WowKeren - Grammy Awards ke-56 akan digelar di Staples Center, Los Angeles, 26 Januari mendatang. Jumat (6/12), nominasi untuk salah satu ajang penghargaan terbesar ini diumumkan.

Jay-Z memimpin perolehan nominasi dengan 9 kategori. Suami Beyonce Knowles ini dinominasikan dalam Best Rap Performance, Best Rap/Sung Collaboration, Best Rap Album untuk "Magna Carta...Holly Grail" dan lainnya.

Kendrick Lamar, Pharrell Williams, Justin Timberlake serta Macklemore & Ryan Lewis juga menjadi calon pemborong piala terbanyak. Mereka masing-masing berhasil masuk dalam 7 kategori.

Tidak kalah bergengsi dari acara utamanya, pengumuman nominasi ini juga dimeriahkan oleh penampilan para artis. Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis dan Lorde mempersembahkan penampilan terbaiknya di konser yang digelar di Nokia Theater, Los Angeles ini.

Berikut ini beberapa daftar nominasi Grammy Awards 2014:

GENERAL

Record of the Year:

• Daft Punk & Pharrell Williams: "Get Lucky"
• Imagine Dragons: "Radioactive"
• Lorde: "Royals"
• Bruno Mars: "Locked Out of Heaven"
• Robin Thicke featuring T.I. dan Pharrell Williams: "Blurred Lines"

• Sara Bareilles: "The Blessed Unrest"
• Daft Punk: "Random Access Memories"
• Kendrick Lamar: "Good Kid, M.A.A.D City"
• Macklemore & Ryan Lewis: "The Heist"
• Taylor Swift: "Red"

• Pink featuring Nate Ruess: "Just Give Me a Reason"
• Bruno Mars: "Locked Out of Heaven"
• Katy Perry: "Roar"
• Lorde: "Royals"
• Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Mary Lambert: "Same Love"

• James Blake
• Kendrick Lamar
• Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
• Kacey Musgraves
• Ed Sheeran

Best Pop Solo Performance:

• Sara Bareilles: "Brave"
• Lorde: "Royals"
• Bruno Mars: "When I Was Your Man"
• Katy Perry: "Roar"
• Justin Timberlake: "Mirrors"

• Daft Punk & Pharrell Williams: "Get Lucky"
• Pink featuring Nate Ruess: "Just Give Me a Reason"
• Rihanna featuring Mikky Ekko: "Stay"
• Robin Thicke featuring T.I. dan Pharrell Williams: "Blurred Lines"
• Justin Timberlake & Jay-Z: "Suit & Tie"

• Herb Alpert: "Steppin' Out"
• Boney James: "The Beat"
• Earl Klugh: "Handpicked"
• Dave Koz, Gerald Albright, Mindi Abair & Richard Elliot%: "Summer Horns"
• Jeff Lorber Fusion: "Hacienda"

• Lana Del Rey: "Paradise"
• Lorde: "Pure Heroine"
• Bruno Mars: "Unorthodox Jukebox"
• Robin Thicke: "Blurred Lines"
• Justin Timberlake: "The 20/20 Experience"

Best R&B Performance:

• Tamar Braxton: "Love and War"
• Anthony Hamilton: "Best of Me"
• Hiatus Kaiyote featuring Q-Tip: "Nakamarra"
• Miguel featuring Kendrick Lamar: "How Many Drinks?"
• Snarky Puppy dan Lalah Hathaway: "Something"

• Anthony Hamilton: "Best of Me"
• Tamar Braxton: "Love and War"
• PJ Morton featuring Stevie Wonder: "Only One"
• Justin Timberlake: "Pusher Love Girl"
• Fantasia featuring Kelly Rowland dan Missy Elliott: "Without Me"

• Tamar Braxton: "Love and War"
• Fantasia: "Side Effects of You"
• Salaam Remi: "One: In the Chamber"
• Rihanna: "Unapologetic"
• Mack Wilds: "New York"

• Faith Evans: "R&B Divas"
• Alicia Keys: "Girl on Fire"
• John Legend: "Love in the Future"
• Chrisette Michele: "Better"
• TGT: "Three Kings"

Best Rap Performance:

• Drake: "Started from the Bottom"
• Anthony Eminem: "Berzerk"
• Jay-Z: "Tom Ford"
• Kendrick Lamar: "Swimming Pools (Drank)"
• Macklemore& Ryan Lewis: "Thrift Shop"

• J.Cole featuring Miguel: "Power Trip"
• Jay-Z featuring Beyonce Knowles: "Part II (On The Run)"
• Jay-Z featuring Justin Timberlake: "Holy Grail"
• Kendrick Lamar featuring Mary J. Blige: "Now or Never"
• Wiz Khalifa featuring The Weekend: "Remember You"

• A$AP Rocky featuring Drake, 2Chainz dan Kendrick Lamar: "Problems"
• Jay-Z featuring Justin Timberlake: "Holy Grail"
• Kanye West: "New Slaves"
• Drake: "Starting From the Bottom"
• Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Wanz: "Thrift Shop"

• Drake: "Nothing Was the Same"
• Jay-Z: "Magna Carta...Holy Grail"
• Kendrick Lamar: "Good Kid, M.A.A.D City"
• Macklemore & Ryan Lewis: "The Heist"
• Kanye West: "Yeezus"

Best Music Video:

• Capital Cities: "Safe and Sound"
• Jay-Z: "Picasso Baby: A Performance Art Film"
• Macklemore & &cRyan Lewis% featuring Ray Dalton: "Can't Hold Us"
• Justin Timberlake featuring Jay-Z: "Suit & Tie"
• Jack White: "I'm Shakin"