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Grammy awards 2014 airdate announced
Grammy awards 2014 airdate
CBS has moved up the date of the 2014 Grammy Awards to avoid competing with the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. The premier event for music awards will air this Sunday evening, January 26, at 8:00PM ET. The Grammy Awards are to music what the Oscars are to film: the most coveted award.
Rapper LL Cool J will be doing the honors as master of ceremony. Rapper Jay Z tops the list of nominations with 9 this year. Here are the nominations in the most prominent awards categories:
Record of the Year
• “Blurred Lines” – Robin Thicke featuring T.I. and Pharrell Williams
• “Locked Out of Heaven” by Bruno Mars
• “Get Lucky” by Daft Punk including Pharrell Williams
• “Radioactive” by Imagine Dragons
• “Royals” by Lorde
Album of the Year
• The Blessed Unrest – Sara Bareilles
• Good Kid, M.A.A.D City – Kendrick Lamar
• The Heist – Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
• Random Access Memories – Daft Punk
• Red – Taylor Swift
Song of the Year
• “Just Give Me a Reason” by Pink, Jeff Bhasker and Nate Ruess with Pink & Nate Reuss as songwriters
• “Locked Out of Heaven” performed by Bruno Mars, Philip Lawrence, and Ari Levine, with Bruno Mars as songwriter
• “Roar” by Katy Perry, Lukasz Gottwald, Max Martin, Bonnie McKee and Henry Walter, with Katy Perry as songwriter
• “Royals” by Ella Yelich O’Connor, Joel Little, with Lorde as songwriter
• “Same Love” by Ben Haggerty, Ryan Lewis, Mary Lambert and Curtis Mayfield, with Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, and Mary Lambert as songwriters
Source material:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/performers-host-announced-for-2014-grammy-awards/
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/grammy-nominations-2014-announced/