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.
Take a look back at last year’s Grammy Award winners
Welcome to our live coverage of the 66th Grammy Awards nominations.
As we anticipate the official announcement at 3.45pm this afternoon, let’s take a look back at last year’s winners...
If you cast your mind back to February, you might remember the shock that surrounded the Best Album winner. Harry Styles took home the trophy with his third album, Harry’s House, but members of the audience were heard shouting Beyoncé’s name, since many believed she was snubbed in that category.
Nevertheless, Beyoncé became the most awarded artist in the history of the Grammys, after winning in four separate categories for tracks on her celebratory album Renaissance. Meanwhile, Viola Davis became the third Black woman in history to achieve EGOT status, after she won a Grammy for her performance of the audiobook for her memoir Finding Me at the Premiere Ceremony.
Lizzo won Best Record for her song “About Damn Time” and Adele won Best Pop Solo Performance for “Easy On Me”.
Take a look back at last year’s winners:
The full list of winners at this year’s Grammys
The 65th Grammy Awards are being held in Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Arena this year
Who’s going to be nominated for the 2024 Grammy Awards?
The Independent’s music editor, Roisin O’Connor, takes a look at the artists and albums we’re likely to see nominated this afternoon:
Who’s going to be nominated for the 2024 Grammy Awards?
Ahead of the 66th Grammy Awards, Roisin O’Connor takes a look at the artists and albums we’re likely to see when the nominations are announced this week
Will the Barbie soundtrack dominate the Grammy nominations?
Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa and Sam Smith were all featured on Barbie: The Album. But will it be favoured by the Recording Academy?
In his review of the movie soundtrack, Adam White wrote: “Nostalgia powers much of this album, which was curated by Mark Ronson from an artist wishlist he and Gerwig put together during production of the film.”
“Unusually, the bigger names on Barbie: The Album are the most underwhelming. Dua Lipa’s disco number “Dance the Night” is a flat imitation of far better tracks on her Future Nostalgia record.”
Read The Independent’s review of Barbie: The Album below:
The Barbie soundtrack is as erratic as the movie that inspired it – review
Unusually, the bigger names here – including Dua Lipa and Sam Smith – are the most underwhelming
Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘GUTS’ could be nominated for Best Record, Best Album or Best Song
Olivia Rodrigo was 18 years old when she became the youngest person to debut atop the US Billboard 100 chart. The singer and former Disney Channel star, now 20, released her second album GUTS in September, which is now predicted to be in the running for several Grammy nomination categories.
The Independent’s chief albums critic, Helen Brown, wrote that in GUTS, Rodrigo revels in “an even angrier, wittier, rockier mood” than in her debut album Sour.
Read the full review of GUTS below:
Olivia Rodrigo is even angrier, wittier and rockier on second album GUTS – review
Post-Disney, Rodrigo arrives kicking and screaming into reality
Meet Raye, who could be nominated for Best New Artist
Annabel Nugent met London singer Raye just after she had been released from the clutches of her label. The pair had an emotional discussion about artistic autonomy, learning to forgive and finally releasing her debut album.
Find out more about Raye, who could be in the running for Best New Artist at the Grammy Awards, below:
Raye: ‘I’m a woman of colour who is fed up with being controlled and manipulated’
Released from the clutches of a major label, Raye is now making music on her own terms. Annabel Nugent meets the London singer for an emotional discussion about artistic autonomy, learning to forgive and finally releasing her debut album
Meet the bedroom pop singer and Best New Artist potential nominee Gracie Abrams
LA-based artist Gracie Abrams met Annabel Nugent last year. They spoke about why the 24-year-old chose a different path to her Hollywood parents and has already developed her own devoted fanbase.
Read the full interview below:
Meet Gracie Abrams, the pop singer with fans in Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish
The LA-based artist chose a different path to her Hollywood parents and has already developed her own devoted fanbase. She speaks to Annabel Nugent about lyrical honesty, connecting with her fans, and speaking out when it matters most
Foo Fighters review, But Here We Are: Band’s 11th album is a poignant reflection on grief
One year after the sudden death of Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, the band channelled that grief into their latest record But Here We Are. It’s predicted that the band could be up for a Best Album nomination at the Grammys.
In her four-star review of the album Roisin O’Connor, she writes: “As a tribute, and a farewell, it could hardly be better.”
Read the full review here:
Foo Fighters’ new album But Here We Are is a poignant reflection on grief – review
Frontman Dave Grohl sounds startlingly fragile on certain tracks, as though still numb with the shock of drummer Taylor Hawkins’s death
Doja Cat, Scarlet review: She may troll her fans, but the rapper has never sounded more serious
Rapper Doja Cat has spent the best part of the year trying to shake off her viral TikTok beginnings. Her latest album Scarlet, and her hit track “Paint the Town Red” feel like an active defiance of that trajectory.
In her four-star review of Scarlet, Roisin O’Connor: “Possibly sick of being told she is too pop to be considered a quote-unquote real rapper, Doja Cat ditches her brighter, manic sound of old – exemplified by past tracks like the 2019 TikTok sensation “Say So” – and returns with something darker, more brooding.”
Read the full review below:
Doja Cat may troll her fans but on Scarlet, she is more serious than ever – review
As with hit 2021 album ‘Planet Her’, this record operates in its own strange world
Miley Cyrus’s “Flowers” expected to lead Best Song nominations
Miley Cyrus’s poppy, post-breakup single “Flowers” became an earworm hit earlier this year. It could be up for Best Song, or her album, Endless Summer Vacation, could be in the running for Best Record.
In her four-star review of the album, Helen Brown writes that Endless Summer Vacation is a “lovely long bask in Cyrus’s maturing talent”.
Read the full review below:
Endless Summer Vacation is a lovely bask in Miley Cyrus’s maturing talent – review
There’s a cool sense of control here. No longer a wrecking ball, Cyrus sounds like a woman doing emotional weightlifting
Taylor Swift could be nominated for Best Album, Best Song or Record of the Year for her album ‘Midnights'
Taylor Swift is gunning for a record seventh nomination for Song of the Year, which would mean she overtakes Paul McCartney and Lionel Richie as the most nominated artist in the category.
Helen Brown praises Swift’s “feline vocal stealth and assured lyrical control” in her review of Midights.
Read the full review below:
Midnights is Taylor Swift’s darkest and most cryptic album yet - review
The subtle melodies of Midnights take time to sink their claws in. But Swift’s feline vocal stealth and assured lyrical control ensures she keeps your attention
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