Adele, Bruno Mars and Kanye West Lead Grammy Nominations

When a nominees were announced during a televised unison on Wednesday night, Adele and Bruno Mars any got 6 nominations, including nods for song, record and manuscript of a year. Foo Fighters — Dave Grohl’s indie stone organisation — also perceived 6 nominations, including best album, and a rapper Kanye West was a altogether personality with 7 nods, all though one in a swat category.

It was approaching to be Adele’s year. That 23-year-old British essence thespian was nominated for best manuscript for “21,” the year’s best-selling album, that enclosed a entire dissection strain “Rolling in a Deep,” that is in a using for record and strain of a year. Bruno Mars, 26, was also nominated in those dual categories, for “Grenade,” his oppressive strain about unrequited love, and his “Doo-Wops Hooligans,” is in a best manuscript contest.

Rounding out a list for best manuscript are “Wasting Light,” by Foo Fighters, and dual works by decorated cocktail divas: “Born This Way” by Lady Gaga and “Loud” by Rihanna. Unlike final year, no nation or swat albums done a cut, producing some of a biggest surprises. The nation star Taylor Swift, who won a best manuscript endowment dual years ago, was not nominated in that difficulty this year, notwithstanding putting out a multiplatinum “Speak Now.” “Watch a Throne,” Mr. West’s much-hyped hip-hop partnership with Jay-Z, was also abandoned in a best manuscript category.

The nominees for record of a year — for a artist and producers of a best singular — are “Rolling in a Deep” by Adele, “Grenade” by Bruno Mars, “Holocene” by Bon Iver, “The Cave” by a folk-rock organisation Mumford Sons, and “Firework” by Katy Perry. The lineup for strain of a year, that goes to songwriters, is identical, solely Mr. West’s strike singular “All of a Lights” replaces Ms. Perry’s song.

Bon Iver — a low-pitched plan led by a vivid choice songwriter Justin Vernon — is also nominated for what should be an engaging competition for best new artist. He faces off opposite a nation contingent a Band Perry, a electronic musician Skrillex and dual immature rappers, J. Cole and Nicki Minaj.

Mr. West was nominated on a strength of dual albums: his formidable solo “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” and his much-hyped collaborative bid with Jay-Z, “Watch a Throne.” Both are nominated for best swat manuscript and will go opposite Lil Wayne’s “Tha Carter IV,” Lupe Fiasco’s “Lasers” and Nicki Minaj’s “Pink Friday.”

Mr. West’s singular “All of a Lights” perceived dual other nominations, for best rap-sung partnership and best swat song, and his duet with Jay-Z “Otis” was nominated for best swat opening and for best swat song.

Though Nashville was good represented during Wednesday night’s show, nation artists were not nominated in a vital categories, a pointy depart from final year, when Lady Antebellum won 5 awards, including record and strain of a year. That trio’s latest release, “Own a Night,” is nominated for best nation album, along with Jason Aldean’s “My Kinda Party,” Eric Church’s “Chief,” Blake Shelton’s “Red River Blue,” George Strait’s “Here for a Good Time” and Ms. Swift’s “Speak Now.”

Responding to longstanding critique that there were too many categories, a National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, a Grammys’ ruling body, has cut a series to 78 from 109. The academy did divided with awards for masculine and womanlike performers in all of a categories, and pruned or combined prizes for smaller genres like Latin jazz and Native American, Cajun, Tejano and Hawaiian music. Those moves drew intense protests from musicians in those styles and their supporters, led by Latin jazz artists in New York.

For a fourth year a nominations were announced during a splashy televised concert, rather than a drab news conferences of years past. Broadcast from a Nokia Theater in Los Angeles, a uncover enclosed performances by Lady Gaga, a Band Perry and Mr. Aldean. Filling a assignment uncover with performances has been partial of a academy’s successful plan to boost ratings for a awards show, that will be promote from a Staples Center in Los Angeles on Feb. 12. The module put an importance on some of music’s immature strike makers, with Bruno Mars, Nicki Minaj and Ms. Perry announcing nominees.

But there were also nods to comparison listeners. One of a show’s highlights was a opening of a seminal swat strain “The Message,” with Grandmaster Flash spinning a backbeat, and Melle Mel rapping his lyrics. An all-star organisation of rappers — LL Cool J, Lupe Fiasco, Scorpio and Common — assimilated them.

There was also a comfortable reverence to dual successful songwriters who died this year: Nick Ashford of Motown celebrity and a stone ’n’ hurl lyricist Jerry Leiber. Mr. Ashford’s widow and essay partner, Valerie Simpson, played piano on one side of a stage, while Mr. Leiber’s essay partner, Mike Stoller, played on a other side. Between them Usher sang a miscellany of songs from a dual songwriting teams.

Lady Gaga was assimilated by a nation twin Sugarland to finish out a uncover with a stirring delivery of her ballad “You and I.”