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1. Grammy 2016 Nominees ConceptDraw MindMap

2. 1. Record Of The Year
• Really Love - D'Angelo And The Vanguard
• Uptown Funk-Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars
• Thinking Out Loud-Ed Sheeran
• Blank Space-Taylor Swift
• Can't Feel My Face-The Weeknd

3. 2. Album Of The Year
• Sound & Color - Alabama Shakes
• To Pimp A Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar
• Traveller-Chris Stapleton
• 1989-Taylor Swift
• Beauty Behind The Madness-The Weeknd

4. 3. Song Of The Year
• Alright-Kendrick Duckworth, Mark Anthony Spears & Pharrell Williams,
songwriters (Kendrick Lamar)
• Blank Space-Max Martin, Shellback & Taylor Swift, songwriters (Taylor
Swift)
• Girl Crush-Hillary Lindsey, Lori McKenna & Liz Rose, songwriters (Little Big
Town)
• See You Again-Andrew Cedar, Justin Franks, Charles Puth & Cameron
Thomaz, songwriters (Wiz Khalifa Featuring Charlie Puth)
• Thinking Out Loud-Ed Sheeran & Amy Wadge, songwriters (Ed Sheeran)

5. 4. Best New Artist
• Courtney Barnett
• James Bay
• Sam Hunt
• Tori Kelly
• Meghan Trainor

6. 5. Best Pop Solo Performance
• Heartbeat Song-Kelly Clarkson
• Love Me Like You Do-Ellie Goulding
• Thinking Out Loud-Ed Sheeran
• Blank Space-Taylor Swift
• Can't Feel My Face-The Weeknd

7. 6. Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
• Ship To Wreck-Florence + The Machine
• Sugar-Maroon 5
• Uptown Funk-Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars
• Bad Blood-Taylor Swift Featuring Kendrick Lamar
• See You Again-Wiz Khalifa Featuring Charlie Puth

8. 7. Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
• The Silver Lining: The Songs Of Jerome Kern - Tony Bennett & Bill Charlap
• Shadows In The Night-Bob Dylan
• Stages-Josh Groban
• No One Ever Tells You-Seth MacFarlane
• My Dream Duets-Barry Manilow (& Various Artists)

9. 8. Best Pop Vocal Album
• Piece By Piece-Kelly Clarkson
• How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful-Florence + The Machine
• Uptown Special-Mark Ronson
• 1989-Taylor Swift
• Before This World-James Taylor

10. 9. Best Dance Recording
• We're All We Need-Above & Beyond Featuring Zoë Johnston
• Go-The Chemical Brothers Featuring Q-Tip
• Never Catch Me-Flying Lotus Featuring Kendrick Lamar
• Runaway (U & I)-Galantis
• Where Are Ü Now-Skrillex And Diplo With Justin Bieber

11. 10. Best Dance/Electronic Album
• Our Love-Caribou
• Born In The Echoes-The Chemical Brothers
• Caracal-Disclosure
• In Colour-Jamie XX
• Skrillex And Diplo Present Jack Ü-Skrillex And Diplo

12. 11. Best Contemporary Instrumental Album
• Guitar In The Space Age!-Bill Frisell
• Love Language-Wouter Kellerman
• Afrodeezia-Marcus Miller
• Sylva-Snarky Puppy & Metropole Orkest
• The Gospel According To Jazz, Chapter IV-Kirk Whalum

13. 12. Best Rock Performance
• Don't Wanna Fight-Alabama Shakes
• What Kind Of Man-Florence + The Machine
• Something From Nothing-Foo Fighters
• Ex's & Oh's-Elle King
• Moaning Lisa Smile-Wolf Alice

14. 13. Best Metal Performance
• Identity-August Burns Red
• Cirice-Ghost
• 512-Lamb Of God
• Thank You-Sevendust
• Custer-Slipknot

15. 14. Best Rock Song
• Don't Wanna Fight-Alabama Shakes, songwriters (Alabama Shakes)
• Ex's & Oh's-Dave Bassett & Elle King, songwriters (Elle King)
• Hold Back The River-Iain Archer & James Bay, songwriters (James Bay)
• Lydia-Richard Meyer, Ryan Meyer & Johnny Stevens, songwriters (Highly
Suspect)
• What Kind Of Man-John Hill, Tom Hull & Florence Welch, songwriters
(Florence + The Machine)

16. 15. Best Rock Album
• Chaos And The Calm-James Bay
• Kintsugi-Death Cab For Cutie
• Mister Asylum-Highly Suspect
• Drones-Muse
• .5: The Gray Chapter-Slipknot

17. 16. Best Alternative Music Album
• Sound & Color-Alabama Shakes
• Vulnicura-Björk
• The Waterfall-My Morning Jacket
• Currents-Tame Impala
• Star Wars-Wilco

18. 17. Best R&B Performance
• If I Don't Have You-Tamar Braxton
• Rise Up-Andra Day
• Breathing Underwater-Hiatus Kaiyote
• Planes-Jeremih Featuring J. Cole
• Earned It (Fifty Shades Of Grey)-The Weeknd

19. 18. Best Traditional R&B Performance
• He Is-Faith Evans
• Little Ghetto Boy-Let It Burn-Jazmine Sullivan
• Shame-Tyrese
• My Favorite Part Of You-Charlie Wilson

20. 19. Best R&B Song
• Coffee-Brook Davis & Miguel Pimentel, songwriters (Miguel)
• Earned It (Fifty Shades Of Grey)-Ahmad Balshe, Stephan Moccio, Jason
Quenneville & Abel Tesfaye, songwriters (The Weeknd)
• Let It Burn-Kenny B. Edmonds, Jazmine Sullivan & Dwane M. Weir II,
songwriters (Jazmine Sullivan)
• Really Love-D'Angelo & Kendra Foster, songwriters (D'Angelo And The
Vanguard)
• Shame-Warryn Campbell, Tyrese Gibson & DJ Rogers Jr, songwriters
(Tyrese)

21. 20. Best Urban Contemporary Album
• Ego Death-The Internet
• You Should Be Here-Kehlani
• Blood-Lianne La Havas
• Wildheart-Miguel
• Beauty Behind The Madness-The Weeknd

22. 21. Best R&B Album
• Coming Home-Leon Bridges
• Black Messiah-D'Angelo And The Vanguard
• Cheers To The Fall-Andra Day
• Reality Show-Jazmine Sullivan
• Forever Charlie-Charlie Wilson

23. 22. Best Rap Performance
• Apparently-J. Cole
• Back To Back-Drake
• Trap Queen-Fetty Wap
• Alright-Kendrick Lamar
• Truffle Butter-Nicki Minaj Featuring Drake & Lil Wayne
• All Day-Kanye West Featuring Theophilus London, Allan Kingdom & Paul
McCartney

24. 23. Best Rap/Sung Collaboration
• One Man Can Change The World-Big Sean Featuring Kanye West & John
Legend
• Glory-Common & John Legend
• Classic Man-Jidenna Featuring Roman GianArthur
• These Walls-Kendrick Lamar Featuring Bilal, Anna Wise & Thundercat
• Only-Nicki Minaj Featuring Drake, Lil Wayne & Chris Brown

25. 24. Best Rap Song
• All Day-Ernest Brown, Tyler Bryant, Sean Combs, Mike Dean, Rennard East,
Noah Goldstein, Malik Yusef Jones, Karim Kharbouch, Allan Kyariga,
Kendrick Lamar, Paul McCartney, Victor Mensah, Charles Njapa, Che Pope,
Patrick Reynolds, Allen Ritter, Kanye West, Mario Winans & Cydel Young
• Alright-Kendrick Duckworth, Mark Anthony Spears & Pharrell Williams
• Energy-Richard Dorfmeister, A. Graham, Markus Kienzl, M. O'Brien, M.
Samuels & Phillip Thomas,
• Glory-Lonnie Lynn, Che Smith & John Stephens
• Trap Queen-Tony Fadd & Willie J. Maxwell

26. 25. Best Rap Album
• 2014 Forest Hills Drive-J. Cole
• Compton-Dr. Dre
• If Youre Reading This Its Too Late-Drake
• To Pimp A Butterfly-Kendrick Lamar
• The Pinkprint-Nicki Minaj

27. 26. Best Country Solo Performance
• Burning House-Cam
• Traveller-Chris Stapleton
• Little Toy Guns-Carrie Underwood
• John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16-Keith Urban
• Chances Are-Lee Ann Womack

28. 27. Best Country Duo/Group Performance
• Stay A Little Longer-Brothers Osborne
• If I Needed You-Joey+Rory
• The Driver-Charles Kelley, Dierks Bentley & Eric Paslay
• Girl Crush-Little Big Town
• Lonely Tonight-Blake Shelton Featuring Ashley Monroe

29. 28. Best Country Song
• Chances Are-Hayes Carll, songwriter (Lee Ann Womack)
• Diamond Rings And Old Barstools-Barry Dean, Luke Laird & Jonathan
Singleton, songwriters (Tim McGraw)
• Girl Crush-Hillary Lindsey, Lori McKenna & Liz Rose, songwriters (Little Big
Town)
• Hold My Hand-Brandy Clark & Mark Stephen Jones, songwriters (Brandy
Clark)
• Traveller-Chris Stapleton, songwriter (Chris Stapleton)

30. 29. Best Country Album
• Montevallo-Sam Hunt
• Pain Killer-Little Big Town
• The Blade-Ashley Monroe
• Pageant Material-Kacey Musgraves
• Traveller-Chris Stapleton

31. 30. Best New Age Album
• Grace-Paul Avgerinos
• Bhakti Without Borders-Madi Das
• Voyager-Catherine Duc
• Love-Peter Kater
• Asia Beauty-Ron Korb

32. 31. Best Improvised Jazz Solo
• Giant Steps-Joey Alexander, soloist
• Cherokee-Christian McBride, soloist
• Arbiters Of Evolution-Donny McCaslin, soloist
• Friend Or Foe-Joshua Redman, soloist
• Past Present-John Scofield, soloist

33. 32. Best Jazz Vocal Album
• Many A New Day: Karrin Allyson Sings Rodgers & Hammerstein-Karrin
Allyson
• Find A Heart-Denise Donatelli
• Flirting With Disaster-Lorraine Feather
• Jamison-Jamison Ross
• For One To Love-Cécile McLorin Salvant

34. 33. Best Jazz Instrumental Album
• My Favorite Things-Joey Alexander
• Breathless-Terence Blanchard Featuring The E-Collective
• Covered: Recorded Live At Capitol Studios-Robert Glasper & The Robert
Glasper Trio
• Beautiful Life-Jimmy Greene
• Past Present-John Scofield

35. 34. Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
• Lines Of Color-Gil Evans Project
• Köln-Marshall Gilkes & WDR Big Band
• Cuba: The Conversation Continues-Arturo O'Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz
Orchestra
• The Thompson Fields-Maria Schneider Orchestra
• Home Suite Home-Patrick Williams

36. 35. Best Latin Jazz Album
• Made In Brazil-Eliane Elias
• Impromptu-The Rodriguez Brothers
• Suite Caminos-Gonzalo Rubalcaba
• Intercambio-Wayne Wallace Latin Jazz Quintet
• Identities Are Changeable-Miguel Zenón

37. 36. Best Gospel Performance/Song
• Worth [Live]-Anthony Brown & Group Therapy; Anthony Brown,
songwriter
• Wanna Be Happy?-Kirk Franklin; Kirk Franklin, songwriter
• Intentional-Travis Greene; Travis Greene, songwriter
• How Awesome Is Our God [Live]-Publisher(s): Integrity’s Praise! Music,
RGM-Newbreed Publishing, Sound Of The New Breed, CCMG Publishing,
Neville D. Publishing
• Worth Fighting For [Live]-Brian Courtney Wilson; Aaron Lindsey & Brian
Courtney Wilson, songwriters

38. 37. Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song
• Holy Spirit-Francesca Battistelli
• Lift Your Head Weary Sinner (Chains)-Crowder; Ed Cash, David Crowder &
Seth Philpott, songwriters
• Because He Lives (Amen)-Matt Maher; Daniel Carson, Ed Cash, Jason
Ingram, Matt Maher & Chris Tomlin, songwriters
• Soul On Fire-Third Day Featuring All Sons & Daughters; Tai Anderson,
Brenton Brown, David Carr, Mark Lee, Matt Maher & Mac Powell,
songwriters
• Feel It-Tobymac Featuring Mr. Talkbox; Cary Barlowe, David Arthur Garcia
& Toby McKeehan, songwriters

39. 38. Best Gospel Album
• Destined To Win [Live]-Karen Clark Sheard
• Living It-Dorinda Clark-Cole
• One Place Live-Tasha Cobbs
• Covered: Alive In Asia [Live] (Deluxe)-Israel & Newbreed
• Life Music: Stage Two-Jonathan McReynolds

40. 39. Best Contemporary Christian Music Album
• Whatever The Road-Jason Crabb
• How Can It Be-Lauren Daigle
• Saints And Sinners-Matt Maher
• This Is Not A Test-Tobymac
• Love Ran Red-Chris Tomlin

41. 40. Best Roots Gospel Album
• Still Rockin' My Soul-The Fairfield Four
• Pray Now-Karen Peck & New River
• Directions Home (Songs We Love, Songs You Know)-Point Of Grace

42. 41. Best Latin Pop Album
• Terral-Pablo Alborán
• Healer-Alex Cuba
• A Quien Quiera Escuchar (Deluxe Edition)-Ricky Martin
• Sirope-Alejandro Sanz
• Algo Sucede-Julieta Venegas

43. 42. Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album
• Amanecer-Bomba Estereo
• Mondongo-La Cuneta Son Machín
• Hasta La Raíz-Natalia Lafourcade
• Caja De Música-Monsieur Periné
• Dale-Pitbull

44. 43. Best Regional Mexican Music Album (Including Tejano)
• Mi Vicio Mas Grande-Banda El Recodo De Don Cruz Lizarraga
• Ya Dime Adiós-La Maquinaria Norteña
• Zapateando-Los Cojolites
• Realidades - Deluxe Edition-Los Tigres Del Norte
• Tradición, Arte Y Pasión-Mariachi Los Camperos De Nati Cano

45. 44. Best Tropical Latin Album
• Tributo A Los Compadres: No Quiero Llanto-José Alberto "El Canario" &
Septeto Santiaguero
• Son De Panamá-Rubén Blades With Roberto Delgado & Orchestra
• Presente Continuo-Guaco
• Todo Tiene Su Hora-Juan Luis Guerra 4.40
• Que Suenen Los Tambores-Victor Manuelle

46. 45. Best American Roots Performance
• And Am I Born To Die-Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn
• Born To Play Guitar-Buddy Guy
• City Of Our Lady-The Milk Carton Kids
• Julep-Punch Brothers
• See That My Grave Is Kept Clean-Mavis Staples

47. 46. Best American Roots Song
• All Night Long-Raul Malo, songwriter (The Mavericks)
• The Cost Of Living-Don Henley & Stan Lynch, songwriters (Don Henley &
Merle Haggard)
• Julep-Chris Eldridge, Paul Kowert, Noam Pikelny, Chris Thile & Gabe
Witcher, songwriters (Punch Brothers)
• The Traveling Kind-Cory Chisel, Rodney Crowell & Emmylou Harris,
songwriters (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
• 24 Frames-Jason Isbell, songwriter (Jason Isbell)

48. 47. Best Americana Album
• The Firewatcher's Daughter-Brandi Carlile
• The Traveling Kind-Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell
• Something More Than Free-Jason Isbell
• Mono-The Mavericks
• The Phosphorescent Blues-Punch Brothers

49. 48. Best Bluegrass Album
• Pocket Full Of Keys-Dale Ann Bradley
• Before The Sun Goes Down-Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley
• In Session-Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver
• Man Of Constant Sorrow-Ralph Stanley & Friends
• The Muscle Shoals Recordings-The Steeldrivers

50. 49. Best Blues Album
• Descendants Of Hill Country-Cedric Burnside Project
• Outskirts Of Love-Shemekia Copeland
• Born To Play GuitarBuddy Guy
• Worthy-Bettye LaVette
• Muddy Waters 100-John Primer & Various Artists

51. 50. Best Folk Album
• Wood, Wire & Words-Norman Blake
• Béla Fleck And Abigail Washburn-Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn
• Tomorrow Is My Turn-Rhiannon Giddens
• Servant Of Love-Patty Griffin
• Didn't He Ramble-Glen Hansard

52. 51. Best Regional Roots Music Album
• Go Go Juice-Jon Cleary
• La La La La-Natalie Ai Kamauu
• Kawaiokalena-Keali'i Reichel
• Get Ready-The Revelers
• Generations-Windwalker And The MCW

53. 52. Best Reggae Album
• Branches Of The Same Tree-Rocky Dawuni
• The Cure-Jah Cure
• Acousticalevy-Barrington Levy
• Zion Awake-Luciano
• Strictly Roots-Morgan Heritage

54. 53. Best World Music Album
• Gilbertos Samba Ao Vivo-Gilberto Gil
• Sings-Angelique Kidjo
• Music From Inala-Ladysmith Black Mambazo With Ella Spira & The Inala
Ensemble
• Home-Anoushka Shankar
• I Have No Everything Here-Zomba Prison Project

55. 54. Best Children's Album
• ¡Come Bien! Eat Right!-José-Luis Orozco
• Dark Pie Concerns-Gustafer Yellowgold
• Home-Tim Kubart
• How Great Can This Day Be-Lori Henriques
• Trees-Molly Ledford & Billy Kelly

56. 55. Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Storytelling)
• Blood On Snow (Jo Nesbø)-Patti Smith
• Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, And Assorted Hijinks-
Dick Cavett
• A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety-Jimmy Carter
• Patience And Sarah (Isabel Miller)-Janis Ian & Jean Smart
• Yes Please-Amy Poehler (& Various Artists)

57. 56. Best Comedy Album
• Back To The Drawing Board-Lisa Lampanelli
• Brooklyn-Wyatt Cenac
• Happy. And A Lot.-Jay Mohr
• Just Being Honest-Craig Ferguson
• Live At Madison Square Garden-Louis C.K.

58. 57. Best Musical Theater Album
• An American In Paris-Leanne Cope, Max von Essen, Robert Fairchild, Jill Paice
& Brandon Uranowitz, principal soloists; Rob Fisher & Scott Lehrer, producers
(George Gershwin, composer; Ira Gershwin, lyricist) (Original Broadway Cast)
• Fun Home-Michael Cerveris, Judy Kuhn, Sydney Lucas, Beth Malone & Emily
Skeggs, principal soloists; Philip Chaffin & Tommy Krasker, producers (Jeanine
Tesori, composer; Lisa Kron, lyricist) (Original Broadway Cast)
• Hamilton-Daveed Diggs, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Jonathan Groff, Christopher
Jackson, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom, Jr.,
Okieriete Onaodowan, Anthony Ramos & Phillipa Soo, principal soloists; Alex
Lacamoire, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Bill Sherman, Ahmir Thompson & Tarik
Trotter, producers; Lin-Manuel Miranda, composer & lyricist (Original
Broadway Cast)
• The King And I-Ruthie Ann Miles, Kelli O'Hara, Ashley Park, Conrad Ricamora &
Ken Watanabe, principal soloists; David Caddick, David Lai & Ted Sperling,
producers (Richard Rodgers, composer; Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist) (2015
Broadway Cast)

59. 57. Best Musical Theater Album
• Something Rotten!-Heidi Blickenstaff, Christian Borle, John Cariani, Brian
d'Arcy James, Brad Oscar & Kate Reinders, principal soloists; Kurt Deutsch,
Karey Kirkpatrick, Wayne Kirkpatrick, Lawrence Manchester, Kevin
McCollum & Phil Reno, producers; Karey Kirkpatrick & Wayne Kirkpatrick,
composers/lyricists (Originial Broadway Cast)

60. 58. Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media
• Empire: Season 1-(Various Artists)
• Fifty Shades Of Grey-(Various Artists)
• Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me-(Various Artists)
• Pitch Perfect 2-(Various Artists)
• Selma-(Various Artists)

61. 59. Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media
• Birdman-Antonio Sanchez, composer
• The Imitation Game-Alexandre Desplat, composer
• Interstellar-Hans Zimmer, composer
• The Theory Of Everything-Jóhann Jóhannsson, composer
• Whiplash-Justin Hurwitz, composer

62. 60. Best Song Written For Visual Media
• Earned It (Fifty Shades Of Grey)-Ahmad Balshe, Stephan Moccio, Jason
Quenneville & Abel Tesfaye, songwriters (The Weeknd)
• Glory-Lonnie Lynn, Che Smith & John Stephens, songwriters (Common &
John Legend)
• Love Me Like You Do-Savan Kotecha, Max Martin, Tove Nilsson, Ali Payami
& Ilya Salmanzadeh, songwriters (Ellie Goulding)
• See You Again-Andrew Cedar, Justin Franks, Charles Puth & Cameron
Thomaz, songwriters (Wiz Khalifa Featuring Charlie Puth)
• Til It Happens To You-Lady Gaga & Diane Warren, songwriters (Lady Gaga)

63. 61. Best Instrumental Composition
• The Afro Latin Jazz Suite-Arturo O'Farrill, composer (Arturo O'Farrill & The
Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra Featuring Rudresh Mahanthappa)
• Civil War-Bob Mintzer, composer (Bob Mintzer Big Band)
• Confetti Man-David Balakrishnan, composer (Turtle Island Quartet)
• Neil-Rich DeRosa, composer (University Of North Texas One O'Clock Lab
Band)
• Vesper-Marshall Gilkes, composer (Marshall Gilkes & WDR Big Band)

64. 62. Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella
• Bruno Mars-Paul Allen, Troy Hayes, Evin Martin & J Moss, arrangers
(Vocally Challenged)
• Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy-Ben Bram, Mitch Grassi, Scott Hoying, Avi
Kaplan, Kirstin Maldonado & Kevin Olusola, arrangers (Pentatonix)
• Do You Hear What I Hear?-Armand Hutton, arranger (Committed)
• Ghost Of A Chance-Bob James, arranger (Bob James & Nathan East)
• You And The Night And The Music-John Fedchock, arranger (John
Fedchock New York Big Band)

65. 63. Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals
• Be My Muse-Shelly Berg, arranger (Lorraine Feather)
• 52nd & Broadway-Patrick Williams, arranger (Patrick Williams Featuring
Patti Austin)
• Garota De Ipanema-Otmaro Ruiz, arranger (Catina DeLuna Featuring
Otmaro Ruiz)
• Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime)-Maria Schneider, arranger (David Bowie)
• When I Come Home-Jimmy Greene, arranger (Jimmy Greene With Javier
Colon)

66. 64. Best Recording Package
• Alagoas-Alex Trochut, art director (Alagoas)
• Bush-Anita Marisa Boriboon, art director (Snoop Dogg)
• How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful (Deluxe Edition)-Brian Roettinger, art
director (Florence + The Machine)
• My Happiness-Nathanio Strimpopulos, art director (Elvis Presley)
• Still The King: Celebrating The Music Of Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys-
Sarah Dodds, Shauna Dodds & Dick Reeves, art directors (Asleep At The
Wheel)

67. 65. Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package
• Beneath The Skin (Deluxe Box Set)-Leif Podhajsky, art director (Of
Monsters And Men)
• I Love You, Honeybear (Limited Edition Deluxe Vinyl)-Sasha Barr & Josh
Tillman, art directors (Father John Misty)
• The Rise & Fall Of Paramount Records, Volume Two (1928-32)-Susan
Archie, Dean Blackwood & Jack White, art directors (Various Artists)
• Sticky Fingers (Super Deluxe Edition)-Stephen Kennedy & James Tilley, art
directors (The Rolling Stones)
• 30 Trips Around The Sun-Doran Tyson & Steve Vance, art directors
(Grateful Dead)
• What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World (Deluxe Box Set)-Jeri
Heiden & Glen Nakasako, art directors (The Decemberists)

68. 66. Best Album Notes
• Folksongs Of Another America: Field Recordings From The Upper Midwest,
1937-1946-James P. Leary, album notes writer (Various Artists)
• Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection-Jeff Place, album notes
writer (Lead Belly)
• Love Has Many Faces: A Quartet, A Ballet, Waiting To Be Danced-Joni
Mitchell, album notes writer (Joni Mitchell)
• Portrait Of An American Singer-Ted Olson, album notes writer (Tennessee
Ernie Ford)
• Songs Of The Night: Dance Recordings, 1916-1925-Ryan Barna, album
notes writer (Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra)

69. 67. Best Historical Album
• The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11-Steve
Berkowitz, Jan Haust & Jeff Rosen, compilation producers; Peter J. Moore,
mastering engineer (Bob Dylan And The Band)
• The Complete Concert By The Sea-Geri Allen, Jocelyn Arem & Steve
Rosenthal, compilation producers; Jessica Thompson, mastering engineer
(Erroll Garner)
• Native North America (Vol. 1): Aboriginal Folk, Rock, And Country 1966-
1985-Kevin Howes, compilation producer; Greg Mindorff, mastering
engineer (Various Artists)
• Parchman Farm: Photographs And Field Recordings, 1947-1959-Steven
Lance Ledbetter & Nathan Salsburg, compilation producers; Michael
Graves, mastering engineer (Various Artists)
• Songs My Mother Taught Me-Mark Puryear, compilation producer; Pete
Reiniger, mastering engineer (Fannie Lou Hamer)

70. 68. Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
• Before This World-Dave O'Donnell, engineer; Ted Jensen, mastering
engineer (James Taylor)
• Currency Of Man-Maxime Le Guil, engineer; Bernie Grundman, mastering
engineer (Melody Gardot)
• Recreational Love-Greg Kurstin & Alex Pasco, engineers; Emily Lazar,
mastering engineer (The Bird And The Bee)
• Sound & Color-Shawn Everett, engineer; Bob Ludwig, mastering engineer
(Alabama Shakes)
• Wallflower-Steve Price, Jochem van der Saag & Jorge Vivo, engineers; Paul
Blakemore, mastering engineer (Diana Krall)
• Label: Verve Music Group/Universal

71. 69. Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical
• Jeff Bhasker
• Dave Cobb
• Diplo
• Larry Klein
• Blake Mills

72. 70. Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical
• Berlin By Overnight (CFCF Remix)-CFCF, remixer (Daniel Hope)
• Hold On (Fatum Remix)-Bill Hamel & Chad Newbold, remixers (JES, Shant,
& Clint Maximus)
• Runaway (U & I) (Kaskade Remix)-Ryan Raddon, remixer (Galantis)
• Say My Name (RAC Remix)-André Allen Anjos, remixer (Odesza Featuring
Zyra)
• Uptown Funk (Dave Audé Remix)-Dave Audé, remixer (Mark Ronson
Featuring Bruno Mars)

73. 71. Best Surround Sound Album
• Amdahl: Astrognosia & Aesop-Morten Lindberg, surround mix engineer;
Morten Lindberg, surround mastering engineer; Morten Lindberg
• Amused To Death-James Guthrie, surround mix engineer; James Guthrie &
Joel Plante, surround mastering engineers; James Guthrie
• Magnificat-Morten Lindberg, surround mix engineer; Morten Lindberg,
surround mastering engineer; Morten Lindberg
• Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7-Erdo Groot, surround mix engineer; Erdo
Groot, surround mastering engineer; Philip Traugott
• Spes-Morten Lindberg, surround mix engineer; Morten Lindberg, surround
mastering engineer; Morten Lindberg

74. 72. Best Engineered Album, Classical
• Ask Your Mama-Leslie Ann Jones, John Kilgore, Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum &
Justin Merrill, engineers; Patricia Sullivan
• Dutilleux: Métaboles; L'Arbre Des Songes; Symphony No. 2, 'Le Double'-
Dmitriy Lipay, engineer; Alexander Lipay
• Monteverdi: Il Ritorno D'Ulisse In Patria-Robert Friedrich, engineer;
Michael Bishop
• Rachmaninoff: All-Night Vigil-Byeong Joon Hwang & John Newton,
engineers; Mark Donahue
• Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3, 'Organ'-Keith O. Johnson & Sean Royce
Martin, engineers; Keith O. Johnson

75. 73. Producer Of The Year, Classical
• Blanton Alspaugh
• Manfred Eicher
• Marina A. Ledin, Victor Ledin
• Dan Merceruio
• Judith Sherman

76. 74. Best Orchestral Performance
• Bruckner: Symphony No. 4-Manfred Honeck, conductor (Pittsburgh
Symphony Orchestra)
• Dutilleux: Métaboles; L'Arbre Des Songes; Symphony No. 2, 'Le Double'-
Ludovic Morlot, conductor (Seattle Symphony)
• Shostakovich: Under Stalin's Shadow - Symphony No. 10-Andris Nelsons,
conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra)
• Spirit Of The American Range-Carlos Kalmar, conductor (The Oregon
Symphony)
• Zhou Long & Chen Yi: Symphony 'Humen 1839'-Darrell Ang, conductor
(New Zealand Symphony Orchestra)

77. 75. Best Opera Recording
• Janáček: Jenůfa
Donald Runnicles, conductor; Will Hartmann, Michaela Kaune & Jennifer Larmore;
Magdalena Herbst, producer (Orchestra Of The Deutsche Oper Berlin; Chorus
Of The Deutsche Oper Berlin)
• Monteverdi: Il Ritorno D'Ulisse In Patria
Martin Pearlman, conductor; Fernando Guimarães & Jennifer Rivera; Thomas C.
Moore, producer (Boston Baroque)
• Mozart: Die Entführung Aus Dem Serail
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor; Diana Damrau, Paul Schweinester & Rolando
Villazón; Sid McLauchlan, producer (Chamber Orchestra Of Europe)
• Ravel: L'Enfant Et Les Sortilèges; Shéhérazade
Seiji Ozawa, conductor; Isabel Leonard; Dominic Fyfe, producer (Saito Kinen
Orchestra; SKF Matsumoto Chorus & SKF Matsumoto Children's Chorus)
• Steffani: Niobe, Regina Di Tebe
Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, conductors; Karina Gauvin & Philippe Jaroussky;
Renate Wolter-Seevers, producer (Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra)

78. 76. Best Choral Performance
• Beethoven: Missa Solemnis-Bernard Haitink, conductor; Peter Dijkstra, chorus
master (Anton Barachovsky, Genia Kühmeier, Elisabeth Kulman, Hanno Müller-
Brachmann & Mark Padmore; Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen
Rundfunks; Chor Des Bayerischen Rundfunks)
• Monteverdi: Vespers Of 1610-Harry Christophers, conductor (Jeremy Budd,
Grace Davidson, Ben Davies, Mark Dobell, Eamonn Dougan & Charlotte
Mobbs; The Sixteen)
• Pablo Neruda - The Poet Sings-Craig Hella Johnson, conductor (James K. Bass,
Laura Mercado-Wright, Eric Neuville & Lauren Snouffer; Faith DeBow &
Stephen Redfield; Conspirare)
• Paulus: Far In The Heavens-Eric Holtan, conductor (Sara Fraker, Matthew
Goinz, Thea Lobo, Owen McIntosh, Kathryn Mueller & Christine Vivona; True
Concord Orchestra; True Concord Voices)
• Rachmaninoff: All-Night Vigil-Charles Bruffy, conductor (Paul Davidson, Frank
Fleschner, Toby Vaughn Kidd, Bryan Pinkall, Julia Scozzafava, Bryan Taylor &
Joseph Warner; Kansas City Chorale & Phoenix Chorale)

79. 77. Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
• Brahms: The Piano Trios-Tanja Tetzlaff, Christian Tetzlaff & Lars Vogt
• Filament-Eighth Blackbird
• Flaherty: Airdancing For Toy Piano, Piano & Electronics-Nadia Shpachenko
& Genevieve Feiwen Lee
• Render-Brad Wells & Roomful Of Teeth
• Shostakovich: Piano Quintet & String Quartet No. 2-Takács Quartet &
Marc-André Hamelin

80. 78. Best Classical Instrumental Solo
• Dutilleux: Violin Concerto, L'Arbre Des Songes-Augustin Hadelich; Ludovic
Morlot, conductor (Seattle Symphony)
• Grieg & Moszkowski: Piano Concertos-Joseph Moog; Nicholas Milton,
conductor (Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern)
• Mozart: Keyboard Music, Vol. 7-Kristian Bezuidenhout
• Rachmaninov Variations-Daniil Trifonov (The Philadelphia Orchestra)
• Rzewski: The People United Will Never Be Defeated!-Ursula Oppens
(Jerome Lowenthal)

81. 79. Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
• Beethoven: An Die Ferne Geliebte; Haydn: English Songs; Mozart: Masonic
Cantata-Mark Padmore; Kristian Bezuidenhout, accompanist
• Joyce & Tony - Live From Wigmore Hall-Joyce DiDonato; Antonio Pappano,
accompanist
• Nessun Dorma - The Puccini Album-Jonas Kaufmann; Antonio Pappano,
conductor (Kristīne Opolais, Antonio Pirozzi & Massimo Simeoli; Coro
Dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia; Orchestra Dell'Accademia
Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia)
• Rouse: Seeing; Kabir Padavali-Talise Trevigne; David Alan Miller, conductor
(Orion Weiss; Albany Symphony)
• St. Petersburg-Cecilia Bartoli; Diego Fasolis, conductor (I Barocchisti)

82. 80. Best Classical Compendium
• As Dreams Fall Apart - The Golden Age Of Jewish Stage And Film Music
(1925-1955)-New Budapest Orpheum Society; Jim Ginsburg, producer
• Ask Your Mama-George Manahan, conductor; Judith Sherman, producer
• Handel: L'Allegro, Il Penseroso Ed Il Moderato, 1740-Paul McCreesh,
conductor; Nicholas Parker, producer
• Paulus: Three Places Of Enlightenment; Veil Of Tears & Grand Concerto-
Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor; Tim Handley, producer
• Woman At The New Piano-Nadia Shpachenko; Marina A. Ledin & Victor
Ledin, producers

83. 81. Best Contemporary Classical Composition
• Barry: The Importance Of Being Earnest-Gerald Barry, composer (Thomas
Adès, Barbara Hannigan, Katalin Károlyi, Hilary Summers, Peter Tantsits &
• Norman: Play-Andrew Norman, composer (Gil Rose & Boston Modern
Orchestra Project)
• Paulus: Prayers & Remembrances-Stephen Paulus, composer (Eric Holtan,
True Concord Voices & Orchestra)
• Tower: Stroke-Joan Tower, composer (Giancarlo Guerrero, Cho-Liang Lin &
Nashville Symphony)
• Wolfe: Anthracite Fields-Julia Wolfe, composer (Julian Wachner, The Choir
Of Trinity Wall Street & Bang On A Can All-Stars)

84. 82. Best Music Video
• LSD-ASAP Rocky
• I Feel Love (Every Million Miles)-The Dead Weather
• Alright-Kendrick Lamar
• Bad Blood-Taylor Swift Featuring Kendrick Lamar
• Freedom-Pharrell Williams

85. 83. Best Music Film
• Mr. Dynamite: The Rise Of James Brown-(James Brown)
• Sonic Highways-Foo Fighters
• What Happened, Miss Simone?-(Nina Simone)
• The Wall-Roger Waters
• Amy-(Amy Winehouse)