Grammy Predictions 2018

Grammy Predictions 2018. The "General Field" are four awards which are not restricted by genre.

• Album of the Year is awarded to the performer and the production team of a full album.


• Record of the Year is awarded to the performer and the production team of a single song.


• Song of the Year is awarded to the writer(s)/composer(s) of a single song.


• Best New Artist is awarded to a promising breakthrough performer who releases, during the Eligibility Year, the first recording that establishes the public identity of that artist (which is not necessarily their first proper release).

Other awards are given for performance and production in specific genres, as well as for other contributions such as artwork and video. Special awards are given for longer-lasting contributions to the music industry.

Because of the large number of award categories (78 in 2012, 81 in 2013 and 82 in 2014), and the desire to feature several performances by various artists, only the ones with the most popular interest - typically about 10 to 12, including the four General Field categories and one or two categories in the most popular music genres (i.e. pop, rock, country, rap) - are presented directly at the televised award ceremony. Other awards are presented in a pre-telecast ceremony earlier in the afternoon of the Grammy awards ceremony.

Grammys Lady Gaga 2018

Grammys Lady Gaga 2018. After being introduced by Scarlett Johansson, Lady Gaga ran through My Favourite Things, Edelweiss, Climb Every Mountain – in a pronounced English accent with backing from a string section.

The star teamed up with the production duo of Neil Meron and Craig Zadan, who worked on NBC live specials of the Sound of Music and Peter Pan, and who were producing their third consecutive Oscars.

Speaking on the red carpet before the performance, Gaga said she was proud to be singing songs from a film that “changed music forever and changed the film industry”.

Other performances on the night included host Neil Patrick Harris’s opening number, Moving Pictures– an ode to Hollywood that featured turns from Anna Kendrick and Jack Black. Common and John Legend also performed Glory from Ava DuVernay’s film Selma. David Oyelowo and Chris Pine were left in tears.

There were also songs from Rita Ora and Tim McGraw, who were both nominees in the best original song category alongside Glory, and Jennifer Hudson sang I Can’t Let Go after the in memoriam section.

Beyonce Grammys 2018

Beyonce Grammys 2018 her gospel performance of 'Take My Hand, Precious Lord', Beyonce has donned a stunning USD 130,000 white rose-cut open Monique Pean diamond collar.

The piece was created by the New York-based designer's usual recycled 18k white gold and ethically mined diamonds, reported Us magazine."In an effort to limit the significant ecological damage and human toll and reduce the demand for the mining process, I exclusively use 18-carat recycled gold and recycled platinum in my pieces," said the designer.

Grammys Rihanna 2018

Grammys Rihanna 2018 the biggest moment of the night will likely be the onstage collaboration among rapper-producer West, pop singer Rihanna and former Beatle McCartney. Joining to perform their curiously magnetic new ballad "FourFiveSeconds," the union will likely be the buzz of social media throughout the night. Added incentive: What faux pas might Kanye commit?

Let's just hope it won't be the horrible "Play Ball." At the opposite end? Azalea, the ghetto-patois rapper whose nomination for rap album has seemingly infuriated an entire genre.

2018 Grammy Nominees

the 2018 choices isn't as crazy as it sounds — we're already more than a third of the way through the 12-month eligibility period for next year's Grammys, and if the pattern of prior years continues, many of next year's eventual winners have already been released. Using our knowledge of what's out there right now and what's expected to come in the next seven months, let's try to forecast how the four major Grammys categories will shake out next year.

(There's one thing we have to get out of the way first, though: Adele. A lot of people are expecting her to release her third album this year; if she does, she's going to win all the Grammys. However, the most recent reports say the album's not coming out until the end of 2016. Let's assume those reports are true to open up some room for everyone else, but in the same spirit of fairness, we'll say that Adele releases her comeback single sometime this summer. Got all that? Here we go!).

Best New Artist

Ella Henderson

Sam Hunt

Nick Jonas

Rae Sremmurd

Charlie XCX

Win: Ella Henderson.

Henderson is the favorite right now; she's a soulful, X-Factor–bred British woman, and "Ghost" seems like it will be a hit. Charli is a nominee this year for "Fancy," but, as with Ed Sheeran, the Grammys love to nominate someone for Best New Artist a year after they should. Nick Jonas fills the "How the heck are they new?" spot, and Hunt is the requisite country artist. In all likelihood, we're missing this year's Lorde — a youngster who comes out of nowhere with a dark horse Song of Summer contender — but until that person makes themselves known, we're giving their slot to Rae Sremmurd, who have an approximately 0.00001 percent chance of actually being nominated in real life.

Song of the Year

Adele, "Single TBA"

Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars, "Uptown Funk"

Taylor Swift, "Blank Space"

Meghan Trainor, "Lips Are Movin'"

Rihanna, Kanye West, and Paul McCartney, "FourFiveSeconds"

Win: Adele.

As anyone who's watched their musical numbers knows, the Grammys love unexpected pairings, and the songwriting partnership of Paul McCartney and Kanye West is the most beautifully unorthodox pairing of stars we've seen in a while; whichever of their songs charts highest will get a nomination. "Uptown Funk" looks like it's on the way to being one of the year's biggest hits, so it scores a courtesy nom here. Trainor is a success story for songwriters everywhere, and "Lips Are Movin'" is a better song than "All About That Bass," which is nominated this year. The eventual Song of Summer will likely earn a nod here; appropriately, we're filling that blank space with Starbucks lovers. And absolutely none of this will matter if Adele drops a single before September 30.

Record of the Year

Adele, "Single TBA"

Bruno Mars, "Single TBA"

Rihanna, "Single TBA"

Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars, "Uptown Funk"

Taylor Swift, "Blank Space"

Win: Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars.

Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson can probably start writing their acceptance speeches for this one right now — it's unlikely anything else this year could press Grammy voters' buttons as precisely as "Uptown Funk" does. Ironically, the only thing that could maybe dethrone it would be a solo single from Mars himself, who is expected to release his third album some time this year. Elsewhere, the airiness of "Blank Space" gives it a slightly better chance here than in Song of the Year, and while "FourFiveSeconds" is probably too raw to get a nomination, we assume one of Rihanna's later singles will be more polished. And the last spot goes to Adele by default.

Album of the Year

D'Angelo, Black Messiah

Bob Dylan, Shadows in the Night

Mark Ronson, Uptown Special

Taylor Swift, 1989

Kanye West, TBA

Win: Taylor Swift.

Just to keep things interesting, let's stick with the assumption that Adele's album doesn't come out before the September 30 deadline. Who gets this Grammy instead? Of the music that's already out, 1989 is the easiest to pencil in, and Uptown Special's throwback appeal should be enough to earn it a nod. Black Messiah and Shadows in the Night might be unconventional choices, but each has a narrative — D'Angelo is back! Dylan covers Sinatra! — that could prove irresistible to voters. For the albums that haven't come out yet, we're going with Kanye West, whose 2016 output has been as warm and accessible as Yeezus wasn't. Of the five, we're betting on 1989, a win that would make up for the quasi-snub of Red and be fitting recognition for one of the music industry's few remaining blockbusters.

Grammys 2018 Time

Grammys 2018 Time. This year’s Grammy Awards were all about the performances, of which there were many times more (23) than there were actual awards given out during the three-and-a-half hour show. It was also all about performers young and old attempting — sometimes successfully and sometimes not — to bridge the generational divide in music. And it was not, thankfully, all about that bass. That bass is finally over.

Sam Smith was the evening’s big winner, returning to the stage every hour, on the hour, to collect each of his four awards. Beck was the surprise of the night, winning not only Best Rock Album but also Album of the Year, for which he beat out Beyoncé, Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith and Pharrell.

But the awards felt like an afterthought — punctuation marks between performances meant to chase higher ratings than the act of doling out golden gramophones is capable of generating. And those performances were a little heavy on the ballads and a little low on the showmanship, with the night saved from interminable boredom by a handful of worthy showstoppers.