Grammy nominations in top categories

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Grammy nominations in top categories

Nominees announced Wednesday in top categories for the 51st Annual Grammy Awards:

Record of the Year: “Halo,” Beyonce; “I Gotta Feeling,” The 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.,” The Black Eyed Peas; “The Fame,” Lady Gaga; “Big Whiskey And The Groogrux King,” Dave Matthews Band; “Fearless,” Taylor Swift.

Song of the Year: “Poker Face,” Lady Gaga and RedOne, songwriters (Lady Gaga); “Pretty Wings,” Hod David and Musze, songwriters (Maxwell); “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It),” Thaddis Harrell, Beyonce Knowles, Terius Nash & Christopher Stewart, songwriters (Beyonce); “Use Somebody,” Caleb Followill, Jared Followill, Matthew Followill and Nathan Followill, songwriters (Kings Of Leon); “You Belong With Me,” Liz Rose and Taylor Swift, songwriters (Taylor Swift).

New Artist: Zac Brown Band, Keri Hilson, MGMT, Silversun Pickups, The Ting Tings.

Pop Vocal Album: “The E.N.D.,” The Black Eyed Peas; “Breakthrough,” Colbie Caillat; “All I Ever Wanted,” Kelly Clarkson; “The Fray,” The Fray; “Funhouse,” P!nk.

Rock Album: “Black Ice,” AC/DC; “Live From Madison Square Garden,” Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood; “21st Century Breakdown,” Green Day; “Big Whiskey And The Groogrux King,” Dave Matthews Band; “No Line On The Horizon,” U2.

R&B Album: “The Point Of It All,” Anthony Hamilton; “Testimony: Vol. 2, Love and Politics,” India.Arie; “Turn Me Loose,” Ledisi; “Blacksummers’ Night,” Maxwell; “Uncle Charlie,” Charlie Wilson.

Rap Album: “Universal Mind Control,” Common; “Relapse,” Eminem; “R.O.O.T.S.,” Flo Rida; “The Ecstatic,” Mos Def; “The Renaissance,” Q-Tip

Country Album: “The Foundation,” Zac Brown Band; “Twang,” George Strait; “Fearless,” Taylor Swift; “Defying Gravity,” Keith Urban; “Call Me Crazy,” Lee Ann Womack.

Latin Pop Album: “5to Piso,” Ricardo Arjona; “Te Acuerdas …,” Francisco Cespedes; “Sin Frenos,” La Quinta Estacion; “Hu Hu Hu,” Natalia Lafourcade; “Gran City Pop,” Paulina Rubio.

Contemporary Jazz Album: “Urbanus,” Stefon Harris and Blackout; “Sounding Point,” Julian Lage; “At World’s Edge,” Philippe Saisse; “Big Neighborhood,” Mike Stern; “75,” Joe Zawinul and The Zawinul Syndicate.

Classical Album: “Bernstein: Mass,” Marin Alsop, conductor (Asher Edward Wulfman; Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Morgan State University Choir and Peabody Children’s Chorus); “Mahler: Symphony No. 8; Adagio From Symphony No. 10,” Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor (Laura Claycomb, Anthony Dean Griffey, Katarina Karneus, Quinn Kelsey, James Morris, Yvonne Naef, Elza van den Heever and Erin Wall; San Francisco Symphony; Pacific Boychoir, San Francisco Girls Chorus and San Francisco Symphony Chorus); “Ravel: Daphnis Et Chloe,” James Levine, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra; Tanglewood Festival Chorus); “Ravel: L’Enfant Et Les Sortileges,” Alastair Willis, conductor (Nashville Symphony Orchestra; Chattanooga Boys Choir, Chicago Symphony Chorus & Nashville Symphony Chorus); “Shostakovich: The Nose,” Valery Gergiev, conductor (Orchestra Of The Mariinsky Theatre; Chorus Of The Mariinsky Theatre).

Full nominee list is available at www.grammy.com