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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Your support makes all the difference.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.
Meet Reneé Rapp, the ‘Mean Girls: The Musical’ star who could be a Best New Artist nominee
The actor and musician spoke to Annabel Nugent earlier this year about releasing her debut album, leaving The Sex Lives of College Girls and the one time on Mean Girls: The Musical she wished she had spoken up.
Read the full interview with Reneé Rapp below:
Reneé Rapp on protecting Drew Barrymore on live TV, coming out, and her top 10 debut
The actor and musician talks to Annabel Nugent about releasing her debut album, leaving ‘The Sex Lives of College Girls’ and the one time on ‘Mean Girls: The Musical’ she wished she had spoken up
Lana Del Rey predictions: Best Song, Best Record or Album of the Year
Lana Del Rey, already a six-time Grammy nominee, returned with her latest album earlier this year, titledYou Know There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd.
That number could rise this afternoon when the Grammy Awards announce Best Record or Album of the Year.
Annabel Nugent writes in her four-star review of You Know There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd: “Across eight records and 11 years, Del Rey has built a world and iconography of her own. Hers is one of cherry cola cans, white sundresses, sycamore trees, seedy dive bars and American flags that fly both defiantly and depressingly.”
“To hear Del Rey tell it, Ocean Blvd is “straight vibing”, an exquisitely sung account of her innermost thoughts.”
Read the full review below:
Lana Del Rey’s ninth album is alluring, introspective and a little long – review
Songwriter’s latest record isn’t rigid with its aesthetic and is all the better for it
We could be in for a woman-dominated nominee list
Predicting this year’s nominees, The Independent’s music editor, Roisin O’Connor writes that female acts have largely dominated the conversation in the past 12 months: from Taylor Swift’s record-breaking Eras Tour to Beyoncé’s Renaissance tour.
“Rihanna headlined the Super Bowl in February, during which she sent heads spinning with the most dramatic pregnancy reveal in living memory, while Dua Lipa and Billie Eilish were among the highlights on the soundtrack of another cultural landmark: the Barbie Movie,” writes O’Connor.
Could 2024 be the Grammy’s Year of Women?
Read more below:
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
Olivia Rodrigo review, Eventim Apollo: A transportive Noughties pop-punk dream made real
As it’s predicted Olivia Rodrigo could lead nominations, let’s take a look at what she’s like when performing live...
In Annabel Nugent’s review of Rodrigo performing at London’s Eventim Apollo earlier this year, she writes: “Like her voice, which can modulate between the gossamer whisper of misty-eyed balladry and the squall of early Noughties punk, Rodrigo’s stage presence is similarly fluid.”
Read more below:
Olivia Rodrigo makes her transportive pop-punk dream real on tour – review
Rodrigo – whose music is outspoken by nature, a knuckleball of rage or despair – finds a natural home on stage with a devoted crowd in her midst
Take a look back at last year’s Grammy Award winners
It’s 45 minutes until the nominations are announced (3.45pm UK time). 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?
The Independent’s music editor Roisin O’Connor shares her predictions below:
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
Best Pop Dance Recording
Bebe Rexha & David Guetta - “One in a Million”
Calvin Harris Featuring Ellie Goulding - “Miracle”
David Guetta, Anne-Marie & Coi Leray - “Baby Don’t Hurt Me”
Kylie Minogue - “Padam Padam”
Troye Sivan - “Rush”
Best Pop Solo Performance nominations
As we expected, it’s a female affair...
Billie Eilish - “What Was I Made For?”
Doja Cat - “Paint the Town Red”
Miley Cyrus - “Flowers”
Olivia Rodrigo - “Vampire”
Taylor Swift - “Anti-Hero”
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