Grammys 2018 nominations announced Published By Tribute on Nov 30, 2017

This year’s Grammy nominees have been announced, and with such a great year in music it’ll be hard to say for sure who will win in many of the categories.

This year marks a big change in the way the Grammys are doing things. For the first time ever, voting members were able to cast their votes online. This choice brought the Grammys up to speed technically but also allowed more of the 13,000 members have their voices heard.

The old system was done by mail and if the member was away touring or recording away from their listed address they missed their chance. The online system also allowed voters to listen to content from each of the entries while voting when they would have had to seek out each piece on their own leaving many to vote for content they were already familiar with or names they recognized.

This new access has already had a huge impact on the nominees list for this year’s awards. It is the first time ever a Spanish language album has been up for Record of the Year with "Despacito" making the cut. An even more impressive statistic is all of the top nominees are people of color, and for the first time ever a white artist isn’t even nominated for Record of the Year.

The most nominated artist for 2018 is Jay-Z with eight, Kendrick Lamar takes second spot with seven nominations, Bruno Mars has six and Childish Gambino, Khalid, No I.D. and SZA have five nominations each. It will be interesting to see how those numbers break down when the winners are announced on January 28, 2018.

It should be noted that 2017 for the Grammys is October 1st 2016 to September 30th 2017 so some of the more recent chart toppers, like P!nk’s "Beautiful Trauma", Niall Horan’s “Flicker” and of course Taylor Swift’s chart leading “Reputation” didn’t make the cut, although some of their singles may have.

Check out all the categories and nominees below. Let us know who your picks are in the comments! ~ Hayley Michaud

Record of the year:
Redbone - Childish Gambino
Despacito - Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee featuring Justin Bieber
The Story of O.J. - 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 performed by Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee featuring Justin Beiber
4:44 performed by Jay-z
Issues performed by Julia Michaels
1-800-273-8255 performed by Logic featuring Alessia Cara & Khalid
That’s What I Like performed by Bruno Mars

Best New Artist
Alessia Cara
Khalid
Lil Uzi Vert
Julia Michaels
SZA

Best Pop Solo Performance:
Love so Soft - Kelly Clarkson
Praying - Kesha
Million Reasons - Lady Gaga
What About Us - P!nk
Shape of You - Ed Sheeran

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
Something Just Like This - The Chainsmokers & Coldplay
Thunder - Imagine Dragons
Feel It Still - Portugal. The Man
Stay - Zedd & Alessia Cara

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album:
Nobody But Me (Deluxe Version) - Michael Bublé
Triplicate - Bob Dylan
In Full Swing - Seth MacFarlane
Tony Bennett Celebrates 90 - Various Artists

Best Pop Vocal Album:
Kaleidoscope EP - Coldplay
Lust for Life - Lana Del Rey
Evolve - Imagine Dragons
Rainbow - Kesha
Joanne - Lady Gaga
÷ (Divide) - Ed Sheeran

Best Dance Recording:
Bambro Koyo Ganda - Bonobo featuring Innov Gnawa
Cola - Camelphat & Elderbrook
Andromeda - Gorillaz featuring DRAM
Tonite - LCD Soundsystem
Line of Sight - Odesza featuring WYNNE & Mansionair

Best Dance/ Electronic Album:
Migration - Bonobo
3-D The Catalogue - Kraftwerk
Mura Masa - Mura Masa
A Moment Apart - Odesza
What Now - Sylvan Esso

Best Contemporary Instrumental Album:
What if - The Jerry Douglas Band
Spirit - Alex Han
Mount Royal - Julian Lage & Chris Eldridge
Prototype - Jeff Lorber Fusion
Bad Hombre - Antonio Sanchez

Best Rock Performance:
You Want it Darker - Leonard Cohen
The Promise - Chris Cornell
Run - Foo Fighters
No Good - Kaleo
Go to War - Nothing More

Best Metal Performance:
Invisible Enemy - August Burns Red
Black Hoodie - Body Count
Forever - Code Orange
Sultan's Curse - Mastodon
Clockworks - Meshuggah

Best Rock Song:
Atlas, Rise! - Metallica
Blood in the Cut - K.Flay
Go to War - Nothing More
Run - Foo Fighters
The Stage - Avenged Sevenfold

Best Rock Album:
Emperor of Sand - Mastodon
Hardwired... To Self-Destruct - Metallica
The Stories We Tell Ourselves - Nothing More
Villains - Queens of the Stone Age
A Deeper Understanding - The War on Drugs

Best Alternative Music Album:
Everything Now - Arcade Fire
Humanz - Gorillaz
American Dream - LCD Soundsystem
Pure Comedy - Father John Misty
Sleep Well Beast - The National

Best R&B Performance:
Get You - Daniel Caesar featuring Kali Uchis
Distraction - Kehlani
High - Ledisi
That's What I Like - Bruno Mars
The Weekend - SZA

Best Traditional R&B Performance:
Laugh and Move On - The Baylor Project
Redbone - Childish Gambino
What I'm Feelin' - Anthony Hamilton Featuring The Hamiltones
All The Way - Ledisi
Still - Mali Music

Best R&B Song:
First Began - PJ Morton
Location - Khalid
Redbone - Childish Gambino
Supermodel - SZA
That's What I Like - Bruno Mars

Best Urban Contemporary Album:
Free 6LACK - 6LACK
"Awaken, My Love" - Childish Gambino
American Teen - Khalid
Ctrl - SZA
Starboy - The Weeknd

Best R&B Album:
Freudian - Daniel Ceasar
Let Love Rule - Ledisi
24K Magic - Bruno Mars
Gumbo - PJ Morton
Feel The Real - Musiq Soulchild

Best Rap Performance:
Bounce Back - Big Sean
Bodak Yellow - Cardi B
4:44 - Jay-Z
HUMBLE. - Kendrick Lamar
Bad and Boujee - Migos featuring Lil Uzi Vert

Best Rap/Sung Performance:
PRBLMS - 6LACK
Crew - Goldink featuring Brent Faiyaz & Shy Glizzy
Family Feud - Jay-Z featuring Beyoncé
LOYALTY. - Kendrick Lamar
Love Galore - SZA featuring Travis Scott

Best Rap Song:
Bodak Yellow - Cardi B
Chase Me - Danger Mouse featuring Run The Jewels & Big Boy
HUMBLE. - Kendrick Lamar
Sassy - Rapsody
The Story of O.J. - Jay-Z

Best Rap Album:
4:44 - Jay-Z
DAMN. - Kendrick Lamar
Culture - Migos
Laila's Wisdom - Rapsody
Flower Boy - Tyler, The Creator

Best Country Solo Performance:
Body Like a Back Road - Sam Hunt
Losing You - Alison Krauss
Tin Man - Miranda Lambert
I Could Use A Love Song - Maren Morris
Either Way - Chris Stapleton

Best Country Duo/Performance
It Ain't My Fault - Brothers Osborne
My Old Man - Zac Brown Band
You Look Good - Lady Antebellum
Better Man - Little Big Town
Drinkin' Problem - Midland

Best Country Song:
Better Man (Performed by Little Big Town) - Taylor Swift
Body Like a Back Road - Sam Hunt
Broken Halos - Chris Stapleton
Drinkin' Problem - Midland
Tin Man - Miranda Lambert

Best Country Album:
Cosmic Hallelujah - Kenny Chesney
Heart Break - Lady Antebellum
The Breaker - Little Big Town
Life Changes - Thomas Rhett
From A Room: Volume 1 - Chris Stapleton

Best New Age:
Reflection - Brian Eno
SongVersation: Medicine - India.Arie
Dancing On Water - Peter Kraus
Sacred Journey of Ku-Kai, Volume 5 - Kitaro
Spiral Revelation - Steve Roach

Best Improvised Jazz Solo:
Can't Remember Why - Sara Caswell
Dance of Shiva - Billy Childs
Whisper Not - Fred Hersch
Miles Beyond - John McLaughlin
Ilimba - Chris Potter

Best Jazz Vocal Album:
The Journey - The Baylor Project
A Social Call - Jazzmeia Horn
Bad Ass and Blind - Raul Midón
Porter Plays Porter - Randy Porter Trio With Nancy King
Dreamers and Daggers - Cécile McLorin Salvant

Best Jazz Instrumental Album:
Uptown, Downtown - Bill Charlap Trio
Rebirth - Billy Childs
Project Freedom - Joey DeFrancesco & The People
Open Book - Fred Hersch
The Dreamer is the Dream - Chris Potter

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album:
MONK'estra Vol. 2 - John Beasley
Jigsaw - Alan Ferber Big Band
Bringin' It - Christian McBride Big Band
Homecoming - Vince Mendoza & WDR Big Band Cologne
Whispers on the Wind - Chuck Owen and the Jazz Surge

Best Latin Jazz Album:
Hybrido - From Rio to Wayne Shorter - Antonio Adolfo
Oddara - Jane Bunnett & Maqueque
Outra Coisa The Music of Moacir Santos - Anat Cohen & Marcello Gonçalves
Típico - Miguel Zenón
Jazz Tango - Pablo Ziegler Trio

Best Gospel Performance/Song:
Too Hard Not To - Tina Campbell
You Deserve It - JJ Hairston & Youthful Praise Featuring Bishop Cortez Vaughn
Better Days - Le'Andria
My Life - The Walls Group
Never Have To Be Alone - CeCe Winans

Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song:
Oh My Soul - Casting Crowns
Clean - Natalie Grant
What A Beautiful Name - Hillsong Worship
Even If - MercyMe
Hills and Valleys - Tauren Wells

Best Gospel Album:
Crossover: Live from Music City - Travis Greene
Bigger Than Me - Le'Andria
Close - Marvin Sapp
Sunday Song - Anita Wilson
Let Them Fall In Love - CeCe Winans

Best Contemporary Christian Music Album:
Rise - Danny Gokey
Echoes (Deluxe Edition) Matt Maher
Lifer- MercyMe
Hills and Valleys - Tauren Wells
Chain Breaker - Zach Williams

Best Roots Gospel Album:
The Best of the Collingsworth Family Volume 1 - The Collingsworth Family
Give Me Jesus - Larry Cordie
Resurrection - Joseph Habedank
Sing It Now Songs of Faith & Hope - Reba MacEntire
Hope for all Nations - Karen Peck & New River

Best Latin Pop Album:
Lo Único Constante - Alex Cuba
Mis Planes Son Amarte - Juanes
Amar Y Vivir En Vivo Desde La Cuidad De México, 2017 - La Santa Cecilia
Musas (Un Homenaje Al Folclore Latinoamericano En Manos De Los Macorinos) - Natalia Lafourcade
El Dorado - Shakira

Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album:
Ayo - Bomba Estéreo
Pa'Fuera - C4 Trio & Desorden Público
Salvavidas De Hielo - Jorge Drexler
El Paradise - Los Amigos Invisibles
Residente - Residente

Best Regional Mexican Music Album (Including Tejano):
Ni Diablo Ni Santo - Julión Álvarez Y Su Norteño Banda
Ayer Y Hoy - Banda El Recodo De Cruz Lizárraga
Momentos - Alex Campos
Arriero Somos Versiones Acústicas - Aida Cuevas
Zapateando En El Norte - Various Artists

Best Tropical Latin Album:
Albita - Albita
Art of the Arrangement - Doug Beavers
Salsa Big Band - Rubén Blades Con Roberto Delgado & Orquesta
Gente Valiente - Silvestre Dangond
Indestructible - Diego El Cigala

Best American Roots Performance:
Killer Diller Blues - Alabama Shakes
Let My Mother Live - Blind Boys of Alabma
Arkansas Farmboy - Glen Campbell
Steer Your Way - Leonard Cohen
I Never Cared For You - Alison Krauss

Best American Roots Song:
Cumberland Gap - David Rawlings
I Wish You Well - The Mavericks
If We Were Vampires - Jason Isbell And the 400 Unit
It Ain't Over Yet - Rodney Crowell featuring Rosanne Cash & John Paul White
My Only True Friend - Gregg Allman

Best Americana Album:
Southern Blood - Gregg Allman
Shine On Rainy Day - Brent Cobb
Beast Epic - Iron & Wine
The Nashville Sound - Jason Isbell And the 400 Unit
Brand New Day - The Mavericks

Best Bluegrass Album:
Fiddler's Dream - Michael Cleveland
Laws of Gravity - The Infamous Stringdusters
Original - Bobby Osborne
Universal Favorite - Noam Pikelny
All The Rage in Concert Volume One (Live) - Rhonda Vincent And The Rage

Best Traditional Blues Album:
Migration Blues - Eric Bibb
Elvin Bishop's Big Fun Trio - Elvin Bishop's Big Fun Trio
Roll and Tumble - R.L. Boyce
Sonny & Brownie's Last Train - Guy Davis & Fabrizio Poggi
Blue & Lonesome - The Rolling Stones

Best Contemporary Blues Album:
Robert Cray & Hi Rhythm - Robert Cray & Hi Rhythm
Recorded Live in Lafayette - Sonny Landreth
TajMo - Taj Mahal & Keb'Mo'
Got Soul - Robert Randolph & The Family Band
Live from The Fox Oakland - Tedeschi Trucks Band

Best Folk Album:
Mental Illness - Aimee Mann
Semper Femina - Laura Marling
The Queen of Hearts - Offa Rex
You Don't Own Me Anymore - The Secret Sisters
The Laughing Apple - Yusuf/ Cat Stevens

Best Regional Roots Music Album:
Top of the Mountain - Dwayne Dopsie And the Zydeco Hellraisers
Ho'okena 3.0 - Ho'okena
Kalenda - Lost Bayou Ramblers
Miyo Kekisepa, Make A Stand (Live) - Northern Cree
Pua Kiele - Josh Tatofi

Best Reggae Album:
Chronology - Chronixx
Lost In Paradise - Common Kings
Wash House Ting - J Boog
Stony Hill - Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley
Avrakedabra - Morgan Heritage

Best World Music Album:
Memoria De Los Sentidos - Vicente Amigo
Para Mi - Buika
Rosa Dos Ventos - Anat Cohen & Trio Brasileiro
Shaka Zulu Revisited 30th Anniversary Collection - Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Elwan - Tinariwen

Best Children's Album:
Brighter Side - Gustafer Yellowgold
Feel What U Feel - Lisa Loeb
Lemonade - Justin Roberts
Rise Shine #Woke - Alphabet Rockers
Songs of Peace & Love For Children & Parents Around the World - Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio books & Storytelling):
Astrophysics For People in a Hurry - Neil Degrasse Tyson
Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
Confessions of A Serial Songwriter - Shelly Peiken
Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In (Bernie Sanders) - Bernie Sanders and Mark Ruffalo
The Princess Diarist - Carrie Fisher

Best Comedy Album:
The Age of Spin & Deep in the Heart of Texas - Dave Chappelle
Cinco - Jim Gaffigan
Jerry Before Seinfeld - Jerry Seinfeld
A Speck of Dust - Sarah Silvermand
What Now? - Kevin Hart

Best Musical Theater Album:
Come From Away
Dear Evan Hansen
Hello, Dolly!

Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media:
Baby Driver
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2: Awesome Mix Vol. 2
Hidden Figures: The Album
La La Land
Moana: The Songs

Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media:
Arrival - Jóhann Jóhannsson
Dunkirk - Hans Zimmer
Game of Thrones: Season 7 - Ramin Djawadi
Hidden Figures - Benjamin Wallfisch, Pharrell Williams & Hans Zimmer
La La Land - Justin Hurwitz

Best Song Written For Visual Media:
City Of Stars - Justin Hurwitz, Benj Pasek & Justin Paul
How Far I'll Go - Lin-Manuel Miranda
I Don't Want To Live Forever (Fifty Shades Darker) - Jack Antonoff, Sam Dew & Taylor Swift
Never Give Up - Sia Furler & Greg Kurstin
Stand up For Something - Common & Diane Warren

Best Instrumental Composition:
Alkaline - Pascal Le Beouf
Choros #3 - Vince Mendoza
Home Free (For Peter Joe) - Nate Smith
Three Revolutions - Arturo O'Farrill
Warped Cowboy - Chuck Owen

Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella:
All Hat, No Saddle - Chuck Owen
Escapades For Alto Saxophone And Orchestra From Catch Me If You Can - John Williams
Home Free (For Peter Joe) - Nate Smith
Ugly Beauty/Pannonica - John Beasley
White Christmas - Chris Walden

Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals:
Another Day of Sun - Justin Hurwitz
Everytime We Say Goodbye - Jorge Calandrelli
I Like Myself - Joel McNeely
I Loves You Porgy/There's A Boat That's Leavin' Soon For New York - Shelly Berg, Gregg Field, Gordon Goodwin & Clint Holmes
Putin - Randy Newman

Best Recording Package:
El Orisha De La Rosa - Claudio Roncoli & Cactus Taller
Mura Masa - Alex Crossan & Matt De Jong
Pure Comedy (Deluxe Edition) - Sasha Barr, Ed Steed & Josh Tillman
Sleep Well Beast - Elyanna Blaser-Gould, Luke Hayman & Andrea Trabucco-Campos
Solid State - Gail Marowitz

Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package:
Bobo Yeye: Belle Epoque In Upper Volta
Lovely Creatures: The Best Of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds (1984 - 2014)
May 1977: Get Shown The Light
The Voyager Golden Record: 40th Anniversary Edition
Warfaring Strangers: Acid Nightmares

Best Album Notes:
Arthur Q. Smith: The Trouble With The Truth
Big Bend Killing: The Appalachian Ballad Tradition
The Complete Piano Works Of Scott Joplin
Edouard-Léon Scott De Martinville, Inventor Of Sound Recording: A Bicentennial Tribute
Live At The Whisky A Go Go: The Complete Recordings
Washington Phillips And His Manzarene Dreams

Best Historical Album:
Bobo Yeye: Belle Epoque In Upper Volta
The Goldberg Variations - The Complete Unreleased Recording Sessions June 1955
Leonard Bernstein - The Composer
Sweet As Broken Dates: Lost Somali Tapes From The Horn Of Africa
Washington Phillips And His Manzarene Dreams

Best Engineered Album, Non Classical:
Every Where is Some Where - Brent Arrowood, Miles Comaskey, JT Daly, Tommy English, Kristine Flaherty, Adam Hawkins, Chad Howat & Tony Maserati, Joe LaPorta
Is This The Life We Really Want? - Nigel Godrich, Sam Petts-Davies & Darrell Thorp, Bob Ludwig
Natural Conclusion - Ryan Freeland, Joao Carvalho
No Shape - Shawn Everett & Joseph Lorge, Patricia Sullivan
24K Magic - Serban Ghenea, John Hanes & Charles Moniz, Tom Coyne

Producer Of The Year, Non-classical:
Calvin Harris
Greg Kurstin
Blake Mills
No I.D.
The Stereotypes

Best Remixed Recording:
Can't Let You Go (Louie Vega Roots Mix)
Funk O'De Funk (SMLE Remix)
Undercover (Adventure Club Remix)
A Violent Noise (Four Tet Remix)
You Move (Latroit Remix)

Best Surround Sound Album:
Early Americans
Kleiberg: Mass For Modern Man
So Is My Love
3-D The Catalogue
Tyberg: Masses

Best Engineered Album, Classical:
Danielpour: Songs Of Solitude & War Songs - Gary Call
Kleiberg: Mass For Modern Man - Morten Lindberg
Schoenberg, Adam: American Symphony; Finding Rothko; Picture Studies - Keith O. Johnson & Sean Royce Martin
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5; Barber: Adagio - Mark Donahue
Tyberg: Masses - John Newton, Jesse Brayman

Producer of the Year, Classical:
Blanton Alspaugh
Manfred Eicher
David Frost
Morten Lindberg
Judith Sherman

Best Orchestral Performance:
Concertos For Orchestra
Copland: Symphony No. 3; Three Latin American Sketches
Debussy: Images; Jeux & La Plus Que Lente
Mahler: Symphony No. 5
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5; Barber: Adagio

Best Opera Recording:
Berg: Lulu
Berg: Wozzeck
Bizet: Les Pêcheurs De Perles
Handel: Ottone
Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel

Best Choral Performance:
Bryars: The Fifth Century
Handel: Messiah
Mansurian: Requiem
Music Of The Spheres
Tyberg: Masses

Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance:
Buxtehude: Trio Sonatas, Op. 1
Death & The Maiden
Divine Theatre - Sacred Motets By Giaches De Wert
Franck, Kurtág, Previn & Schumann
Martha Argerich & Friends - Live From Lugano 2016

Best Classical Instrumental Solo:
Bach: The French Suites - Murray Perahia
Haydn: Cello Concertos - Steven Isserlis
Levina: The Piano Concertos - Maria Lettberg
Shostakovich: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 - Frank Peter Zimmermann
Transcendental - Daniil Trifonov

Best Classical Solo vocal Album:
Bach & Telemann: Sacred Cantatas - Philippe Jaroussky
Crazy Girl Crazy - Barbara Hannigan
Gods & Monsters - Nicholas Phan
In War & Peace - Harmony Through Music - Joyce DiDonato
Sviridov: Russia Cast Adrift - Dmitri Hvorostovsky

Best Classical Compendium:
Barbra
Higdon: All Things Majestic, Viola Concerto & Oboe Concerto
Kurtág: Complete Works For Ensemble & Choir
Les Routes De L'Esclavage
Mademoiselle: Première Audience - Unknown Music Of Nadia Boulanger

Best Contemporary Classical Composition:
Songs Of Solitude - Richard Danielpour
Viola Concerto - Jennifer Higdon
Requiem - Tigran Mansurian,
Picture Studies - Adam Schoenberg
Concerto For Orchestra - Zhou Tian

Best Music Video:
Up All Night - Beck
Makeba - Jian
The Story of O.J. - Jay-Z
HUMBLE. Kendrick Lamar
1-800-273-8255 - Logic featuring Alessia Cara & Khalid

Best Music Film:
One More Time With Feeling - Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Long Strange Trip - The Grateful Dead
The Defiant Ones - Various Artists
Soundbreaking - Various Artists
Two Trains Runnin' - Various Artists