What You Didn't Know about This Weekend's Grammy Awards

Grammy Winners

Grammy Winners

Rapper Kendrick Lamar received seven nominations for his fiery "Damn." album, including for album and record of the year.

Out of all the awards shows that happen in the opening months of the year, the Grammys have always been the most polarizing in picking the musicians whose art truly deserves the title of "best". "As the channel continues to be the destination for the best award shows, we aim to provide viewers with an immersive awards experience with the Grammys Specials-Countdown to the Red Carpet, Live from the Red Carpet & after Party Grammy Awards Specials".

Adele also expressed that Beyonce should have received the prize. So we have picked three of our favorite unforgettable moments from the GRAMMY Awards below. Kanye West, Eminem, Mariah Carey and others have also lost in the top categories over the years to pop, rock and country acts despite owning the year in music, critically and commercially. This weekend it's time to watch music stars do that. He is the hottest thing we've seen in 10 years.

"I'm very grateful that the fans are (still) there regardless of what I have sitting on my shelf", Journey's Neal Schon said in an interview with The Associated Press.

Meaning that, for the first time in history, there are no white male artists nominated in the category - and considering the criticism of the Grammys in recent years, it's a sign that the awards show may be paying more attention to the reality of the industry than it has in a long time.

The last two artists to win Album of the Year were both women - Adele and Taylor Swift - but works by Swift, Beyonce and other top women were released outside the eligibility period for the latest Grammys.

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Multiple honors went to a California boy, Ross Bagdasarian, whose raucous "Chipmunk Song" was named best comedy performance, best children's performance and best-engineered record.

Mars is behind Jay-Z and Lamar with six nominations, including best R&B album, best R&B song and best R&B performance. In 1994, the year of Green Day's "Dookie", Hole's "Live Through This", Nine Inch Nails' "The Downward Spiral", Pearl Jam's "Vitalogy", Weezer's first album, Portishead's "Dummy", Soundgarden's "Superunknown" and the debut albums from Nas and the Notorious B.I.G., the Album of the Year nominees were: Seal, Bonnie Raitt, The Three Tenors, Eric Clapton and eventual victor Tony Bennett, crowned for his "MTV Unplugged" album. With his breathtaking voice, Smith's performance is sure to be one of the best of the night. She last won a Grammy in 2012 for Best Bluegrass Album for Paper Airplane. Even with all this new, incredible talent in this category, the one who clearly sits atop the music industry is SZA. Data on best selling albums or singles also came from the RIAA. Jay-Z's "4:44" is also a worthy candidate, but a win may be seen by some as veteran favoritism.

The album's singles and DVD earned eight nominations throughout 2008 and 2009.

That distinction belongs to the conductor Georg Solti, who won 31 Grammys before his death in 1997. Randy Newman's song "Putin", his sardonic ode to Russian President Vladimir Putin, is nominated for best arrangement, instruments and vocals. Kendrick touches on these topics on his album as well, but when you hear these thoughts spoken by a hip-hop icon, even the most casual hip-hop listener must really think and picture what Jay-Z is trying to illustrate. For me, this award is SZA's after she released the critically acclaimed Ctrl. "It's way more expensive to do anything in NY".

Featuring a duet with pop singer P!nk, "Cosmic Hallelujah" isn't a typical country album.

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