Nominations revealed for the GRAMMY Awards 2016
James Bay, Florence and the Machine, Ed Sheeran and The Chemical Brothers are amongst the British acts to be nominated for this year's GRAMMY Awards, with the full list of nominations unveiled today. James Bay picked up a couple of nominations, receiving one in the Best Rock Album category for his debut, Chaos and the Calm, plus another for Best New Artist.
Ed Sheeran's 'Thinking Out Loud' is nominated for Best Record and Best Song, while Florence + The Machine's How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful is nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album. Mark Ronson was also nominated in those same categories, for both his single 'Uptown Funk' and the album it came from, Uptown Special.
However, it is in the Best Dance / Electronica album category that the Brits performed best, with three of the five nominations going to British artists. Jamie xx receives a nomination for his album In Colour, while The Chemical Brothers also bagged a nomination for Born in the Echoes and Disclosure are nominated for their second album, Caracal.
You can find a summary of the nominations for the main categories below.
(if you want to view the list in full you'll find a link at the bottom of this page)
RECORD OF THE YEAR
'Really Love'
D'Angelo And The Vanguard
'Uptown Funk'
Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars
'Thinking Out Loud'
Ed Sheeran
'Blank Space'
Taylor Swift
'Can't Feel My Face'
The Weeknd
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Sound & Color
Alabama Shakes
To Pimp A Butterfly
Kendrick Lamar
Traveller
Chris Stapleton
1989
Taylor Swift
Beauty Behind The Madness
The Weeknd
BEST NEW ARTIST
Courtney Barnett
James Bay
Sam Hunt
Tori Kelly
Meghan Trainor
BEST POP VOCAL ALBUM
Piece By Piece
Kelly Clarkson
How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
Florence + The Machine
Uptown Special
Mark Ronson
1989
Taylor Swift
Before This World
James Taylor
BEST DANCE/ELECTRONIC ALBUM
Our Love
Caribou
Born In The Echoes
The Chemical Brothers
Caracal
Disclosure
In Colour
Jamie XX
Skrillex And Diplo Present Jack Ü
Skrillex And Diplo
BEST ROCK ALBUM
Chaos And The Calm
James Bay
Kintsugi
Death Cab For Cutie
Mister Asylum
Highly Suspect
Drones
Muse
.5: The Gray Chapter
Slipknot
BEST ALTERNATIVE MUSIC ALBUM
Sound & Color
Alabama Shakes
Vulnicura
Björk
The Waterfall
My Morning Jacket
Currents
Tame Impala
Star Wars
Wilco
BEST URBAN CONTEMPORARY ALBUM
Ego Death
The Internet
You Should Be Here
Kehlani
Blood
Lianne La Havas
Wildheart
Miguel
Beauty Behind The Madness
The Weeknd
BEST R&B ALBUM
Coming Home
Leon Bridges
Black Messiah
D'Angelo And The Vanguard
Cheers To The Fall
Andra Day
Reality Show
Jazmine Sullivan
Forever Charlie
Charlie Wilson
BEST RAP ALBUM
2014 Forest Hills Drive
J. Cole
Compton
Dr. Dre
If Youre Reading This Its Too Late
Drake
To Pimp A Butterfly
Kendrick Lamar
The Pinkprint
Nicki Minaj
For the full list of nominees from all categories go here
