2009 Grammy Award Nominations

December 3rd, 2008 by Castina

Tagged as: 2009 Grammy Awards, Today's New Music

The 2009 Grammy Award nominations were unveiled during a live concert special featuring Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, and a host of other music stars on Wednesday night.

Two of the biggest selling albums of the year — Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter III and Coldplay’s Viva La Vida were nominated for Album of the Year.

Here is the official list of the 2009 Grammy Award nominees:
Record Of The Year
(Award to the Artist and to the Producer(s), Recording Engineer(s) and/or Mixer(s), if other than the artist.)
Chasing Pavements Adele
Viva La Vida Coldplay
Bleeding Love Leona Lewis
Paper Planes M.I.A
Please Read The Letter Robert Plant & Alison Krauss

Album Of The Year
Viva La Vida Coldplay
Tha Carter III Lil Wayne
Year Of The Gentleman Ne-Yo (LOL)
Raising Sand – Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
In Rainsbows Radiohead

Song Of The Year
(A Songwriter(s) Award. A song is eligible if it was first released or if it first achieved prominence during the Eligibility Year. (Artist names appear in parentheses.) Singles or Tracks only.)
American Boy – William Adams, Keith Harris, Josh Lopez, Caleb Speir, John Stephens, Estelle Swaray & Kanye West, songwriters
Chasing Pavements – Adele Adkins, songwriter
I’m Yours – Jason Mraz, songwriter
Love Song – Sara Bareilles, songwriter
Viva La Vida – Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland, Will Champion & Chris Martin, songwriters

Best New Artist
Adele
Duffy
Jonas Brothers (LOL)
Lady Antebellum
Jazmine Sullivan

Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
Chasing Pavements – Adele
Love Song – Sara Bareilles
Mercy – Duffy
Bleeding Love – Leona Lewis
I Kissed A Girl – Katy Perry (ugh)
So What – P!nk

Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals
Rock And Roll Train – AC/DC
Violet Hill – Coldplay
Long Road Out Of Eden – The Eagles
Sex On Fire – Kings of Leon
House of Cards – Radiohead

Best Rock Album
Viva La Vida – Coldplay
Rock n Roll Jesus – Kid Rock (lol)
Only By The Night – Kings of Leon
Death Magnetic – Metallica
Consolers of the Lonely – The Raconteurs

Best Alternative Album
In Rainbows – Radiohead
Evil Urges – My Morning Jacket
Modern Guilt – Beck
Narrow Stairs – Death Cab For Cutie
The Odd Couple – Gnarls Barkley
other big cateogires are coming in right now and I will upade this post with them

Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Female
Beyonce – Me Myself and I (WTF?)
Heaven Sent 0 Keyshia COle
Spotlight – JHud
Superwoman – Alicia Keys
Need U Bad 0 Jazmine Sullivan

Best Contemporary R&B Album:
Growing Pains – Mary J Blidge
Back of my lac – J Holiday
First Love – Karina
Year Of The Gentleman – Ne-Yo
Fearless -Jazmine Sullivan

Best Rap Album:
American Gangster – Jay Z
Tha Carter III – Lil Wayne
The Cool – Lupe Fiasco
Nas – Nas
Paper Trail – T.I.

Best Country Album:
That Lonesome Song – Jamey Johnson
Sleepless Nights – Patty Loveless
Troubador – George Strait
Around The Bend – Randy Travis
Heaven, Heartache And the Power Of Love – Trisha Yearwood

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7 Responses to “2009 Grammy Award Nominations”

On January 2nd 2009, Aiswarya wrote:

YAY!! i’m so glad the jonas brothers are niminated, they rock!
On January 31st 2009, sum 1 wrote:

that isn’t even all the nomination catagouries
On February 5th 2009, young money allan wrote:

young money cash money lil wayne is the best
On February 6th 2009, BIGSTACKS wrote:

Lupe Fiasco should have been nominated for album of the year. Still underrated. Wake up people!!!!
On February 8th 2009, jenny wrote:

this is bullshit. if a gay band like the jonas brother can be nominated for “best new artist”, then tokio hotel should have been nominated like five times. this entire list is bullshit.
On February 9th 2009, jessica aka ladiieeeyyy clipsz wrote:

i love chis brown and i hate rihanna
On September 16th 2009, Anala wrote:

l cnt believe that the grammy awards are cummin again this year they were madd last year hope all the stars have a great night