Meet Your 63rd Grammy Nominees!

• UPDATED: Nominees for the 63rd Annual GRAMMY Awards were just announced via a one-hour livestream at Grammy.com, anchored by Harvey Mason, Jr., Chair & Interim President/CEO of the Recording Academy, who was joined remotely by Nigerian Afropop singer Yemi Alade, two-time GRAMMY-winner Imogen Heap, four-time GRAMMY®-winning Regional Mexican singer/songwriter Pepe Aguilar, two-time GRAMMY-winning Contemporary Christian singer Lauren Daigle, The Talk host Sharon Osbourne, GRAMMY-winning classical violinist Nicola Benedetti, CBS This Morning anchor Gayle King, recording artist Megan Thee Stallion, two-time GRAMMY-winning singer/songwriter Dua Lipa, and country singer-songwriter Mickey Guyton.

Beyoncé leads the Grammy Class of 2021 with nine nominations, followed by Taylor Swift, Roddy Ricch and Dua Lipa, who earned six nominations each, and Alabama Shakes’ Brittany Howard, who earned five nominations for her solo debut. Megan Thee Stallion, DaBaby, Phoebe Bridgers and Justin Bieber each garnered four Grammy nominations, as did last year’s big winner Billie Eilish, who scored nominations in two of the four major categories, Record of The Year and Song Of The Year, as well as in the category of “Best Song Written for Visual Media,” where she and her brother Finneas Baird O’Connell were nominated as songwriters for “No Time To Die,” the theme song from the upcoming James Bond film. Eilish was also nominated for “Best Pop Solo Performance” for “Everything I Wanted.”

Post Malone and Dua Lipa earned nominations in three of the four major categories — Album, Record and Song Of The Year; Taylor Swift is up for Album and Song of the Year; Beyoncé was nominated for Record and Song of The Year, while Megan Thee Stallion was nominated for Best New Artist and Record of The Year (with Beyoncé for “Savage”). Doja Cat also earned nominations for Best New Artist and Record of the Year, Black Pumas are up for Album and Record of The Year, and Roddy Ricch is nominated for Song Of The Year and Record of The Year (with DaBaby for “Rockstar”).

Here are the nominees in the Grammys’ General Field Categories, a.k.a. “The Big Four” —

Album Of The Year: Chilombo (Jhené Aiko), Black Pumas Deluxe Edition (Black Pumas), Everyday Life, (Coldplay), Djesse Vol.3 (Jacob Collier), Women In Music, Pt. III (HAIM), Future Nostalgia (Dua Lipa), Hollywood’s Bleeding (Post Malone), Folklore (Taylor Swift).

Record Of The Year: “Black Parade” (Beyoncé), “Colors” (Black Pumas), “Rockstar” (DaBaby f/ Roddy Ricch), “Say So” (Doja Cat), “Everything I Wanted” (Billie Eilish), “Don’t Start Now” (Dua Lipa), “Circles” (Post Malone), Savage” (Megan Thee Stallion f/Beyoncé)

Song Of The Year: “Black Parade” (Beyoncé), “The Box” (Roddy Ricch), “Cardigan” (Taylor Swift), “Circles” (Post Malone), “Don’t Start Now” (Dua Lipa), “Everything I Wanted” (Billie Eilish), “I Can’t Breathe” (H.E.R.), “If The The Was Ending” (JP Saxe f/ Julia Michaels)

Best New Artist: Ingrid Andress, Phoebe Bridgers, Chika, Noah Cyrus, D Smoke, Doja Cat, Kaytranada, Megan Thee Stallion.

• Almost immediately after the nominees were announced, the loudest outcry from fans and industry insiders came from the glaring omission of The Weeknd, whose album After Hours and its many hits were inexplicably shut out of every category. The Weeknd later made his feelings clearly known when he tweeted, “The Grammys remain corrupt. You owe me, my fans and the industry transparency…”

The complete list of all Grammy nominees is now posted at GRAMMY.com. The 63rd Annual GRAMMY Awards, hosted by Trevor Noah will be broadcast Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021 at 8pm ET/5pm PT on CBS, and the GRAMMY Awards Premiere Ceremony® will be streamed live on GRAMMY.com at 3pm ET/noon PT.