It will be interesting to see how the Academy receives the Canadian singer, who was largely ignored for his immensely successful mixtapes later compiled into a release as Trilogy and 2013’s Kiss Land, his first label debut that failed to receive a nomination. Beauty Behind the Madness poses the second strongest case to win, considering the acclaim and performance of The Weeknd throughout 2015. However, 2010’s The Suburbs by Arcade Fire - another album nominated in the same categories by a lower-profile band at the time - won Best Album, so one should keep an eye on Brittany Howard’s band. The album is also nominated for Best Alternative Music Album, but may be less likely to win in that category because of its blues/soul characteristics in a category that has been awarded to predominantly alt-rock albums. Sound and Color is just the second release from the Alabama-based band. One may consider the sleeper picks to be the albums of Alabama Shakes and The Weeknd.
While still likely to win in several other categories, Swift’s main producer Max Martin, whose fingerprints are across all credits on the album, failed to win with “Shake It Off” in the 2015 nominations, which is a bad omen for the album this year. However, the second half of the album was critiqued by some for not being as enticing. In the case of Taylor Swift’s album, the first half blew away critics and fans alike, as “Shake It Off” and “Blank Space” claimed high marks on the charts. It has also not been given to a debut album since Norah Jones’s Come Away with Me in 2003, which puts the odds for Stapleton’s release as an upset. One of the clearest is that the Grammy for Best Album has not been awarded to a southern rock or traditional country album since 1969, although there was a nod to Swift’s country/pop Fearless that won Best Album in 2010. 1 Song, and “Can’t Feel My Face” were among the most commercially and critically successful singles of the year.Įach of this year’s nominees pose great competition, but upon looking more in-depth at each album and the history of the Academy’s trends in choosing winners, one may be able to narrow the list to fewer likely winners and key decisive traits of each album. His performances of “The Hills,” which spent six consecutive weeks as Billboard’s No. The Weeknd receives his first individual Grammy nomination for Beauty Behind the Madness, along with recognition in six other categories. Alabama Shakes, the band nominated for Best New Artist in 2013, returns to the awards show for its lauded release of Sound and Color, a blues rock/soul album. On the other hand, a debut album was nominated, that being Traveller by country singer Chris Stapleton, who is best known for his repertoire of country hits he contributed to as a songwriter. The Album of the Year for this selection is especially eclectic, as two nominees - hip-hop artist Kendrick Lamar (nominated for To Pimp a Butterfly) and pop artist Taylor Swift (nominated for 1989) - were both nominated for the same award in 2014. This year’s nominees across all categories were particularly strong, and the race for the most revered award, Album of the Year, contains one of the best groups of candidates in recent memory.
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