Grammys 2017: Beyonce’s ‘Lemonade’ Leads With 9 Nominations
James Corden-hosted awards show will air Sunday, Feb. 12 on CBS
Reid Nakamura | February 11, 2017 @ 6:30 PM
Last Updated: February 11, 2017 @ 6:39 PM
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Beyonce leads the list of the 2017 Grammy nominations, having earned nine total, including Album of the Year for “Lemonade,” as well as Song of the Year and Record of the year for lead single “Formation.” The visual component, which debuted on HBO in April and earned four Emmy nominations, is also up for Best Music Film.
Drake, Rihanna and Kanye West each earned eight nominations, and Chance the Rapper rounds out the top five with seven for his third mixtape “Coloring Book” and guest work on Kanye West’s “The Life of Pablo.”
Tuesday’s nine nominations bring Beyonce’s career total to 62, which makes her the most-nominated female artist in Grammy history. If she wins in eight of the categories, she’ll have a total of 28 awards, surpassing country singer Alison Krauss as the most-awarded female artist.
West is up in eight categories, but the rapper has previously pledged to boycott the ceremony. After Frank Ocean’s two 2016 albums “Endless” and “Blonde” were disqualified in October because the R&B singer failed to submit the necessary documents before the deadline, West announced he’d skip the awards to “fight the bulls—.”
This year’s awards will be broadcast on CBS on Sunday, Feb. 12 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT. “The Late Late Show’s” James Corden will serve as host.
“Just as we see emerging musicians experimenting, we’re also seeing established artists resisting what’s expected of them and, instead, embracing the creative freedom they’ve been afforded through their success, blurring the lines between music’s mainstream and artistic edge,” said Neil Portnow, President and CEO of The Recording Academy, in a statement.
See a partial list of the nominees below, and the complete list of nominations in all 84 categories at the Grammys website.
Album Of The Year: 25 — Adele
Lemonade — Beyoncé
Purpose — Justin Bieber
Views — Drake
A Sailor’s Guide To Earth — Sturgill Simpson
Record Of The Year: “Hello” — Adele
“Formation” — Beyoncé
“7 Years” — Lukas Graham
“Work” — Rihanna Featuring Drake
“Stressed Out” — Twenty One Pilots
Song Of The Year: “Formation” — Khalif Brown, Asheton Hogan, Beyoncé Knowles & Michael L. Williams II, songwriters (Beyoncé)
“Hello” — Adele Adkins & Greg Kurstin, songwriters (Adele)
“I Took A Pill In Ibiza” — Mike Posner, songwriter (Mike Posner)
“Love Yourself” — Justin Bieber, Benjamin Levin & Ed Sheeran, songwriters (Justin Bieber)
“7 Years” — Lukas Forchhammer, Stefan Forrest, Morten Pilegaard & Morten Ristorp, songwriters (Lukas Graham)
Best New Artist: Kelsea Ballerini
The Chainsmokers
Chance The Rapper
Maren Morris
Anderson .Paak
Best Dance/Electronic Album: Skin — Flume
Electronica 1: The Time Machine — Jean-Michel Jarre
Epoch — Tycho
Barbara Barbara, We Face A Shining Future — Underworld
Louie Vega Starring…XXVIII — Louie Vega
Best Rock Album: California — Blink-182
Tell Me I’m Pretty — Cage The Elephant
Magma — Gojira
Death Of A Bachelor — Panic! At The Disco
Weezer — Weezer
Best Alternative Music Album: 22, A Million — Bon Iver
Blackstar — David Bowie
The Hope Six Demolition Project — PJ Harvey
Post Pop Depression — Iggy Pop
A Moon Shaped Pool — Radiohead
Best Urban Contemporary Album: Lemonade — Beyoncé
Ology — Gallant
We Are King — KING
Malibu — Anderson .Paak
Anti — Rihanna
Best Rap Performance: “No Problem” — Chance The Rapper Featuring Lil Wayne & 2 Chainz
“Panda” –Desiigner
“Pop Style” — Drake Featuring The Throne
“All The Way Up” — Fat Joe & Remy Ma Featuring French Montana & Infared
“That Part” — ScHoolboy Q Featuring Kanye West
Best Country Solo Performance: “Love Can Go To Hell” — Brandy Clark
“Vice” — Miranda Lambert
“My Church” — Maren Morris
“Church Bells” — Carrie Underwood
“Blue Ain’t Your Color” — Keith Urban
Best Jazz Vocal Album: Sound Of Red — René Marie
Upward Spiral — Branford Marsalis Quartet With Special Guest Kurt Elling
Take Me To The Alley — Gregory Porter
Harlem On My Mind — Catherine Russell
The Sting Variations — The Tierney Sutton Band
Best Gospel Album: Listen –Tim Bowman Jr.
Fill This House — Shirley Caesar
A Worshipper’s Heart [Live] –Todd Dulaney
Losing My Religion — Kirk Franklin
Demonstrate [Live] –William Murphy
Best Contemporary Christian Music Album: Poets & Saints — All Sons & Daughters
American Prodigal — Crowder
Be One — Natalie Grant
Youth Revival [Live] — Hillsong Young & Free
Love Remains — Hillary Scott & The Scott Family
Best Latin Pop Album: Un Besito Mas — Jesse & Joy
Ilusión — Gaby Moreno
Similares — Laura Pausini
Seguir Latiendo — Sanalejo
Buena Vida — Diego Torres
Best American Roots Performance: “Ain’t No Man” — The Avett Brothers
“Mother’s Children Have A Hard Time” — Blind Boys Of Alabama
“Factory Girl” — Rhiannon Giddens
“House Of Mercy” — Sarah Jarosz
“Wreck You” — Lori McKenna
Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Storytelling): The Girl With The Lower Back Tattoo — Amy Schumer
In Such Good Company: Eleven Years Of Laughter, Mayhem, And Fun In The Sandbox — Carol Burnett
M Train — Patti Smith
Under The Big Black Sun: A Personal History Of L.A.Punk (John Doe With Tom DeSavia) — (Various
Artists)
Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink — Elvis Costello
Best Song Written For Visual Media: “Can’t Stop The Feeling!” — Max Martin, Shellback &Justin Timberlake, songwriters (Justin Timberlake, Anna Kendrick, Gwen Stefani, James Corden, Zooey Deschanel, Walt Dohrn, Ron Funches, Caroline Hjelt, Aino Jawo, Christopher Mintz-Plasse & Kunal Nayyar), Track from: Trolls
“Heathens” — Tyler Joseph, songwriter (Twenty One Pilots), Track from: Suicide Squad
“Just Like Fire” — Oscar Holter, Max Martin, P!nk & Shellback, songwriters (P!nk), Track from: Alice Through The Looking Glass
“Purple Lamborghini” — Shamann Cooke, Sonny Moore & William Roberts, songwriters (Skrillex & Rick Ross), Track from: Suicide Squad
“Try Everything” — Mikkel S. Eriksen, Sia Furler & Tor Erik Hermansen, songwriters (Shakira), Track from: Zootopia
“The Veil” — Peter Gabriel, songwriter (Peter Gabriel), Track from: Snowden
Best Music Video: “Formation” — Beyoncé
“River” — Leon Bridges
“Up & Up” — Coldplay
“Gosh” — Jamie XX
“Upside Down & Inside Out” — OK Go
Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical: Benny Blanco
Greg Kurstin
Max Martin
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Grammys Party Pics: The Chainsmokers are the Princes of Music's Big Weekend (Photos)
The Chainsmokers headlined Spotify's pre-Grammys party at the Belasco Theater in downtown L.A. The relationship is symbiotic, as the music industry's most powerful distribution entity and the Chains scored massive success together with "Closer," "Paris," "Roses" and "Don't Let Me Down" in the last 12 months.
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Just recently a legal adult at 18, Daya turned up to sing her part on the Grammy-nominated "Don't Let Me Down."
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Wiz Khalifa hung with Drew (left) and Alex (right) backstage after their set. Khalifa would stay on to DJ the after-party.
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The Galantis Guys ("U & I," "Peanut Butter Jelly") checked in on the scene. See you at Coachella 2017, boys.
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Music industry truth-teller, straight-shooter and feather-ruffler Bob Lefsetz (of the famed industry "Lefsetz Letter," left) added industry heft to Spotify's night, tied to Best New Artist nominees.
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Adam Alpert (right) is the non-immoral, non-criminal version of Lou Pearlman, the unseen third head in The Chainsmokers who has managed them brilliantly for years.
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Chainsmokers x One Direction?
The Chains' Alex Pall (left) books all the collaborations for the duo. At their own "Turn Up" at Absout Elyx CEO Jonas Tahlin's house on Friday night, Pall and Tomlinson huddled up. Note: Louis scored a radio hit with Steve Aoki ("Just Hold On"), so he's in the orbit.
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On Saturday night, the Chains hung with Ryan Tedder at Clive Davis' party. As the trio were concluding a recent studio session, they had a surprise guest walk in on them: Bono.
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Meanwhile on Thursday night, The Chainsmokers' "Closer" collaborator Halsey headlined Delta's Grammy Salute to first-time nominees. She played a 40-minute set for an intimate crowd, the smallest show she'll likely play this year.
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The Delta event was also a sneak preview of Beauty & Essex, the super hot NYC and Vegas restaurant from the TAO Group that is opening soon on the 6400 block of Selma in Hollywood.
After never having a venue in L.A., the TAO Group is taking over the full block adjacent to the Dream Hotel with TAO (restaurant only, no club), Avenue (intimate lounge), the aforementioned B&E, and a rooftop "Highlight Room" space all about tilt L.A. nightlife to Hollywood.
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Before Kaskade (right) made his way to Spotify's bash, he shared the stage with LA's music yoda, Jason Bentley, for an event with Mastercard at the old Tower Records on Sunset.
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Dubbed the #ThankTheFans House, there have been a series of consumer-facing events in the famed space over the weekend.
Here, the "Sophie" half of electronic duo Sofi Tukker, nominated for best dance electronic record for their song "Drinkee," ventures deep into the heaving mass.
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At Clive Davis' party at the Beverly Hilton on Saturday night, Quincy Jones' lap got a +1: Jennifer Hudson. Her performance of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" was a standout amongst the bill that included Maxwell, Chance the Rapper, and Neil Diamond as the closer.
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Paris Jackson was one of the surprising RSVP's.
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Recording Academy CEO Neil Portnow flank the host that still has his finger on the pulse of pop music.
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Meanwhile in downtown L.A., Soho House took over Clifton's Cafeteria to launch a new music series, "Soho Sounds".
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Anderson .Paak headlined this event, the latest stop in his own march through Grammy weekend.
Paak is a challenger to The Chainsmokers' "Princes of Grammys Weekend" crown. Ciroc threw him a birthday party on Thursday night in West Hollywood.
By Friday, he'd join the #ThankTheFans House on Sunset before Soho House's downtown pop-up on Saturday.
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DJ Khaled played a party for McDonald's toasting the "Year in Music". Talent like Kelly Rowland and Jamie King joined in the celebration at the Peppermint Club in West Hollywood launching a the new "Grand Mac" and "Mac Jr" sandwiches.
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After Clive's, everyone headed to Diddy's house. Here, Cassie and Mary J. Blige (who had an emotional night revealing the struggle of her divorce) hit the bar.
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Diddy had this pink burger truck pull up outside.
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Inside, French Montana assumed his usual position on Diddy's wing. Diplo joined the mix at what was slugged a "Ciroc After Hours". Not pictured: Stevie Wonder, T.I., and single Tobey Maguire.
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UTA threw its first Grammy party at the recently opened Peppermint Club in West Hollywood, the collaboration between John Terzian's h.wood Group and Interscope records.
After puking twice on stage at Universal's showcase on Saturday afternoon, Desiigner (right) had not slowed down at all. He huddled up with manager Zana Ray and UTA CEO Jeremy Zimmer.
For more on Desiigner's rowdy industry performance, click here:
UTA's music bash was not limited to the music industry: Laker Metta World Peace and Baron Davis made the scene...
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as did UTA client and "Modern Family" chief Steve Levitan (right), sitting with UTA's Managing Director Jay Sures and Lauren Shirreffs.
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UTA's Jbeau Lewis poses with Live Nation Entertainment's David Zedeck
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At Primary Wave's party atop the London on Saturday night, Melissa Etheridge and Brandy linked up...
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As Cee Lo Green unveiled a new persona, "Gnarly Davidson." It looks like a riff on the first "Star Wars" reboot. Taraji P. Henson, Ray J. and Michael McDonald were amongst the guests at the Smirnoff-hosted bash.
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Diddy and DJ Khaled share a toast of "CÎROC Grateful” -- the official cocktail of Khaled’s 10th album “Grateful” -- on Thursday, Feb. 9 at a private pre-Grammys party in Beverly Hills.
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French Montana gets into the Grammys spirit at the “Hustle to the Top” dinner at Mr. Chow in Beverly Hills. "Empire" cast members Jussie Smollett, Sirayah, and Bre-Z joined in the CÎROC Ultra Premium Vodka-fueled celebration on Friday night.
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Inside and backstage the best Grammys bashes with The Party Report’s Mikey Glazer
The Chainsmokers headlined Spotify's pre-Grammys party at the Belasco Theater in downtown L.A. The relationship is symbiotic, as the music industry's most powerful distribution entity and the Chains scored massive success together with "Closer," "Paris," "Roses" and "Don't Let Me Down" in the last 12 months.