58th Annual Grammy Nominations

Album of the Year
Sound & Color, Alabama Shakes
Beauty Behind the Madness, The Weeknd
1989, Taylor Swift
Traveller, Chris Stapleton
To Pimp a Butterfly, Kendrick Lamar

Record of the Year
"Blank Space," Taylor Swift
"I Can't Feel My Face," The Weeknd
"Really Love," D'angelo and the Vanguard
"Thinking Out Loud," Ed Sheeran
"Uptown Funk," Mark Ronson f/ Bruno Mars

Song of the Year
"Blank Space" (Taylor Swift)
"Alright" (Kendrick Lamar)
"Girl Crush" (Little Big Town)
"See You Again" (Wiz Khalifa f/ Charlie Puth)
"Thinking Out Loud"" (Ed Sheeran)

Best New Artist
Courtney Barnett
James Bay
Sam Hunt
Tori Kelly
Meghan Trainor

Best Pop Solo Performance
"Blank Space," Taylor Swift
"Can't Feel my Face," The Weeknd
"Heartbreak Song," Kelly Clarkson
"Love me Like you do," Ellie Goulding
"Thinking out Loud," Ed Sheeran

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
"Ship To Wreck,"  Florence + The Machine
"Sugar,  Maroon 5
"Uptown Funk," Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars
"Bad Blood," Taylor Swift Featuring Kendrick Lamar
"See You Again," Wiz Khalifa Featuring Charlie Puth

Best Pop Album
1989, Taylor Swift
Before This World, James Taylor
How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful, Florence + The Machine
Piece by Piece, Kelly Clarkson
Uptown Special, Mark Ronson

Kendrick Lamar, Taylor Swift lead 2015 MTV VMA nominations

Some "Bad Blood" equals a plethora of nominations for Taylor Swift and Kendrick Lamar at the MTV Video Music Awards 32nd kudos fest honoring music videos.

The hit collaboration earned seven nominations for the iconic Moonman statute, including video of the year and best collaboration. "Bad Blood" also earned five professional nominations- best art direction, cinematography, direction, editing and visual effects.

Lamar was the biggest nominee of the year, tying Lady Gaga's 2010 record for most nominations in a single year with 13. In addition to "Bad Blood", his solo effort "Alright" will also contend for video of the year. This is the first time, again, since Lady Gaga in 2010, that one artist had two videos contend for the top award.

"Alright" is also up for male video, hip-hop video and direction. His collaboration with Flying Lotus on "Never Catch Me" was nominated for choreography and cinematography.

Swift comes up with the second most nominations this year with nine. The aforementioned seven for "Bad Blood" and best female video and pop video for "Blank Space". 

This marks the highest number of nominations for either Swift or Lamar in a given year, garnering respective total  career nominations of 15 and 16. 

The other video of the year nominees are Beyonce's "7/11" and Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars for "Uptown Funk," both of which have five nominations a piece

Rounding out the top category is "Thinking Out Loud" by Ed Sheeran. The video earned four nominations for Sheeran, who earned two more for his "Don't" video in below the belt categories.

The 2015 MTV Video Music Awards air live on August 30 with last year's video of the year winner, Miley Cyrus, hosting.

VIDEO OF THE YEAR
Beyoncé – “7/11”
Ed Sheeran – “Thinking Out Loud”
Taylor Swift ft. Kendrick Lamar – “Bad Blood”
Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars – “Uptown Funk”
Kendrick Lamar – “Alright”

BEST MALE VIDEO
Ed Sheeran – “Thinking Out Loud”
Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars – “Uptown Funk”
Kendrick Lamar – “Alright”
The Weeknd – “Earned It”
Nick Jonas – “Chains”

BEST FEMALE VIDEO
Beyoncé – “7/11”
Taylor Swift – “Blank Space”
Nicki Minaj – “Anaconda”
Sia – “Elastic Heart”
Ellie Goulding – “Love Me Like You Do”

Beck Upsets to Win Top Prize at Grammys, Sam Smith Wins Four

In the biggest upset of the night, Beck's "Morning Phase" took the award for album of the year at the 57th Grammy Awards.

The rocker's set defeated front-runners like Beyonce's self-titled set and Sam Smith's "In the Lonely Hour".

"Morning Phase" also won best rock album and engineered album, non-classical at the award show. Nominated for four awards, Beck lost in the rock song and rock performance categories.

Beyoncé did end up with a trio of awards to bring her overall haul to 20; R&B song and R&B performance for "Drunk in Love" and surround sound album for "Beyoncé". 

English crooner Smith won three of his general field bids: best new artist and song and record of the year for "Stay With Me (Darkchild Version)". Smith also won pop vocal album.

While Pharrell Williams was nominated three times for album of the year — for his album "GIRL" and producing "Beyoncé" and Ed Sheeran's "X" — he missed out in this race but won must video for "Happy" and pop solo performance for a live version of the track, the first male to win the latter category. "GIRL" edged out "Beyoncé" in the urban contemporary album race.