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