Grammy Nominations 2011: Awards Nods For Adele, Kanye West, Bon Iver, Bruno Mars

The nominees for the 2011 Grammy Awards were announced live on CBS on Wednesday night.

Adele, the smash hit British retro soul singer, had a huge evening, earning nods for Song of the Year, Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Pop Solo Performance.

Kanye West scored nods for both his solo work and his collaboration with Jay-Z. The pair's song "Otis" was nominated for Best Rap Performance, where it will go up against tracks from Nicki Minaj & Drake; Lupe Fiasco; Chris Brown, Lil Wayne & Busta Rhymes; and Wiz Khalifa. West's song "All of the Lights" will compete against "Otis" for Best Rap Song. West, overall, had seven nominations, leading the pack.

Folk rockers Mumford & Sons were nominated for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Rock Performance, and Best Rock Song.

Indie singer-songwriter Bon Iver received recognition in the categories for Song of the Year, Record of the Year, Best New Artist and Best Alternative Album. Rockers the Foo Fighters also had a big evening, with multiple nominations including Album of the Year; they finished the night with six nods.

Bruno Mars also scored big, with looks for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Pop Solo Performance and Best Pop Vocal Album.

Pop mainstays Lady Gaga and Rihanna are both up for Album of the Year, while Rihanna also has nods for Best Pop Vocal Album, Best Rap/Sung Collaboration and Best Rap Song.

Amy Winehouse, who passed away this summer, received a nomination for her collaboration with Tony Bennett.

Album Of The Year:
21— Adele
Wasting Light— Foo Fighters
Born This Way— Lady Gaga
Doo-Wops & Hooligans — Bruno Mars
Loud — Rihanna

Record Of The Year:
"Rolling In The Deep" — Adele
"Holocene" — Bon Iver
"Grenade" — Bruno Mars
"The Cave" — Mumford & Sons
"Firework" — Katy Perry

Song Of The Year:
"All Of The Lights" — Jeff Bhasker, Malik Jones, Warren Trotter & Kanye West, songwriters (Kanye West, Rihanna, Kid Cudi & Fergie)
"The Cave" — Ted Dwane, Ben Lovett, Marcus Mumford & Country Winston, songwriters (Mumford & Sons)
"Grenade" — Brody Brown, Claude Kelly, Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine, Bruno Mars & Andrew Wyatt, songwriters (Bruno Mars)
"Holocene" — Justin Vernon, songwriter (Bon Iver)
"Rolling In The Deep" — Adele Adkins & Paul Epworth, songwriters (Adele)

Best Pop Solo Performance
"Someone Like You" — Adele
"Yoü And I" — Lady Gaga
"Grenade" — Bruno Mars
"Firework" — Katy Perry
"F***in' Perfect" — Pink

Best Alternative Music Album:
Bon Iver— Bon Iver
Codes And Keys— Death Cab For Cutie
Torches— Foster The People
Circuital — My Morning Jacket
The King Of Limbs— Radiohead

Best Rock Performance:
"Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall" — Coldplay
"Down By The Water" — The Decemberists
"Walk" — Foo Fighters
"The Cave" — Mumford & Sons
"Lotus Flower" — Radiohead

Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance:
"On The Backs Of Angels" — Dream Theater
"White Limo" — Foo Fighters
"Curl Of The Burl"— Mastodon
"Public Enemy No. 1" — Megadeth
"Blood In My Eyes"— Sum 41

Best Rock Album:
Rock 'N' Roll Party Honoring Les Paul— Jeff Beck
Wasting Light— Foo Fighters
Come Around Sundown— Kings Of Leon
I'm With You— Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Whole Love— Wilco

Best Rap/Sung Collaboration:
"Party" — Beyoncé & André 3000
"I'm On One" — DJ Khaled, Drake, Rick Ross & Lil Wayne
"I Need A Doctor" — Dr. Dre, Eminem & Skylar Grey
"What's My Name?" — Rihanna & Drake
"Motivation" — Kelly Rowland & Lil Wayne
"All Of The Lights" — Kanye West, Rihanna, Kid Cudi & Fergie

Best Rap Performance:
"Look At Me Now" — Chris Brown, Lil Wayne & Busta Rhymes
"Otis" — Jay-Z & Kanye West
"The Show Goes On" — Lupe Fiasco
"Moment 4 Life" — Nicki Minaj & Drake
"Black And Yellow" — Wiz Khalifa

Best New Artist:
The Band Perry
Bon Iver
J. Cole
Nicki Minaj
Skrillex

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance:
"Body And Soul" — Tony Bennett & Amy Winehouse
"Dearest" — The Black Keys
"Paradise" — Coldplay
"Pumped Up Kicks" — Foster The People
"Moves Like Jagger" — Maroon 5 & Christina Aguilera

Best Dance Recording:
"Raise Your Weapon" — Deadmau5 & Greta Svabo Bech
"Barbra Streisand" — Duck Sauce
"Sunshine" — David Guetta & Avicii
"Call Your Girlfriend" — Robyn
"Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites" — Skrillex
"Save The World" — Swedish House Mafia

Best Traditional R&B Performance:
"Sometimes I Cry" — Eric Benét
"Fool For You" — Cee Lo Green & Melanie Fiona
"Radio Message" — R. Kelly
"Good Man" — Raphael Saadiq
"Surrender" — Betty Wright & The Roots

Best R&B Album:
F.A.M.E.— Chris Brown
Second Chance — El DeBarge
Love Letter — R. Kelly
Pieces Of Me— Ledisi
Kelly— Kelly Price

Best Blues Album:
Low Country Blues — Gregg Allman
Roadside Attractions— Marcia Ball
Man In Motion— Warren Haynes
The Reflection — Keb'Mo'
Revelator— Tedeschi Trucks Band

Best Folk Album:
Barton Hollow— The Civil Wars
I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive— Steve Earle
Helplessness Blues— Fleet Foxes
Ukulele Songs— Eddie Vedder
The Harrow & The Harvest— Gillian Welch

Best Country Solo Performance:
"Dirt Road Anthem" — Jason Aldean
"I'm Gonna Love You Through It" — Martina McBride
"Honey Bee" — Blake Shelton
"Mean" — Taylor Swift
"Mama's Song" — Carrie Underwood

Best Country Song:
"Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not" — Jim Collins & David Lee Murphy, songwriters (Thompson Square)
"God Gave Me You" — Dave Barnes, songwriter (Blake Shelton)
"Just Fishin'" — Casey Beathard, Monty Criswell & Ed Hill, songwriters (Trace Adkins)
"Mean" — Taylor Swift, songwriter (Taylor Swift)
"Threaten Me With Heaven" — Vince Gill, Amy Grant, Will Owsley & Dillon O'Brian, songwriters (Vince Gill)
"You And Tequila" — Matraca Berg & Deana Carter, songwriters (Kenny Chesney Featuring Grace Potter)

Best Americana Album:
Emotional Jukebox— Linda Chorney
Pull Up Some Dust And Sit Down— Ry Cooder
Hard Bargain— Emmylou Harris
Ramble At The Ryman— Levon Helm
Blessed— Lucinda Williams

For the rest of the nominations, click over to the Grammys website.

Comments

[Adam Sadler]

02:29 PM on 12/04/2011

I definitely think that Adele could've gotten more than 6 nominations. She is a brilliant artist. I was blown away and had tons of chills when I watched her DVD "Live At The Royal Albert Hall" (trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Oio8V3e3WU&ob=av2e ) Go Adele!!

[Billk29]

12:24 AM on 12/03/2011

If you like Adele pick up her new Live at Royal Albert Hall blu ray that came out this week. Her connection with the audience is incredible.
While most artists struggle to get crowds to sing choruses with them all Adele has to do is hold the mic up in the air and the audience sings perfectly in unison .
Riveting stuff.

[Sethj8888]

10:49 PM on 12/01/2011

How many cds were released last year? Something like 6,000?? It's impossible to find any consensus as far as what everyone's going to like.

The days of Thriller when the whole country had shared tastes (more or less) is over.

[Danielle00]

10:14 PM on 12/01/2011

Grammy Awards are becoming more like a tween award show.. anyone above the age of like 15 watching this show should really consider on getting a life...sad

[sacmom3]

06:28 PM on 12/01/2011

I hope Adele wins everything she is nominated for. It's time people are rewarded that can actually sing. Besides, she reminds me of my Amy, eventhough their styles are completely different. lol

[phoenixbc]

05:39 PM on 12/01/2011

The Grammys have sunk to a new low. Nominating "Otis" for anything other than Insulting Racist Garbage of the Year demonstrates that its Rap committee has no respect for Black America.

It further is an insult to the late great Otis Redding, whose name and music these two opportunistic twits, Kanye and Jay-Z, appropriated for their own preening and chest-beating soundtrack. Redding, whose music was an inspiration throughout the Civil Rights Movement of the 60s, is likely rolling in his grave at the thought that anyone would consider this duo's trashy work to have anything to do with Mr. Redding.

Rap truly has become pablum for the tone-deaf and the hopeless.

[Red D]

04:19 PM on 12/01/2011

Adele is very talented, but I think at times, a bit boring. She's getting loads of publicity and air play, and THAT, I'm thinking, is what wins the grammys ~ whoever generates the most CHA CHING. I preferred Amy Winehouse and still do. The Grammys are a joke, and most people know it.

[jetnlexi]

05:19 PM on 12/01/2011

Are you serious?? A joke and most people know it??? I think you need to do a little research before you go talking for other people!! The Grammy's is the highest honor a recording artist can recieve and anyone who is anyone in music strives to achieve such a nomination and a win is like solidifying your worth as an artist!!!!

[Ugonna]

07:09 PM on 12/01/2011

the grammys have become a joke in the last decade, and the quality of their winners has become laughable if not purely and only political. All awards shows have become that way, but the Grammys are the biggest victim, imo.

[phoenixbc]

05:52 PM on 12/01/2011

Her first album didn't receive much airplay, and she won for that. Shelby Lynne is another artist whose work was passed up by commercial radio but was nominated for a Grammy and won.

Winehouse was nominated for 5 and won 3. Her album, Back to Black, got little airplay on commercial radio.

Like Winehouse, Adele is the real deal. She writes, plays piano and guitar, and sings like nobody's business. If you have access to Palladia, watch her unplugged performance that has been playing lately. Her vocals are unbelievably strong, she has spectacular control, and her style is one the few can match. Her music is decidedly different from Winehouse's, and it might not be your taste, but Adele is talented.

[Diana Perez]

04:15 PM on 12/01/2011

OMG ! are you for real? Seriously? Adele has got to win this. She is awesome. She is a great singer and has her own unique flair. Rhianna's beat is always the same through and through. She dosen't change and further more Adele is classy. Adele dosen't have to take wear hardly nothing to make people listen to her music or watch her video.... Thank you...

[wizkid14]

04:01 PM on 12/01/2011

Congratulations to my favorites: Chris Brown, Adele, Kanye, Bon Iver, Bruno Mars, Radio Head, & R.Kelly. May you all walk away with a Grammy. Or it will be the "Shammy's"!

[RelaxThereIsNoGod]

03:52 PM on 12/01/2011

Fleet Foxes should have received more awards.

[songwriter88]

03:41 PM on 12/01/2011

I love Adele I hope she wins!!! I am upset that Jill Scott wasnt nominated but hey life goes on.

[Skiwee]

03:36 PM on 12/01/2011

Adele.....Yes!!!!

[Feesister]

03:03 PM on 12/01/2011

Geez, people are so hateful.

[ab2859]

02:33 PM on 12/01/2011

Adele has a great voice and is funny as hell. I love Rolling in the Deep. But the rest of her CD bores me to tears and is totally depressing. I don't get why it's been so popular.

As far as the Grammys go, Elvis - the King of Rock & Roll - never got a Grammy for rock music - only for gospel. So what does that tell you about the Grammys?

[maurilius]

03:08 PM on 12/01/2011

Chuck Berry is the King of Rock & Roll. Don't forget that.

[Greg Gorelick]

01:17 PM on 12/01/2011

Grammys are a joke. A JOKE.

These are not based on talent, musicianship, or originality. It's more like a bad popularity contest. I would refuse one if offered... nay, pawn it.

It suffers from the same "WTF" syndrome as the Rock and Roll Hall of fame, who has yet to induct Rush, but has accepted LL Cool J.

[maurilius]

02:56 PM on 12/01/2011

wow, LL but not Rush. That's just insane to me. I'd even say LL but not Trower.

[Red D]

04:16 PM on 12/01/2011

I agree! +1, and thank you!