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2020 Grammy Award Nominations Include Lizzo, Lil Nas X, Billie Eilish, Lots of Young People

By Kayleigh Donaldson | Miscellaneous | November 20, 2019 |

By Kayleigh Donaldson | Miscellaneous | November 20, 2019 |


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The Grammy Awards are always a strange mix of boundary-pushing a full-throttle ‘How do you do, fellow kids?’ For every delightful surprise, there are three or four reminders that the music industry is painfully behind the times and stubbornly wants to stay that way. This year feels like a good approximation of that formula, albeit one that leans more modern and far younger than it has in quite a while.

The musical stars of the 2019 zeitgeist are present and accounted for, from Lizzo and Lil Nas X to Lewis Capaldi, Billie Eilish, and Ariana Grande. Record of the year is split evenly along gender lines, while five out of eight nominees for Album of the Year are women. There are a few notable absences. Lover by Taylor Swift, released just before the Grammy eligibility cutoff in late August, is absent in both those categories. Western Stars, Bruce’s first album of original material since 2012, is a big snub. K-pop sensations BTS received zero nominations too.

We won’t share every nominee because this is the Grammys and there are hundreds of awards to give out, but here are some of the biggest categories.

RECORD OF THE YEAR
HEY, MA (Bon Iver)
BAD GUY (Billie Eilish)
7 RINGS (Ariana Grande)
HARD PLACE (H.E.R.)
TALK (Khalid)
OLD TOWN ROAD (Lil Nas X Featuring Billy Ray Cyrus)
TRUTH HURTS (Lizzo)
SUNFLOWER (Post Malone & Swae Lee)

ALBUM OF THE YEAR
I, I (Bon Iver)
NORMAN F***ING ROCKWELL! (Lana Del Rey)
WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? (Billie Eilish)
THANK U, NEXT (Ariana Grande)
I USED TO KNOW HER (H.E.R.)
7 (Lil Nas X)
CUZ I LOVE YOU (DELUXE) (Lizzo)
FATHER OF THE BRIDE (Vampire Weekend)

SONG OF THE YEAR
ALWAYS REMEMBER US THIS WAY (Lady Gaga)
BAD GUY (Billie Eilish)
BRING MY FLOWERS NOW (Tanya Tucker)
HARD PLACE (H.E.R.)
LOVER (Taylor Swift)
NORMAN F***ING ROCKWELL (Lana Del Rey)
SOMEONE YOU LOVED (Lewis Capaldi)
TRUTH HURTS (Lizzo)

BEST NEW ARTIST
BLACK PUMAS
BILLIE EILISH
LIL NAS X
LIZZO
MAGGIE ROGERS
ROSALÍA
TANK AND THE BANGAS
YOLA

BEST POP SOLO PERFORMANCE
SPIRIT (Beyoncé)
BAD GUY (Billie Eilish)
7 RINGS (Ariana Grande)
TRUTH HURTS (Lizzo)
YOU NEED TO CALM DOWN (Taylor Swift)

BEST ROCK SONG
FEAR INOCULUM (Tool)
GIVE YOURSELF A TRY (The 1975)
HARMONY HALL (Vampire Weekend)
HISTORY REPEATS (Brittany Howard)
THIS LAND (Gary Clark Jr.)

BEST RAP ALBUM
REVENGE OF THE DREAMERS III (Dreamville)
CHAMPIONSHIPS (Meek Mill)
I AM > I WAS (21 Savage)
IGOR (Tyler, The Creator)
THE LOST BOY (YBN Cordae)

BEST COUNTRY ALBUM
DESPERATE MAN (Eric Church)
STRONGER THAN THE TRUTH (Reba McEntire)
INTERSTATE GOSPEL (Pistol Annies)
CENTER POINT ROAD (Thomas Rhett)
WHILE I’M LIVIN’ (Tanya Tucker)

BEST COMEDY ALBUM
QUALITY TIME (Jim Gaffigan)
RELATABLE (Ellen DeGeneres)
RIGHT NOW (Aziz Ansari)
SON OF PATRICIA (Trevor Noah)
STICKS & STONES (Dave Chappelle)

BEST MUSIC FILM
HOMECOMING (Beyoncé)
REMEMBER MY NAME (David Crosby)
BIRTH OF THE COOL (Miles Davis)
SHANGRI-LA (Various Artists)
ANIMA (Thom Yorke)

You can find the rest of the nominees here.



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