KANYE WEST leads GRAMMY NOMINATIONS with 8
Nominations were announced today in Los Angeles for the 50th Annual Grammy Awards and Kanye leads the list of nominees with 8 nods, while Winehouse follows with six. She captured nominations in all four top Grammy categories: Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year (a songwriter's award), and Best New Artist.
Many artists recieved multiple nominations - The Foo Fighters, Jay-Z, Timbaland, Justin Timberlake, and T-Pain all have 5 nods.
T.I. got nominated for Best Rap Solo Performance; Best Rap Song; and Best Rap Album for T.I. vs. T.I.P..
West's nominations dominate the rap categories, with nominations for the Best Rap album and double nominations in the Best Rap Song category - with both "Can't Tell Me Nothing" and "Good Life" competing for the award. Graduation is also in competition with Amy Winehouse's Back To Black, the Foo Fighters' Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, Vince Gill's These Days and Herbie Hancock's River: The Joni Letters in the Album of the Year race.
Noticably absent from the Grammy Noms list are super-producer Polow Da Don, who produced smash hits for Fergie ("London Bridge" and many others on album), Ciara ("Promise"), Mary J. Blige ("Runaway Love"), Ludacris, Pussycat Dolls ("Buttons"), Rich Boy ("Throw Some D's"), and more. Also absent from the nods was Sugarland, who most recently performed with Beyonce at the American Music Awards.
The 50th Annual Grammy Awards will be handed out on February 10, 2008 at Los Angeles' Staples Center. For a full list of nominations visit grammy.com.
Congrats to Beyonce and Justin on 3 AMA Nominations Each
Nominations for the American Music Awards are out and it's no guess that Beyonce and Justin Timberlake are leading with 3 nods each. Both 26 year old entertainers are at the top of their games right now and that's definitely apparent when you hear them collaboratively murder JT's "Til the End of Time".
Linkin Park and Daughtry also snatched three nominations. T.I., Young Jeezy, Akon, Tim McGraw, Rascal Flatts, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Carrie Underwood captured two nominations each.
Be sure to tune in to the 35th annual American Music Awards, to be broadcast Nov. 18 by ABC from the new L.A. Live Entertainment Complex.
LAST DAY TO VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE R&B SINGER!!!
The BRiSON poll closes tonight so make sure you rep hard for your favorite male R&B singer! So far Chris Brown is getting it on and poppin in the lead, but Usher and Neyo don't seem too far behind. A few artists left off the poll, but that continue to get votes, are T-Pain, R.Kelly, and Akon; we didn't intentionally leave them off the list, but feel free to add them in the space marked as other. Make sure you tune in Monday to hear who YOU voted the best R&B singer of 2007!!!
