Ed Sheeran
“Blank Space”
Taylor Swift
“Can’t Feel My Face”
The Weeknd
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Sound & Color
Alabama Shakes
To Pimp A Butterfly
Kendrick Lamar
Traveller
Chris Stapleton
1989
Taylor Swift
Beauty Behind The Madness
The Weeknd
SONG OF THE YEAR
“Alright”
Kendrick Duckworth, Mark Anthony Spears & Pharrell Williams, songwriters (Kendrick Lamar)
Track from: To Pimp A Butterfly
“Blank Space”
Max Martin, Shellback & Taylor Swift, songwriters (Taylor Swift)
Track from: 1989
“Girl Crush”
Hillary Lindsey, Lori McKenna & Liz Rose, songwriters (Little Big Town)
Track from: Pain Killer
“See You Again”
Andrew Cedar, Justin Franks, Charles Puth & Cameron Thomaz, songwriters (Wiz Khalifa Featuring Charlie Puth)
Track from: Furious 7: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
“Thinking Out Loud”
Ed Sheeran & Amy Wadge, songwriters (Ed Sheeran)
Track from: X