Full list at: http://www.grammy.com/grammy_awards/52nd_show/list.aspx

This year's Grammy Award nominations feature a wide-range of dance/electronic music artists, but focuses mainly on pop. What do you think?

Best Dance Recording

• The Black Eyed Peas - "Boom Boom Pow"
• David Guetta & Kelly Rowland - "When Love Takes Over"
• Lady Gaga - "Poker Face"
• Madonna - "Celebration"
• Britney Spears - "Womanizer"

Best Dance/Electronic Album

• The Crystal Method - "Divided By Night"
• David Guetta - "One Night"
• Lady Gaga - "The Fame"
• LMFAO - "Party Rock"
• Pet Shop Boys - "Yes"

Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical

• Dido - "Don't Believe In Love (Dennis Ferrer Objektivity Mix)"
• Royksopp - "The Girl And The Robot (Jean Elan Remix)"
• Dean Coleman Featuring DCLA - "I Want You (Dave Aude Remix")
  
• Franz Ferdinand - "No You Girls (Trentemøller Remix)"
• David Guetta & Kelly Rowland - When Love Takes Over (David Guetta Electro Extended Mix)

Meanwhile, electronic duo rockers MGMT surprisingly got a nomation for Best New Artist, although they won the award last years for Best Remixed Recording. MGMT's "Kids" is also nominated for Best Pop Performance By A Duo or Group With Vocals.

David Guetta is nominated in all the main dance categories, including doing a remix of his own song! Guetta is additionally nominated for The Black Eyed Peas' "I Gotta Feeling" which he helped to produce. The track is nominated for Record of The Year and Best Pop Performance By A Duo or Group With Vocals.

Depeche Mode's "Sound of the Universe" was nominated for Best Alternative Music Album along with their video of "Wrong" for Best Short Form Music Video.

Whitney Houston was snubbed this year as her big comeback failed to pick up even 1 nod. Beyonce had the most nominations with 10. And watch out...Beyonce, Kanye West, and Taylor Swift are in the top 4 most-nominated along with R&B singer, Maxwell.

Labels: Britney Spears, David Guetta, Grammy Awards, Lady Gaga, LMFAO, Madonna, MGMT, Pet Shop Boys, The Black Eyed Peas, The Crystal Method

In no particular order...

• Daniel Merriweather - Impossible
  
• Whitney Houston - Million Dollar Bill (Freemasons Radio Edit)
  
• Local H - Bound For The Floor
  
• Paloma Faith - New York
  
• Fedde Le Grand - Let Me Be Real (Radio Edit)
  
• Whitney Houston - I Didn't Know My Own Strength (Peter Rauhofer Club Mix)
  
• David Guetta feat. Julie McKnight - How Soon Is Now
  
• Awesome 3 - Don't Go
  
• Madonna - Celebration
  
• Arctic Monkeys - Teddy Picker
  

Labels: Arctic Monkeys, Awesome 3, Daniel Merriweather, David Guetta, Fedde Le Grand, Madonna, music, Paloma Faith, Whitney Houston

Being a computer programmer, after I just ripped all my CDs to MP3s (a task that took many months), I wrote a program today that told me some surprising statistics about my personal music collection!

• Number of unique music artists: 1,172.
• Number of songs: 5,015.
• 20 days of music!!
• 52.10 GB of MP3s.
  
• Favorite artists in order, by minutes of listening material: Madonna, The Chemical Brothers, Whitney Houston, Britney Spears, Cher, Prodigy, Depeche Mode, Bjork, Daft Punk, Fatboy Slim
• Favorite artists in order, by number of songs: Madonna (190), The Chemical Brothers (164), Prodigy/Whitney Houston (86), Britney Spears/Cher (80), Bjork (74), Daft Punk (69), Depeche Mode (59), 311/Fatboy Slim (57), Jennifer Lopez/Orgy (49), ATB (48), Ian Van Dahl (42), The Crystal Method (40), Basement Jaxx (38), Amber (36), Seal (35), Pet Shop Boys (34), New Order/The Future Sound of London (33), Deep Dish (32), Destiny's Child (31), Paul Oakenfold/Paul Van Dyk (30), Jamiroquai, Janet Jackson, Steely Dan (29), and many, many more....
• There were 598 music artists that I only had 1 song for.
• 393 songs had the phrase "radio edit" in the title.
• 26 songs had the word "explicit" in the title, meaning that it had "bad" words in the song
• Favorite remixers, by number of remixes: Peter Rauhofer (199), Thunderpuss (133), Hex Hector (128), Junior Vasquez (80), Victor Calderone (53), Jonathan Peters (46), David Morales (41), Richard "Humpty" Vission (35), Chris Cox (33), Stuart Price (29), Ralphi Rosario (24), Maurice Joshua (21), Tony Moran (19), Dave Aude/DJ Tiesto (17), DJ Dan/The Chemical Brothers (16), Above & Beyond/Freemasons/Metro/Paul Oakenfold/Paul Van Dyk (15), Deep Dish (12), Armand Van Helden/Danny Tenaglia (11), Ferry Corsten/Illicit (10), Richard Morel (8), Justice (4), Joe Bermudez (3), Daft Punk (2), and too many more to list...
• Paul Oakenfold and Paul Van Dyk are tied in both number of remixes and original songs.
  

Labels: Madonna, MP3, music, Peter Rauhofer, remixes, The Chemical Brothers, The Prodigy