52ND GRAMMY AWARDS
Now the music lovers are waiting for to see who will be the winners of the world’s most prestigious music award titled “Grammy Awards”. The 52nd Grammy awards will take place on 31st January, 2010 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. The nominations of these awards were announced in a live television special called “The GRAMMY Nominations Concert Live!! — Countdown To Music’s Biggest Night”. The famous pop singer Beyonce Knowles reached in the top position in the nomination list with 10 nominations including ‘Album of the Year’ for “I Am…Sasha Fierce,” ‘Record of the Year’ for “Halo” and ‘Song of the Year’ for “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It).” Taylor Swift reached behind the Beyonce with 8 nominations including ‘Album of the Year’ for “Fearless,” and ‘Record of the Year’ and ‘Song of the Year’. The Black Eyed Peas, Maxwell and Kanye gained six nominations. Lady Gaga and rapper Jay-Z won five nominations.
52ND GRAMMY AWARDS - NOMINATIONS
Record of the Year
Beyonce – “Halo”
Black Eyed Peas – “I Gotta Feeling”
Kings of Leon – “Use Somebody”
Lady Gaga – “Poker Face”
Taylor Swift – “You Belong With Me”
Album Of The Year
Beyonce – I Am Sasha Fierce
Black Eyed Peas – The E.N.D
Lady GaGa – The Fame
Dave Matthews Band – Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King
Taylor Swift – Fearless
Song of the Year
Taylor Swift - “You Belong With Me”
Beyonce - “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)”
Lady GaGa - “Poker Face”
Maxwell - “Pretty Wings”
Kings of Leon - “Use Somebody”
Best New Artist
The Ting Tings
Zac Brown Band
Keri Hilson
MGMT
Silversun Pickups
Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
Adele - “Hometown Glory”
Beyonce - “Halo”
Katy Perry - “Hot N Cold”
Pink - “Sober”
Taylor Swift - “You Belong With Me”
Best Male Pop Vocal Performance
John Legend - “This Time”
Maxwell - “Love You”
Jason Mraz - “Make It Mine”
Seal - “If You Don’t Know Me By Now”
Stevie Wonder - “All About The Love Again”
Best Pop Vocal Performance By Duo or Group
Black Eyed Peas - “I Gotta Feeling”
Bon Jovi - “We Weren’t Born To Follow”
The Fray - “Never Say Never”
Daryl Hall & John Oates - “Sara Smile”
MGMT - “Kids”
Best Female Country Vocal Performance
Taylor Swift - “White Horse”
Carrie Underwood - “Just a Dream”
Miranda Lambert - “Dead Flowers”
Martina McBride - “I Just Call You Mine”
Lee Ann Womack - “Solitary Thinkin’”
Best Male Country Vocal Performance
Trace Adkins - “All I Ask For Anyone”
Billy Currington - “People Are Crazy”
Jamey Johnson - “High Cost Of Living”
George Strait - “Living For The Night”
Keith Urban - “Sweet Thing”
Best Country Album
Taylor Swift - Fearless
Zac Brown Band - The Foundation
George Strait - Twang
Keith Urban - Defying Gravity
Lee Ann Womack - Call Me Crazy
ABOUT GRAMMY AWARDS
Grammy awards are the world’s most prestigious music awards given annually by the ‘National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences’ of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry. The Grammy Awards were first presented in 1959. The winners of these awards are selected from more than 25 fields which cover the generations such as pop, rock, country, reggae, classical, and jazz, as well as production and post-production work, including packaging and album notes. In addition, four general awards are also given for record, album, song of the year and best new artist. More than 100 awards will be given and the winners will receive a golden statuette of a gramophone.
UPDATES
Expectations of the music lovers were ended. The ‘52nd Annual Grammy Awards’ took place at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California on 31st January, 2010. The famous pop singer Beyonce Knowles won six Grammy awards from ten of her nominations. Taylor Swift won four and Black Eyed Peas won three Grammy awards. All Indian music lovers were very happy, because their favorite music composer A.R. Rahman gained two Grammys for his music from the Oscar-winning film “Slumdog Millionaire”.Last year, he won the two Oscars for his music in “Slumdog Millionaire”. The Recording Academy honored the late king of pop Michael Jackson with a tribute during the Grammy telecast. It featured a 3D mini movie based on his song and give a ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ to him. In addition, the famous singers Celine Dion, Jennifer Hudson, Smokey Robinson, Carrie Underwood, Usher were also performed in this award ceremony. The list of winners are in the following,
52ND GRAMMY AWARDS - WINNERS
Album of the year
Taylor Swift, Fearless
Female pop performance
Beyonce, Halo
Rap/sung collaboration
Jay-Z, Rihanna and Kanye West, Run This Town
Rock album
Green Day, 21st Century Breakdown
Record of the year
Kings of Leon, Use Somebody
Comedy album
Stephen Colbert, A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!
New artist
Zac Brown Band
Country album
Taylor Swift, Fearless
Song of the year
Beyonce, Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)
Pop vocal album
The Black Eyed Peas, The E.N.D.
Male pop vocal performance
Jason Mraz, Make It Mine
Rock song
Kings of Leon, Use Somebody
R&B album
Maxwell, BLACKsummers’night
R&B song
Beyonce, Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)
Rap album
Eminem, Relapse
Rap song
Jay-Z, Rihanna and Kanye West, Run This Town
Americana album
Levon Helm, Electric Dirt
Female country vocal performance
Taylor Swift, White Horse
Male country vocal performance
Keith Urban, Sweet Thing
Latin pop album
La Quinta Estacion, Sin Frenos
Contemporary jazz album
Joe Zawinul & The Zawinul Syndicate, 75
Classical album
Mahler: Symphony No. 8; Adagio from Symphony No. 10
Traditional gospel album
Various artists, Oh Happy Day
Dance recording
Lady Gaga, Poker Face L
Electronic dance album
Lady Gaga, The Fame
Alternative music album
Phoenix, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Spoken word album
Michael J. Fox, Always Looking Up
Lifetime Achievement
Michael Jackson
Remixed recording
DJ David Guetta, When Love Takes Over,