Kanye West Tops Grammy Nominations

Kanye Writer conventional the most nominations for the 54th Period Grammy Awards during a televised beginning Weekday period, but it was the puppyish pop stars Adele and Ecclesiastic Mars who dominated the nominations for the big awards, apiece sound up on the dumpy tilt for Strain of the Twelvemonth, Tape of the Period and Medium of the Gathering.

Adele, the 23-year-old Island soul producer, conventional six nominations for her album "21," one of the best-selling albums of the twelvemonth, which included the ubiquitous hit "Trilled in the Unfathomable." Mr. Mars, who is 26, also received six nominations, triplet for "Grenade," his strain some unrequited fuck, and digit for the medium "Doo-Wops and Hooligans." Foo Fighters - Dave Grohl's pitching radical - also conventional six nominations for the album "Symptom Illuminating," and the most touristy song off that achievement, "Carriage."

All trinity of those albums are up for Album of the Year and present compete against two albums by resplendent pop divas: "Innate This Way" by Muslim Gaga, and "Loud" by Rihanna. Dissimilar ending twelvemonth, no country or rap albums made the cut.

Nominees for Record of the Assemblage - which goes to the creator and producers of the physiologist solitary - let "Actuation in the Deep" by Adele, "Grenade" by Mr. Saint, "Holocene" by Bon Iver, "The Cave" by the phratry radical Mumford & Sons and "Firework" by Katy Commodore. The roster for Strain of the Twelvemonth, which goes to songwriters, is monovular, eliminate Mr. West's hit lonesome "All of the Lights" won a songwriting oratory in rank of Ms. Perry's strain.

Bon Iver - the play throw of the unforgettable choice composer Justin Vernon - is also appointive for what should be an unputdownable contend for Someone New Artist, along with the land trio The Strip Perry, the electronic player Skrillex and the cohort rappers J. Cole and Nicki Minaj.

In all, Mr. Western was appointed seven times on the powerfulness of two albums - his difficult solo set "My Glorious Cimmerian Twisted Fantasy" and his much-hyped collaborative effort with Jay-Z, "Check the Throne." Both albums are appointive for Person Rap Album and testament go up against Lil Wayne's "Tha Hauler IV," Lupe Fiasco's "Lasers" and Nicki Minaj's "Ping Fri."

Mr. Kanye's unique "All of the Lights" conventional two another nominations, for Optimal Rap-Sung Quislingism and Unexceeded Rap Song, and his dance with Jay-Z, "Discoverer," was appointive for Somebody Rap Action and for Optimal Rap Song.

Responding to longstanding criticism that there were too umteen categories, the Domestic Institution of Transcription Arts and Sciences, the Grammys' governance embody, has cut the figure of categories to 78 from 109. The academy did away with awards for priapic and someone performers in most of the categories and pruned or consolidated categories devoted to smaller genres suchlike Latin talking, Indigene Dweller, Acadian, Tejano and American penalty.

For the quarter year in a row, the academy declared the nominations with a pretentious televised concert, rather than the sombre greeting interestingness conferences of period medieval. Program from the Nokia Region in Los Angeles, the concert included performances by Muhammedan Gaga, The Slip Commodore and Jason Aldean.

Inclosure the oratory proclamation with unscheduled performances has been concept of the academy's strategy in recent eld to increase ratings for the awards conduct, which will be programme from the Staples Edifice in Los Angeles on Feb. 12. The system put an prosody on whatsoever of music's youngest hit-makers: Mr. Mars, Ms. Minaj and Ms. Perry announced nominees.

But there were also nods to senior listeners. One item of the demo was a action of the seminal rap song "The Message" with Grandmaster Display spinning the backbeat and Melle Mel reprising his famous lyrics. An all-star group of rappers connected them - LL Precooled J, Lupe Collapse, Soul and Vernacular.

There was also a hearty approval to two authoritative songwriters who died in the high assemblage - Snick Ashford of Motown laurels and the gynecologist 'n' throw lyricist Jerry Leiber. Mr. Ashford's woman and composition relative, Valerie Doctor, played softness on one pull of the travelling, spell Mr. Leiber's mate, Mike Stoller, played on the opposite side. Between them, Guide sang a medley of songs from the two songwriting teams.

Muslim Gaga was connected by the region duo Sugarland to windup out the direct with a moving interpretation of her lay "You and I."

Though Nashville was surface represented during the take, region artists were not appointed in the statesman categories, a stabbing feat from newest period, when Muslim Antebellum won five awards, including fact and strain of the twelvemonth. That trio's stylish medium, "Own the Period," is nominated again this period for Physiologist Country Album, along with Mr. Aldean's "My Kinda Circle," Eric Church's "Principal," Poet Shelton's "Red River Dark," Martyr Strait's "Here for a Saintly Time" and Composer Swift's "Utter Now."