Beyonce Pretty Much Already Won The 2017 Grammys

Prior to these nominations, Bowie had been up for a GRAMMY 12 times during the course of his career, and won the Best Video, Short Form award in 1985 for “Jazzin’ for Blue Jean”, and was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006. For album of the year, “Lemonade” and “25” – which has sold 10 million copies in a year – will compete against Drake’s multi-hit “Views”, Justin Bieber’s redemption album “Purpose” and surprise nominee “A Sailor’s Guide to Earth”, the third album from respected and rebellious country singer Sturgill Simpson.

Not leaving much up to surprise, the 2017 Grammy Award nominations, announced Tuesday morning by last year’s Best New Artist victor Meghan Trainor, will be a battle between the year’s biggest sellers and headline grabbers, with Beyoncé leading the pack with a whopping nine nods, followed by Drake, Rihanna and Kanye West with eight apiece.

All three artists trailing her by a single nomination for second place – Kanye West, Drake and Rihanna – also fulfill at least one of those criteria. The Toronto native picked up nominations for best rap album, best rap song (“Hotline Bling”), and best rap performance (“Pop Style”). The Stratford, Ont. -raised singer’s “Purpose” also grabbed a best pop vocal album nomination.

The nominees in 84 categories were announced by the The Recording Academy, which organises the annual award ceremony.

On the bright side, given that Beyonce made Grammy-snubbed just as cool as Grammy-nominated, so Adele still wins even if she loses.

“AND to be nominated alongside so many artists (and friends) i love and albums i am such a fan of thank you for the nominations”, Grande wrote on Instagram. Hope Grammy organizers have enough security on the big night.

“We’re just some underground electronic act”, said Vallance from his NY home. They’re nominated alongside Calgary-born James Teej, whose real name is Thomas Mathers. Drake’s nominations in these categories are based on pop-driven tracks, and on “Work”, he is only a featured guest.

He learned about his nomination through an email from his manager.

“I think about it every morning – seriously”, he said.

The band has won four Grammys between 1988 and February 2016.

Bowie, who always enjoyed more accolades in his native Britain than in his adopted home of the United States, was up for Best Alternative Music Album against other favorites of critics – Bon Iver, PJ Harvey, Iggy Pop and Radiohead.

Keith Urban – married to actor Nicole Kidman – has three Grammy nominations. It could also signal an embrace of an ascendant eclecticism: The globally inflected sound of his album Views dominated conversations in the rap world this year yet also served up a pop crossover moment with the quantitative song-of-the-summer victor “One Dance”.