Just over two months before the 56th Annual Grammy Awards take place at LA’s Staples Center, Hits Daily Double have revealed which acts they believe are most likely to score nominations and pick up awards on the star studded night.
Which acts they believe the committee will honour next year?
Their words below…
“Album of the Year:
Justin Timberlake is almost certain to make Grammy history this year. The NSYNC alum is vying to become the first former group member to make the Album of the Year finals with his or her first three solo albums. (Donald Fagen and Sting were each nominated with their first two solo albums.) Timberlake’s entry is The 20/20 Experience—The Complete Experience, which combines the initial album and the sequel.
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ debut, The Heist, is also a strong contender, on the strength of two #1 singles and the heartfelt and timely “Same Love.”
Taylor Swift, who won in this category for Fearless and then wasn’t even nominated for Speak Now, may well make it back to the finals with her fourth studio album,Red.
Bruno Mars’ sophomore album, Unorthodox Jukebox,also has a good shot. Mars’ debut album was nominated in this category two years ago.
Drake hasn’t gotten much Grammy love over the years, but that could change with his third full-length album,Nothing Was the Same. The panel of Grammy insiders that decides the nominations in the top four categories usually strives to have balance among genres. And Drake is set to perform on the TV special on which the nominations will be announced (as are Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Robin Thicke and Keith Urban). That’s not a guarantee that he’ll be nominated in a key category, but it suggests that he’s on the Grammy radar at last.
The strongest alternates include Kacey Musgraves’Same Trailer Different Park, Kendrick Lamar’s good kid, m.A.A.d. city, Lorde’s Pure Heroine, Daft Punk’sRandom Access Memories, Florida Georgia Line’sHere’s to the Good Times, Blake Shelton’s Based on a True Story, Jay Z’s Magna Carta…Holy Grail and Luke Bryan’s Crash My Party.
Other possibilities include HAIM’s Days Are Gone, The Civil Wars’ eponymous sophomore album, Kanye West’sYeezus, Rihanna’s Unapologetic, John Mayer’sParadise Valley, Elton John’s The Diving Board, John Fogerty’s Wrote a Song for Everyone, Vince Gill & Paul Franklin’s Bakersfield and Music From Baz Luhrmann’s Film The Great Gatsby.
Record of the Year:
Lorde’s “Royals” has the classy adult alternative sound of such past Grammy favorites as Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep,” which won two years ago, and Sinead O’Connor’s “Nothing Compares 2 U,” a finalist for the 1990 award. Lorde, 17, would become the youngest solo artist ever to be nominated for Record of the Year. That distinction is currently held by Monica, who was 18 when “The Boy Is Mine,” her smash collab with Brandy, was nominated in 1998. (Two members of the brother trioHanson were even younger when “MMMBop” was nominated in 1997.)
Imagine Dragons’ “Radioactive” has the broad pop-rock appeal of Kings of Leon’s “Use Somebody,” which was the 2009 winner. The genial “Thrift Shop” by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Wanz is a hip-hop hit with universal appeal. The exquisitely tailored “Just Give Me a Reason” by P!nk featuring Nate Ruess embodies the Grammy sound so completely that it could have been designed in a Grammy lab. I think all three will make it.
Bruno Mars’ “Locked Out of Heaven” may slip into the fifth slot. Mars has been nominated in this category twice, with B.o.B’s “Nothin’ on You,” on which he was featured, and his own smash, “Grenade.” “Locked Out” echoes the pop/reggae sound of The Police. Sting gave the song his blessing when he joined Mars to perform it on the Grammys in January. So panelists may see it as homage rather than rip-off. (See “Blurred Lines” discussion below.)
“Wake Me Up!” by Avicii with Aloe Blacc heads the list of likely runners-up. The smash is an unlikely (and winning) blend of dance and folk elements. The genre-blending aspect will give it added appeal to Grammy panelists.
Florida Georgia Line’s “Cruise,” which was voted Single of the Year at the CMAs, is also a strong contender. (I think it would have had a better shot if the remix featuringNelly had been eligible. That genre-blending aspect would have given it a little extra import.)
Justin Timberlake’s “Mirrors,” the biggest hit from The 20/20 Experience, is very strong. But it will be forced to compete with Jay Z’s “Holy Grail,” which features Timberlake. They may split JT’s votes.
“Get Lucky” by Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams is an irresistible throwback to the mirror-ball era, but the panelists may decide that it’s a little retro for the top prize.
As the best-selling song of 2013, Robin Thicke’s“Blurred Lines” (featuring T.I. + Pharrell) is obviously a strong contender, but the legal wrangling over the song won’t help. Marvin Gaye’s family sued for copyright infringement. There’s another potential problem: the topless video may have alienated some feminist-leaning members of the panel. That said, I think it has a better chance in this category than it does in Song of the Year. I could see the Grammy panelists saying, “The song is derivative, but there’s no denying that the record is catchy.”
You can never rule out Adele, whose “Skyfall” won anOscar. But the panelists may decide to give her a year off.
Other possibilities include Katy Perry’s “Roar,” “Stay” byRihanna featuring Mikky Ekko, Taylor Swift’s “I Knew You Were Trouble.,” Miley Cyrus’ “Wrecking Ball,” Kacey Musgraves’ “Merry Go ’Round,” Darius Rucker’s“Wagon Wheel,” Drake’s “Started From the Bottom,”Little Big Town’s “Tornado,” Luke Bryan’s “That’s My Kind of Night,” Lady Gaga’s “Applause,” Bonnie McKee’s “American Girl” and Anna Kendrick’s “Cups (Pitch Perfect’s When It’s Gone).”
Song of the Year:
Expect the nominations for this songwriter’s award to largely overlap with Record of the Year. That’s good news for “Royals” (Lorde), “Radioactive” (Imagine Dragons,Alex Da Kid, Josh Mosser) and “Just Give Me a Reason” (P!nk, Nate Ruess & Jeff Bhasker).
But Macklemore & Ryan Lewis will be represented by “Same Love” instead of “Thrift Shop” (which wasn’t entered for Song of the Year). “Same Love,” which the duo co-wrote with Mary Lambert (who is also featured on the record) puts a personal spin on the hot-button issue of gay marriage equality.
“Mirrors” (Justin Timberlake, Timbaland, James Fauntleroy & Jerome “J-Roc” Harmon) may make it here, even if it comes up short for Record. Timberlake won’t have to compete with himself in this category: “Holy Grail” wasn’t eligible because it contains a sample.
Other strong candidates include “Cruise” (Florida Georgia Line & Joey Moi, Chase Rice & Jesse Rice),“Wake Me Up!” (Avicii, Aloe Blacc, Mike Eizinger &Ash Pournouri), “Locked Out of Heaven” (Bruno Mars,Philip Lawrence & Ari Levine), “Stay” (Mikky Ekko &Justin Parker), “Get Lucky” (Daft Punk, Nile Rodgers& Pharrell Williams), “Blurred Lines” (Robin Thicke & Pharrell Williams) and “Hold On, We’re Going Home” (Drake, P. Jefferies, Majid Al Maskati, Noah Shebib &Jordan Ullman).
Also: “I Drive Your Truck” (Jessi Alexander, Connie Harrington & Jimmy Yeary), “Roar” (Katy Perry,Lukasz Gottwald, Max Martin, Bonnie McKee & Henry Walter), “I Knew You Were Trouble” (Taylor Swift, Max Martin & Shellback), “Wrecking Ball” (Lukasz Gottwald,Stephan Moccio, Maureen “Mozella” McDonald,Sacha Skarbek & Henry Walter), “American Girl” (Bonnie McKee, Jon Asher, Alex Drury, Oliver Goldstein &Jacknife Lee), “Merry Go ‘Round” (Kacey Musgraves,Shane McAnally & Josh Osborne) and “Skyfall” (Adele& Paul Epworth).
Notes: Two Record of the Year possibilities, “Started From the Bottom” and the aforementioned “Holy Grail,” contain samples. Two others, “Wagon Wheel” and “Cups,” are based on old songs. As a result, none of these are eligible for Song of the Year. I kind of wish “Wagon Wheel” had been eligible. It would have marked the first Song of the Year nomination ever for its co-writer,Bob Dylan.
Best New Artist:
I already told you who I think the final five will be. Top runners-up include Ed Sheeran (he was nominated for Song of the Year last year for “The A Team”), HAIM (their sales have yet to match their tremendous press), Emeli Sandé (again, sales haven’t matched the buzz),Kendrick Lamar (the Grammys need rap cred), Of Monsters and Men and Phillip Phillips.
Phillips’ “Home” is the best-selling song by any contestant in American Idol history. But after all this time, only oneIdol contestant (Carrie Underwood) has been nominated in this category. (I’ve always had the sense that the Grammys don’t want to be seen as simply rubber-stamping Idol’s choices.) Since Idol’s TV ratings are trending down, this would be an odd time for the Grammys to change their ways. Is Phillips strong enough to overcome the dynamics that are working against him?
Other possibilities include The Neighborhood, Ariana Grande, A$AP Rocky, Earl Sweatshirt, The Weeknd,Tamar Braxton, Bastille, Dawes, Meek Mill and Icona Pop.”
So, let us know…
I guess. All I know is “Stay” better win some type of Grammy. 😀
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Updated Information: Lady Gaga and Interscope are bragging about how “ARTPOP” hit number one in the UK. However, we have been told that the numbers are FAR lower than they were for her last album, “Born This Way.” “ARTPOP” is expected to take an amazing tumble from the top next week in both the UK and US. It is already dropping like a brick on iTunes in several countries.
On Saturday, it was revealed that Interscope, Lady Gaga’s label, has spent $25 million dollars to promote her flop album “ARTPOP,” which is set to sell around 250 thousand copies in its first week — that’s a 75 percent drop from the first week album sales of “Born This Way” only two years ago. This weekend, plenty of Lady Gaga’s little monsters prostituted themselves online, offering gay s** for people who buy at least 30 copies of “ARTPOP.”
Some have compared the fate of “ARTPOP” to Michael Jackson’s “Invincible,” where $30 million was spent on the promotion for an album that didn’t even launch one solid hit single. But “ARTPOP” is really Lady Gaga’s “Glitter.”
So, how was the money spent? We talked to a music industry analyst (who wants to be referred to as ‘Jacob’ for this story), who has worked at both Warner Brothers and Arista over the past twenty years. He works closely with people from Interscope and told us that the past year has been a huge nightmare for Lady Gaga and Interscope.
“She originally was going to have the album ready by last Christmas. They made her re-record it. When her tour wasn’t selling, they invented a hip injury and told Gaga to go away for months so the public could be interested in her ‘comeback.’ After the lead single ‘Applause’ didn’t get such a great reception, they made her re-record the album again. I hear that they allegedly paid radio stations in order to put the song at the top of their playlists,” Jacob laughs.
Besides the alleged payola, it is believed that a lot of money could have went to news outlets such as Billboard, Glamour, MTV, ABC and some others. “Cash gifts to news outlets really aren’t unheard of, but Gaga has taken it to new extremes if this happened. Articles by many news sources sound like they were completely written by Gaga’s PR team.” He notes that Rolling Stone, a magazine that had usually praised Lady Gaga in the past, allegedly wouldn’t accept the cash. Gaga’s team was hoping Rolling Stone would put her on the cover and call her “Woman of the Year.” Instead, the “honor” went to Glamour.
“I can’t say for sure what she is doing for Billboard, but they are definitely trying to save her. They let her song ‘Dope’ chart at number 8 this week based on YouTube views that weren’t intended just for her. The magazine also counted thousands of free giveaways of the song for that chart position. They are covering up for her big time. It’s really sad when an industry staple such as Billboard picks favorites and allegedly participates in the payola game,” Jacob says with sadness.
Jacob believes Lady Gaga’s current drug use is destroying her. “She has turned against everybody who has helped her. She claims she has only done Marijuana recently, but that’s far from the truth. She’s dying a slow death every day and nobody is there to help her!” claims Jacob, who has seen drugs destroy family members and all sorts of stars. Let’s hope somebody loves Lady Gaga enough to get her clean.
This is typical Gaga hate. Suddenly streaming views are just for her, despite almost all of Wrecking Ball’s charting coming from them. Dope charted high because of pre-orders of her album too, something Katy Perry and Eminem got benefits from as well.
The Gaga hate parade is getting older than Celine Dion’s husband.
Ariana or Lorde for Best New Artist
Ariana Grande or Lorde for Best New Artist
Ariana Grande or Lorde for Best New Artist.
Lol. Tamar for best new artist? This her second album. Nothing new about her. I think it will go to Lorde or Ariana Grande.
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Gaga’s best shot is shortform video for Applause. Neither her or Perry will get Song or Record of the Year for Applause or Roar.
Fantasia better win something
Album of the Year – The 20/20 Experience
Song of the Year – Same Love
Record of theYear – Just Give Me a Reason
Best New Artist – Lorde
Best Pop Vocal Album – The 20/20 Experience
Best Pop Solo Vocal Performance – Mirrors or Locked Out of Heaven
Best Pop Duo/Group Vocal Performance – Just Give Me a Reason
Best R&B Album – Girl on Fire
Best Urban Contemporary Album – Love and War
Best R&B Song – Body Party
Best R&B Solo Vocal Performance – Love and War
Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance – Get It Right
Best Rap Album – good kid m.A.A.d. city
Best Rap Song – Whatever Kanye song is nominated
Best Rap Solo Performance – Started From the Bottom
Best Rap/Sung Collaboration – Power Trip
Best Country Album – Red
Best Country Song – Begin Again
Best Country Solo Vocal Performance – Two Black Caddilacs
Best Country Duo/Group Vocal Performance – Cruise
Best Electonic/Dance – Random Access Memories
Best Dance Recording – Get Lucky
Best Alternative Album – Pure Heroine
Best Alternative Recording – Royals
Imagine Dragons will sweep the Rock field
Bruno Mars has worked harder than any other artists in the industry. His songs are way meaningful and his music is just incredible. He spanned three hits this year. Locked out of heaven, when I was your man and treasure. I’ll bet no-one could actually beat that. 🙂
One artist missing from Best New are The 1975. Seriously. Dude. Come on.
Do One Direction or Justin Bieber have any chance of getting a Grammy Nomination this year? Keep in mind that Justin Bieber has already been nominated for 3 Grammy Awards in the past (2011 Best New Artist, 2011 Best Pop Album, 2012 Best Song used in a Movie = Born To Be Somebody in his movie, Never Say Never)
The thing is Taylor Swift isn’t a country artist, the voters need to give CAOTY award to a REAL country artist….
They didnt nominate One Direction last year, so I wouldnt count on it unfortunately. I’m a huge fan myself, and it sucks to see those 5 guys work so hard and not get nominated for a Grammy. I guess they don’t see substance in the songs…
As for Justin Bieber, I wouldn’t leave him out of the running, but I do not think he’ll get nominated.
Tamar is not up for new artist Grammy! In the soul train award new artist only person was new Kendrick Lamar. K Miichelle had an album b4 and was dropped from labels also but she was awarded which I disagree but you are right about your two choices. Merry Christmas and wish Tamar all the Blessing on her WINS!!!
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