Nobody had a bigger impact on music this year than Kendrick Lamar

As for Swift’s former genre, country music (she previously announced that “1989” was her first official pop album), Chris Stapleton got a huge amount of attention after winning the major Album of the Year award as well as others at this year’s CMA Awards. He single-handedly carries the nominations of Song of the Year, Best Rap Album, Best Rap Performance, Best Rap Song and Best Music Video in addition to Album of the Year. Twelve of the album’s 14 tracks have hit the Billboard hot 100 chart, with Can’t Feel My Face and The Hills reaching number one and Earned It climbing to number three.

Kendrick Lamar not only got more nominations than Taylor Swift, but he beat out Eminem’s previous record for most Grammy nominations in one year. “Artists are pushing boundaries in exciting ways, making it an exceptionally strong year for music”. The awards show will air live February 15, 2016, on CBS from the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

/ The nominations for the 58th Grammy Awards were announced Monday morning, and Taylor Swift and Kendrick Lamar were among the picks for the top categories.

Shelton’s song “Lonely Tonight” featuring Ashley Monroe has been nominated for Best Country Duo/Group Performance.

This is the first year I can remember when five actually-good albums were nominated for Album Of The Year.

In the music world, the anticipation is high and prediction articles are plentiful just before the announcement of the annual Grammy Awards nominees.

Competing for best new artist are “All About the Bass” singer Meghan Trainor, country artist Sam Hunt, British singer-songwriter James Bay, American Tori Kelly, and Australian Courtney Barnett.

The unstoppable Taylor Swift could possibly sweep the top three categories as her album “1989” is nominated for album of the year and the single “Blank Space” is nominated in both song and record of the year categories. Justin earned a 2016 Grammy nomination for Best Dance Recording for “Where Are U Now”, his collaboration with Skrillex and Diplo. “Trap Queen” is up for Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance, but given Fetty’s omnipresence this year, a Best New Artist nod was really in order. It should also best the latest from Drake, Dr. Dre, Nicki Minaj and J. Cole in the rap album competition.

For anyone wondering why there is no mention of nominations for Adele’s monster-hit third album “25”, it was released on November 20, well after the closing of the eligibility period of October 1, 2014, to September 30, 2015, for the 2016 Grammy Awards ceremony. One is in the category of Album of the Year for “Sound & Color” by the rock band Alabama Shakes. The other is in the category of Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, for the same album.

Best rap song: Kanye West featuring Theophilus London, Allan Kingdom & Paul McCartney, “All Day”; Kendrick Lamar, “Alright”; Drake, “Energy”; Common & John Legend, “Glory”; Fetty Wap, “Trap Queen”.

Saxophonist Jimmy Greene, the father of one of the children killed in the Sandy Hook school shooting, earned two nominations for an album inspired by his late daughter Ana Márquez-Greene.