Rapper Lamar tops Grammy nods, Swift leads in main categories

Other artists raking in nominations for the 2016 Grammys include Ed Sheeran, whose “Thinking Out Loud” is up for record of the year, and Mark Ronson, who is nominated for pop vocal album of the year and record of the year for “Uptown Funk” featuring Bruno Mars.

Lianne La Havas’ Blood is up for Best Urban Contemporary Album.

Best pop solo performance: “Heartbeat Song”, Kelly Clarkson; “Love Me Like You Do”, Ellie Goulding; “Thinking Out Loud”, Ed Sheeran; “Blank Space”, Taylor Swift; “Can’t Feel My Face”, The Weeknd.

Following is a sampling of nominations from the GRAMMY Awards‘ 30 Fields and 83 categories.

Best country album: “Montevallo”, Sam Hunt; “Pain Killer”, Little Big Town; “The Blade”, Ashley Monroe; “Pageant Material”, Kacey Musgraves; “Traveller”, Chris Stapleton.

But Swift was ahead in the four most-watched categories, with nominations in all of them except Best New Artist.

Nominated are his album “Beauty Behind The Madness”, the chart-topping hit single “Can’t Feel My Face”, and “Earned It” from the “Fifty Shades Of Grey” soundtrack.

The 28-year-old singer will be hoping February 15 is his lucky night, when he contests for Grammy Awards in some of the most fierce categories including Album of the Year.

“Up for a Grammy with these guys thanks to everyone who has been a part of this incredible musical transition”, best dance recording nominee Justin Bieber, via Instagram, along with a photo of himself with Diplo and Skrillex, who all worked on the hit song, “Where Are U Now”.

You can check out the rest of the nominations here, via E!

Four of the five album of the year contenders are from Universal Music – a huge win for the record label but a loss for its competitors, Sony and Warner Music.