GRAMMYs 2018: Nominations & everything you need to know

The 60th annual GRAMMY nominations have been revealed, and predictions of Jay Z and Kendrick Lamar topping the charts were certainly true.

American singer/songwriter Andra Day announced the frontrunners in the four main categories – Best New Artist, Record Of The Year, Song Of The Year, and Album Of The Year, live on CBS This Morning.

The nominees for the remaining categories were released on the official GRAMMY website shortly after with Bruno Mars as the third nominated artist with six and newcomer SZA

The 2018 GRAMMY Awards will take place at Madison Square Garden in New York City, after 15 years of being held in Los Angeles, on Sunday 28 January. Late night talk show host James Corden will host the star-studded ceremony.

There will be performances by Pink, Lady Gaga, Childish Gambino and Little Big Town. Bruno Mars and Cardi B will also perform their hit collab Finesse while Alessia Cara, Khalid and Logic will perform their suicide awareness track 1-800-273-8255. And if that wasn’t enough, Kesha and SZA – who is the most-nominated female this year – will also be taking to the stage, while Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee are expected to perform their 2017 anthem, Despacito.

The nominations have been announced and here are some of the categories:

Record Of The Year

“Redbone” — Childish Gambino
“Despacito” — Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee Featuring Justin Bieber
“The Story Of O.J.” — Jay-Z
“HUMBLE.” — Kendrick Lamar
“24K Magic” — Bruno Mars

Album Of The Year

“Awaken, My Love!” — Childish Gambino
4:44 — Jay-Z
DAMN. — Kendrick Lamar
Melodrama — Lorde
24K Magic — Bruno Mars

Song Of The Year

“Despacito” — Ramón Ayala, Justin Bieber, Jason “Poo Bear” Boyd, Erika Ender, Luis Fonsi & Marty James Garton, songwriters (Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee Featuring Justin Bieber)
“4:44” — Shawn Carter & Dion Wilson, songwriters (Jay-Z)
“Issues” — Benny Blanco, Mikkel Storleer Eriksen, Tor Erik Hermansen, Julia Michaels & Justin Drew Tranter, songwriters (Julia Michaels)
“1-800-273-8255” — Alessia Caracciolo, Sir Robert Bryson Hall II, Arjun Ivatury & Khalid Robinson, songwriters (Logic Featuring Alessia Cara & Khalid)
“That’s What I Like” — Christopher Brody Brown, James Fauntleroy, Philip Lawrence, Bruno Mars, Ray Charles McCullough II, Jeremy Reeves, Ray Romulus & Jonathan Yip, songwriters (Bruno Mars)

Best New Artist

Alessia Cara
Khalid
Lil Uzi Vert
Julia Michaels
SZA

Best Pop Solo Performance

“Love So Soft” — Kelly Clarkson
“Praying” — Kesha
“Million Reasons” — Lady Gaga
“What About Us” — P!nk
“Shape Of You” — Ed Sheeran

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance

“Something Just Like This” — The Chainsmokers & Coldplay
“Despacito” — Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee Featuring Justin Bieber
“Thunder” — Imagine Dragons
“Feel It Still” — Portugal. The Man
“Stay” — Zedd & Alessia Cara

Best Pop Vocal Album

Kaleidoscope EP — Coldplay
Lust For Life — Lana Del Rey
Evolve — Imagine Dragons
Rainbow — Kesha
Joanne — Lady Gaga
÷ (Divide) — Ed Sheeran

The full list can be found on the Grammy website.