With all of the great and diverse music featured in 2018, it’s time to break down the good from the Grammy. While the award is not the official metric for established artistry, the nominations are heavily anticipated and people have some thoughts about this year’s:

Category 1 – Record Of The Year

• “I Like It”

     Cardi B, Bad Bunny & J Balvin

     Track from: Invasion Of Privacy

• “The Joke”

     Brandi Carlile

     Track from: By The Way, I Forgive You

• “This Is America”

     Childish Gambino

• “God’s Plan”

     Drake

• “Shallow”

     Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper

• “All The Stars”

     Kendrick Lamar & SZA

     Track from: Black Panther The Album Music From And Inspired By

• “Rockstar”

     Post Malone Featuring 21 Savage

• “The Middle”

     Zedd, Maren Morris & Grey

Category 2 – Album Of The Year

(Award to Artist(s) and to Featured Artist(s), Songwriter(s) of new material

• Invasion Of Privacy

     Cardi B

     Leslie Brathwaite & Evan LaRay

• By The Way, I Forgive You

     Brandi Carlile

     Dave Cobb & Shooter Jennings

• Scorpion

     Drake

     Noel Cadastre, Noel “Gadget” Campbell & Noah Shebib, engineers/mixers; Aubrey Graham & Noah Shebib, songwriters; Chris Athens, mastering engineer

• H.E.R.

     H.E.R.

     Darhyl “Hey DJ” Camper Jr, H.E.R. & Jeff Robinson

• Beerbongs & Bentleys

     Post Malone

     Louis Bell & Post Malone

• Dirty Computer

     Janelle Monáe

     Chuck Lightning & Janelle Monáe Robinson & Nate “Rocket” Wonder

• Golden Hour

     Kacey Musgraves

• Black Panther: The Album, Music From And Inspired By

     (Various Artists)

     Kendrick Lamar, featured artist; Kendrick Duckworth & Sounwave

Category 3 – Song Of The Year

(A Songwriter(s) Award. A song is eligible if it was first released or if it first achieved prominence during the Eligibility Year. (Artist names appear in parentheses.) Singles or Tracks only.)

• “All The Stars”

     Kendrick Duckworth, Solána Rowe, Al Shuckburgh, Mark Spears & Anthony Tiffith, songwriters (Kendrick Lamar & SZA)

     Track from: Black Panther The Album Music From And Inspired By

• “Boo’d Up”

     Larrance Dopson, Joelle James, Ella Mai & Dijon McFarlane, songwriters (Ella Mai)

     Track from: Ready

• “God’s Plan”

     Aubrey Graham, Daveon Jackson, Brock Korsan, Ron LaTour, Matthew Samuels & Noah Shebib, songwriters (Drake)

• “In My Blood”

        Track from: Shawn Mendes

• “The Joke”

     Brandi Carlile, Dave Cobb, Phil Hanseroth & Tim Hanseroth, songwriters (Brandi Carlile)

• “The Middle”
• “Shallow”

     Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando & Andrew Wyatt, songwriters (Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper)

• “This Is America”

     Donald Glover & Ludwig Goransson, songwriters (Childish Gambino)

Category 4 – Best New Artist

(An artist will be considered for Best New Artist if their eligibility year release/s achieved a breakthrough into the public consciousness and notably impacted the musical landscape.)

• Chloe x Halle
• Luke Combs
• Greta Van Fleet
• H.E.R.
• Dua Lipa

     Track from: Dua Lipa

Field 1 – Pop

Category 5 – Best Pop Solo Performance

(For new vocal or instrumental pop recordings. Singles or Tracks only.)

• “Colors”

     Beck

     Track from: Colors

• “Havana (Live)”

     Camila Cabello

• “God Is A Woman”

     Ariana Grande

• “Joanne (Where Do You Think You’re Goin’?)”

     Lady Gaga

• “Better Now”

     Post Malone

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