The Recording Academy announced Friday that Lamar is the top contender with eight nominations, including seven for his musical companion to the Marvel Studios juggernaut\u2026<\/b>
\nThe Recording Academy announced Friday that Lamar is the top contender with eight nominations, including seven for his musical companion to the Marvel Studios juggernaut starring Chadwick Boseman and Michael B. Jordan. \u201cBlack Panther: The Album, Music From and Inspired By\u201d is up for album of the year, a category where women make up five of the eight nominees. Cardi B, Kacey Musgraves, Janelle Monae, H. E. R. and Brandi Carlile also are up for the top prize, along with Drake and Post Malone.
The upcoming Grammys is the first where the academy extended its top four categories from five nominees to eight.
The \u201cPanther\u201d nomination would give Lamar a chance to win album of the year after losing three times. His most recently loss was in February when his critically acclaimed \u201cDAMN\u201d fell short to Bruno Mars\u2019 \u201c24K Magic,\u201d though Lamar\u2019s project would go on to win a Pulitzer Prize for music two months later, making him the first non-classical or jazz artist to win the prestigious honor.
Lamar\u2019s Top 10 hit, the SZA-assisted \u201cAll the Stars,\u201d is nominated for both record and song of the year (a songwriter\u2019s award). Five other songs scored nominations in both categories, including Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper\u2019s \u201cShallow\u201d from \u201cA Star Is Born\u201d; Childish Gambino\u2019s \u201cThis Is America\u201d; Drake\u2019s \u201cGod\u2019s Plan\u201d; Zedd, Maren Morris and Grey\u2019s \u201cThe Middle\u201d; and Carlile\u2019s \u201cThe Joke.\u201d
Ella Mai\u2019s \u201cBoo\u2019d Up\u201d and Shawn Mendes\u2019 \u201cIn My Blood\u201d earned song of the year nods, while Post Malone\u2019s \u201cRockstar\u201d and Cardi B\u2019s \u201cI Like It,\u201d featuring Bad Bunny and J Balvin, round out the nominees for record of the year.
Following Lamar, Drake \u2014 the year\u2019s most successful artist \u2014 earned seven nominations. Though nominated for album of the year, he was surprisingly shut out of best rap album, where his rival Pusha T earned a nomination.
Drake\u2019s frequent collaborator, producer Boi-1Da, earned six nods, as did Carlile, who also scored nominations in the American Roots category.
Cardi B, Gaga, H. E. R., Morris, Gambino, producer Sounwave and engineer Mike Bozzi scored five nominations each.
The nominees for the 2019 Grammys mark a departure from this year\u2019s show, where women were underrepresented in the top four categories. Of the eight best new artist nominees, six are women, including H. E. R., Chloe x Halle, Dua Lipa, Margo Price, Bebe Rexha and Jorja Smith. Rock band Greta Van Fleet and country singer Luke Combs also earned nominations.
Recording Academy CEO Neil Portnow was criticized earlier this year at the Grammys when he said women need to \u201cstep up\u201d when asked about the lack of women in the top categories, which he later acknowledged was a \u201cpoor choice of words.\u201d It forced the academy to launch a new task force focused on inclusion and diversity; Portnow also announced he would be leaving the academy in 2019.
\u201cIn any given year there could be more folks from one area or one gender or one genre or one ethnicity that are making recordings and being successful with them than in another year. So, in many ways we\u2019re just a reflection of that,\u201d Portnow said in an interview with The Associated Press. \u201cThis year clearly there were many women not only making music but making great music and making music that resonates with our peer voters in terms of excellence, and so that certainly is at the forefront.\u201d
Another milestone for women is in the non-classical producer of the year category, where songwriting extraordinaire Linda Perry earned a nomination. She\u2019s just the seventh woman ever nominated for prize and first since 2004.
\u201cLinda represents what we hope becomes the norm, which is the elimination of gender bias in producing and engineering in our industry,\u201d Portnow said.
Perry will compete with Pharrell Williams, Boi-1Da, Larry Klein and Kanye West, the only nomination he earned.
Taylor Swift, a two-time album of the year winner, also only earned one nomination \u2014 her \u201creputation\u201d album is up best pop vocal album. Justin Timberlake, whose \u201cMan of the Woods\u201d albums flopped earlier this year, picked up a nod for \u201cSay Something,\u201d his collaboration with Chris Stapleton.
Beyonce and Jay-Z, billed as The Carters, as well Ariana Grande, didn\u2019t earn any of the big nominations. The Carters earned two nods in the R&B category along with best music video, while Grande picked up two nods in pop.
Artists who were completely snubbed include Carrie Underwood, Sam Smith, Migos, Kane Brown, Nicki Minaj, XXXTentacion and Juice WRLD, whose \u201cLucid Dreams\u201d was one of the year\u2019s biggest hits.
Some acts scored their first nominations ever, including Florida Georgia Line, whose megahit \u201cMeant to Be\u201d with Rexha is up best country duo\/group performance. Camila Cabello, Malone, Mendes, Dan + Shay and DJ Mustard are also first-time nominees.
Gaga, who earned acting and music Golden Globe nominations Thursday, picked up four Grammy nominations for \u201cShallow,\u201d while \u201cJoanne\u201d is up for best pop solo performance. The soundtrack for \u201cA Star Is Born\u201d was released after Grammy eligibility, though \u201cShallow\u201d was released in time and also earned Cooper two nominations.
Other famous faces outside of music to earn nominations include Tiffany Haddish and former U. S. president Jimmy Carter, both up for best spoken word album. Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, Fred Armisen, Jim Gaffigan and Patton Oswalt are up for best comedy album.
Mac Miller, who died in September, earned a nomination for best rap album with \u201cSwimming.\u201d Chris Cornell, who died last year, is up for best rock performance with \u201cWhen Bad Does Good.\u201d
Demi Lovato, who relapsed after six years of sobriety and was hospitalized for an overdose in July, earned a nomination for best pop duo\/group performance for \u201cFall In Line,\u201d her duet with Christina Aguilera.
Those who earned four nominations are Musgraves, Malone, PJ Morton, Dave Cobb, Ludwig Goransson, Noah Shebib and SZA, who earned a Golden Globe nomination alongside Lamar for \u201cAll the Stars\u201d on Thursday.
Lamar has won 12 Grammys throughout his career. Though seven of his eight nominations come from \u201cBlack Panther,\u201d he also earned a nod for co-writing Jay Rock\u2019s \u201cWin,\u201d up for best rap song.
The 2019 Grammys will hand out awards in its 84 categories live from the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Feb. 10,2019.<\/p>\n