Grammy nominations 2024: SZA dominates with nine nominations as Taylor Swift breaks record
Recording Academy have revealed the list of nominations for 2024
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The nominations for the 66th Grammy Awards have finally landed, with the Academy adding three new categories to its 94 overall categories for 2024.
Taylor Swift, SZA, Olivia Rodrigo and Miley Cyrus, as predicted, are dominating many of the top categories.
“Kill Bill” musician SZA is the most nominated artist this year with her album SOS and its songs scoring nods for Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best R&B Performance and Best Melodic Rap Performance.
Meanwhile, Taylor Swift has broken the record for the most nominations for Song of the Year in Grammy history, thanks to her song “Anti-Hero” from last year’s album, Midnights.
Female artists have dominated many of the categories this year, including Record and Song of the Year.
The ceremony itself will take place on 4 February 2024.
When and where are the 2024 Grammys?
If you’ve not yet heard all the songs and albums up for music’s biggest award, don’t you worry! You have until 4 February 2024 to get in the know.
The ceremony will take place at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.
Who is Victoria Monét?
One of this year’s most nominated artists is singer-songwriter Victoria Monét, with an impressive seven nods.
Though this isn’t her first time at the Grammy rodeo, having previously been nominated for her songwriting skills on tracks such as Ariana Grande’s “7 rings”, Monét is appearing for the first time as a solo artist.
Her nominations this year include Best New Artist, Best R&B Performance (”How Does it Make You Feel?”) and Best R&B Album for Jaguar II, released in August.
However, one of her most exciting nominations is for Record of the Year for “On My Mama” – its music video went viral earlier this year for its irresistible Noughties-inspired choreography.
Check out the music video below...
Who run the Grammys? Girls!
The 2024 Grammy nominations mark a real pivotal moment for women in music, as women and female duo/groups have dominated across all categories.
In the lineups for Song, Record and Album of the Year, seven of eight nominations are for women.
SZA leads the pack with nine nominations in total, while Victoria Monét and Phoebe Bridgers follow with seven.
Taylor Swift received six nominations this time around and has broken the record for the most Song of the Year nominations of all time with “Anti-Hero”.
This year, Jon Batiste is the only male performer to get six nominations or more, featuring in the Song, Record and Album of the Year categories.
The list of nominees in full
For your convenience, Ellie Muir has created an entire list of the 2024 Grammy Award nominees.
Taylor Swift broke the record for being the most-nominated artist for the Song Of The Year category
SZA leads the pack
The “Snooze” singer-songwriter, 34, has been nominated for a total of nine awards in several of the top categories, including Album of the Year, Best Record, Best Song, Best R&B Performance and Best Melodic Rap Performance, all for her album SOS.
Phoebe Bridgers, Victoria Monét and mixing engineer Serban Ghenea trail behind with seven nominations a piece. Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Miley Cyrus, Jon Baptiste, Brandy Clark, Billie Eilish and Jack Antoff are all tied at six each.
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Miley Cyrus and father Billy Ray Cyrus make father-daughter Grammy history
Miley Cyrus and her father Billy Ray Cyrus have now become the third-ever father-daughter duo to have separately earned nominations for Record of the Year.
The 30-year-old singer landed her first nomination in the category for her hit track “Flowers”, which will compete against songs by Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa, Jon Baptiste, Lana Del Rey, Olivia Rodrigo and Taylor Swift for the category.
Billy, 62, has also received two nominations for Record of the Year in the past, for his 1992 “Achy Breaky Heart” and 2018 bop “Old Town Road”.
The only other father-daughter duos to have both earned ROTY nods include Frank and Nancy Sinatra and Nat King Cole and his daughter Natalie.
Taylor Swift smashes Grammys record with Midnights nominations
Swift has just become the most nominated artist in the Grammy Awards’s Song of the Year category.
The pop star’s nomination for Song of the Year for “Anti-Hero” from her 2022 album Midnights has made her the first person to ever receive seven nominations in the category.
Lionel Richie and Paul McCartney previously shared the record with six nominations each.
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Swift, 33, earned six nominations ahead of this year’s ceremony
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