Grammy nominations 2018 - live updates: Kendrick Lamar and Jay-Z dominate top categories
Surprise snubs for Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran in major categories suggest academy is attempting to improve its record on diversity
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The Recording Academy has announced nominees for the 60th Grammy Awards with Kendrick Lamar and Jay-Z dominating a male-heavy list of nominees.
Jay-Z leads with eight nominations including for Album, Song and Record of the Year.
Kendrick follows closely with seven nominations, while Ed Sheeran, despite being one of the hottest predictions for Album of the Year, was only nominated in two categories: Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Pop Vocal Performance ("Shape of You"). Sheeran released his third album ÷ [Divide] in March and broke several music industry records for sales and streaming.
Lorde received a nomination for Album of the Year for her record Melodrama, competing with Kendrick, Jay-Z, Childish Gambino and Bruno Mars.
See the complete list of nominations here.
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Taylor Swift appeared to be snubbed for her song "Look What You Made Me Do", but did receive a nod alongside Zayn Malik for "I Don't Wanna Live Forever", which featured in the film Fifty Shades of Grey. "Better Man", the song she penned for Little Big Town, also received a nomination for Best Country Song.
Artists reacted to the nominations on social media, with one of 2017's biggest new artists Khalid tweeting his delight at receiving five nominations. He noted how three years ago he had written about wanting to go to the Grammys in the future.
The 60th Grammy Awards take place in precisely two months time, on 28 January 2018.
A reminder of the emotional scenes which took place after Adele won record of the year at the 2017 Grammys - but insisted it belonged to Beyonce
Once the nominations for the four big categories have been announced, they're pop up on the official Grammys website
While you're here, a quick reminder of our favourite albums of 2017
Record of the Year:
"Redbone" - Childish Gambino
"Despacito" - Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee ft. Justin Bieber
"The Story of OJ" - Jay-Z
"HUMBLE" - Kendrick Lamar
"24K Magic" - Bruno Mars
Album of the Year:
Awaken, My Love! - Childish Gambino
4:44 - Jay-Z
DAMN. - Kendrick Lamar
Melodrama - Lorde
24k Magic - Bruno Mars
Song of the Year:
Despacito
4:44
Issues
1-800-273-8255
That's What I Like
Best New Artist:
Alessia Cara
Khalid
Lil Uzi Vert
Julia Michaels
SZA
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