Australians Flume, Sia and Keith Urban nominated for Grammy awards

He is up for the biggest award of the night: ‘Album of the Year.’ Drake’s multi-Platinum album, “Views”, will be competing against Beyonce’s “Lemonade”, Justin Bieber’s “Purpose”, and Adele’s “25”.

While Drake’s album “Views” may have some great songs on it, I do not think it was worthy of Album of the Year.

Rihanna threw some slick shade at the Beyhive after her ANTI album was snubbed from Album of the Year contention in favor of Beyonce’s Lemonade.

The Grammy Awards are sipping all of Beyonce’s lemonade. But her song “Don’t Hurt Yourself”, in which she collaborated with rock favorite Jack White, was different.

She has won 20 Grammy Awards and is the most-nominated woman in Grammy history with 62 nominations.

However, Blackstar was nominated for four Grammys in other categories, including best alternative album. On her tail, Drake, Rihanna, and Kanye West gained eight nominations each.

West put out his last album, “The Life of Pablo”, only through streaming as the on-demand online format rapidly grows.

Also notably absent from major categories is David Bowie, who was tipped to win for his critically-acclaimed “Blackstar” album.

He is nominated this year for Best Country Solo Performance (Blue Ain’t You Color), Best Country Song (Blue Ain’t Your Color) and Best Country Album (Ripcord). It will be recalled that Riri shocked everyone in 2011 for being nominated under the same category for her album “Loud”. The original version of the song was released as part of its eponymous 2015 album, but Clarkson’s stunning piano-backed performance of the track on American Idol in February prompted a new, scaled-back recording that evidently made industry waves.

– New artist: Kelsea Ballerini; The Chainsmokers; Chance the Rapper; Maren Morris; Anderson Paak. His influence has been seen in numerous new rap artists who are emerging. F**k u Grammys, ANTI did unbelievable things this year and y’all played her.

What’s even more impressive is that he’s done this whole thing without the help of a label, using word-of-mouth to get the word out on his albums.

Ocean, one of the darlings of the 2013 Grammys, said the award system was outdated and marred by racial bias.