2013 Grammy Nominations Are In

06 Dec, 2012

Male artists led the nominations announced on Wednesday for the 2013 Grammys, as fun., Frank Ocean, Mumford & Sons, Jay-Z, Kanye West and Dan Auerbach from The Black Keys landed six nominations each for music’s biggest awards.

The nominations for New York-based indie-pop band fun. included the four main categories for record, song and album of the year and best new artist.

The group scored a hit with its first single, We Are Young, and then followed that up with its successful album Some Nights and single of the same name.

Ocean, a 25-year-old rapper-singer, will be competing along with fun. against blues-rock group Alabama Shakes, country singer Hunter Hayes and folk-rockers The Lumineers for the best new artist title.

The winners will be announced at the televised awards show in Los Angeles on 10 February.

After British singer Adele dominated the previous Grammy awards with her album 21, male artists took the lead in the album of the year category, where Ocean and fun. are competing with The Black Keys, Mumford & Sons and Jack White.

British folk band Mumford & Sons landed six more nominations on Wednesday for the chart-topping second album Babel, which is the second biggest-selling album in the US this year.

Ohio rock duo The Black Keys landed five nominations, while Auerbach notched a non-classical producer of the year nomination for his work on four albums.

Jack White, the former frontman of The White Stripes, picked up three nods for his chart-topping debut solo album Blunderbuss.

Rappers Jay-Z and Kanye West continued to pick up nods for their 2011 album, Watch the Throne, including best rap performance for N****s in Paris. Jay-Z also landed nods for collaborating on songs with Young Jeezy and Rihanna, while West scored multiple nominations for his song Mercy.

R&B singer Rihanna also landed three nominations, including best solo pop performance for Where Have You Been.

Kelly Clarkson was one of the few leading female nominees, picking up three nominations, including record of the year and best pop vocal album.

Record of the year nominees saw an assortment of rock, pop and hip hop nominees, with Clarkson’s Stronger competing with The Black Keys’ Lonely Boy, fun.’s We Are Young, Australian artist Gotye’s hit Somebody That I Used To Know, Ocean’s Thinkin Bout You, and Taylor Swift’s We are Never Ever Getting Back Together.

The Who will receive the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

Guardian

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