NEW MUSIC FRIDAY: Releases For The Week of April 5, 2024

Friday is a beautiful thing.

The fireworks are flying on New Music Friday, including new sparklers from Ava Max, Imagine Dragons, Khalid and many others…

Notable albums out this week: Benson Boone‘s Fireworks & Rollerblades (Stream), Bryson Tiller‘s Bryson Tiller (Stream), Conan Gray‘s Found Heaven (Stream), Doja Cat‘s Scarlet II: Claude (Stream), Five Finger Death Punch‘s AfterLife (Deluxe/2024) (Stream), GloRilla‘s Ehhthang Ehhthang (Stream), Ian Munsick‘s White Buffalo (Introduce You To God) (Stream), Katie Pruitt‘s Mantras (Stream), Lizzy McAlpine‘s Older (Stream), Maggie Rose‘s No One Gets Out Alive (Stream), Marcus King‘s Mood Swings (Stream), Medium Build‘s Country (Stream), The Black Keys‘s Ohio Players (Stream), The Libertines‘s All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade (Stream), Tori Kelly‘s Tori. (Stream), Vampire Weekend‘s Only God Was Above Us (Stream), X Ambassadors‘s Townie (Stream), Zach Top‘s Cold Beer & Country Music (Stream), The New Look (Soundtrack) (Stream)

Notable EPs out this week: Amelia Moore‘s He’s Just Not That Into You! (Stream), George Birge‘s Cowboy Songs (Stream), Griff‘s Ver2igo (Vol. 2) (Stream), Jesse McCartney‘s All’s Well (Stream), Nate Smith‘s Through The Smoke (Stream), Pet Shop Boys‘s Dancing Star (Stream), Sam Hunt‘s Locked Up (Stream), Smallpools‘s Ghost Town Road (East) (Stream), Tomorrow x Together‘s Minisode 3: Tomorrow (Stream), Wisp‘s Pandora (Stream)

New digital singles that you can buy/stream this week include:
“After Hours”, Kehlani (Stream)
“American Horror Story”, Birksie (Stream)
“Annie”, Devin Kennedy (Stream)
“B2B” / “Club Classics”, Charli XCX (Stream)
“Better Days”, Benjamin Ingrosso (Stream)
“Big Brown Eyes”, Lola Young (Stream)
“Blame”, Will Linley (Stream)
“Bruised One”, Mackenzy Mackay (Stream)
“Can’t Get Enough (Remix)”, Jennifer Lopez featuring Sean Paul (Stream)
“Cartwheels”, Soft Launch (Stream)
“Changes”, Empire Of The Sun (Stream)
“Clairvoyant”, Tyler Shaw (Stream)
“Comin’ Around Again”, Amber Mark (Stream)
“Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond Of Each Other”, Orville Peck & Willie Nelson (Stream)
“Creatures In Heaven”, Glass Animals (Stream)
“Damn”, Kacy Hill (Stream)
“Don’t Reach For Me”, Knocked Loose (Stream)
“Down Under”, Tones And I (Stream)
“Eat Pray Love”, Paul Russell (Stream)
“Eyes Closed”, Imagine Dragons (Stream)
“Femme Fatale”, G-Eazy featuring Coi Leray & Kaliii (Stream)
“Glad You Did”, Sasha Alex Sloan (Stream)
“Good Luck, Babe!”, Chappell Roan (Stream)
“Good Time”, Cage The Elephant (Stream)
“Guy I Used To Be”, Lawrence (Stream)
“Honeydew”, Zachary Knowles (Stream)
“House”, London Grammar (Stream)
“How Ya Doin’ Now Kid”, Matt Haughey (Stream)
“I Can’t Even Cry”, Hope Tala (Stream)
“I Don’t Wanna Wait”, David Guetta & OneRepublic (Stream)
“In The Cards”, Jamie Miller (Stream)
“Incredible”, Sia featuring Labrinth (Stream)
“Is It Too Late?”, Almost Monday (Stream)
“Karma”, JoJo Siwa (Stream)
“Keep It Up”, Good Neighbours (Stream)
“Lejos De Ti”, The Marías (Stream)
“Let It Burn”, Jared Benjamin (Stream)
“Little Altar Boy”, Smith & Thell (Stream)
“Love Me Like You Mean It (Reimagined)”, Kelsea Ballerini (Stream)
“Love You, Miss You, Mean It”, Luke Bryan (Stream)
“Midas Touch” / “Nothing”, Kiss Of Life (Stream)
“Mine”, Michael Gerow (Stream)
“My Oh My”, Ava Max (Stream)
“My Place”, Carly Pearce (Stream)
“Nice Things”, JORDY (Stream)
“Not Good For You”, Adam Melchor (Stream)
“Oh Emma”, Astrid S (Stream)
“Overtime”, Rainbow Kitten Surprise featuring Kacey Musgraves (Stream)
“Please Don’t Fall In Love With Me”, Khalid (Stream)
“Ride Or Die”, Baby Queen (Stream)
“Say I”, Darren Kiely (Stream)
“Should Be Us”, MaryJo (Stream)
“Sideshow”, Carla Wehbe (Stream)
“Siren”, RIIZE (Stream)
“Small Town Scandal”, Zolita (Stream)
“Southern Accents”, Dolly Parton (Stream)
“Spite”, Omar Apollo (Stream)
“Stained Glass Window”, Sunday (1994) (Stream)
“Sumac”, Mat Kearney (Stream)
“Take Me As I Come”, Evan Honer & Wyatt Flores (Stream)
“The Weather”, Fly By Midnight (Stream)
“Wildfire”, Austin Snell (Stream)
“Your Mama Would Hate Me”, Dean Brody & James Barker Band (Stream)

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Next week’s releases include: new albums/EPs from ERNEST, Girl In Red, Maggie Rogers and others.

NEW MUSIC FRIDAY: Releases For The Week of May 13, 2022

Morale is high this Friday.

Boogie your way into the weekend with the latest in New Music Friday releases, including albums from Florence + The Machine, Kendrick Lamar and The Black Keys and singles from 5 Seconds Of Summer, Post Malone and Why Don’t We…

Notable albums out this week: Ayokay‘s Digital Dreamscape (Stream), Florence + The Machine‘s Dance Fever (Stream), Kendrick Lamar‘s Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers (Stream), Leikeli47‘s Shape Up (Stream), Mallrat‘s Butterfly Blue (Stream), Mandy Moore‘s In Real Life (Stream), Sasha Alex Sloan‘s I Blame The World (Stream), State Champs‘s Kings Of The New Age (Stream), The Black Keys‘s Dropout Boogie (Stream), The Chainsmokers‘s So Far So Good (Stream), The Smile‘s A Light For Attracting Attention (Stream), Two Feet‘s Shape & Form (Stream)

Notable EPs out this week: Aldn‘s Good Grief (Stream), Peter McPoland‘s Slow Down (Stream)

New digital singles that you can buy/stream this week include:
“1×1”, Galantis (Stream)
“Alaska”, Jewel (Stream)
“Anybody”, Bizzy (Stream)
“Automatic”, Jessica Mauboy (Stream)
“Breath”, Todrick Hall (Stream)
“Candyman”, Sub Urban (Stream)
“Caught Up”, Gryffin & Olivia O’Brien (Stream)
“Coming Of Age”, Mxmtoon (Stream)
“Cooped Up”, Post Malone featuring Roddy Ricch (Stream)
“Evergreen”, Mt. Joy (Stream)
“Fall In Love Alone”, Stacey Ryan (Stream)
“Finish Line”, Rita Ora (Stream)
“F*cked Up Summer”, Rosie Darling (Stream)
“Funeral Grey”, Waterparks (Stream)
“Get Me Outta Here”, G Flip (Stream)
“Girl Ur So Pretty”, Ambar Lucid (Stream)
“Go”, Cat Burns featuring Loski & Russ Millions (Stream)
“Hardcore”, Allison Ponthier (Stream)
“Harvest Moon”, Sophia Alexa (Stream)
“Heartbreak Hall Of Fame”, Quinn Lewis (Stream)
“Holding On”, Francis Karel (Stream)
“Houndin’ Pt. II”, Layto & AViVA (Stream)
“I Ain’t Worried”, OneRepublic (Stream)
“I Hate Her Boyfriend’s Face”, PmBata (Stream)
“IFTK”, Tion Wayne & La Roux (Stream)
“I’ll Always Wait 4 U”, Kina featuring Kehard (Stream)
“Just Friends”, Why Don’t We (Stream)
“Know Ya”, Matt Schuster (Stream)
“Landline”, Arlie (Stream)
“Laurel”, Between Friends (Stream)
“Lightwaves”, Benny Benassi & Anabel Englund (Stream)
“Loner”, Day Wave (Stream)
“Loveback”, Alice Merton (Stream)
“Maybe I Do”, Peter Raffoul (Stream)
“Me, Myself & I”, 5 Seconds Of Summer (Stream)
“Meet The Moonlight”, Jack Johnson (Stream)
“Meteorite”, Anna Of The North & Gus Dapperton (Stream)
“Michael”, Remi Wolf (Stream)
“Moonlit Room”, UMI (Stream)
“Mr. Percocet”, Noah Cyrus (Stream)
“Neon Lights”, Loreen (Stream)
“Not A Home”, Pardyalone (Stream)
“One Life”, James Bay (Stream)
“Only Love”, Meg Mac (Stream)
“Oxytocin”, Chandler Leighton (Stream)
“Out Of My Head”, Charlotte Sands featuring Aaron Gillespie (Stream)
“Pain”, Muni Long (Stream)
“Past Life”, Arkells featuring Cold War Kids (Stream)
“Purple Haze”, Joy Oladokun (Stream)
“Roman Candles”, Death Cab For Cutie (Stream)
“Seasons”, Chloe Adams (Stream)
“Seeing Someone Else”, Ingrid Andress (Stream)
“Shapeshifting”, Taylor Acorn (Stream)
“Socks”, Chrissy (Stream)
“Step Mum”, Lauran Hibberd (Stream)
“Succubus”, Siouxxie Sixxsta (Stream)
“Supermodel”, Måneskin (Stream)
“Superstar”, Darin (Stream)
“The First Love”, Maria Petra (Stream)
“The Foundations Of Decay”, My Chemical Romance (Stream)
“The Internet”, MILES featuring LØLØ (Stream)
“Tidal Wave”, Rosie Carney (Stream)
“Too Much”, Mark Ronson featuring Lucky Daye (Stream)
“We’ll Make This OK”, Renforshort & Travis Barker (Stream)
“What Do We Do Now?”, Spencer Crandall (Stream)
“What Was Mine”, Sarah Kinsley (Stream)
“What Would You Do?”, Tate McRae (Stream)
“Wig”, DaBaby & Moneybagg Yo (Stream)
“Will It Ever Feel The Same?”, Bazzi (Stream)
“With You”, Michael Schulte (Stream)
“Worst Thing”, NOTD & Kenzie (Stream)
“Worth A Shot”, Elle King featuring Dierks Bentley (Stream)
“Yo Yo”, MIKA (Stream)

Next week, the new albums from Harry Styles and Zach Bryan are among the largest releases on the schedule. For Adam’s personal picks of the week, listen to the PGTC Friday Faves list on Spotify!

NEW MUSIC FRIDAY: Releases For The Week of May 14, 2021

A hit album for all seasons.

Break out your calculators, because we’re adding up the fractions that make this a whole New Music Friday, including top albums and EPs from 21 Savage, J. Cole and NCT Dream and singles from Nicki Minaj, Olivia Rodrigo and Tones And I. Get a taste of these hot and saucy tunes:

Notable albums out this week: Alan Jackson‘s Where Have You Gone (iTunes), Cash Cash‘s Say It Like You Feel It (iTunes), Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young‘s Déjà Vu (50th Anniversary Deluxe) (iTunes), Delta Goodrem‘s Bridge Over Troubled Dreams (iTunes), J. Cole‘s The Off-Season (iTunes), Mob Rich‘s Why No Why (iTunes), Myles Kennedy‘s The Ides Of March (iTunes), NCT Dream‘s Hot Sauce (iTunes), Paul Weller‘s Fat Pop (iTunes), SHAED‘s High Dive (iTunes), St. Vincent‘s Daddy’s Home (iTunes), The Black Keys‘s Delta Kream (iTunes), TiaCorine‘s The Saga Of 34Corine (iTunes)

Notable EPs out this week: 21 Savage‘s Spiral (iTunes), Alaina Castillo‘s Parallel Universe, Pt. 1 (iTunes), Bryce Vine‘s Mixed Feelings (iTunes), Daya‘s The Difference (iTunes), Dillon Carmichael‘s Hot Beer (iTunes), Fanclubwallet‘s Hurt Is Boring (iTunes), Greta Isaac‘s Pessimist (iTunes), Jorja Smith‘s Be Right Back (iTunes), Livingston‘s An Unlikely Origin Story (iTunes), Lovejoy‘s Are You Alright? (iTunes), Paris Texas‘s Boy Anonymous (iTunes), Sam Gellaitry‘s IV (iTunes), The WLDLFE‘s Repaint My Mind (2021) (iTunes)

New digital singles that you can buy this week include:
“9 Bridge”, Rowdy Rebel featuring A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie (iTunes)
“23”, Chayce Beckham (iTunes)
“Act Bad”, Young Devyn (iTunes)
“All My Favorite Songs”, Weezer featuring AJR (iTunes)
“Annalie”, Hanson (iTunes)
“Anyone But Me”, Steven Wilson (iTunes)
“Anywhere With You (Acoustic)”, Mat Kearney (iTunes)
“At Least I Know Your Name!”, 44Blonde (iTunes)
“Barcelona”, Winnetka Bowling League & Sasha Sloan (iTunes)
“Be Right There”, Fly By Midnight (iTunes)
“Believers”, Alan Walker & Conor Maynard (iTunes)
“Big Girl$ Don’t Cry”, Zhavia Ward (iTunes)
“Bigger Man”, Joy Oladokun & Maren Morris (iTunes)
“Birthday Suit”, DUCKWRTH featuring Rayana Jay (iTunes)
“Bite Marks”, Au/Ra (iTunes)
“Blessings”, Anthony Ramos (iTunes)
“Blossom”, Audrey Nuna (iTunes)
“B.O.M.B.”, Emlyn (iTunes)
“Bored!”, Poutyface featuring Phem (iTunes)
“Boy From Manchester”, Youngr (iTunes)
“Boy Next Door”, Leah Kate (iTunes)
“Build A B*tch”, Bella Poarch (iTunes)
“Butterflies”, Skrillex, Starrah & Four Tet (iTunes)
“Can’t Give Back Your Love”, Clide (iTunes)
“Castle Walls”, Quinn Lewis (iTunes)
“Codependent”, Sophie Holohan (iTunes)
“Come Along”, Pattern Pusher (iTunes)
“Cory Wit Tha GF”, KILLBOY (iTunes)
“Dior”, KA$HDAMI (iTunes)
“Dirt”, Elise Harper (iTunes)
“Douchebag”, UPSAHL (iTunes)
“Down By The Riverside”, Willie Jones (iTunes)
“Dumb”, Jubël (iTunes)
“Dynamite”, Sam Tinnesz (iTunes)
“Electric”, Katy Perry (iTunes)
“Fall”, Francis Karel (iTunes)
“Fall Apart”, Renforshort & Glaive (iTunes)
“Feelings”, SHY Martin (iTunes)
“Feels Good”, Luca Schreiner & Mokita (iTunes)
“Fight In Ikea”, Emily Roberts (iTunes)
“Forged By Neron”, Mastodon (iTunes)
“Fractions”, Nicki Minaj (iTunes)
“Frankenstein”, Claire Rosinkranz (iTunes)
“Freaky Deaky”, Enchanting featuring Coi Leray (iTunes)
“F*ckboy”, Dixie (D’Amelio) (iTunes)
“Funny Thing About Love”, BabyJake & Bipolar Sunshine (iTunes)
“Get Lost In The Music”, Ambar Lucid (iTunes)
“Good 4 U”, Olivia Rodrigo (iTunes)
“Got Me”, Laura Mvula (iTunes)
“Great White”, 2KBaby (iTunes)
“Groceries”, Pi’erre Bourne (iTunes)
“Growing Pains”, AJ Mitchell (iTunes)
“Happy For You”, Lukas Graham (iTunes)
“Harshest Critic”, Allison Ponthier (iTunes)
“Have A Good Life (See You Never)”, Benedict Cork (iTunes)
“Have A Great Day”, Easy Life (iTunes)
“Headspace”, Charli Adams featuring Ruston Kelly (iTunes)
“Heart’s Not In It”, Loote & Picture This (iTunes)
“Help Me To Feel Again”, Judah & The Lion (iTunes)
“His & Hers”, Internet Money, Don Toliver & Lil Uzi Vert featuring Gunna (iTunes)
“Hit It”, Moodshift & Johnny Sibilly (iTunes)
“I Can’t Go To The Party”, Rozzi (iTunes)
“I Do Yeah”, Titus Bank (iTunes)
“In The Water (Acoustic)”, CAL & Quinn XCII (iTunes)
“It’s A Sin”, Years & Years and Elton John (iTunes)
“It’s All Happening”, Saint Motel (iTunes)
“Just Kidding”, Waterparks (iTunes)
“Losin’ Sleep”, David Archuleta (iTunes)
“Love Me Till August”, Dasha (iTunes)
“Love Me, Leave Me”, Casey Bishop (iTunes)
“Love Someone”, Grace Kinstler (iTunes)
“Mad At Me”, Joseph Black (iTunes)
“Motorbike”, Leon Bridges (iTunes)
“Need You To Believe”, Munn (iTunes)
“Never Be Alone”, Willie Spence (iTunes)
“Never Let Me Down”, Gorgon City & Hayley May (iTunes)
“Next Thing (Loverboy)”, Surfaces (iTunes)
“No Hard Feelings”, Wolf Alice (iTunes)
“Off My Mind”, Joe P (iTunes)
“Off The Rails”, Wallice (iTunes)
“Over All Over Again”, James Barker Band (iTunes)
“Part Of Me”, Noah Kahan (iTunes)
“Past Life”, Kaptan (iTunes)
“Playing With Fire”, Crowded House (iTunes)
“Product Of The 90s”, PHANGS & Phoebe Ryan (iTunes)
“Prospect (Remix)”, Iann Dior featuring Lil Ghost (iTunes)
“Red Handed”, Loud Luxury & Thutmose (iTunes)
“Red Wine”, Benny Bellson (iTunes)
“Right Now”, Elaine (iTunes)
“Running In Place (Live)”, MisterWives (iTunes)
“Rubber Bands”, Berwyn (iTunes)
“Sad Songs And Waltzes”, Cody Johnson & Willie Nelson (iTunes)
“Say Goodbye”, Sarcastic Sounds (iTunes)
“Sideways”, Lxandra (iTunes)
“Simple”, Sam Fischer (iTunes)
“Skeletons”, Bugzy Malone (iTunes)
“Smoke Ring”, Punctual (iTunes)
“Status”, Russ (iTunes)
“Still Broke”, Samm Henshaw featuring Keyon Harrold (iTunes)
“Straightenin'”, Migos (iTunes)
“Sugar In The Creek”, Bendigo Fletcher (iTunes)
“Summer Vibe”, Forrest Nolan (iTunes)
“Tanto Color”, Maia Reficco (iTunes)
“Tendency To Be A Loner”, Zachary Knowles (iTunes)
“Tequila On A Boat”, Dustin Lynch featuring Chris Lane (iTunes)
“Too Bizarre”, Skrillex, Swae Lee & Siickbrain (iTunes)
“Unblame (Orchestral)”, Julia Brennan (iTunes)
“Ur Gonna Wish U Believed Me”, Cavetown (iTunes)
“We Are The People”, Martin Garrix featuring Bono and The Edge (iTunes)
“When You Were Young”, Kid Brunswick (iTunes)
“Without You”, Mike Williams & Felix Jaehn featuring Jordan Shaw (iTunes)
“Won’t Sleep”, Tones And I (iTunes)
“Worry With You”, Sleater-Kinney (iTunes)
“Your Name (Won’t Wash Clean)”, Loyalties x The New Coast (iTunes)

Next week, the highly-anticipated albums from Olivia Rodrigo and Twenty One Pilots are among the larger releases on the schedule. For Adam’s personal picks of the week, listen to the PGTC Friday Faves list on Spotify!

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NEW MUSIC FRIDAY: Releases For The Week of June 28, 2019

The chart World is theirs.

Scene any good collaborations lately? With these K-pop guys sticking around, it’s likely that a few have appeared on your radar. So, here are the top new albums and singles hitting stores this Friday:

BTS – BTS World (Soundtrack) (iTunes)
Features: Collaborations with Charli XCX, Juice WRLD and Zara Larsson, which all sported strong debuts on the iTunes all-genre chart

THE BLACK KEYS – “Let’s Rock” (iTunes)
Features: “Lo/Hi”, a recent #1 song on the Alternative radio chart

Notable albums out this week: Chris Brown‘s Indigo (iTunes), Foy Vance‘s From Muscle Shoals (iTunes), Ingrid Michaelson‘s Stranger Songs (iTunes), Kim Petras‘s Clarity (iTunes), Kylie Minogue‘s Step Back In Time: The Definitive Collection (iTunes), Pepper‘s Local Motion (iTunes), Shane Smith & The Saints‘s Hail Mary (iTunes), The B-52’s‘ Cosmic Thing (30th Anniversary Edition) (iTunes), The Driver Era‘s X (iTunes), Thom Yorke‘s ANIMA (iTunes)

Notable EPs out this week: BENEE‘s Fire On Marzz (iTunes), Eden XO‘s The Question (iTunes), G-Eazy‘s B-Sides (iTunes), Great Good Fine OK‘s GGFOUR (iTunes), Julia Michaels‘s Inner Monologue – Part 2 (iTunes), Mat Kearney‘s City Of Black & White (Revisited) (iTunes), Moby Rich‘s Our First Second (iTunes), Violet Skies‘s I’ll Buy A House (iTunes)

New digital singles that you can buy this week include:
“A Thousand Ways (Acoustic)”, Phoebe Ryan (iTunes)
“Actually”, Valerie Broussard (iTunes)
“All I Know”, Violet Days (iTunes)
“All The Feels”, Fitz & The Tantrums (iTunes)
“Beautiful People”, Ed Sheeran featuring Khalid (iTunes)
“Boys In The Street”, A Great Big World (iTunes)
“Can We Pretend (Sigala Remix)”, P!nk featuring Cash Cash (iTunes)
“Checkmate”, Conan Gray (iTunes)
“Come To Brazil”, Why Don’t We (iTunes)
“Comin In Hot”, Adam Lambert (iTunes)
“Criminal”, Grey (iTunes)
“Dancing In The Street”, The Struts (iTunes)
“Dancing With Your Ghost”, Sasha Sloan (iTunes)
“Don’t Dream It’s Over”, Liv Dawson (iTunes)
“Fast (Remix)”, Sueco The Child featuring Offset & A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie (iTunes)
“Flying On My Own (Dave Audé Remix)”, Celine Dion (iTunes)
“Get Like Me”, Bhad Bhabie featuring NLE Choppa (iTunes)
“Give”, Stan Walker (iTunes)
“Going Off”, JXN featuring A$AP Twelvyy (iTunes)
“Hate How Much I Love You”, Conor Maynard (iTunes)
“Hate Me”, Ellie Goulding & Juice WRLD (iTunes)
“Higher Love”, Kygo x Whitney Houston (iTunes)
“History Repeats”, Brittany Howard (iTunes)
“Honey” and “Red Hearse”, Red Hearse (iTunes)
“Hurt Me”, Meghan Trainor (iTunes)
“Icon”, Benjamin Poss (iTunes)
“Just Wanna”, Iggy Azalea (iTunes)
“Losers”, Frawley (iTunes)
“Love Me”, Stanaj (iTunes)
“Love On Myself”, Felix Jaehn featuring Calum Scott (iTunes)
“Not In California”, K.Flay (iTunes)
“Oh Love”, Parson James, Wrabel & VINCINT (iTunes)
“Ooh La La”, Josie Dunne (iTunes)
“Pink Youth”, Yuna featuring Little Simz (iTunes)
“Racks”, H.E.R. featuring YBN Cordae (iTunes)
“Restless”, Moon Taxi (iTunes)
“Rewind”, Christian Paul (iTunes)
“Same Room”, JP Saxe (iTunes)
“Simple Things”, Alexander Cardinale featuring Christina Perri (iTunes)
“Some Girl”, Andy Grammer (iTunes)
“Sorry Would Go A Long Way”, Tori Kelly (iTunes)
“The Game”, Mayer Hawthorne (iTunes)
“The Subway Song”, Delacey (iTunes)
“The Wave (Acoustic)”, R3HAB & Lia Marie Johnson (iTunes)
“Things Fall Apart”, Ayokay (iTunes)
“Tonight”, Scarypoolparty (iTunes)
“Ur So Beautiful”, Grace VanderWaal (iTunes)
“Wait For Me”, Carnage featuring G-Eazy & Wiz Khalifa (iTunes)
“When I Grow Up”, NF (iTunes)
“Who”, MUNA (iTunes)
“Without You Now”, Digital Farm Animals featuring AJ Mitchell (iTunes)
“Youth & Love”, Jack Savoretti featuring MIKA (iTunes)

Next week, look out for new albums like the soundtrack to Stranger Things and more. For Adam’s personal picks of the week, listen to the PGTC Friday Faves list on Spotify!

GRAMMY WATCH: Adam’s Final Predictions for the 57th Annual Grammys

Who wins on Sunday?

Sunday night marks the 57th Annual GRAMMY Awards, honoring the best in music from the past year, and the artists will be out and about as they hope to earn enough votes to win their respective category. Back in October, I did alright at predicting some of the nominees for the Big Four categories: Album Of The Year, Best New Artist, as well as Record and Song Of The Year. Now, I’ve compiled a list of 40 categories I’ll be watching on GRAMMY Night to see who gets a prize and who walks empty. Hey, if I can do a top 40 every week, then predicting 40 categories should be easy enough to figure out, right? Ha, that was a good one…

Some fields were more difficult than others to decide, but my crystal ball isn’t 100% accurate, so anything can happen with these competitive races. I’m sure you’ll find that we differ on winners, and perhaps I will look pretty foolish when a winner comes in that I did not see coming. It happens! So, enough of me blabbering, here’s what I’m thinking for this year’s winners at the big show:

Note:
BOLD = my choice for the winner
ITALICS = the actual GRAMMY winner (check back on Sunday night, 2/8, for updates)

1. RECORD OF THE YEAR
“Fancy”, Iggy Azalea featuring Charli XCX (Def Jam)
“Chandelier”, Sia (RCA)
“Stay With Me [Darkchild Remix]”, Sam Smith (Capitol) (WINNER)
“Shake It Off”, Taylor Swift (Big Machine/Republic)
“All About That Bass”, Meghan Trainor (Epic)

2. ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Morning Phase, Beck (Capitol) (WINNER)
Beyoncé, Beyoncé (Columbia)
X, Ed Sheeran (Atlantic)
In The Lonely Hour, Sam Smith (Capitol)
G I R L, Pharrell Williams (Columbia)

3. SONG OF THE YEAR
“All About That Bass”, Meghan Trainor (Epic)
“Chandelier”, Sia (RCA)
“Shake It Off”, Taylor Swift (Big Machine/Republic)
“Stay With Me [Darkchild Remix]”, Sam Smith (Capitol) (WINNER)
“Take Me To Church”, Hozier (Columbia)

4. BEST NEW ARTIST
Iggy Azalea (Def Jam)
Bastille (Virgin/Capitol)
Brandy Clark (Slate Creek)
Haim (Columbia)
Sam Smith (Capitol) (WINNER)

5. BEST POP SOLO PERFORMANCE
“All Of Me (Live)”, John Legend (Columbia)
“Chandelier”, Sia (RCA)
“Stay With Me [Darkchild Remix]”, Sam Smith (Capitol)
“Shake It Off”, Taylor Swift (Big Machine/Republic)
“Happy (Live)”, Pharrell Williams (Columbia) (WINNER)

6. BEST POP DUO/GROUP PERFORMANCE
“Fancy”, Iggy Azalea featuring Charli XCX (Def Jam)
“A Sky Full Of Stars”, Coldplay (Parlophone/Atlantic)
“Say Something”, A Great Big World featuring Christina Aguilera (Epic) (WINNER)
“Bang Bang”, Jessie J, Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj (Lava/Republic)
“Dark Horse”, Katy Perry featuring Juicy J (Capitol)

7. BEST TRADITIONAL POP VOCAL ALBUM
Cheek To Cheek, Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga (Streamline/Columbia/RPM/Interscope) (WINNER)
Nostalgia, Annie Lennox (Blue Note/Capitol)
Night Songs, Barry Manilow (Stiletto Ent.)
Sending You A Little Christmas, Johnny Mathis (Columbia)
Partners, Barbra Streisand (Columbia)

8. BEST POP VOCAL ALBUM
Ghost Stories, Coldplay (Parlophone/Atlantic)
Bangerz, Miley Cyrus (RCA)
My Everything, Ariana Grande (Republic)
Prism, Katy Perry (Capitol)
X, Ed Sheeran (Atlantic)
In The Lonely Hour, Sam Smith (Capitol) (WINNER)

9. BEST DANCE RECORDING
“Never Say Never”, Basement Jaxx featuring ETML (Atlantic Jaxx/Play It Again Sam)
“Rather Be”, Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynne (Big Beat/Atlantic) (WINNER)
“F For You”, Disclosure featuring Mary J. Blige (Cherrytree/Interscope)
“I Got U”, Duke Dumont featuring Jax Jones (Astralwerks/Capitol)
“Faded”, ZHU (Mind Of A Genius/TH3RD BRAIN/Columbia)

10. BEST DANCE/ELECTRONIC ALBUM
Syro, Aphex Twin (Warp)  (WINNER)
While(1<2), Deadmau5 (Astralwerks/Capitol)
Nabuma Rubberband, Little Dragon (Loma Vista/Republic)
Do It Again, Röyksopp & Robyn (Cherrytree/Interscope)
Damage Control, Mat Zo (Astralwerks/Capitol)

12. BEST ROCK PERFORMANCE
“Gimme Something Good”, Ryan Adams (Blue Note/Capitol)
“Do I Wanna Know?”, Arctic Monkeys (Domino)
“Blue Moon”, Beck (Capitol)
“Fever”, The Black Keys (Nonesuch/Warner Bros.)
“Lazaretto”, Jack White (Third Man/Columbia) (WINNER)

13. BEST METAL PERFORMANCE
“Neon Knights”, Anthrax (Rhino)
“High Road”, Mastodon (Reprise)
“Heartbreaker”, Motörhead (Udr)
“The Negative One”, Slipknot (Roadrunner)
“The Last In Line”, Tenacious D (Rhino) (WINNER)

14. BEST ROCK SONG
“Ain’t It Fun”, Paramore (Fueled By Ramen/Atlantic) (WINNER)
“Blue Moon”, Beck (Capitol)
“Fever”, The Black Keys (Nonesuch/Warner Bros.)
“Gimme Something Good”, Ryan Adams (Blue Note/Capitol)
“Lazaretto”, Jack White (Third Man/Columbia)

15. BEST ROCK ALBUM
Ryan Adams, Ryan Adams (Blue Note/Capitol)
Morning Phase, Beck (Capitol) (WINNER)
Turn Blue, The Black Keys (Nonesuch/Warner Bros.)
Hypnotic Eye, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (Reprise)
Songs Of Innocence, U2 (Interscope)

16. BEST ALTERNATIVE MUSIC ALBUM
This Is All Yours, Alt-J (Canvasback/Atlantic)
Reflektor, Arcade Fire (Capitol)
Melophobia, Cage The Elephant (RCA)
St. Vincent, St. Vincent (Loma Vista/Republic) (WINNER)
Lazaretto, Jack White (Third Man/Columbia)

17. BEST R&B PERFORMANCE
“Drunk In Love”, Beyoncé featuring Jay Z (Columbia) (WINNER)
“New Flame”, Chris Brown featuring Usher & Rick Ross (RCA)
“It’s Your World”, Jennifer Hudson featuring R. Kelly (RCA)
“Like This”, Ledisi (Verve)
“Good Kisser”, Usher (RCA)

19. BEST R&B SONG
“Drunk In Love”, Beyoncé featuring Jay Z (Columbia) (WINNER)
“Good Kisser”, Usher (RCA)
“New Flame”, Chris Brown featuring Usher & Rick Ross (RCA)
“Options [Wolfjames Version]”, Luke James (Island)
“The Worst”, Jhené Aiko (Def Jam)

20. BEST URBAN CONTEMPORARY ALBUM
Sail Out, Jhené Aiko (Def Jam)
Beyoncé, Beyoncé (Columbia)
X, Chris Brown (RCA)
Mali Is…, Mali Music (RCA)
G I R L, Pharrell Williams (Columbia) (WINNER)

21. BEST R&B ALBUM
Islander, Bernhoft (Big Picnic)
Lift Your Spirit, Aloe Blacc (XIX/Interscope)
Love, Marriage & Divorce, Toni Braxton & Babyface (Def Jam) (WINNER)
Black Radio 2, Robert Glasper Experiment (Blue Note/Capitol)
Give The People What They Want, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings (Daptone)

22. BEST RAP PERFORMANCE
“3005”, Childish Gambino (Glassnote)
“0 To 100/The Catch Up”, Drake (Cash Money/Young Money/Republic)
“Rap God”, Eminem (Aftermath/Interscope)
“i”, Kendrick Lamar (Top Dawg Ent./Interscope Records) (WINNER)
“All I Need Is You”, Lecrae (Reach)

23. BEST RAP/SUNG COLLABORATION
“Blak Majik”, Common featuring Jhené Aiko (Def Jam)
“The Monster”, Eminem featuring Rihanna (Aftermath/Interscope) (WINNER)
“Tuesday”, iLoveMakonnen featuring Drake (OVO/Warner Bros.)
“Studio”, Schoolboy Q featuring BJ The Chicago Kid (Top Dawg Ent./Interscope Records)
“Bound 2”, Kanye West & Charlie Wilson (Def Jam)

24. BEST RAP SONG
“Anaconda”, Nicki Minaj (Cash Money/Young Money/Republic)
“Bound 2”, Kanye West & Charlie Wilson (Def Jam)
“i”, Kendrick Lamar (Top Dawg Ent./Interscope Records) (WINNER)
“We Dem Boyz”, Wiz Khalifa (Rostrum/Atlantic)
“0 To 100/The Catch Up”, Drake (Cash Money/Young Money/Republic)

25. BEST RAP ALBUM
The New Classic, Iggy Azalea (Def Jam)
Because The Internet, Childish Gambino (Glassnote)
Nobody’s Smiling, Common (Def Jam)
The Marshall Mathers LP2, Eminem (Aftermath/Intercope) (WINNER)
Oxymoron, Schoolboy Q (Top Dawg Ent./Interscope Records)
Blacc Hollywood, Wiz Khalifa (Rostrum/Atlantic)

26. BEST COUNTRY SOLO PERFORMANCE
“Give Me Back My Hometown”, Eric Church (EMI Nashville)
“Invisible”, Hunter Hayes (Atlantic)
“Automatic”, Miranda Lambert (RCA Nashville)
“Something In The Water”, Carrie Underwood (Sony Nashville) (WINNER)
“Cop Car”, Keith Urban (Capitol Nashville)

27. BEST COUNTRY DUO/GROUP PERFORMANCE
“Gentle On My Mind”, The Band Perry (Big Machine/Republic) (WINNER)
“Somethin’ Bad”, Miranda Lambert with Carrie Underwood (RCA Nashville)
“Day Drinking”, Little Big Town (Capitol Nashville)
“Meanwhile Back At Mama’s”, Tim McGraw featuring Faith Hill (Big Machine/Republic)
“Raise ‘Em Up”, Keith Urban featuring Eric Church (Capitol Nashville)

28. BEST COUNTRY SONG
“American Kids”, Kenny Chesney (Blue Chair/Columbia Nashville)
“Automatic”, Miranda Lambert (RCA Nashville)
“Give Me Back My Hometown”, Eric Church (EMI Nashville)
“I’m Not Gonna Miss You”, Glen Campbell (Big Machine/Republic) (WINNER)
“Meanwhile Back At Mama’s”, Tim McGraw featuring Faith Hill (Big Machine/Republic)

29. BEST COUNTRY ALBUM
Riser, Dierks Bentley (Capitol)
The Outsiders, Eric Church (EMI Nashville)
12 Stories, Brandy Clark (Slate Creek)
Platinum, Miranda Lambert (RCA Nashville) (WINNER)
The Way I’m Livin’, Lee Ann Womack (Sugar Hill)

47. BEST AMERICANA ALBUM
The River & The Thread, Rosanne Cash (Blue Note/Capitol) (WINNER)
Terms Of My Surrender, John Hiatt (New West)
Bluesamericana, Keb’ Mo’ (Kind Of Blue Music)
A Dotted Line, Nickel Creek (Nonesuch/Warner Bros.)
Metamodern Sounds In Country Music, Sturgill Simpson (High Top Mountain)

55. BEST SPOKEN WORD ALBUM (INCLUDES POETRY, AUDIO BOOKS & STORYTELLING)
Actors Anonymous, James Franco (Brilliance)
A Call To Action, Jimmy Carter (Simon & Schuster)
Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America, John Waters (Macmillan)
Diary Of A Mad Diva, Joan Rivers (Penguin) (WINNER)
A Fighting Chance, Elizabeth Warren (Macmillan)
We Will Survive: True Stories Of Encouragement, Inspiration, And The Power Of Song, Gloria Gaynor (Brilliance)

56. BEST COMEDY ALBUM
Mandatory Fun, “Weird Al” Yankovic (RCA) (WINNER)
Obsessed, Jim Gaffigan (Comedy Central)
Oh My God, Louis C.K. (Vagrant)
Tragedy Plus Comedy Equals Time, Patton Oswalt (Comedy Central)
We Are Miracles, Sarah Silverman (Sub Pop)

57. BEST MUSICAL THEATER ALBUM
Aladdin (Walt Disney)
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Ghostlight/Razor & Tie) (WINNER)
A Gentleman’s Guide To Love & Murder (Ghostlight/Razor & Tie)
Hedwig And The Angry Inch (Atlantic)
West Side Story (SFS Media)

58. BEST COMPILATION SOUNDTRACK FOR VISUAL MEDIA
American Hustle (Madison Gate/Legacy Recordings)
Frozen (Walt Disney) (WINNER)
Get On Up: The James Brown Story (Universal)
Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 (Hollywood/Marvel Music)
The Wolf Of Wall Street (Virgin)

59. BEST SCORE SOUNDTRACK FOR VISUAL MEDIA
Frozen (Walt Disney)
Gone Girl (Columbia)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Abkco Music) (WINNER)
Gravity (WaterTower Music)
Saving Mr. Banks (Walt Disney)

60. BEST SONG WRITTEN FOR VISUAL MEDIA
“Everything Is Awesome!!!”, Tegan & Sara featuring The Lonely Island (WaterTower Music)
“I See Fire”, Ed Sheeran (WaterTower Music)
“I’m Not Gonna Miss You”, Glen Campbell (Big Machine/Republic)
“Let It Go”, Idina Menzel (Walt Disney) (WINNER)
“The Moon Song”, Scarlett Johansson & Joaquin Phoenix (WaterTower Music)

64. BEST RECORDING PACKAGE
Formosa Medicine Show, The Muddy Basin Ramblers (Hove)
Indie Cindy, The Pixies (Pixies Music/Play It Again Sam)
Lightning Bolt, Pearl Jam (Republic) (WINNER)
LP1, FKA Twigs (Young Turks/XL)
Whispers, Passenger (Nettwerk)

65. BEST BOXED OR SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION PACKAGE
Cities Of Darkscorch, Various Artists (Numero Group)
A Letter Home (Vinyl Box Set), Neil Young (Third Man)
The Rise & Fall Of Paramount Records, Volume One (1917-27), Various Artists (Third Man/Revenant) (WINNER)
Sparks (Deluxe Album Box Set), Imogen Heap (RCA/Megaphonic)
Spring 1990 (The Other One), The Grateful Dead (Rhino)

69. PRODUCER OF THE YEAR, NON-CLASSICAL
Paul Epworth
John Hill
Jay Joyce
Greg Kurstin
Max Martin (WINNER)

70. BEST REMIXED RECORDING, NON-CLASSICAL
“All Of Me” (Tiesto’s Birthday Treatment Remix), John Legend (Columbia) (WINNER)
“Falling Out” (Ming Remix), Crossfingers featuring Danny Losito (Big Alliance)
“Pompeii” (Audien Remix), Bastille (Virgin/Capitol)
“The Rising” (Eddie Amador Remix), Five Knives (Red Bull)
“Smile” (Kaskade Edit), Galantis (Big Beat/Atlantic)
“Waves” (Robin Schulz Remix), Mr. Probz (Ultra/RCA)

82. BEST MUSIC VIDEO
“We Exist”, Arcade Fire (Capitol)
“Turn Down For What”, DJ Snake & Lil Jon (Columbia)
“Chandelier”, Sia (RCA/Monkey Puzzle)
“Happy”, Pharrell Williams (Columbia) (WINNER)
“The Golden Age”, Woodkid featuring Max Richter (Interscope)

83. BEST MUSIC FILM
Beyoncé & Jay Z: On The Run Tour, Beyoncé & Jay Z (Columbia)
Ghost Stories, Coldplay (Parlophone/Atlantic/Ja Digital)
20 Feet From Stardom, Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer & Judith Hill (Anchor Bay) (WINNER)
Metallica Through The Never, Metallica (Blackened Recordings)
The Truth About Love Tour: Live From Melbourne, Pink (RCA)

That’s it for now… once again, let me know you think below or find PGTC on social media by clicking the “Get Social!” tab. Oh, and don’t forget to tune in for the GRAMMY Awards this Sunday night at 8PM (Eastern) on CBS.

TURN IT UP TUESDAY: What’s New In Stores This Week (May 13)

They have a “Fever” for big sales.

April showers bring May flowers and the garden of new releases this week is looking a lot healthier thanks to some Q2 stars with new music. Here’s what albums and singles are in stores for the week of May 13:

• Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney are doing their thing once again as The Black Keys with their fifth full-length release for Nonesuch Records, Turn Blue. Their last album, El Camino, sold over 200,000 copies in its first week during the holiday music rush in 2011. Can their newest effort do the same kind of numbers? With a #1 song at Alternative radio in “Fever”, that total will definitely be up there. (iTunes)
• Nearly five years after his passing, the public has shown that interest is still present for unreleased material from the legendary Michael Jackson. His second posthumous compilation, titled Xscape, hits shelves this week. First single “Love Never Felt So Good”, which comes in both a solo version and as a duet with Justin Timberlake, is floating around the top ten on iTunes. Look for it to be in the top 2 next week with a chance at #1. (iTunes)
• Due for a top 5 debut on the Billboard 200 is another album from Country trio Rascal Flatts. Their ninth effort is Rewind, and the title track is rising up the charts. Their numbers have dwindled over the years, but this should be pretty close to a six figure start. (iTunes)
• Released a day early to a #1 debut on iTunes Albums survey, Chromeo‘s White Women is in stores now. It’s the duo’s first album since 2010. The lead single from it is “Jealous (I Ain’t With It)”, which is currently gaining airplay in both the U.S. and Canada. (iTunes)
• Other releases out this week include: Blondie‘s Blondie 4(0)-Ever: Greatest Hits Deluxe Redux / Ghosts of Download (iTunes), Dolly Parton‘s Blue Smoke (iTunes), Down‘s Down IV, Pt. II (iTunes), Little Dragon‘s Nabuma Rubberband (iTunes), Sturgill Simpson‘s Metamodern Sounds In Country Music (iTunes), Tori Amos‘s Unrepentant Geraldines (iTunes), the original Broadway soundtrack to Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (iTunes) and a various artists compilation, One Love, One Rhythm: The Official 2014 FIFA World Cup Album (iTunes).

New digital-only singles that you can buy this week include:

• “All I Ever Need”, a digital single from Austin Mahone. (iTunes)
• “Real Girls Eat Cake”, a single from online comedy group The Janoskians. (iTunes)

Coldplay‘s Ghost Stories is looking at a spooky sales frame ahead, but how will it do against Brantley Gilbert‘s Just As I Am and Phillip Phillips‘s Behind The Light? A full preview is coming in seven!

2013 GRAMMY Awards: The Picks According To Adam (+ COMPLETE WINNERS)

Carry on wayward Sons.

We’re nearing the end of GRAMMY Week! Thanks for sticking with the blog as we count down the days until music’s biggest night on Sunday at 8PM eastern on CBS.

Now, for the topic of all GRAMMY topics, my predictions for all of the categories. This took a while to compile, so I hope you enjoy and let me know your predictions in the comments or on Twitter at @AdamFSoybel. You’ll see some general notes from me in the categories I know best. Check back on Sunday to see how well I did! (Original Big Four post) (Second Big Four post)

FULLY BOLD = I picked the winner correctly. CROSSED OUT = I did not pick the winner correctly. I got 35 out of 81 correct.

GENERAL FIELD (winners complete)
Record Of The Year: fun. featuring Janelle Monáe – “We Are Young” Gotye featuring Kimbra – “Somebody That I Used To Know”
Album Of The Year: Mumford & Sons – Babel
Song Of The Year: Kelly Clarkson – “Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)” fun. featuring Janelle Monáe – “We Are Young”
Best New Artist: fun.

First of all, you’re probably saying, where is Frank Ocean? To be honest, I have no clue where to put him, because I can’t see him winning any of the Big Four. I know people generally think he’ll take Best New Artist over fun., but considering how commercial the picks have been leaning recently, I think they can pull it off. (I do have Ocean winning for a feature and genre-specific award later on.) My only change from December is that I think “We Are Young” will win Record Of The Year rather than “Somebody That I Used To Know”. Gotye and Kimbra aren’t performing on the broadcast, which is usually an indication that they didn’t win any of the big ones.

POP FIELD (winners complete)
Best Pop Solo Performance: Adele – “Set Fire To The Rain (Live at the Royal Albert Hall)”
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance: Gotye featuring Kimbra – “Somebody That I Used To Know”
Best Pop Instrumental Album: Chris Botti – Impressions
Best Pop Vocal Album: fun. – Some Nights Kelly Clarkson – Stronger

Solo Performance is definitely going to Adele; remember that Train‘s “Hey, Soul Sister” won in a live version two years ago for a similar category. With my thinking that Gotye and Kimbra are going to lose out on Record Of The Year, they should win Pop Duo/Group Performance. Chris Botti‘s album did well commercially. Pop Vocal Album is tough; I’ve been going back and forth between fun., Kelly Clarkson and Pink, but I like Some Nights the most out of the three.

DANCE/ELECTRONICA FIELD (winners complete)
Best Dance Recording: Swedish House Mafia featuring John Martin – “Don’t You Worry Child” Skrillex featuring Sirah – “Bangarang”
Best Dance/Electronica Album: The Chemical Brothers – Don’t Think  Skrillex – Bangarang

I still don’t know why the Academy liked Skrillex so much last year. He’s nominated again in both categories this year, but I think the Academy will sympathize with the fact that Swedish House Mafia is breaking up, plus The Chemical Brothers took home wins for the Album Award in 2006 and 2008.

TRADITIONAL POP FIELD (winners complete)
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album: Michael Bublé – Christmas Paul McCartney – Kisses On The Bottom

Bublé’s won the Award three times in the past five years. It would be the first time a seasonal album wins in the category.

ROCK FIELD (winners complete)
Best Rock Performance: Mumford & Sons – “I Will Wait” The Black Keys – “Lonely Boy”
Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance: Iron Maiden – “Blood Brothers (Live)” Halestorm – “Love Bites (So Do I)”
Best Rock Song: The Black Keys – “Lonely Boy”
Best Rock Album: The Black Keys – El Camino

Mumford & Sons and The Black Keys should dominate this field; they were the two biggest rock releases in this period. Iron Maiden is a previous winner in that category and I think they’ll win, even if it’s with a live track.

ALTERNATIVE FIELD (winners complete)
Best Alternative Music Album: Gotye – Making Mirrors

Pretty sure Gotye can take this one home, which will bring his total to two Awards.

R&B FIELD (winners complete)
Best R&B Performance: Miguel – “Adorn” Usher – “Climax”
Best Traditional R&B Performance: Anita Baker – “Lately” Beyoncé – “Love On Top”
Best R&B Song: Miguel – “Adorn”
Best R&B Album: Robert Glasper Experiment – Black Radio
Best Urban Contemporary Album: Frank Ocean – channel ORANGE

Miguel got a ton of nominations at this year’s ceremony, and I think he’ll take at least Best R&B Performance and Best R&B Song. The song’s been at #1 forever on R&B radio. Anita Baker has won roughly half the time she’s been nominated; “Lately” was a great return for her and I’d like to see it win. Best R&B Album is sort of up in the air, but the Robert Glasper Experiment could perhaps take it. Ocean can probably take a win in that new Urban Contemporary category this year.

RAP FIELD (winners complete)
Best Rap Performance: Kanye West, Big Sean, Pusha T and 2 Chainz – “Mercy” Jay-Z & Kanye West – “N****s In Paris”
Best Rap/Sung Collaboration: Jay-Z, Kanye West, Frank Ocean and The-Dream – “No Church In The Wild”
Best Rap Song: Jay-Z & Kanye West – “N****s In Paris”
Best Rap Album: Drake – Take Care

Last year’s Awards seemed to be a Jay-Z and Kanye West lovefest, so I’m keeping that trend going for this year. Since Drake got snubbed in the Big Four categories, I’m guessing he’ll take home Best Rap Album. It did well commercially.

COUNTRY FIELD
Best Country Solo Performance: Dierks Bentley – “Home” Carrie Underwood – “Blown Away”
Best Country Duo/Group Performance: Taylor Swift featuring The Civil Wars — “Safe & Sound” Little Big Town – “Pontoon”
Best Country Song: Carrie Underwood – “Blown Away”
Best Country Album: Hunter Hayes — Hunter Hayes Zac Brown Band – Uncaged

With his performance slot, this should be Bentley’s year to pick up his first Award. The Civil Wars will likely pull off a repeat and Underwood’s always done well in the Country categories. Hayes will be blocked out of Best New Artist, so I’m really hoping he can take Country Album. He’s such a talented guy and the album’s great.

At this point, most of my nominees are based on either names I know or acts who have won the category before. If you need anything more specific on how I came to my decision, feel free to comment (as I mentioned above.)

NEW AGE FIELD (winners complete)
Best New Age Album: Loreena McKennitt – Troubadours Of The Rhine  Omar Akram – Echoes Of Love

JAZZ FIELD (winners complete)
Best Improvised Jazz Solo: Chick Corea – Alice in Wonderland Gary Burton & Chick Corea – Hot House
Best Jazz Vocal Album: Esperanza Spalding – Radio Music Society
Best Jazz Instrumental Album: Chick Corea & Gary Burton – Hot House Pat Metheny Unity Band – Unity Band
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album: Bob Mintzer Big Band – For The Moment Arturo Sandoval – Dear Diz (Everyday I Think Of You)
Best Latin Jazz Album: Luciana Souza – Duos III Clare Fischer Latin Jazz Big Band – Ritmo!

GOSPEL/CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN MUSIC FIELD (winners complete)
Best Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music Performance: Mary Mary – “Go Get It” Matt Redman – “10,000 Reasons (Bless The Lord)”
Best Gospel Song: Marvin Sapp – “My Testimony” Mary Mary – “Go Get It”
Best Contemporary Christian Music Song: Matt Redman – “10,000 Reasons (Bless The Lord)” / Israel Houghton – “Your Presence Is Heaven” (tie; I predicted Redman)
Best Gospel Album: Lecrae – Gravity
Best Contemporary Christian Music Album: Britt Nicole – Gold tobyMac – Eye On It

The title track from Nicole’s album is crossing over to mainstream radio; I think that’s grounds for her taking something in the field.

LATIN FIELD (winners complete)
Best Latin Pop Album: Juanes – MTV Unplugged: Deluxe Edition
Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album: Ana Tijoux – La Bala Quetzal – Imaginaries
Best Regional Mexican Album (Including Tejano): Lila Downs – Pecados y Milagros
Best Tropical Latin Album: Romeo Santos — Formula, Vol. 1 Marlow Rosado and La Riqueña — Retro

AMERICAN ROOTS MUSIC FIELD (winners complete)
Best Americana Album: Mumford & Sons – Babel  Bonnie Raitt – Slipstream
Best Bluegrass Album: Dailey & Vincent – The Gospel Side Of… Steep Canyon Rangers – Nobody Knows You
Best Blues Album: Dr. John – Locked Down
Best Folk Album: Carolina Chocolate Drops – Leaving Eden Yo-Yo Mama, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile – The Goat Radio Sessions
Best Regional Roots Music Album: Wayne Toups, Steve Riley & Wilson Savoy – The Band Courtbouillon

Americana Album is probably either going to Mumford & Sons or The Lumineers, but I’m leaning towards the former, especially if they win Album Of The Year.

REGGAE FIELD (winners complete)
Best Reggae Album: Jimmy Cliff – Rebirth

WORLD MUSIC FIELD (winners complete)
Best World Music Album: Ravi Shankar – The Living Room Sessions, Part 1

Shankar recently passed away at the age of 92.

CHILDREN’S FIELD (winners complete)
Best Children’s Album: Bill Harley – High Dive and Other Things That Could Have Happened  The Okee Dokie Brothers – Can You Canoe?

SPOKEN WORD FIELD (winners complete)
Best Spoken Word Album: Michelle Obama – American Grown Janis Ian – Society’s Child: My Autobiography

She’s back in the White House… that would probably help her chances, wouldn’t it?

COMEDY FIELD (winners complete)
Best Comedy Album: Jimmy Fallon – Blow Your Pants Off

Fallon has a strong chance of picking up the win for his collection of parodies and impressions of musicians singing television theme songs. Heck, I bought the “Tebowie” vinyl single at Record Store Day last year. Funny stuff.

MUSICAL THEATER FIELD (winners complete)
Best Musical Theater Album: Various Artists – Once: A New Musical

Haven’t seen the musical version, but the movie’s great, so I’m good with it getting a little more recognition.

MUSIC FOR VISUAL MEDIA FIELD (winners complete)
Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media: Original Soundtrack to The Muppets Midnight In Paris
Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media: Ludovic Bource – Original Score to The Artist Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross – The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Best Song Written For Visual Media: Taylor Swift & The Civil Wars – “Safe & Sound” (from The Hunger Games)

The only other potential nominee that could win Best Song is “Learn Me Right” by Birdy and Mumford & Sons, which would give the group four wins, the highest total of the night. We’ll have to wait and see.

COMPOSING/ARRANGING FIELD (winners complete)
Best Instrumental Composition: Chris Brubeck and Dave Brubeck for Music of Ansel Adams: America Chick Corea – Mozart Goes Dancing
Best Instrumental Arrangement: Gordon Goodwin, performed by Arturo Sandoval – Salt Peanuts! (Mani Salado) Gil Evans Project – How About You?
Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocals: Esperanza Spalding (with Thara Memory) – “City Of Roses”

The elder Brubeck, Dave, recently passed away at age 91.

CRAFTS FIELD (winners complete)
Best Album Notes: Holly George-Warren; Janis Joplin – The Pearl Sessions Billy Vera – ‘Singular Genius: The Complete ABC Singles
Best Boxed/Special Limited Edition: Stephen Kennedy; Rolling Stones – Some Girls: Super Deluxe Edition Fritz Klaetke – Woody At 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection
Best Historical Album: Paul McCartney (producer), Simon Gibson, Guy Massey & Steve Rooke (mastering engineers) – Ram: Paul McCartney Archive Collection (Deluxe Edition) Alan Boyd, Mark Linett, Brian Wilson & Dennis Wolfe (producers), Mark Linett (mastering engineer) for The Smile Sessions (Deluxe Box Set) (Beach Boys)
Best Recording Package: Brett Kilroe; Alabama Shakes – Boys & Girls  Michael Amzalag & Mathias Augustyniak – Biophilia, performed by Bjork

PRODUCTION FIELD
Best Engineered Album, Classical: Jesse Lewis & John Newton (engineers), Jesse Brayman (mastering engineer); Carlos Kalmar and the Oregon Symphony – Music for a Time of War Tom Caulfield & John Newton (engineers), Mark Donahue (mastering engineer) for Life & Breath – Choral Works by René Clausen, performed by Charles Bruffy & the Kansas City Chorale
Best Engineered Album (Non-classical): Glyn Johns (engineer), Bob Ludwig (mastering engineer); Ryan Adams – Ashes & Fire Richard King – The Goat Road Sessions
Producer Of The Year, Classical: Blanton Alspaugh
Producer Of The Year (Non-classical): Jeff Bhasker  Dan Auerbach
Best Remixed Recording: Skrillex (remixer); Nero – “Promises”
Best Surround Sound Album: Morten Lindberg (engineer/mastering engineer/producer); Hoff Ensemble – Quiet Winter Night Jim Anderson (engineer), Darcy Proper (mastering engineer) and Michael Friedman (producer) for Modern Cool, performed by Patricia Barber

CLASSICAL FIELD (winners complete)
Best Orchestral Performance: Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor), San Francisco Symphony – Adams: Harmonielehre & Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Best Opera Recording: Vladimir Jurowski (conductor), Topi Lehtipuu, Miah Persson & Matthew Rose (soloists), Jean Chatauret (producer) – Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress James Levine & Fabio Luisi (conductors), Hans Peter König, Jay Hunter Morris, Bryn Terfel & Deborah Voigt (soloists), Jay David Saks (producer) – Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
Best Choral Performance: Charles Bruffy (conductor); Matthew Gladden, Lindsey Lang, Rebecca Lloyd, Sarah Tannehill & Pamela Williamson and the Kansas City Chorale – Life & Breath: Choral Works by René Clausen
Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance: Boston Symphony Chamber Players – Profanes et Sacrées Eighth Blackbird – Meanwhile
Best Classical Instrumental Solo: Andras Schiff – Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Clavier Kim Kashkashian – Kurtág & Ligeti: Music for Viola
Best Classical Vocal Solo: Renee Fleming – Poèmes
Best Contemporary Classical Composition: Ugis Praulins – The Nightingale Stephen Hartke – Meanwhile – Incidental Music to Imaginary Puppet Plays
Best Classical Compendium: Partch (ensemble), John Schneider (producer) – Bitter Music Antoni Wit (conductor), Aleksandra Nagórko & Andrzej Sasin (producers) – Fonogrammi; Horn Concerto; The Awakening of Jacob; Anaklasis

MUSIC VIDEO FIELD (winners complete)
Best Short Form Music Video: Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris – “We Found Love”
Best Long Form Music Video: U2 – From The Sky Down  Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros & Old Crow Medicine Show – Big Easy Express

So, as you can see, I have no runaway winners according to my predictions, though fun., Jay-Z, Kanye West and Mumford & Sons would all receive three wins, with a number of other acts like The Black Keys and Miguel getting two. Again, check back on Sunday night to see the actual winners. Thanks for checking out the post!Big hits have been winning the Short Form category is recent years; otherwise, “Bad Girls” by M.I.A. might have a chance. U2 won the Long Form Award with other time in 1995.