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Beyonce knowles, Taylor Swift Lead 52nd Annual Grammy Awards nominees

By Robert J. Steiner for CEOWORLD Magazine Updated:December 3, 2009

Singer Beyonce Knowles is leading the Grammy nominations list with 10. Close behind is teen sensation Taylor Swift with eight nominations.The 52nd Annual Grammy Awards is scheduled to take place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on 31st January.

The announcement of this year’s nominees suggests voters simply scanned the SoundScan sales chart, then picked whichever stars sold the most CDs.

The domination in the nods by stars like Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga and The Black Eyed Peas clearly shows voters skewing more towards stars with fan-appeal than to those who released the deepest recordings of the last year.

West may have three chances to repeat his stunt, since Beyonce and Swift go head-to-head for record, song and album of the year. Lady Gaga was also nominated in those three categories.

Lady Gaga’s single “Poker Face” and album “The Fame” helped her to five nominations.

Taylor Swift, just days away from her 20th birthday, crossed genre lines to take top honors at the MTV Music Video Awards, the American Music Awards and the Country Music Awards in recent months.

Michael Bublé is usually popular with the Academy, but his new disc, Crazy Love, landed in stores too late to make this year’s shorter, 11-month window for eligibility. The Vancouver crooner will, thus, have to content himself with a nomination for the live album Michael Bublé Meets Madison Square Garden in the best traditional pop-vocal album.

Song of the Year

Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) – Beyonce
Poker Face – Lady Gaga
Use Somebody – Kings of Leon
You Belong With Me – Taylor Swift
Pretty Wings – Maxwell

Best Pop Performance by a Duo/Group with Vocals

I Gotta Feeling – Black Eyed Peas
We Weren”t Born To Follow – Bon Jovi
Never Say Never – The Fray
Sarah’s Smile – Daryl Hall & John Oates
Kids – MGMT

Best Rock Album

Black Ice – AC DC
Live From Madison Square Garden – Steve Winwood & Eric Clapton
21st Century Breakdown – Green Day
Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King – Dave Matthews Band
No Line On The Horizon – U2

Best Rap Solo Performance

Best I Ever Had – Drake
Beautiful – Eminem
D.O.A. (Death of Autotune) – Jay-Z
Day & Night – Kid Cudi
Casa Bey – Mos Def

Best Country Performance by a Duo/Group with Vocals

Cowgirls Don’t Cry – Brooks & Dunn
Chicken Fried – Zac Brown Band
I Run To You – Lady Antebellum
Here Comes Goodbye – Rascal Flatts
It Happens – Sugarland

Record of the Year

Halo – Beyonce
I Gotta Feeling – Black Eyed Peas
Use Somebody – Kings of Leon
Poker Face – Lady Gaga
You Belong With Me – Taylor Swift

Album of the Year

I Am…Sasha Fierce – Beyonce
The E.N.D. – Black Eyed Peas
The Fame – Lady Gaga
Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King – Dave Matthews Band
Fearless – Taylor Swift

Best New Artist

Zac Brown Band
Keri Wilson
MGMT
Silversun Pickups
The Ting Tings.

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