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Friday, December 4, 2009

Grammy Award Nominations Announced

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.

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