The Grammy Awards nominations are at all times filled with “yass!”es and “boo!”s, and the 2024 listing, which was led by SZA and Phoebe Bridgers, is not any exception. Following is our sizzling tackle snubs and surprises, see the complete listing of 2024 Grammy nominees right here.
SURPRISE: Ladies take all. Nicely, not all, however you get the thought. After former Grammys president and CEO Neil Portnow’s feedback to a Selection reporter that girls must “step up” with a purpose to safe nominations, the Recording Academy responded this 12 months with a majority variety of feminine nods. Ladies maintain the lion’s share of nominations in document of the 12 months, album of the 12 months and the pop classes. To place it in perspective, in album of the 12 months, Jon Batiste is the only male nominee of the eight contenders. Throughout the board, SZA leads the pack with an awesome 9 nominations, spanning all the pieces from three of the 4 high classes (excluding finest new artist, clearly) and with 5 completely different songs showing throughout 5 completely different classes. Alongside her group Boygenius, Phoebe Bridgers scoops up seven nominations — six with the band, one with SZA — whereas Victoria Monét matches her seven. Additional down the tally, Brandy Clark, Miley Cyrus, Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo and Taylor Swift all stroll away with six nods. If the nominations are any indication, it’s honest to imagine that the 2024 Grammy Awards shall be a robust rebuttal to Portnow’s feedback.
SNUB: Latin artists take the backseat. After Latin music took its first steps into the overall classes final 12 months with Unhealthy Bunny, Anitta and others, Spanish-language artists have been largely shut out from getting a giant have a look at this 12 months’s awards. Karol G’s “Mañana Será Bonito” had a good shot at incomes an album of the 12 months nod however was acknowledged solely in the perfect música urbana class the place a complete of three albums obtained nominations (Tainy’s “Knowledge” and Rauw Alejandro’s “Saturno” being the opposite two). Lower than 40 data have been submitted on this class (which was first added in 2022) however it will’ve been nice to see full-lengths from Feid, Myke Towers, or Eladio Carrión get their flowers since all three albums helped propel these artists to new heights, each artistically and commercially.
“Mañana Será Bonito” additionally had one of many greatest hits of Karol’s profession – “TQG,” a collaboration she shares with Shakira, who’s absent from the listing altogether regardless of submitting hers and Bizarrap’s world streaming hit, “Bzrp Music Periods, Vol. 53,” to a number of classes. Peso Pluma, who was largely unnoticed of the Latin Grammys after launching into near-instant superstardom this 12 months, didn’t obtain a finest new artist nod as anticipated. As a substitute, his newest “Génesis” seems as the one document from a male artist to be nominated for finest música Mexicana album (together with Tejano).
SURPRISE: Victoria Monét’s breakthrough. The R&B singer-songwriter has lengthy been a behind-the-scenes secret weapon who penned hits for Ariana Grande and Chloe x Halle, and secured Grammy nominations for these songs alongside the best way. So it comes as a shock that this 12 months is her 12 months, securing seven whole nominations to deliver her profession whole as much as 10. Monét is nominated as finest new artist, which is simply one other head-scratcher for many who have adopted her profession over the previous decade. However past that, she has high honors for “On My Mama” in document of the 12 months, whereas her full-length challenge “Jaguar II” seems in finest R&B album and finest engineered album, non-classical. She’s additionally bought just a few different songs that pop up within the R&B classes, together with “How Does It Make You Really feel” in finest R&B efficiency and “Hollywood” that includes Earth, Wind & Fireplace and her new child daughter Hazel Monét in finest conventional R&B efficiency. To the latter: Hazel Monét is just two years previous, making her what may very well be the youngest Grammy nominee in historical past.
SNUB: Rap classes are a combined bag. It’s shocking to scan the nominees for the rap classes due to what’s not included. Forecasters predicted that Travis Scott, whose “Utopia” album was one of many greatest hip-hop data of the 12 months, would have a game-day end, however it doesn’t appear like that’s taking place as he obtained only one nomination for finest rap album. Gunna is nowhere to be discovered, and neither is DJ Khaled. It’s price noting among the standouts, although. Killer Mike has solely been nominated as soon as for a Grammy, and received, for his function on Outkast’s “The Complete World” in 2003. This 12 months, he secured three nominations as a number one artist, together with two for his monitor “Scientists & Engineers” and a finest rap album nod for “Michael.” Drake, who has been very vocal about his disdain for the Grammys and traditionally stopped submitting, seems within the 4 rap classes for his collaborative work with 21 Savage in addition to for songs that Metro Boomin, who’s up for producer of the 12 months, non-classical, helmed for him. Coi Leray secures her first nomination for “Gamers” in finest rap efficiency, whereas Ice Spice nets 4 together with a coveted finest new artist inclusion.
ANOTHER SNUB: Nation. Positive, you’ve bought Zach Bryan and Brandy Clark showing in anticipated classes. However the last listing didn’t find yourself absolutely honoring what was predicted. Lainey Wilson and Jelly Roll have been all however assured to guide the pack based mostly on their respective large years, however that isn’t the case. Wilson was skirted for finest new artist, and solely obtained a solo nod for “Bell Backside Nation” in finest nation album. She does seem in finest nation duo/group efficiency alongside Jelly Roll, however that’s about it. And talking of Jelly Roll, he’s included in the perfect new artist lineup, however apart from his nomination with Wilson, that’s it.
UNSURPRISING SNUB: Morgan Wallen. Nobody in Nashville shall be shocked to see Morgan Wallen has been fully shut out. His hit “Final Evening” is within the lineup for finest nation music, however he doesn’t actually have a writing credit score to earn him a Grammy because it’s a songwriter class. That is shocking, contemplating that Wallen had one of many strongest years to this point in the complete music trade, however it wasn’t sufficient to persuade the voting committee that he was definitely worth the honor.
SURPRISE: Pop music bought some issues proper. Would you consider that the newly-minted finest pop dance recording class appears… particularly reasonable? Kylie Minogue seems right here for her runaway summer season hit “Padam Padam,” marking her first Grammy nomination since 2009, whereas Troye Sivan’s “Rush” earns him his first Grammy nomination ever. (“Rush” can also be nominated in finest music video, regardless of all of the social media criticism about its portrayal of physique picture.) Lana Del Rey makes a robust displaying in high classes and in pop and various, whereas the predictable Mileys, Olivias and Taylors dominate pop.
