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A selection of the Grammy nominations for 2019 have just be released, adding another awards show to the list of those who have spilled the beans.

The music event is the night of the year for a number of artists, with accolades such as album of the year and song of the year highly coveted.

Despite there being a whopping 84 different categories, each trophy is still highly prized, so even getting a nomination is huge for many.

Here’s who we know is up for a win this year so far.

The 2019 Grammy nominations are:

Album of the year

• Invasion Of Privacy – Cardi B
• By The Way, I Forgive You – Brandi Carlile
• Scorpion – Drake
• H.E.R. – H.E.R.
• Beerbongs & Bentleys – Post Malone
• Dirty Computer – Janelle Monáe
• Golden Hour – Kacey Musgraves
• Black Panther: The Album, Music From And Inspired By – Various Artists

Record of the year

• I Like It – Cardi B, Bad Bunny & J Balvin
• The Joke – Brandi Carlile
• This Is America – Childish Gambino
• God’s Plan – Drake
• Shallow – Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
• All The Stars – Kendrick Lamar & SZA
• Rockstar – Post Malone Feat. 21 Savage
• The Middle – Zedd Feat. Marren Morris & Grey

Song of the year

• All The Stars (performed by Kendrick Lamar & SZA)
• Boo’d Up (performed by Ella Mai)
• God’s Plan (performed by Drake)
• In My Blood (performed by Shawn Mendes)
• The Joke (performed by Brandi Carlile)
• The Middle (performed by Zedd, Maren Morris & Grey)
• Shallow (performed by Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper)
• This Is America (performed by Childish Gambino)

Best country album

• Unapologetically – Kelsea Ballerini
• Port Saint Joe – Brothers Osborne
• Girl Going Nowhere – Ashley McBryde
• Golden Hour – Kacey Musgraves
• From a Room Volume 2 – Chris Stapleton

Best R&B album

• Sex & Cigarettes – Toni Braxton
• Good Thing – Leon Bridges
• Honestly – Lalah Hathaway
• H.E.R – H.E.R.
• Gumbo unplugged (live) – PJ Morton

Best new artist

• Chloe X Halle
• Luke Combs
• Dua Lipa
• Margot Price
• Bebe Rexha
• Jorja Smith
• Greta Van Fleet
• H.E.R

Best solo pop performance

• Colors – Beck
• Havana (Live) – Camila Cabello
• God Is A Woman – Ariana Grande
• Joanne (Where Do You Think You’re Goin?) – Lady Gaga
• Better Now – Post Malone

Best pop duo/group performance

• Fall in Line – Christina Aguilera ft Demi Lovato
• Don’t Go Breaking My Heart – Backstreet Boys
• ‘S Wonderful – Tony Bennett and Diana Krall
• Shallow – Lady and Bradley Cooper
• Girls Like You – Maroon 5 ft Cardi B
• Say Something – Justin Timberlake ft Chris Stapleton
• The Middle – Zedd, Maren Morris and Grey

Best pop vocal album

• Camila – Camila Cabello
• Meaning Of Life – Kelly Clarkson
• Sweetener – Ariana Grande
• Shawn Mendes – Shawn Mendes
• Beautiful Trauma – P!nk
• Reputation – Taylor Swift

Best dance/electronic album

• Singularity – Jon Hopkins
• Woman Worldwide – Justice
• Treehouse – Sofi Tukker
• Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides – Sophie
• Lune Rouge – TOKiMONSTA

Best R&B song

• Boo’d Up – Ella Mai
• Come Through and Chill – Miguel Featuring J. Cole & Salaam Remi
• Feels Like Summer – Childish Gambino
• Focus – H.E.R.
• Long As I Live – Toni Braxton

Best rock song

• Black Smoke Rising – Greta Van Fleet
• Jumpsuit – Twenty One Pilots
• Mantra – Bring Me The Horizon
• Masseducation – St. Vincent
• Rats – Ghost

Best rock album

• Rainier Fog – Alice In Chains
• Mania – Fall Out Boy
• Prequelle – Ghost
• From the Fires – Greta Van Fleet
• Pacific Daydream – Weezer

Best rap song

• God’s Plan – Drake
• King’s Dead – Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock, Future & James Blake
• Lucky You – Eminem Featuring Joyner Lucas
• Sicko Mode – Travis Scott, Drake, Big Hawk & Swae Lee
• Win – Jay Rock

Best rap album

• Invasion of Privacy – Cardi B
• Swimming – Mac Miller
• Victory Lap – Nipsey Hussle
• Daytona – Pusha T
• Astroworld – Travis Scott

Best alternative album vocal or instrumental

• Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino – Arctic Monkeys
• Colors – Beck
• Utopia – Björk
• American Utopia – David Byrne
• Masseducation – St. Vincent

Best score soundtrack for visual media

• Black Panther – Ludwig Göransson
• Blade Runner 2049 – Benjamin Wallfisch & Hans Zimmer
• Coco – Michael Giacchino
• The Shape of Water – Alexandre Desplat
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi – John Williams

Best music video

• Apes*** – The Carters
• This Is America – Childish Gambino
• I’m Not Racist – Joyner Lucas
• Pynk – Janelle Monáe
• Mumbo Jumbo – Tierra Whack

Best contemporary instrumental album

• The Emancipation Procrastination – Christian Scott and Tunde Adjuah
• Steve Gadd Band – Steve Gadd Band
• Modern Lore -Julian Lage
• Laid Back – Marcus Miller
• Protocol 4 – Simon Phillips

Best rock performance

• Four out of Five – Arctic Monkeys
• When Bad Does Good – Chris Cornell
• Made An America – THE FEVER 333
• Highway Tune – Greta Van Fleet
• Uncomfortable – Halestorm

Best metal performance

• Condemned to the Gallows – Between The Buried And Me
• Honeycomb – Deafheaven
• Electric Messiah – High On Fire
• Betrayer – Trivium
• On My Teeth – Underoath

Best R&B Performance

• Long As I Live – Toni Braxton
• Summer – The Carters
• Y O Y – Lalah Hathaway
• Best Part – H.E.R. Featuring Daniel Caesar
• First Began – PJ Morton

The 2019 Grammy Awards will take place on Sunday 10 February.

The full list of nominations will be updated as they’re announced.

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As expected, no one appears to be amused with host Megyn Kelly’s blackface comments on Megyn Kelly Today Tuesday. CNN’s Don Lemon, for one, is among those speaking out against her controversial comments.

Lemon, 52, spoke with CNN’s Chris Cuomo Tuesday about Kelly’s blackface statement, where she said in regards to Halloween costumes: “When I was a kid, that was OK, so long as you were dressing up in character.” He quickly shared his disapproval as he questioned “how much diversity” she had present on her staff because they “would have informed her” about the complicated and problematic history of wearing blackface.

“How much time do you have Chris? Sometimes you say stupid things when you’re live, but I’m just going to be honest,” Lemon said Tuesday. “Megyn is 47 years old, she’s our age. There has never been a time in that 47 years that blackface has been acceptable. There were all white people on that panel. There were no African Americans [and] no people of color to say, ‘Hey, Megyn. Not cool.'”

Lemon added, “This is what people of the larger culture don’t understand about racism and about privilege. I don’t know many black people who are trying to be white people for Halloween or dressing up as white people. But I know a lot of people who do it for black people.”

Lemon suggested further that Kelly “is not aware of the history of this country.” He believes “people really need to educate themselves about” blackface.

Through an internal memo, Kelly issued an apology to her colleagues. “I realize now that such behavior is indeed wrong and I am sorry,” she wrote, according to Washington Post . “The history of blackface in our country is abhorrent; the wounds too deep. I’ve never been a ‘PC’ person—but I understand that we do need to be more sensitive in this day and age. Particularly on race and ethnicity issues which, far from being healed, have been exacerbated in our politics over the past year.”

The 47-year-old host apologized Wednesday on Megyn Kelly Today as well, where a camera was zoomed in close to her face as she spoke with audience members in attendance and viewers at home.

“I was wrong and I am sorry. One of the great parts of sitting in this chair is getting to discuss different points of view. Sometimes I talk and sometimes I listen, and yesterday I learned,” Kelly said. “I learned given the history of blackface being used in awful ways by racists in this country, it is not OK for that to be part of any costume, Halloween or otherwise.”

She continued, “I’ve never been a PC person but I do understand the value in being sensitive to our history, particularly on race and ethnicity. This past year has been so painful for many people of color. The country feels so divided, and I have no wish to add to that pain and offense.”

Lemon wasn’t the only notable name to rebuke Kelly’s previous sentiment. Olympian Adam Rippon hit Twitter to determine “what year did she grow up in.” Top Chef’s Padma Lakshmi shared how she “cannot believe the ignorance on this in 2018” before suggesting Kelly has “a responsibility to educate yourself on social issues” since she’s “on national television.”

“You and I are approximately the same age. Blackface was NOT okay when we were kids,” actor Patton Oswalt tweeted. “Take it from a big-hearted boy who just wanted to show his love for Nipsey Russell on the worst Halloween of my life.”