The 51st Annual Grammy Awards will take place on February 8, 2009. It will be broadcast on Global in Canada and on CBS in the United States at 8PM EST. Nominations are to be announced on December 3, 2008. For the sixth year in a row, the ceremony will be held in the Staples Center. The nominations were announced on a special concert airing on Global on December 3rd, 2008, and were posted on the official website afterwards.^[1]

To be eligible for an award a recording must have been commercially released between October 1, 2007 and September 30, 2008. This is for all recordings released in the 2008 recording year. After the nominees are announced on December 4, 2008 final voting ballots will be sent to the academy members. This is when they will vote for one of the nominees to win the award. Each category has five nominees. More than five is the result of a tie in the nominating process. Members are allowed to vote in the General field and up to nine other fields on their final voting ballots. All ballots are tabulated by the independent accounting firm Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. There are about 7,000 people who vote in the nominating and final voting process. These people are artists, producers, engineers, mixers and mastering engineers. Academy members are to vote based upon quality alone. They are not to be influenced by mass sales or personal friendships. The acceptance of gifts is prohibited and can result in termination of membership.

After the nominations are announced the recipients of all special awards such as lifetime achievement awards will be announced. In addition performers and presenters will be announced. Neil Diamond will be the recipient of the MusiCares Person of the Year award.

General Field Record Of The Year (Award to the Artist and to the Producer(s), Recording Engineer(s) and/or Mixer(s), if other than the artist.) ? Chasing Pavements Adele ? Viva La Vida Coldplay ? Bleeding Love Leona Lewis ? Paper Planes M.I.A ? Please Read The Letter Robert Plant & Alison Krauss

Category 2 Album Of The Year (Award to the Artist(s) and to the Album Producer(s), Recording Engineer(s)/Mixer(s) & Mastering Engineer(s), if other than the artist.) ? Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends Coldplay ? Tha Carter III Lil Wayne] ? Year Of The Gentleman Ne-Yo ? Raising Sand Robert Plant & Alison Krauss ? In Rainbows Radiohead

Category 3 Song Of The Year (A Songwriter(s) Award. A song is eligible if it was first released or if it first achieved prominence during the Eligibility Year. (Artist names appear in parentheses.) Singles or Tracks only.) ? American Boy - Estelle Featuring Kanye West ? Chasing Pavements -Adele ? I'm Yours -Jason Mraz ? Love Song -Sara Bareilles, ? Viva La Vida -Coldplay . Category 4 Best New Artist (For a new artist who releases, during the Eligibility Year, the first recording which establishes the public identity of that artist.) ? Adele ? Duffy ? Jonas Brothers ? Lady Antebellum ? Jazmine Sullivan

Category 5 Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (For a solo vocal performance. Singles or Tracks only.) ? Chasing Pavements Adele ? Love Song Sara Bareilles

? Mercy Duffy ? Bleeding Love Leona Lewis ? I Kissed A Girl Katy Perry ? So What Pink Category 6 Best Male Pop Vocal Performance (For a solo vocal performance. Singles or Tracks only.) ? All Summer Long Kid Rock ? Say John Mayer ? That Was Me Paul McCartney ? I'm Yours Jason Mraz ? Closer Ne-Yo ? Wichita Lineman James Taylor

Category 7 Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals (For established duos or groups, with vocals. Singles or Tracks only.) ? Viva La Vida Coldplay ? Waiting In The Weeds Eagles ? Going On Gnarls Barkley ? Won't Go Home Without You Maroon 5] ? Apologize OneRepublic

Category 8 Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals (For a collaborative performance, with vocals, by artists who do not normally perform together. Singles or Tracks only.) ? Lesson Learned Alicia Keys & John Mayer ? 4 Minutes Madonna, Justin Timberlake & Timbaland ? Rich Woman Robert Plant & Alison Krauss ? If I Never See Your Face Again Rihanna & Maroon 5 ? No Air Jordin Sparks & Chris Brown

Category 11 Best Pop Vocal Album (For albums containing 51% or more playing time of VOCAL tracks.) ? Detours Sheryl Crow ? Rockferry Duffy ? Long Road Out Of Eden Eagles ? Spirit Leona Lewis ? Covers James Taylor

Field 2 ? Dance

Category 12 Best Dance Recording (For solo, duo, group or collaborative performances. Vocal or Instrumental. Singles or tracks only.) ? Harder Better Faster Stronger Daft Punk ? Ready For The Floor Hot Chip ? Just Dance Lady Gaga & Colby O'Donis ? Give It 2 Me Madonna ? Disturbia Rihanna ? Black & Gold Sam Sparro Category 13 Best Electronic/Dance Album (For vocal or instrumental albums. Albums only.) ? New York City Brazilian Girls ? Alive 2007 Daft Punk ? Bring Ya To The Brink Cyndi Lauper ? X Kylie Minogue ? Last Night Moby ? Robyn Robyn

Field 4 ? Rock

Category 15 Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance (For a solo vocal performance. Singles or Tracks only.) ? Gravity John Mayer ? I Saw Her Standing There Paul McCartney ? Girls In Their Summer Clothes Bruce Springsteen ? Rise Eddie Vedder ? No Hidden Path Neil Young Category 16 Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals (For duo, group or collaborative performances, with vocals. Singles or Tracks only.) ? Rock N Roll Train AC/DC ? Violet Hill Coldplay ? Long Road Out Of Eden Eagles ? Sex On Fire Kings Of Leon ? House Of Cards Radiohead

Category 20 Best Rock Song (A Songwriter(s) Award. Includes Rock, Hard Rock & Metal songs. For Song Eligibility Guidelines see Category #3. (Artist names appear in parentheses.) Singles or Tracks only.) ? Girls In Their Summer Clothes Bruce Springsteen ? House Of Cards Radiohead

? I Will Possess Your Heart Death Cab For Cutie

? Sex On Fire Kings Of Leon ? Violet Hill Coldplay

Category 21 Best Rock Album (Vocal or Instrumental. Includes Hard Rock and Metal.) ? Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends Coldplay ? Rock N Roll Jesus Kid Rock ? Only By The Night Kings Of Leon ? Death Magnetic Metallica ? Consolers Of The Lonely The Raconteurs

Category 22 Best Alternative Music Album (Vocal or Instrumental.) ? Modern Guilt Beck ? Narrow Stairs Death Cab For Cutie ? The Odd Couple Gnarls Barkley ? Evil Urges My Morning Jacket ? In Rainbows Radiohead

Category 23 Best Female R&B Vocal Performance (For a solo vocal performance. Singles or Tracks only.) ? Me, Myself And I Beyoncé ? Heaven Sent Keyshia Cole ? Spotlight Jennifer Hudson ? Superwoman Alicia Keys ? Need U Bad Jazmine Sullivan Category 24 Best Male R&B Vocal Performance (For a solo vocal performance. Singles or Tracks only.) ? You're The Only One Eric Benét ? Take You Down Chris Brown ? Miss Independent Ne-Yo ? Can't Help But Wait Trey Songz ? Here I Stand Usher Category 25 Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals (For duo, group or collaborative performances, with vocals. Singles or Tracks only.) ? Ribbon In The Sky Boyz II Men ? Words Anthony David Featuring India.Arie ? Stay With Me (By The Sea) Al Green Featuring John Legend ? I'm His Only Woman Jennifer Hudson Featuring Fantasia ? Never Give You Up Raphael Saadiq Featuring Stevie Wonder & CJ Hilton

Category 28 Best R&B Song (A Songwriter(s) Award. For Song Eligibility Guidelines see Category #3. (Artist names appear in parentheses.) Singles or Tracks only.) ? Bust Your Windows Jazmine Sullivan ? Customer Raheem DeVaughn ? Heaven Sent Keyshia Cole ? Miss Independent Ne-Yo ? Spotlight Jennifer Hudson Category 29 Best R&B Album (For albums containing 51% or more playing time of VOCAL tracks.) ? Love & Life Eric Benét ? Motown: A Journey Through Hitsville USA Boyz II Men ? Lay It Down Al Green ? Jennifer Hudson Jennifer Hudson ? The Way I See It Raphael Saadiq

Category 30 Best Contemporary R&B Album (For albums containing 51% or more playing time of VOCAL tracks.) ? Growing Pains Mary J. Blige ? Back Of My Lac' J. Holiday ? First Love Karina ? Year Of The Gentleman Ne-Yo ? Fearless Jazmine Sullivan Category 31 Best Rap Solo Performance (For a solo Rap performance. Singles or Tracks only.) ? Roc Boys (And The Winner Is)... Jay-Z ? A Milli Lil Wayne ? Paris, Tokyo Lupe Fiasco] ? N.i.*.*.e.r. (The Slave And The Master) Nas ? Sexual Eruption Snoop Dogg Category 32 Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group (For duo, group or collaborative performances of Rap only. Singles or Tracks only.) ? Royal Flush Big Boi Featuring Raekwon And Andre 3000 ? Swagga Like Us Jay-Z & T.I. Featuring Kanye West & Lil Wayne ? Mr. Carter Lil Wayne Featuring Jay-Z ? Wish You Would Ludacris Featuring T.I. ? Put On Young Jeezy Featuring Kanye West

Category 33 Best Rap/Sung Collaboration (For a Rap/Sung collaborative performance by artists who do not normally perform together. Singles or Tracks only.) ? American Boy Estelle Featuring Kanye West ? Low Flo Rida Featuring T-Pain ? Green Light John Legend & Andre 3000 ? Got Money Lil Wayne Featuring T-Pain ? Superstar Lupe Fiasco Featuring Matthew Santos

Category 34 Best Rap Song (A Songwriter(s) Award. For Song Eligibility Guidelines see Category #3. (Artist names appear in parentheses.) Singles or Tracks only.) ? Lollipop Lil Wayne Featuring Static Major) ? Low Flo Rida Featuring T-Pain) ? Sexual Eruption (Snoop Dogg) ? Superstar Lupe Fiasco Featuring Matthew Santos) ? Swagga Like Us (Jay-Z & T.I. Featuring Kanye West & Lil Wayne) Category 35 Best Rap Album (For albums containing 51% or more playing time of VOCAL tracks.) ? American Gangster Jay-Z ? Tha Carter III Lil Wayne ? The Cool Lupe Fiasco ? Nas Nas ? Paper Trail T.I. Category 36 Best Female Country Vocal Performance (For a solo vocal performance. Singles or Tracks only.) ? For These Times Martina McBride ? What I Cannot Change LeAnn Rimes ? Last Name Carrie Underwood ? Last Call Lee Ann Womack ? This Is Me You're Talking To Trisha Yearwood Category 37 Best Male Country Vocal Performance (For a solo vocal performance. Singles or Tracks only.) ? You're Gonna Miss This Trace Adkins ? In Color Jamey Johnson ? Just Got Started Lovin' You James Otto ? Letter To Me Brad Paisley ? Troubadour George Strait Category 38 Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals (For established duos or groups with vocals. Singles or Tracks only.) ? God Must Be Busy Brooks & Dunn ? Love Don't Live Here Lady Antebellum ? Every Day Rascal Flatts ? Blue Side Of The Mountain The SteelDrivers ? Stay Sugarland Category 39 Best Country Collaboration With Vocals (For a collaborative performance, with vocals, by artists who do not normally perform together. Singles or Tracks only.) ? Shiftwork Kenny Chesney & George Strait ? Killing The Blues Robert Plant & Alison Krauss ? House Of Cash George Strait & Patty Loveless ? Life In A Northern Town Sugarland, Jake Owen & Little Big Town ? Let The Wind Chase You Trisha Yearwood & Keith Urban

Category 40 Best Country Instrumental Performance (For solo, duo, group or collaborative performances, without vocals. Singles or Tracks only.

? Cluster Pluck Brad Paisley, James Burton, Vince Gill, John Jorgenson, Albert Lee, Brent Mason, Redd Volkaert & Steve Wariner

Category 41 Best Country Song (A Songwriter(s) Award. For Song Eligibility Guidelines see Category #3. (Artist names appear in parentheses.) Singles or Tracks only.) ? Dig Two Graves (Randy Travis) ? I Saw God Today (George Strait)

? In Color (Jamey Johnson)] ? Stay (Sugarland) ? You're Gonna Miss This (Trace Adkins)

Category 42 Best Country Album (Vocal or Instrumental.) ? That Lonesome Song Jamey Johnson ? Sleepless Nights Patty Loveless ? Troubadour George Strait ? Around The Bend Randy Travis ? Heaven, Heartache And The Power Of Love Trisha Yearwood

Category 69 Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album (Vocal or Instrumental.) ? Day After Tomorrow Joan Baez ? I, Flathead Ry Cooder ? Sex & Gasoline Rodney Crowell ? All I Intended To Be Emmylou Harris ? Raising Sand Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Category 84 Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media (A Songwriter(s) award. For a song (melody & lyrics) written specifically for a motion picture, television or other visual media, and released for the first time during the Eligibility Year. (Artist names appear in parentheses.) Singles or Tracks only.) ? Down To Earth (From Wall-E) (Peter Gabriel) ? Ever Ever After (From Enchanted) (Carrie Underwood) ? Say (From The Bucket List) (John Mayer) ? That's How You Know (From Enchanted) (Amy Adams) ? Walk Hard (From Walk Hard ? The Dewey Cox Story) (John C. Reilly)

Field 31 ? Music Video

Category 109 Best Short Form Music Video (For an individual track or single promotional clip. Award to the Artist and to the Video Director/Producer.) ? Honey Erykah Badu Erykah Badu & Mr. Roboto, video directors; Megan Gutman, video producer [Universal Motown] ? Who's Gonna Save My Soul Gnarls Barkley Christopher Milk, video director; Anne Johnson, video producer [Downtown/Atlantic] ? Another Way To Die Alicia Keys & Jack White PR Brown & MK12, video directors; Mick Ebeling, Sheira Rees-Davies & Jane Tredget, video producers [J Records] ? House Of Cards Radiohead James Frost, video director; Dawn Fanning, video producer [TBD Records] ? Pork And Beans Weezer Mathew Cullen, video director; Bernard Rahill, video producer [DGC/Interscope]

Category 110 Best Long Form Music Video (For video album packages consisting of more than one song or track. Award to the Artist and to the Video Director/Producer of at least 51% of the total playing time.) ? Where The Light Is ? Live In Los Angeles John Mayer Danny Clinch, video director; Lindha Narvaez, video producer [Columbia] ? Runnin' Down A Dream Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Peter Bogdanovich, video director; Skot Bright, video producer [Warner Bros.] ? Good Girl Gone Bad Live Rihanna Paul Caslin, video director; John Paveley, Ruth Paveley & Rupert Style, video producers [Def Jam/SRP Records/Mercury Music Group/Universal Music] ? Respect Yourself ? The Stax Records Story (Various Artists) Robert Gordon & Morgan Neville, video directors; Mark Crosby, Robert Gordon & Morgan Neville, video producers [Stax/Tremolo Productions/Concord Music Group] Amazing Journey: The Story Of The Who The Who Paul Crowder & Murray Lerner, video directors; Murray Lerner, Robert Rosenberg & Nigel Sinclair, video producers [Universal Home Entertainment]

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