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Lil Wayne Tops 51st GRAMMY Nominations
December 3, 2008


Rapper earns eight nods; Coldplay get seven

GRAMMY.com

Nominations for the 51st Annual GRAMMY Awards were announced tonight by The Recording Academy and reflected one of the most diverse years ever with the Album Of The Year category alone representing the rap, R&B, folk and rock genres.

Lil Wayne topped the nominations with eight, Coldplay garnered seven, and Jay-Z, Ne-Yo and Kanye West each earned six nods. Alison Krauss, John Mayer, Robert Plant, Radiohead and Jazmine Sullivan received five each, and Adele, Danger Mouse, Eagles, Lupe Fiasco, George Strait, and T.I. each received four nominations.

For the first time, nominations for the annual GRAMMY Awards were announced on prime-time television as part of "The GRAMMY Nominations Concert Live!! — Countdown To Music's Biggest Night." The one-hour special — broadcast live on CBS from Nokia Theatre L.A Live — featured past GRAMMY winners and nominees reading nominations in several categories, as well as performing songs from the GRAMMY Hall Of Fame in celebration of the grand opening of the GRAMMY Museum.

Two-time GRAMMY winner LL Cool J and 50th GRAMMY Best New Artist nominee Taylor Swift co-hosted the telecast, and presenters/performers included four-time GRAMMY winner Christina Aguilera, five-time GRAMMY winners Mariah Carey and Celine Dion, the six-time GRAMMY-winning Foo Fighters, 14-time GRAMMY winner B.B. King, five-time GRAMMY winner John Mayer, and Swift.

"The GRAMMY Awards process once again has yielded a comprehensive, diverse and eclectic group of excellent nominees across multiple genres," said Neil Portnow, President/CEO of The Recording Academy. "This year's nominations are truly reflective of the talented community of artists and creators who represent some of the highest levels of musical excellence. Coupled with our first-ever prime-time nominations special, featuring stellar performances by past GRAMMY winners and nominees, we're off to an incredible start on the road to Music's Biggest Night and the 51st Annual GRAMMY Awards in February."

Following are the nominations in the four General Field categories:

Album Of The Year:
Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends (Coldplay)
Tha Carter III (Lil Wayne)
Year Of The Gentleman (Ne-Yo)
Raising Sand (Robert Plant & Alison Krauss)
In Rainbows (Radiohead)

Record Of The Year:
"Chasing Pavements" (Adele)
"Viva La Vida" (Coldplay)
"Bleeding Love" (Leona Lewis)
"Paper Planes" (M.I.A.)
"Please Read The Letter" (Robert Plant & Alison Krauss)

Song Of The Year:
"American Boy," William Adams, Keith Harris, Josh Lopez, Caleb Speir, John Stephens, Estelle Swaray & Kanye West, songwriters (Estelle Featuring Kanye West, artist)
"Chasing Pavements," Adele Adkins & Eg White, songwriters (Adele, artist)
"I'm Yours," Jason Mraz, songwriter (Jason Mraz, artist)
"Love Song," Sara Bareilles, songwriter (Sara Bareilles, artist)
"Viva La Vida," Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland, Will Champion & Chris Martin, songwriters (Coldplay, artist)

Best New Artist:
Adele
Duffy
Jonas Brothers
Lady Antebellum
Jazmine Sullivan

Nominations in the Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals category are "Viva La Vida" by Coldplay; "Waiting In The Weeds" by Eagles; "Going On" by Gnarls Barkley; "Won't Go Home Without You" by Maroon 5; and "Apologize" by OneRepublic.

For Best Rock Album, the nominees are Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends by Coldplay; Rock N Roll Jesus by Kid Rock; Only By The Night by Kings Of Leon; Death Magnetic by Metallica; and Consolers Of The Lonely by the Raconteurs.

Nominations in the Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals are "Ribbon In The Sky" by Boyz II Men; "Words" by Anthony David Featuring Indie.Arie; "Stay With Me (By The Sea)" by Al Green Featuring John Legend; "I'm His Only Woman" by Jennifer Hudson Featuring Fantasia; and "Never Give You Up" by Raphael Saadiq Featuring Stevie Wonder & CJ Hilton.

For Best Rap Album, the nominees are American Gangster by Jay-Z; Tha Carter III by Lil Wayne; The Cool by Lupe Fiasco; Nas by Nas; and Paper Trail by T.I.

The Best Country Collaboration With Vocals nominees are "Shiftwork" by Kenny Chesney & George Strait; "Killing The Blues" by Robert Plant & Alison Krauss; "House Of Cash" by George Strait & Patty Loveless; "Life In A Northern Town" by Sugarland, Jake Owen & Little Big Town; and "Let The Wind Chase You" by Trisha Yearwood & Keith Urban.

This year's Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical nominees are Danger Mouse, Nigel Godrich, Johnny Karkazis, Rick Rubin, and will.i.am.

GRAMMY ballots for the final round of voting will be mailed on Dec. 17 to the voting members of The Recording Academy. They are due back to the accounting firm Deloitte by Jan. 14, 2009, when they will be tabulated and the results kept secret until the telecast.

The 51st Annual GRAMMY Awards will be held on "GRAMMY Sunday," Feb. 8, 2009, at Staples Center in Los Angeles and once again will be broadcast live in high-definition TV and 5.1 surround sound on CBS from 8–11:30 p.m. (ET/PT).



FULL LIST HERE:



Best Rap Solo Performance
(For a solo Rap performance. Singles or Tracks only.)

Roc Boys (And The Winner Is)...
Jay-Z
Track from: American Gangster
[Roc-A-Fella]

A Milli
Lil Wayne
Track from: Tha Carter III
[Cash Money/Universal Motown]

Paris, Tokyo
Lupe Fiasco
Track from: The Cool
[1st & 15th/Atlantic]

N.i.*.*.e.r. (The Slave And The Master)
Nas
Track from: Untitled
[Def Jam]

Sexual Eruption
Snoop Dogg
Track from: Ego Trippin
[Geffen]

Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group
(For duo, group or collaborative performances of Rap only. Singles or Tracks only.)

Royal Flush
Big Boi Featuring Raekwon And Andre 3000
[LaFace]

Swagga Like Us
Jay-Z & T.I. Featuring Kanye West & Lil Wayne
[Roc-A-Fella/Grand Hustle/Atlantic]

Mr. Carter
Lil Wayne Featuring Jay-Z
Track from: Tha Carter III
[Cash Money/Universal Motown]

Wish You Would
Ludacris Featuring T.I.
[DTP]

Put On
Young Jeezy Featuring Kanye West
[Def Jam]

Best Rap/Sung Collaboration
(For a Rap/Sung collaborative performance by artists who do not normally perform together. Singles or Tracks only.)

American Boy
Estelle Featuring Kanye West
Track from: Shine
[Homeschool/Atlantic]

Low
Flo Rida Featuring T-Pain
Track from: Mail On Sunday
[Poe Boy/Atlantic]

Green Light
John Legend & Andre 3000
[Columbia/G.O.O.D. Music]

Got Money
Lil Wayne Featuring T-Pain
Track from: Tha Carter III
[Cash Money/Universal Motown]

Superstar
Lupe Fiasco Featuring Matthew Santos
Track from: The Cool
[1st & 15th/Atlantic]

Best Rap Song
(A Songwriter(s) Award. For Song Eligibility Guidelines see Category #3. (Artist names appear in parentheses.) Singles or Tracks only.)

Lollipop
D. Carter, S. Garrett, D. Harrison, J. Scheffer & R. Zamor, songwriters (Lil Wayne Featuring Static Major)
Track from: Tha Carter III
[Cash Money/Universal Motown; Publishers: Young Money Publishing/Warner-Chappell Music, Herbalicious Music/Blackfountain Music/EMI-April Music, JimiPub Music/EMI Blackwood, Three Nails and A Crown Publishing]

Low
T. Dillard, M. Humphrey & T-Pain, songwriters (Flo Rida Featuring T-Pain)
Track from: Mail On Sunday
[Poe Boy/Atlantic; Publishers: E-Class Publishing/Top Quality Publishing/NappyPub Music/Zomba Songs]

Sexual Eruption
Calvin Broadus, S. Lovejoy & D. Stewart, songwriters (Snoop Dogg)
Track from: Ego Trippin
[Geffen; Publishers: My Own Chit Publishing/EMI Blackwood Music, Shawty Redd Songs/EMI April Music, Pimpin Tha Pen]

Superstar
Lupe Fiasco & Soundtrakk, songwriters (Lupe Fiasco Featuring Matthew Santos)
Track from: The Cool
[1st & 15th/Atlantic; Publishers: Hey Lu Chill Music (Heavy As Heaven/Universal Music), 1st & 15th Publishing (Mr. Lopez Music/Universal Music Publishing)]

Swagga Like Us
D. Carter, S. Carter, Clifford Harris & Kanye West, songwriters (M. Arulpragasam, N. Headon, M. Jones, J. Mellor, T. Pentz & P. Simonon, songwriters) (Jay-Z & T.I. Featuring Kanye West & Lil Wayne)
[Roc-A-Fella/Grand Hustle/Atlantic; Publishers: Crown Club Pub./Warner-Tamerlane/Please Gimme My Publishing/EMI Blackwood/Carter Boys Music/EMI April/Young Money Pub./Warner-Tamerlane/Hollertronix/Domino Publishing/Universal Z Tunes/Univ. Polygram Int'l]

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Mr Wavez

Nice...kanye wayne and Ti doin the damn thing

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younggun11

wtf, wasnt American Gangsta released in 2007??

This list is a joke,

Nas Should Win. But He wont

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Re Up

i dont ride 50 or anything but why 50 never nominated?
Curtis wasnt great and the massacre was dope but never nominated but they always seem to nominate the same niggas

Anyway i hope Nas wins his album was my fav of the year so far...smh @ kanye n TI dropping this yr and jay gets a nod for a 2007 album when they couldve nominated it last yr since it came out in november...nominationa are fcked up smh @ whoever sets this up

Coldplay should win too i liked their album but smfh at wayne getting nods for a trash album..it only gettin nods for its commercial success

Maully Da Don

word... these award shows r a joke

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Da Real Deal

to Lupe for gettin nominated for four grammys.

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MakaveIi

lupe deserves at least one of these

bigfunku22

imma ride with lupe on this

they must not like 50 i c......

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Hunger4More

well CURTIS was fuckin horrible. And what music has he put out that could be mentioned at this show? CURTIS was last year

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Stay Fly

Nas should win.....

but these nominees are fucked up....fucked up that wayne is on that list....like Re Up said: trash album...bandwagon fans bought that shit.....a millie first week, ask that prick, the gay community bough that shit! ...LOL

A.T.I.

the last date of submission for Grammy entries is Sep. 30, hence Jay-Z and Lupe being nominated this year

and 50 has been nominated like 12 times before

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Re Up

he was nominated for GRODT n thats it
I dont care really but im just saying cause i thought the grammys didnt like nominating 'gangsta rap'
But yet they nominate niggas like TI and wayne who both have gangsta rap written all over them
They usually go for hip hop like Kanye, JayZ n shit like that

Btw the ppl who do the nominating are bunch of white executives who dont vote based on the topic, they vote on who they like

For example they nominated Jonas Brothers for best new artist when they have dropped like 3 albums but Katy Perry doesnt get nominated lol idc bout pop its just an example

No1 gives a shit bout grammys anymore exept the artists hence y no one watches

A.T.I.

The Massacre got a couple of noms, so did Curtis, even

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Em50Dre

Ti just doin his thing.

Hunger4More

yeah i think massacre got nominated for best rap album and i believe I get Money was nominated for best rap solo

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Re Up

I never watch grammys so i didnt know
I just know that grodt was nominated

bob#3

Lil' Wayne leads Grammy nominees with 8
not to hate but 50 doesn't even get nominated
i guess he was right when he said on cribs the Grammys don't acknowledge my music

*50*CENT*WIFE*

^^^yeah he said somethin about they dont understand his music cuz its harsh reality or somethin but it'll been nice if he did win back in 04 when he was nom for 5 of them...
As for nas it'll be nice if he won somethin too and congrats to those who were nominated...

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Mr Wavez

No hate but it may be a harsh reality but its repeated every single time..Its takes the creativeness outta your music when you say the same thing over and over again

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The Real K.I.N.G.

I Get Money and Ayo Technology was nominated last year what yall crying for... Just like A.T.I. Jay-Z & Lupe albums dropped after the Sept. 30 last year which is why they nominated. Snoop got 2 Nominations for Sexual Eruption that's good. They count you as being nominated if you are featured on the song that's nominated that's how Wayne got his 8 for his and most of the rap artist are nominated like twice in the same category. I wonder if Ne-Yo or Wayne ever thought they would be nominated in the big category Album of the Year If Wayne wins that category before Kanye West that would be a slap in the face to Kanyes classics

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yepitsme

shity list

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fatalsoldier

Success brings people on that list.. So you can't really say that the ones on the list dont deserve it..

black ice 07

Jay nominated because american gangster dropped in november 07. The grammy cut off is september 30th. That's how records like that drop in this year. 50 not being nominated this year just mean he got to work harder he's been up every year he's dropped except this year. That should tell him Curtis wasn't good. Most fans disn't like the pop sound on the cd, critics rated it bad, and now the grammy board not nominating him for it. He just got to step it up because people getting tired of the same old shit.

Re Up

Lol then why is kanye nominated if cutoff is the 30th..his album just dropped last week

A.T.I.

all guest features/production

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