SZA, Phoebe Bridgers & Taylor Swift Take The Lead In 2024 Grammy Nominations

On Friday morning, nominations were revealed for the 2024 66th Grammy Awards, and SZA, Phoebe Bridgers, Victoria Monét and Taylor Swift dominated the top categories.

SZA led the nominations with nine nods in total. SZA’s extensive repertoire of songs reflects her unique blend of diverse influences, and her album SOS and its songs span pop, rap, and R&B categories. Her single “Kill Bill” is up for Song and Record of the Year. 

The singer currently has won one Grammy award with 14 previous nominations.

SZA’s collaboration “Ghost in the Machine” with Bridgers was also nominated for the Best Pop Duo/Group Performance.

Monét, Bridgers and Serban Ghenea all follow SZA with seven nominations each. Monét is also nominated for Best New Artist, alongside singers Coco Jones and Gracie Abrams.

Swift has six nominations and could set a new record as the first artist to ever win Album of the Year four times. Olivia Rodrigo, who has three previous Grammy awards, also has six nominations.

This year sees three new categories added: Best African Music Performance, Best Pop Dance Recording and Best Alternative Jazz Album.

Below is the complete nominations list:

Record of the Year

• “Worship” – Jon Batiste
• “Not Strong Enough” – boygenius
• “Flowers” – Miley Cyrus
• “What Was I Made For?” [from the motion picture “Barbie”] – Billie Eilish
• “On My Mama” – Victoria Monét
• “vampire” – Olivia Rodrigo
• “Anti-Hero” – Taylor Swift
• “Kill Bill” – SZA

Album of the Year

• World Music Radio – Jon Batiste
• the record – boygenius
• Endless Summer Vacation – Miley Cyrus
• Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd – Lana Del Rey
• The Age of Pleasure – Janelle Monáe
• GUTS – Olivia Rodrigo
• Midnights – Taylor Swift
• SOS – SZA

Song of the Year

• “A&W”– Jack Antonoff, Lana Del Rey & Sam Dew, songwriters (Lana Del Rey)
• “Anti-Hero” – Jack Antonoff & Taylor Swift, songwriters (Taylor Swift)
• “Butterfly” – Jon Batiste & Dan Wilson, songwriters (Jon Batiste)
• “Dance the Night” (from Barbie the Album)– Caroline Ailin, Dua Lipa, Mark Ronson & Andrew Wyatt, songwriters (Dua Lipa)
• “Flowers”– Miley Cyrus, Gregory Aldae Hein & Michael Pollack, songwriters (Miley Cyrus)
• “Kill Bill”– Rob Bisel, Carter Lang & Solána Rowe, songwriters (SZA)
• “vampire” – Daniel Nigro & Olivia Rodrigo, songwriters (Oliva Rodrigo)
• “What Was I Made For?” [from the motion picture Barbie]– Billie Eilish O’Connell & Finneas O’Connell, songwriters (Billie Eilish)

Best New Artist

• Gracie Abrams
• Fred again..
• Ice Spice
• Jelly Roll
• Coco Jones
• Noah Kahan
• Victoria Monét
• The War and Treaty

Producer of the Year, Non-Classical

• Jack Antonoff
• Dernst “D’Mile” Emile II
• Hit-Boy
• Metro Boomin
• Daniel Nigro

Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical

• Edgar Barrera
• Jessie Jo Dillon
• Shane McAnally
• Theron Thomas
• Justin Tranter

Best Pop Vocal Album

• chemistry – Kelly Clarkson
• Endless Summer Vacation – Miley Cyrus
• GUTS – Olivia Rodrigo
• – (Subtract) – Ed Sheeran
• Midnights – Taylor Swift

Best Pop Dance Recording

• “Baby Don’t Hurt Me” – David Guetta, Anne-Marie & Coi Leray
• “Miracle” – Calvin Harris Featuring Ellie Goulding
• “Padam Padam” – Kylie Minogue
• “One in a Million” – Bebe Rexha & David Guetta
• “Rush” – Troye Sivan

Best Dance/Electronic Music Album

• Playing Robots Into Heaven – James Blake
• For That Beautiful Feeling – The Chemical Brothers
• Actual Life 3 (January 1-September 9 2022) – Fred again..
• Kx5 – Kx5
• Quest For Fire – Skrillex

Best Rock Album

• But Here We Are – Foo Fighters
• Starcatcher – Greta Van Fleet
• 72 Seasons – Metallica
• This Is Why – Paramore
• In Times New Roman… – Queens of the Stone Age

Best Alternative Music Album

• The Car – Arctic Monkeys
• the record – boygenius
• Did you know that there‘s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd – Lana Del Rey
• Cracker Island – Gorillaz
• I Inside the Old Year Dying – PJ Harvey

Best R&B Album

• Girls Night Out – Babyface
• What I Didn‘t Tell You (Deluxe) – Coco Jones
• Special Occasion – Emily King
• JAGUAR II – Victoria Monét
• CLEAR 2: SOFT LIFE EP – Summer Walker

Best Melodic Rap Performance

• “Sittin’ on Top of the World” – Burna Boy Featuring 21 Savage
• “Attention” – Doja Cat
• “Spin Bout U” – Drake & 21 Savage
• “All My Life” – Lil Durk Featuring J. Cole
• “Low” – SZA

Best Rap Song

• “Attention” – Rogét Chahayed, Amala Zandile Dlamini & Ari Starace, songwriters (Doja Cat)
• “Barbie World” [from Barbie the Album] – Isis Naija Gaston, Ephrem Louis Lopez Jr. & Onika Maraj, songwriters (Nicki Minaj & Ice Spice Featuring Aqua)
• “Just Wanna Rock” – Mohamad Camara, Symere Woods & Javier Mercado, songwriters (Lil Uzi Vert)
• “Rich Flex” – Brytavious Chambers, Isaac “Zac” De Boni, Aubrey Graham, J. Gwin, Anderson Hernandez, Michael “Finatik” Mule & Shéyaa Bin Abraham-Joseph, songwriters (Drake & 21 Savage)
• “SCIENTISTS & ENGINEERS” – Andre Benjamin, Paul Beauregard, James Blake, Michael Render, Tim Moore & Dion Wilson, songwriters (Killer Mike Featuring André 3000, Future & Eryn Allen Kane)

Best Alternative Jazz Album

• Love In Exile – Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, Shahzad Ismaily
• Quality Over Opinion – Louis Cole
• SuperBlue: The Iridescent Spree – Kurt Elling, Charlie Hunter, SuperBlue
• Live at the Piano – Cory Henry
• The Omnichord Real Book – Meshell Ndegeocello

Best Country Album

• Rolling Up the Welcome Mat – Kelsea Ballerini
• Brothers Osborne – Brothers Osborne
• Zach Bryan – Zach Bryan
• Rustin‘ in the Rain – Tyler Childers
• Bell Bottom Country – Lainey Wilson

Best Americana Album

• Brandy Clark – Brandy Clark
• The Chicago Sessions – Rodney Crowell
• You‘re the One – Rhiannon Giddens
• Weathervanes – Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
• The Returner – Allison Russell

Best Música Mexicana Album (Including Tejano)

• Bordado a Mano – Ana Bárbara
• La Sánchez – Lila Downs
• Motherflower – Flor de Toloache
• Amor Como en las Películas de Antes – Lupita Infante
• GÉNESIS – Peso Pluma

Best African Music Performance

• “Amapiano” – ASAKE & Olamide
• “City Boys” – Burna Boy
• “UNAVAILABLE” – Davido Featuring Musa Keys
• “Rush” – Ayra Starr
• “Water”– Tyla

Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media (Includes Film and Television)

• Barbie – Mark Ronson & Andrew Wyatt, composers
• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – Ludwig Göransson, composer
• The Fabelmans – John Williams, composer
• Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny – John Williams, composer
• Oppenheimer – Ludwig Göransson, composer