The Recording Academy’s music professionals had been welcomed to this 12 months’s Grammy season with an impassioned plea from CEO Harvey Mason Jr., who in July despatched a letter to the group’s roughly 13,000 voting members inviting them to “vote deliberately, intentionally, with delight and with function. We’ll see what impact his request could have when the nominations for the 67th Grammy Awards are introduced on November 8. (The annual ceremony itself will happen on February 2 on the Crypto.com Arena downtown of Los Angeles), a recording will need to have been launched between September 16, 2023 and August 30, 2024. Here are our predictions for nominations in among the most intently watched classes, with potential honorees listed in alphabetical order.
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Beyoncé, “Cowboy Carter”
Sabrina Carpenter, “Short and Sweet”
Billie Eilish, “Hit me laborious and sluggish”
Ariana Grande, “Eternal Sunshine”
Post Malone, “F-1 Trillion”
Chappell Roan, “The Rise and Fall of a Midwestern Princess”
Taylor Swift, “The Tortured Poets Department”
Usher, “Coming Home”
Possible Surprise: Charli XCX, “Brat”
The Grammy equal of the very best image class will nearly definitely replicate this 12 months’s distinctive crop of albums from pop’s high feminine stars, together with Beyoncé (who has received extra Grammys than anybody in historical past) and Taylor Swift (who has elected album of the 12 months an unparalleled achievement). 4 occasions). Be looking out for an look from Usher, who launched his ninth solo LP simply days earlier than headlining February’s Super Bowl halftime present — a tactic that paid off in a nod to the album of the 12 months when Usher’s previous buddy Mary J. Blige employed her in 2022.
RECORD OF THE YEAR
Beyoncé, “Texas Hold ‘Em”
Sabrina Carpenter, “Espresso”
Billie Eilish, “Birds of a Feather”
Hozier, “Too Sweet”
Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars, “Die With a Smile”
Kendrick Lamar, “Not Like Us”
Chappell Roan, “Good luck, darling!”
Taylor Swift with Post Malone, “Fortnight”
Possible shock: Post Malone with Morgan Wallen, “I Had Some Help”
Considering the cultural impression, Kendrick Lamar’s Drake-disparaging “Not Like Us” needs to be thought of the most effective information of the 12 months, however with the Grammys, clearly, something involving hip-hop comes with a giant query mark . Expect Beyoncé to increase her lead because the artist with probably the most recording nominations (this may be her ninth) and for Bruno Mars to tie with Frank Sinatra’s seven within the class. A nod to the smash hit “I Had Some Help” would land Morgan Wallen’s first Grammy nomination (after the writers of his hit “Last Night” landed one final 12 months).
SONG OF THE YEAR
“Birds of a Feather,” written by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell (carried out by Billie Eilish)
“Deeper Well,” written by Ian Fitchuk, Kacey Musgraves and Daniel Tashian (carried out by Kacey Musgraves)
“Die With a Smile,” written by Dernst “D’Mile” Emile II, James Fauntleroy, Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars and Andrew Watt (carried out by Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars)
“Fortnight,” written by Jack Antonoff, Post Malone and Taylor Swift (carried out by Taylor Swift)
“Good Luck, Honey!”, written by Daniel Nigro, Chappell Roan and Justin Tranter (performed by Chappell Roan)
“Texas Hold ‘Em,” written by Brian Bates, Beyoncé, Elizabeth Lowell Boland, Megan Bülow, Nate Ferraro and Raphael Saadiq (carried out by Beyoncé)
“Turn the Lights Back On,” written by Arthur Bacon, Wayne Hector, Billy Joel and Freddy Wexler (performed by Billy Joel)
“We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love),” written by Ariana Grande, Max Martin and Ilya Salmanzadeh (carried out by Ariana Grande)
Possible shock: “Beautiful Things,” written by Benson Boone, Evan Blair and Jack LaFrantz (carried out by Benson Boone)
At the final Grammy ceremony, 5 of the eight singles nominated for Record of the Year additionally competed for Song of the Year. (The recording award goes to the artists and producers, whereas the music goes to the songwriters.) So search for loads of overlap right here, together with potential showings of Kacey Musgraves’ majestic “Deeper Well” and Billy Joel’s much-hyped comeback music, which it might attraction to the identical voters who put Bonnie Raitt’s “Just Like That” on this class in 2023. If Swift is nominated, will probably be her eighth nod for an award she has by no means received.
BEST NEW ARTIST
Benson Boone
Sabrina Carpentiere
Megan Moroney
Tommy Richmann
Chappell Roan
Shaboozey
Brittney Spencer
Teddy swims
Possible shock: the Hanseroth twins
Could voters nominate three nation artists (Megan Moroney, Shaboozey and Brittney Spencer) for Best First-Time New Artist? This consequence could be consistent with the tear that Nashville has skilled over the past two years or so. Yet anybody aside from Sabrina Carpenter or Chappell Roan would seem to have little likelihood of truly profitable the award in February, until the 2 new superstars find yourself splitting the vote.
BEST POP VOCAL ALBUM
Sabrina Carpenter, “Short and Sweet”
Billie Eilish, “Hit me laborious and sluggish”
Ariana Grande, “Eternal Sunshine”
Chappell Roan, “The Rise and Fall of a Midwestern Princess”
Taylor Swift, “The Tortured Poets Department”
Possible shock: Dua Lipa, “Radical Optimism”
To all the lads who made a pop album in 2024: good luck, honey.
BEST RAP ALBUM
21 Savage, “American Dream”
Common and Pete Rock, “The Auditorium Vol. 1″
Eminem, “The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce)”
Future and Metro Boomin, “We do not belief you”
Nicki Minaj, “Pink Friday 2”
Possible Surprise: Doja Cat, “Scarlet”
A nod to Eminem could be his eighth award, which he has solely misplaced as soon as, when Kanye West’s “Late Registration” beat out “Encore” in 2006.
BEST NATIONAL ALBUM
Beyoncé, “Cowboy Carter”
Post Malone, “F-1 Trillion”
Willie Nelson, “The Border”
Lainey Wilson, “Whirlwind”
Chris Stapleton, “Higher”
Possible Surprise: Sturgill Simpson, “Passage du Desir”
The greater query is whether or not “Cowboy Carter” can be named after Nashville insiders on the Country Music Assn. has written off Beyoncé for subsequent month’s CMA Awards.
BEST ROCK ALBUM
Pearl Jam, “Dark Matter”
The Black Keys, “Ohio Players”
Green Day, “Saviors”
The Rolling Stones, “Hackney Diamonds”
Dolly Parton, “Rockstar”
Possible shock: Bleachers, “Bleachers”
Two years in the past she was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Now, 78-year-old Dolly Parton is chasing her first Grammy nomination in a rock class. Keep a watch out for Bleachers, the band fronted by longtime Grammy favourite Jack Antonoff, who has been named producer of the 12 months three consecutive ceremonies.
BEST ALTERNATIVE MUSIC ALBUM
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, “Wild God”
Brittany Howard, “And Now”
Mk.gee, “Two Stars and the Dream Police”
Saint Vincent, “All born screaming”
Vampire Weekend, “Only God Was Above Us”
Possible shock: Clairo, “Charm”
St. Vincent and Vampire Weekend are each in search of their fourth nomination for an award they’ve every received twice. But these veterans could face a menace from Mk.gee, a 28-year-old guitar wizard who has been warmly supported by Eric Clapton, John Mayer – and Justin Bieber, with whom he has labored currently within the studio.
