Just for fun, the annual KuKo’s Choice Awards is my own version of the GRAMMYs. How would I voted if I were a member of the Academy.
This year in order to avoid confusion with genres. The nominees will be based on the known submitted entries to the 58th GRAMMYs (which are also limited to what I’ve listened).
The categories are: Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Music Video and the combined Album of the Year in the fields pop, rock, urban (includes Best Rap, R&B, Urban Contemporary album categories), American Roots (American roots, Country); dance/electronic, and alternative music. The winners of these six categories will compete for the ‘Album of the Year’ award, voted by you, the readers.
The winners will be revealed on Sunday, November 21 and a poll for the six ‘Album of the Year’ nominees will start right away until New Year’s Eve (EST)
These are the nominees
RECORD OF THE YEAR
Alabama Shakes
Don’t Wanna Fight (VIEW)
Death Cab for Cutie
Black Sun (VIEW)
Foo Fighters
Something from Nothing (VIEW)
Taylor Swift
Blank Space (VIEW)
Tame Impala
Let It Happen (VIEW)
SONG OF THE YEAR
Alright
Kendrick Lamar, Mark Anthony Spears and Pharrell Williams, songwriters (VIEW)
Black Sun
Ben Gibbard, songwriter (VIEW)
Blank Space
Max Martin, Shellback and Taylor Swift, songwriters (VIEW)
Pedestrian at Best
Courtney Barnett, Dan Luscombe, Dave Muddie and Bones Sloane, songwriters (VIEW)
Ship to Wreck
Kid Harpoon and Florence Welsh, songwriters (VIEW)
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
A$ap Rocky
L$D (VIEW)
Courtney Barnett
Pedestrian at Best (VIEW)
Lana del Rey
High by the Beach (VIEW)
Kendrick Lamar
Alright (VIEW)
Tame Impala
Let It Happen (VIEW)
ALBUM OF THE YEAR: POP
CHVRCH≡S
Every Open Eye
Lana del Rey
Honeymoon
Florence + The Machine
How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
Mark Ronson
Uptown Funk
Taylor Swift
1989
ALBUM OF THE YEAR: DANCE/ELECTRONIC
Arca
Xen
The Chemical Brothers
Born in the Echoes
Disclosure
Caracal
Jamie xx
In Colour
Skrillex & Diplo
Skrillex & Diplo Presents Jack Ü
ALBUM OF THE YEAR: ROCK
Ryan Adams
1989
Death Cab for Cutie
Kintsugi
Muse
Drones
Of Monsters and Men
Beneath the Skin
Weezer
Everything Will Be Alright in the End
ALBUM OF THE YEAR: ALTERNATIVE
Alabama Shakes
Sound & Color
Courtney Barnett
Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
Björk
Vulnicura
Tame Impala
Currents
Sufjan Stevens
Carrie & Lowell
ALBUM OF THE YEAR: URBAN MUSIC
J. Cole
2014 Forest Hills Drive
Drake
If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late
Dr. Dre
Compton
The Internet
Ego Death
Kendrick Lamar
To Pimp A Butterfly
ALBUM OF THE YEAR: AMERICAN ROOTS (Including Country)
Zac Brown Band
Jekkyl + Hyde
Luke Bryan
Kill the Lights
The Decemberists
What A Terrible World
Don Henley
Cas Country
Kacey Musgraves
Pageant Material
Are your favourites here? Comment!
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