The first batch of rumored Grammy submissions has been revealed! With the Sept. 30 cutoff date, most labels and record executives know the drill: submit your best work that fell during the eligibility period (Oct. 1, 2013-Sept. 30, 2014) for a chance of getting voter love. Now, thanks to an insider source at GoldDerby.com, we have the first look at the categories for which music's biggest stars are gunning. From Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande to Eminem, Sam Smith and Carrie Underwood, the 57th Annual Grammy Awards are gonna be one tough race. There were roughly 13,000 submissions in the first-entry opportunity, which took place in July.
Other notable artists (in a wide-range of genres) include: Hunter Hayes, Iggy Azalea, Luke Bryan, Beyonce, Coldplay, Drake, Miranda Lambert, Arcade Fire, The Avett Brothers, Roseanne Cash, Lana Del Rey, Bruno Mars, Kacey Musgraves, Mariah Carey, One Direction, The Black Keys, Phillip Phillips, Chris Brown, Arctic Monkeys and Kelly Clarkson (among too many to count).
First-round voting is now open, wrapping Nov. 15, with the official nominees being announced during the Grammy Nominations Concert LIVE!! Countdown to Music’s Biggest Night on CBS on Dec. 6. Then, voters (12,000 members) will be sent the final ballot on Dec. 17, to be returned and accounted for on Jan. 16.
The 57th Annual Grammy Awards are slated for Feb. 8, 2015 and will be broadcast on CBS at 8/7c.
The 2015 Grammy submissions (so far) go as follows:
ROY: Record Of The Year
SOY: Song Of The Year
AOY: Album Of The Year
BNA: Best New Artist
Pop/Traditional Pop/Dance & Electronic
Barbra Streisand
It Had To Be You - ROY, Pop Duo/Group
I’d Want It To Be You - (SOY)
Partners - AOY, Trad Pop
Bastille
BNA
Pompeii Live at Capitol Studios - ROY
Flaws - SOY, Pop Duo/Group
Of The Night - Dance Recording
All This Bad Blood - AOY
Charli XCX
Boom Clap - ROY, SOY, Pop Solo, Music Vid
Fancy - ROY, SOY, Pop Duo/Group, Music Vid
Coldplay
A Sky Full Of Stars - ROY, SOY, Pop Duo/Group, Music Vid
Wish I Was Here - Song/Visual Media
Ghost Stories - AOY, Pop Album, Music Film
Ariana Grande
Problem - ROY, SOY, Pop Duo/Group, Music Vid
Bang Bang - ROY, (SOY), Pop Duo/Group
My Everything - AOY, Pop Album
Lana Del Rey
West Coast - ROY, SOY, Pop Solo
Shades Of Cool - Music Vid
Ultraviolence - AOY, Pop Album
Tropico - Music Film
Tove Lo
BNA
Habits (Stay High) - ROY, SOY, Pop Solo, Music Vid
Strangers - ROY, SOY, Dance Recording
Heroes - SOY
Queen Of The Clouds - AOY, Pop Album
Taylor Swift
Shake It Off - ROY, SOY, Pop Solo, Music Vid
Sweeter Than Fiction - Song/Visual Media
Ed Sheeran
Don’t - ROY, SOY, Pop Solo, Music Vid
I See Fire - SOY, Song/Visual Media
Sing - Music Vid
X- AOY, Pop Album
Lorde
Yellow Flicker Beat - ROY, SOY, Pop Solo, Song/Visual Media
A Great Big World
BNA
Say Something - ROY, SOY, Pop Duo/Group, Music Vid (and yes, all for the CA version)
Is There Anybody Out There? - AOY, Pop Album
Avicii
Hey Brother - ROY, Pop Solo
Broken Bells
Holding On For Life - ROY, SOY, Pop Duo/Group, Music Vid
After The Disco - AOY, Alt Album
[Danger Mouse: Producer of Year]
Bruno Mars
Amy - SOY
Calvin Harris
Summer - ROY, SOY, Dance Recording
I Will Never Let You Down - SOY
Hozier
Take Me To Church - ROY, SOY, Pop Solo
Idina Menzel
Let It Go - ROY, (SOY), Pop Solo, (Song/Visual Media)
Always Starting Over - Pop Solo
Here I Go - Pop Duo/Group
If/Then - Musical Theater Album
Justin Timberlake
Not A Bad Thing - ROY, SOY, Pop Solo
Love Never Felt So Good - ROY, Pop Duo/Group
Katy Perry
Dark Horse - ROY, SOY, Pop Duo/Group, Music Vid
Black Widow - SOY
Prism - AOY, Pop Album
La Roux
Uptight Downtown - ROY, SOY, Pop Solo
Let Me Down Gently - Music Vid
Trouble In Paradise - AOY, Pop Album
Lady Gaga
Dope - ROY, Pop Solo
Gypsy - SOY
Lush Life - Pop Solo
Do What You Want - Pop Duo/Group
It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) - ROY
Cheek To Cheek - Pop Duo/Group
We’re Doing A Sequel - (Song/Visual Media)
I Can’t Give You Anything But Love - Music Vid
ARTPOP - AOY, Pop Album
Cheek To Cheek - AOY, Trad Pop
G.U.Y. - An ARTPOP Film: G.U.Y. Version Only - Music Film
M.I.A.
Y.A.L.A. - ROY, SOY, Dance Recording
Double Bubble Trouble - Music Vid
Matangi - AOY, Alt Album
MAGIC!
BNA
Rude - ROY, SOY, Pop Duo/Group, Music Vid
Don’t Kill The Magic - AOY, Pop Album, Engineered Album (Non-Classical)
Maroon 5 [Adam Levine]
Maps - ROY, SOY, Pop Duo/Group, Music Vid
V - AOY, Pop Album
[Lost Stars - ROY, (SOY), Pop Solo, (Song/Visual Media)]
Meghan Trainor
All About That Bass - ROY, SOY, Pop Solo, Music Vid
Miley Cyrus
We Can’t Stop - ROY, SOY, Pop Solo
Adore You - Music Vid
SMS (Bangerz) - Pop Duo/Group
Come Get It Bae - (SOY), Pop Duo/Group
Lucy In The Sky - Pop Duo/Group
Bangerz - AOY, Pop Album
One Direction
Story Of My Life - ROY, SOY, Pop Duo/Group, Music Vid
Midnight Memories - AOY, Pop Album
OneRepublic
Love Runs Out - ROY, SOY, Music Vid
Ordinary Human - Song/Visual Media
iTunes Session - AOY, Pop Album
[Ryan Tedder: Producer of Year]
Robyn
Do It Again - ROY, SOY, Pop Duo/Group
Do It Again - AOY, Dance/Electronic Album
Röyksopp
Do It Again - ROY, SOY, Pop Duo/Group
Do It Again - AOY, Dance/Electronic Album
Sam Smith
BNA
Stay With Me (Darkchild Version) - ROY, SOY, Pop Solo, Music Vid
Leave Your Lover - Music Vid
La La La - ROY, SOY, Pop Duo/Group
Therapy - SOY, R&B Song
In The Lonely Hour - AOY, Pop Album
Sia
Chandelier - ROY, SOY, Pop Solo, Music Vid
Battle Cry - ROY, SOY, Rap/Sung, Rap Song
Cannonball - SOY
Opulence - SOY, Rap Song
1000 Forms Of Fear - AOY, Pop Album
Skrillex
Recess - ROY, SOY, Dance Recording
Ragga Bomb - Music Vid
Recess - AOY, Dance/Electronic Album
Tiësto
Wasted - ROY, SOY, Pop Duo/Group, Music Vid
Red Lights - Pop Solo
A Town Called Paradise - AOY, Dance/Electronic Album
Tony Bennett
It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) - ROY
Cheek To Cheek - Pop Duo/Group
We’re Doing A Sequel - (Song/Visual Media)
I Can’t Give You Anything But Love - Music Vid
Cheek To Cheek - AOY, Trad Pop
Vance Joy
BNA
Riptide - ROY, SOY, Pop Solo, Music Vid
Dream Your Life Away - AOY, Pop Album
Zedd
Stay The Night - ROY, SOY, Dance Recording
Find You - Pop Duo/Group, Music Vid
HAIM
BNA
The Wire - ROY, SOY, Pop Duo/Group, Music Vid
My Song 5 - Rock Perf, Rock Song, Music Vid
Demi Lovato
Really Don’t Care - ROY, SOY, Pop Duo/Group, Music Vid
Somebody To You - ROY, (SOY)
Banks
BNA
Beggin For Thread - ROY, SOY, Pop Solo, Music Vid
Goddess - AOY, Pop Album
Sharon Van Etten
Taking Chances - ROY
Your Love Is Killing Me - SOY
Are We There - AOY, Pop Album
Kelly Clarkson
Underneath The Tree - ROY, SOY, Pop Solo, Music Vid
Prizefighter - ROY, (SOY), Country Duo/Group, (Country Song)
In The Basement - Pop Duo/Group
Wrapped In Red - AOY, Pop Album
Imogen Heap
Run-Time - ROY, SOY, Pop Solo
The Listening Chair - Music Vid
Sparks - AOY, Pop Album, Engineered Album/Non Classical
Lee DeWyze
Blackbird Song - Song/Visual Media
Britney Spears
Work B**** - Music Vid
SMS (Bangerz) - Pop Duo/Group
Britney Jean - AOY, Pop Album
Shakira
Can’t Remember To Forget You - ROY, SOY, Pop Duo/Group, Music Vid
Empire - Pop Solo
Medicine - Country Duo/Group, Country Song
Shakira - AOY, Pop Album
Nico & Vinz
Am I Wrong - ROY, SOY, Pop Duo/Group
Find A Way - Song/Visual Media
In Your Arms - Music Vid
Alesso
Tear The Roof Up - SOY, Dance Recording
Heroes - SOY
Phillip Phillips
Raging Fire - ROY, SOY, Pop Solo, Music Vid
Behind The Light - AOY, Pop Album
DJ Snake
Turn Down For What - ROY, SOY, Dance Recording, Music Vid
Get Low - ROY, SOY, Dance Recording, Music Vid
Cut Copy
Free Your Mind - ROY, SOY, Dance Recording
We Are Explorers - Music Vid
Free Your Mind - AOY, Dance/Electronic Album
David Guetta
Lovers On The Sun - ROY, SOY, Pop Duo/Group, Music Vid
Pink
The Truth About Love Tour: Live From Melbourne - Music Film
Ellie Goulding
Burn - ROY, SOY, Pop Solo
Beating Heart - Song/Visual Media
Goodness Gracious - Music Vid
iTunes Session - AOY, Pop Album
Tegan and Sara
Everything Is AWESOME!!! - (SOY), Pop Duo/Group, (Song/Visual Media), Music Vid
Don’t Find Another Love - (Song/Visual Media)
Barry Manilow
Blame It On My Youth - Pop Solo
Night Songs - Trad Pop
Manilow: Live From Paris Las Vegas - Music Film
The Weeknd
Belong To The World - ROY, SOY, Pop Solo
Gifted - Music Vid
Clean Bandit
BNA
Rather Be - ROY, SOY, Dance Recording, Music Vid
New Eyes - Dance/Electronic Album
deadmau5
Avaritia - Dance Recording
Infra Turbo Pigcart Racer - Dance Recording
Phantoms Can’t Hang - Dance Recording
Seeya - Dance Recording
while(1<2) - AOY, Dance/Electronic Album
Disclosure
BNA
F For You - ROY, SOY, Dance Recording, Music Vid
Aphex Twin
Syro - Dance/Electronic Album
Echosmith
BNA
Cool Kids - ROY, SOY, Pop Duo/Group, Music Vid
Talking Dreams - AOY, Pop Album
Kylie Minogue
Into The Blue - ROY, (SOY), Pop Solo
Sexercise - Music Vid
Kiss Me Once - AOY, Pop Album
Christina Aguilera
Say Something - ROY, (SOY), Pop Duo/Group, Music Vid
Christina Perri
Human - ROY, SOY, Pop Solo, Music Vid
Head Or Heart - AOY, Pop Album
Rihanna
What Now - Music Vid
The Monster - ROY, SOY, Rap/Sung, Music Vid
Can’t Remember To Forget You - ROY, SOY, Pop Duo/Group, Music Vid
Jenny Lewis
Just One Of The Guys - ROY, SOY, Pop Solo, Music Vid
The Voyager - AOY, Pop Album
Bon Iver
Heavenly Father - Pop Duo/Group, Song/Visual Media
Paloma Faith
BNA
Only Love Can Hurt Like This - ROY, (SOY), Pop Solo, Music Vid
Fifth Harmony
BNA
BO$$ - ROY, (SOY), Pop Duo/Group, Music Vid
Better Together - Pop Album
Kiesza
Hideaway - ROY, SOY, Dance Recording, Music Vid
Glee Cast
The Christmas Album: Volume 4 - Trad Pop
Lea Michele
Cannonball - ROY, (SOY), Pop Solo, Music Vid
Louder - AOY, Pop Album
You+Me
Break The Cycle - ROY, SOY, Pop Duo/Group, Music Vid
Enrique Iglesias
Bailando - ROY, SOY, Pop Duo/Group, Music Vid
Sex And Love Deluxe Edition - AOY, Latin Pop Album
Birdy
BNA
Words As Weapons - SOY, Pop Solo
Not About Angels - Song/Visual Media
Fire Within - AOY
Little Mix
Move - ROY, Pop Duo/Group, Music Vid
Salute - AOY, Pop Album
Vamps
Somebody To You - ROY, (SOY)
Hercules and Love Affair
Do You Feel The Same - Dance Recording
The Feast Of The Broken Heart - Dance/Electronic Album
Lily Allen
Hard Out Here - ROY, SOY, Pop Solo, Music Vid
Sheezus - AOY, Pop Album
Lykke Li
No Rest For The Wicked - Pop Solo
I Never Learn - Pop Album
Tori Amos
Promise - SOY, Pop Solo
Trouble’s Lament - SOY, Music Vid
Unrepentant Geraldines - AOY, Pop Album
Colbie Caillat
Try - ROY, SOY, Pop Solo, Music Vid
Gypsy Heart - AOY, Pop Album
Bleachers
I Wanna Get Better - ROY, SOY, Pop Duo/Group, Music Vid
Strange Desire - AOY, Pop Album
Phantogram
BNA
Fall In Love - ROY, SOY, Pop Duo/Group
Voices - AOY, Alt Album
Ingrid Michaelson
Girls Chase Boys - ROY, SOY, Pop Solo, Music Vid
Lights Out - AOY, Pop Album
Pitbull
Timber - ROY, SOY, Pop Duo/Group, Music Vid
Mmm Yeah - ROY, SOY, Pop Duo/Group
Have Some Fun - Rap Perf, Rap Song
Sara Bareilles
I Choose You - ROY, SOY, Pop Solo, Music Vid
What’s Going On - Pop Duo/Group
Duke Dumont
I Got U - Dance Recording, Music Vid
Kaskade
Ain’t Gotta Lie - ROY, SOY, Dance Recording
Redux EP - AOY, Dance/Electronic Album
Armin van Buuren
Alone - ROY
Fitz And the Tantrums
The Walker - SOY, Pop Duo/Group, Music Vid
More Than Just A Dream - (SOY)
Ann Nesby
Cannonball - (SOY), Pop Solo
Living My Life - Dance Recording
Remember - R&B Perf, (R&B Song)
Point Of View - Trad R&B
Living My Life - AOY, Urban Contemp Album
Milky Chance
BNA
Stolen Dance - ROY, SOY, Pop Duo/Group
Sadnecessary - AOY, Alt Album
Daughtry
Battleships - ROY, SOY, Pop Duo/Group
Waiting For Superman - Music Vid
Baptized - AOY, Pop Album
American Authors
BNA
Trouble - Pop Duo/Group
Best Day Of My Life - Music Vid
Oh, What A Life - AOY, Pop Album
Train
Angel In Blue Jeans - ROY, SOY, Pop Duo/Group, Music Vid
Bulletproof Picasso - Rock Perf, Rock Song
Bulletproof Picasso - AOY
Rixton
Me And My Broken Heart - ROY, (SOY), Pop Duo/Group, Music Vid
The Fray
Love Don’t Die - ROY, SOY, Pop Duo/Group, Music Vid
Helios - AOY, Pop Album
Elton John
Something About The Way You Look Tonight - Pop Duo/Group
The Million Dollar Piano - Music Film
Neon Trees
Sleeping With A Friend - ROY, SOY, Pop Duo/Group
Pop Psychology - AOY, Pop Album
Chromeo
Jealous (I Ain’t With It) - ROY, SOY, Pop Duo/Group, Music Vid
Legs - Rap/Sung
White Women - AOY, Dance/Electronic Album
Afrojack
BNA
Ten Feet Tall - ROY, SOY, Pop Duo/Group, Music Vid
Do Or Die (Remix) - Music Vid
Forget The World - AOY, Pop Album
Martin Garrix
BNA
Gold Skies - ROY, SOY, Dance Recording
Gold Skies - AOY, Dance/Electronic Album
Duck Sauce
NRG - Dance Recording, Music Vid
Quack - Dance/Electronic Album
Hardwell
Arcadia - Dance Recording
Dare You - Dance Recording
Basement Jaxx
Never Say Never - Dance Recording
Junto - Dance/Electronic Album
Panic! At the Disco
This Is Gospel - Pop Duo/Group
Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die! - Pop Album
The Crystal Method
Over It - Dance Recording
The Crystal Method - Dance/Electronic Album, Engineered Album/Non Classical
Johnny Mathis
Sending You A Little Merry Christmas - ROY, Pop Duo/Group
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - Pop Duo/Group
Sending You A Little Merry Christmas - AOY, Trad Pop
Leona Lewis
Walking On Sunshine - Music Vid
Sarah McLachlan
Flesh And Blood - SOY
Shine On - AOY, Pop Album
Seth MacFarlane
A Million Ways To Die - Country Song, Song/Visual Media
Holiday For Swing - AOY, Trad Pop
Susan Boyle
O Come All Ye Faithful - Pop Duo/Group
Home For Christmas - Trad Pop
Jason Mraz
Love Someone - ROY, SOY, Pop Solo, Music Vid
Yes! - AOY, Pop Album, Engineered Album/Non Classical
5 Seconds Of Summer
BNA
Amnesia - ROY, (SOY)
She Looks So Perfect - ROY, SOY, Pop Duo/Group, Music Vid
5 Seconds Of Summer - AOY, Pop Album
Grimes
Go - ROY, SOY, Pop Duo/Group
John Newman
BNA
Love Me Again - ROY, SOY, Pop Solo
Tribute - AOY, Pop Album
Rita Ora
I Will Never Let You Down - ROY, (SOY), Pop Solo, Music Vid
Black Widow - (SOY), Pop Duo/Group, Music Vid
Celine Dion
Incredible - ROY, (SOY), Pop Duo/Group, Music Vid
Water And A Flame - Pop Solo
Overjoyed - Pop Duo/Group
Loved Me Back To Life - AOY, Pop Album
Avril Lavigne
Let Me Go - ROY, SOY, Rock Perf, Music Vid
Avril Lavigne - AOY, Pop Album
Jennifer Lopez
I Luh Ya Papi - SOY, Pop Duo/Group
First Love - Pop Solo
A.K.A. - Pop Album
Neil Diamond
The Art Of Love - ROY, SOY, Pop Solo
Something Blue - ROY, SOY, Pop Solo
The Chainsmokers
#SELFIE - ROY, Dance Recording
Kanye - SOY
Jim Brickman
Sending You A Little Christmas - ROY, Pop Duo/Group
Billy Porter
Happy Days Are Here Again/Get Happy - Pop Duo/Group
Billy’s Back On Broadway - AOY, Trad Pop
Betty Buckley
Comin’ Back To Me - Pop Solo
Ghostlight - Trad Pop
Steve Aoki
Freak - ROY, SOY, Dance Recording
Delirious (Boneless) - Pop Duo/Group
Get Me Outta Here - Dance Recording
A Light That Never Comes - Music Vid
Neon Future I - Dance/Electronic Album
Steve Aoki: Live At The Shrine - Music Film
Band of Horses
Acoustic At The Ryman - AOY, Pop Album
M83
I Need You - Song/Visual Media
RuPaul
Sissy That Walk - Dance Recording
Born Naked - Dance/Electronic Album
The Script
Superheroes - ROY, SOY, Pop Duo/Group, Music Vid
No Sound Without Silence - AOY, Pop Album
Twenty One Pilots
BNA
Car Radio - Pop Duo/Group
Tyga
Bend Ova - ROY, SOY, Dance Recording, Music Vid
Loyal - Music Vid
ZHU
Faded - Dance Recording
Nightday. - Dance/Electronic Album
Walk the Moon
Shut Up And Dance - ROY, SOY, Pop Duo/Group
Jackie Evancho
Think Of Me - Pop Solo
La Vie En Rose - ROY, Pop Duo/Group
Awakening - AOY, Trad Pop
Annie Lennox
I Put A Spell On You - ROY, Amer Roots Perf
Nostalgia - AOY, Trad Pop
Cece Peniston
Love Don’t Take Over - Dance Recording
Engelbert Humperdinck
Spanish Eyes - Pop Duo/Group
Something About The Way You Look Tonight - Pop Duo/Group
Release Me - Country Duo/Group
Make You Feel My Love - Country Duo/Group
She Believes In Me - Country Duo/Group
Engelbert Calling - AOY, Pop Album
Rap
Iggy Azalea
BNA
Fancy - ROY, SOY, Pop Duo/Group, Music Vid
Black Widow - SOY, Pop Duo/Group, Music Vid
Problem - ROY, SOY, Pop Duo/Group, Music Vid
No Mediocre - Rap Perf, Rap Song, Music Vid
The New Classic - AOY, Rap Album
Drake
0 to 100/The Catch Up - ROY, SOY, Rap Perf, Rap Song
Believe Me - ROY, Rap Perf, Rap Song
DNF - ROY, SOY, Rap Perf, Rap Song
Recognize - ROY, SOY, R&B Perf, R&B Song
Odio - ROY, SOY
Grindin’ - SOY
Tuesday - Rap/Sung, Rap Song
Childish Gambino
BNA
3005 - ROY, SOY, Rap Perf, Rap Song, Music Vid
Relations - ROY, (SOY), Pop Duo/Group, Music Vid
Because The Internet - AOY, Rap Album
Eminem
The Monster - ROY, SOY, Rap/Sung, Music Vid
Rap God - Rap Perf, Rap Song
Calm Down - Rap Perf, Rap Song
The Marshall Mathers LP2 - AOY, Rap Album
Kendrick Lamar
i - ROY, SOY, Rap Perf, Rap Song
Radioactive - Rock Perf
Nosetalgia - Rap Perf
Collard Greens - Rap Perf
It’s On Again - Song/Visual Media
That’s Me Right There - Music Vid
Nicki Minaj
Anaconda - ROY, Rap Perf, Rap Song, Music Vid
Pills n Potions - ROY, SOY
Bang Bang - ROY, SOY, Pop Duo/Group
She Came To Give It To You - Pop Duo/Group
Touchin, Lovin - R&B Perf
Low - Rap Perf, Rap Song, Music Vid
My Hitta (Remix) - Music Vid
Schoolboy Q
Studio - ROY, SOY, Rap/Sung, Rap Song, Music Vid
Collard Greens - Rap Perf
2 On - ROY, SOY, R&B Perf, R&B Song, Music Vid
Oxymoron - AOY, Rap Album
Wiz Khalifa
We Dem Boyz - ROY, Rap Perf, Rap Song, Music Vid
You And Your Friends - Rap/Sung
Party Girls - Rap/Sung, Rap Song, Music Vid
Shell Shocked - Song/Visual Media
Blacc Hollywood - AOY, Rap Album
Kanye West
Bound 2 - ROY, SOY, Rap/Sung, Rap Song, Music Vid
Producer of Year
Lil Wayne
Krazy - Rap Perf, Music Vid
Believe Me - ROY, Rap Perf, Rap Song
Grindin’ - SOY
Loyal (East Coast Version) - ROY, SOY, R&B Perf, Music Vid
Face Down - Rap Perf
Thug Cry - Rap Perf, Rap Song, Music Vid
We Alright - Rap Perf, Rap Song
Video Model - Rap/Sung, (Rap Song)
All That (Lady) - Music Vid
My Hitta (Remix) - Music Vid
Common
Kingdom - ROY, SOY, Rap Perf, Rap Song, Music Vid
Blak Majik - Rap/Sung
When Rivers Cry - R&B Perf
Nobody’s Smiling - AOY, Rap Albun
The Roots
Tomorrow - Trad R&B
When The People Cheer - Rap/Sung, Rap Song, Music Vid
...And Then You Shoot Your Cousin - AOY, Rap Album
PSY
Hangover - ROY, SOY, Rap Perf, Music Vid
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib [Freddie Gibbs]
Broken - Rap Perf
Shame - Rap/Sung
Deeper - Rap Song
Piñata - Rap Album
[Holdin On - ROY, SOY, Dance Recording]
Future
Move That Dope - ROY, SOY, Rap Perf, Rap Song, Music Vid
DNF - ROY, SOY, Rap Perf, Rap Song
Hold You Down - SOY, R&B Perf, R&B Song
No Tears - Music Vid
Honest - AOY, Rap Album
G-Eazy
BNA
I Mean It - ROY, SOY, Rap Perf, Rap Song, Music Vid
Far Alone - Rap/Sung
These Things Happen - AOY, Engineered Album/Non Classical
Jeezy
Me OK - Rap Perf, Music Vid
Seen It All - ROY, SOY, Rap Perf, Rap Song
My N**** - ROY, SOY, Rap Perf, Rap Song
War Ready - Rap Perf
No Tears - Music Vid
Seen It All: The Autobiography - AOY, Rap Album
Kid Cudi
Too Bad I Have To Destroy You Now - ROY, SOY, Rap Perf, Rap Song
Kid Cudi Presents Satellite Flight:The Journey To Mother Moon - AOY, Alt Album
Pusha T
Nosetalgia - Rap Perf
Sweet Serenade - Rap/Sung
Move That Dope - ROY, SOY, Rap Perf, Rap Song, Music Vid
Burial - Dance Recording
Rain - R&B Perf
My Name Is My Name - AOY, Rap Album
Rick Ross
The Devil Is A Lie - ROY, SOY, Rap Perf, Rap Song, Music Vid
War Ready - Rap Perf
Thug Cry - Rap Perf, Rap Song, Music Vid
New Flame - ROY, SOY, R&B Perf, R&B Song, Music Vid
They Don’t Love You No More - ROY, Rap Perf, Rap Song
I Got It - R&B Perf, R&B Song, Music Vid
Options - SOY
Mastermind - AOY, Rap Album
YG
BNA
My N**** - ROY, SOY, Rap Perf, Rap Song
Do It To Ya - Rap/Sung
Sorry Momma - Rap/Sung
My Hitta (Remix) - Music Vid
Don’t Tell ’Em - ROY, SOY, R&B Perf, R&B Song
Face Down - Rap Perf
Party Up - Music Vid
My Krazy Life - AOY, Rap Album
Lecrae
All I Need Is You - ROY, SOY, Rap Perf, Rap Song
Messengers - Gospel Perf/Song
Nothing I Can’t Do - ROY, SOY, Rap Perf, Rap Song
Help - Gospel Perf/Song
Anomaly - AOY, Rap Album
Jesse Boykins III
Plain - Dance Recording
Tribe - ROY, SOY, Rap/Sung, Rap Song
Love Apparatus - Urban Contemp Album
Jay Z
Drunk In Love - ROY, SOY, R&B Perf, R&B Song, Music Vid
They Don’t Love You No More - ROY, Rap Perf, Rap Song
Seen It All - ROY, SOY, Rap Perf, Rap Song
The Devil Is A Lie - ROY, SOY, Rap Perf, Rap Song, Music Vid
Beyoncé & Jay Z: On The Run Tour - Music Film
Mack Wilds
Concrete Jungle - ROY, SOY, Rap/Sung, Rap Song
Your World - Rap/Sung
B.o.B
John Doe - Rap/Sung, Rap Song
Paranoid - R&B Perf, R&B Song, Music Vid
Underground Luxury - Rap Album
Kid Ink
BNA
Main Chick - ROY, SOY, Rap/Sung, Rap Song
Show Me - Music Vid
Delirious (Boneless) - Pop Duo/Group
My Own Lane - AOY, Rap Album
T.I.
No Mediocre - Rap Perf, Rap Song, Music Vid
New National Anthem - Rap/Sung, Rap Song
UV Love - SOY, Pop Duo/Group
This Girl - Pop Duo/Group
They Don’t Know (Remix) - Music Vid
Chance the Rapper
Confident - Music Vid
Danny Brown
25 Bucks - Rap/Sung, Rap Song
Attak - Rap Song
Old - AOY, Rap Album
Big Sean
Ashley - Rap/Sung, Rap Song, Music Vid
Don’t Play - ROY, (SOY), Rap Perf, (Rap Song)
Face Down - Rap Perf
All That (Lady) - Music Vid
Yo Gotti
Errrbody - ROY, SOY, Rap Perf, Rap Song
I Know - ROY, SOY, Rap Perf, Rap Song, Music Vid
Yayo - ROY, SOY, Rap Perf, Rap Song, Music Vid
Ain’t No Sunshine - Trad R&B
I Am - AOY, Rap Album
Bobby Shmurda
Hot N**** - Rap Perf, Rap Song, Music Vid
Computers - ROY, SOY, Rap Perf, Rap Song
Juicy J
Low - Rap Perf, Rap Song, Music Vid
Shell Shocked - Song/Visual Media
Dark Horse - ROY, SOY, Pop Duo/Group, Music Vid
Rick James - R&B Perf
She Knows - R&B Perf, R&B Song
Have Some Fun - Rap Perf, Rap Song
K Camp
Blessing - ROY, SOY
Cut Her Off - Rap Perf, Rap Song, Music Vid
In Due Time - AOY, Rap Album
Migos
Versace - Rap Perf, Rap Song
Bricks - Dance Recording
Rae Sremmurd
No Flex Zone - ROY, SOY, Rap Perf, Rap Song, Music Vid
Rich Homie Quan
BNA
Walk Thru - Rap Perf
I Know - ROY, SOY, Rap Perf, Rap Song, Music Vid
My N**** - ROY, SOY, Rap Perf, Rap Song
Lifestyle - ROY, Rap Perf, Rap Song
My Hitta (Remix) - Music Vid
I Promise I Will Never Stop Going In - Rap Album
Snootie Wild
Yayo - ROY, SOY, Rap Perf, Rap Song, Music Vid
J. Cole
My N**** Just Made Bail - ROY, Rap Perf, Music Vid
Lit - SOY, Rap Song
Soundtrack/Comedy
“Weird Al” Yankovic
Word Crimes - ROY
Foil - Music Vid
Mandatory Fun - AOY, Comedy Album
Frozen
Frozen (Deluxe Edition) - AOY, Engineered Album/Non Classical
Frozen - Compilation Soundtrack
Frozen - Score Soundtrack (Christophe Beck)
Let It Go - ROY, SOY, Pop Solo, Song/Visual Media
Do You Want To Build A Snowman? - Pop Duo/Group
Elsa And Anna - Instrumental Composition, Arrangement/Inst or A Cappella
Vuelie - Arrangement/Inst or A Cappella
Rock/Alternative
Arcade Fire
Afterlife - ROY, SOY, Rock Perf, Rock Song
We Exist - Music Vid
Reflektor - AOY, Alt Album
FKA twigs
BNA
Two Weeks - ROY, SOY, Pop Solo
LP1 - AOY, Alt Album
Jack White
Lazaretto - ROY, SOY, Rock Perf, Rock Song, Music Vid
Lazaretto - AOY, Alt Album
Producer of Year
Arctic Monkeys
Do I Wanna Know? - ROY, SOY, Rock Perf, Rock Song
Beck
Blue Moon - ROY, SOY, Rock Perf, Rock Song
Heart Is A Drum - Music Vid
Morning Phase - AOY, Rock Album
Producer of Year
Bruce Springsteen
High Hopes - ROY, Rock Perf
Hunter Of Invisible Game - SOY, Rock Song, Music Vid
High Hopes - AOY, Rock Album
Foster the People
Coming Of Age - ROY, SOY, Pop Duo/Group, Music Vid
A Beginner’s Guide To Destroying The Moon - Rock Perf, Rock Song
Best Friend - Music Vid
Supermodel - AOY, Rock Album
Imagine Dragons
Radioactive - Rock Perf (version feat. Kendrick Lamar)
Battle Cry - Song/Visual Media
On Top Of The World - Music Vid
Imagine Dragons: Allstate Fan Fest - Music Film
Imagine Dragons: The Making Of Night Visions And Red Rocks Bonus Content - Music Film
Paramore
Ain’t It Fun - ROY, SOY, Rock Perf, Rock Song, Music Vid
Paul McCartney
Queenie Eye - ROY, SOY, Rock Perf, Rock Song
Early Days - Music Vid
New - AOY, Rock Album
Pearl Jam
Lightning Bolt - ROY, SOY, Rock Perf, Rock Song
Lightning Bolt - AOY, Rock Album
Lightning Bolt A Short Film - Music Film
St. Vincent
Digital Witness - ROY, SOY, Rock Perf, Music Vid
St. Vincent - AOY, Alt Album
The Black Keys
Fever - ROY, SOY, Rock Perf, Rock Song, Music Vid
Turn Blue - AOY, Rock Album
[Dan Auerbach - Producer of Year]
[Patrick Carney - Producer of Year]
Tom Petty And the Heartbreakers
American Dream Plan B - ROY, SOY, Rock Song
Forgotten Man - Rock Perf
Hypnotic Eye - AOY, Rock Album
U2
The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone) - ROY, SOY, Rock Perf, Rock Song
Ordinary Love - Song/Visual Media
Invisible (Red) - Music Vid
Songs Of Innocence - AOY, Rock Album
Lenny Kravitz
The Chamber - ROY, Rock Perf, Rock Song, Music Vid
Strut - Rock Song
Strut - AOY, Rock Album
OK Go
The Writing’s On The Wall - Rock Perf, Rock Song, Music Vid
Kings Of Leon
Wait For Me - ROY, SOY, Rock Perf, Rock Song
Beautiful War - Music Vid
KONGOS
BNA
Come With Me Now - ROY, SOY, Rock Perf, Rock Song
Lunatic - AOY, Rock Album
Lindsey Stirling
Shatter Me - ROY, SOY, Rock Perf, Music Vid
Beyond The Veil - Pop Solo
Beautiful Times - ROY, (SOY), Pop Duo/Group
Shatter Me - AOY
Gary Clark Jr.
When My Train Pulls In - Rock Perf
When The Sun Goes Down - Amer Roots Perf
Blues Don’t Care - Amer Roots Perf
Gary Clark Jr. Live - AOY, Blues Album
Muse
Live At Rome Olympic Stadium - AOY, Rock Album
Live At Rome Olympic Stadium - Music Film
Blondie
Ghosts Of Download - AOY, Rock Album
Future Islands
Seasons (Waiting On You) - ROY, SOY, Rock Perf, Rock Song, Music Vid
Singles - AOY, Alt Album
Royal Blood
Figure It Out - ROY, SOY, Rock Perf, Rock Song
Out Of The Black - Music Vid
Royal Blood - AOY, Rock Album
Thirty Seconds To Mars
Do Or Die - ROY, SOY, Rock Perf, Rock Song
City of Angels - Music Vid
Do Or Die (Remix) - Music Vid
Linkin Park
Guilty All The Same - ROY, SOY, Rock Perf, Rock Song
A Light That Never Comes - Music Vid
The Hunting Party - AOY, Rock Album, Engineered Album/Non Classical
Melissa Etheridge
Take My Number - ROY, SOY, Rock Perf, Rock Song
This Is M.E. - AOY, Rock Album
Cage the Elephant
Take It Or Leave It - ROY, SOY, Rock Perf, Rock Song, Music Vid
Melophobia - AOY, Alt Album
Ryan Adams
Gimme Something Good - ROY, SOY, Rock Perf, Rock Song
Stay Alive - SOY, Song/Visual Media
Ryan Adams - AOY, Rock Album
Spoon
Do You - ROY, SOY, Rock Perf, Rock Song, Music Vid
They Want My Soul - AOY, Alt Album, Engineered Album/Non Classical
The 1975
BNA
Chocolate - ROY, SOY, Pop Duo/Group
Sex - Rock Perf, Rock Song
Robbers - Music Vid
Don’t Play - ROY, (SOY), Rap Perf, (Rap Song)
alt-J
Left Hand Free - Rock Perf, Rock Song, Music Vid
This Is All Yours - Alt Album
Big Data
Dangerous - ROY, SOY, Rock Perf, Rock Song
Fall Out Boy
Centuries - ROY, SOY, Rock Perf, Rock Song
The Youngblood Chronicles Music Video - Music Vid
Robert Plant
Rainbow - ROY, SOY, Rock Perf, Rock Song
A Stolen Kiss - Pop Solo
Poor Howard - Amer Roots Perf
Lullaby And...The Ceaseless Roar - AOY, Rock Album
Karen O
The Moon Song - SOY, Song/Visual Media
Judas Priest
March Of The Damned - ROY, SOY, Metal Perf
Crossfire - Metal Perf
Dragonaught - Metal Perf
Redeemer Of Souls - AOY, Rock Album
Black Label Society
Angel Of Mercy - Rock Perf
My Dying Time - Rock Perf
Catacombs Of The Black Vatican - Rock Album
Anthrax
Neon Knights - Metal Perf
A Skeleton In The Closet - Music Vid
Chile On Hell - Music Film
Motörhead
Heartbreaker - Metal Perf, Rock Song
Aftershock - Rock Album
Mastodon
High Road - ROY, SOY, Metal Perf, Rock Song, Music Vid
Once More ‘Round The Sun - AOY, Rock Album
Live At Brixton - Music Film
Seether
Words As Weapons - ROY, SOY, Rock Perf, Rock Song
Suffer It All - Metal Perf
Isolate And Medicate - Rock Album
Needtobreathe
Feet, Don’t Fail Me Now - Rock Perf, Rock Song
Multiplied - CCM Perf/Song
Rivers In The Wasteland - Rock Album, Engineered Album/Non Classical
Weezer
Back To The Shack - ROY, SOY, Rock Perf, Rock Song
The War On Drugs
Red Eyes - ROY, SOY
Lost In The Dream - AOY, Alt Album
Phish
Wingsuit - ROY, SOY, Rock Perf, Rock Song
Fuego - AOY, Rock Album
Death From Above 1979
Trainwreck 1979 - ROY, SOY, Rock Perf, Rock Song
The Physical World - AOY, Rock Album
Mac DeMarco
Salad Days - Alt Album
Morrissey
The Bullfighter Dies - ROY, SOY
Earth Is The Loneliest Planet - ROY, SOY
Istanbul - ROY, SOY, Rock Perf
World Peace Is None Of Your Business - ROY, SOY
World Peace Is None Of Your Business - AOY, Rock Album
25: Live - Music Film
Young the Giant
It’s About Time - Rock Perf, Rock Song, Music Vid
Mind Over Matter - Rock Album
Against Me!
Black Me Out - ROY, SOY, Rock Perf, Rock Song
Transgender Dysphoria Blues - AOY, Rock Album
Slash ft. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators
World On Fire - ROY, SOY, Rock Perf, Rock Song
World On Fire - AOY, Rock Album
Chevelle
Take Out The Gunman - ROY, SOY, Rock Perf, Rock Song
La Gárgola - AOY, Rock Album
Five Finger Death Punch
House Of The Rising Sun - Rock Perf, Music Vid
The Wrong Side Of Heaven And The Righteous Side Of Hell Volume 2 - Rock Album
Korn
Hater - Rock Perf, Rock Song
Spike In My Veins - Metal Perf, Rock Song, Music Vid
The Paradigm Shift - Rock Album
Of Mice & Men
Public Service Announcement - Metal Perf
Jake Bugg
What Doesn’t Kill You - ROY, SOY, Rock Perf, Rock Song
Shangri La - AOY, Rock Album
The Pretty Reckless
BNA
Heaven Knows - ROY, SOY, Rock Perf, Rock Song, Music Vid
Going To Hell - AOY, Rock Album
Slipknot
The Devil In I - ROY, SOY, Rock Perf, Rock Song, Music Vid
The Negative One - Metal Perf
The Neighbourhood
BNA
Afraid - Rock Perf, Rock Song, Music Vid
Joe Bonamassa
Oh Beautiful! - Rock Perf
Nutbush City Limits - Rock Perf
Strange Fruit - Trad R&B
Different Shades Of Blue - Amer Roots Song
Mr. Clean - Improvised Jazz Solo
Different Shades Of Blue - AOY, Blues Album
Tour De Force: Live In London - Music Film
Live In Amsterdam - Music Film
R&B/Traditional R&B/Urban/Jazz
Beyoncé
Drunk In Love - ROY, SOY, R&B Perf, R&B Song, Music Vid
Pretty Hurts - Pop Solo, Music Vid
Partition - Music Vid
Say Yes - Gospel Perf/Song, Music Vid
Beyoncé - AOY, Urban Contemp Album
Beyoncé & Jay-Z: On the Run Tour - Music Film
Janelle Monáe
PrimeTime - ROY, SOY, R&B Perf, R&B Song
Heroes - Pop Solo
What Is Love - Pop Solo, Song/Visual Media
Pharrell
Happy (Live) - ROY, Pop Solo
Happy - Music Vid
Come Get It Bae - SOY, Pop Duo/Group
It Girl - R&B Perf, R&B Song
Move That Dope - ROY, SOY, Rap Perf, Rap Song, Music Vid
Objects in the Mirror - Rap Song
It’s On Again - Song/Visual Media
G I R L - AOY, Urban Contemp Album
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 - Score Soundtrack
Producer of Year
John Legend
All Of Me (Live) - ROY, Pop Solo
You & I (Nobody in the World) - SOY, Music Vid
Quiet Storm - ROY, Trad R&B
Don’t Say Goodbye - SOY, Pop Duo/Group
Bound 2 - SOY, Rap Song
Tinashe
2 On - ROY, SOY, R&B Perf, R&B Song, Music Vid
Alicia Keys
We Are Here - ROY, SOY, R&B Perf, R&B Song, Music Vid
It’s On Again - Song/Visual Media
Aloe Blacc
BNA
The Man - ROY, SOY, Trad R&B, Music Vid
Love Is The Answer - R&B Song
Show Me The Way - Rap/Sung
Lift Your Spirit - AOY, R&B Album
Chris Brown
Loyal (East Coast Version) - ROY, SOY, R&B Perf, Music Vid
New Flame - ROY, SOY, R&B Perf, R&B Song, Music Vid
Don’t Be Gone Too Long - Pop Solo
Main Chick - ROY, (SOY), Rap/Sung, (Rap Song)
Hold You Down - SOY, R&B Perf, R&B Song
It Won’t Stop - R&B Perf, (R&B Song), Music Vid
Sweet Serenade - Rap/Sung
Show Me - Music Vid
X - AOY, Urban Contemp Album
Jason Derulo
Wiggle - ROY, SOY, Pop Duo/Group, Music Vid
Trumpets - Music Vid
Talk Dirty - AOY, Pop Album
Jhené Aiko
BNA
The Worst - ROY, SOY, R&B Perf, R&B Song, Music Vid
Blak Majik - Rap/Sung
Sail Out - AOY, Urban Contemp Album
Ledisi
Like This - ROY, SOY, R&B Perf, R&B Song
I Blame You - Music Vid
Girl Like Me - R&B Perf
Stoned Soul Picnic - Trad R&B
Ooh Baby Baby - Trad R&B
Nobody Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen - Gospel Perf/Song
The Truth - AOY, R&B Album
Liv Warfield
BNA
Stay - ‘Soul Lifted’- ROY, SOY, Trad R&B, R&B Song
The Unexpected - ROY, Rock Perf, (Rock Song)
The Unexpected - AOY, Urban Contemp Album
Mariah Carey
You’re Mine (Eternal) - ROY, SOY, R&B Perf, R&B Song, Music Vid
You Don’t Know What To Do - R&B Perf, R&B Song
The Art Of Letting Go - Trad R&B
Me. I am Mariah… The Elusive Chanteuse - AOY, R&B Album
Prince
Funknroll - ROY, SOY, R&B Perf, R&B Song
Leader Of The Band - R&B Song
The Unexpected - Rock Song
Art Official Age - AOY, Urban Contemp Album, Engineered Album (Non-Classical)
R. Kelly
Cookie - ROY, SOY, R&B Perf, R&B Song, Music Vid
Make The World Go Round - ROY, SOY, Trad R&B, R&B Song, Music Vid
It’s Your World - ROY, SOY, R&B Perf, R&B Song
Bump & Grind 2014 - ROY, Dance Recording, Music Vid
Do What You Want - Pop Duo/Group
The Body - Rap Song
Black Panties - AOY, Urban Contemp Album, Engineered Album (Non-Classical)
The Best Man Holiday (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - Engineered Album (Non-Classical)
Robert Glasper
Somebody Else - ROY, SOY, R&B Perf, R&B Song
Let It Ride - Pop Duo/Group, Improvised Jazz Solo
Persevere - R&B Perf
Jesus Children - Trad R&B
Big Girl Body - Trad R&B
Calls - Music Vid
Now That’s Love - Rap/Sung
The Thought Of You Part III - Improvised Jazz Solo
Black Radio 2 - AOY, R&B Album
Toni Braxton
I Wish - Trad R&B, R&B Song
Roller Coaster - ROY, (SOY), R&B Perf, (R&B Song)
Where Did We Go Wrong - R&B Perf, R&B Song
Love, Marriage & Divorce - AOY, R&B Album
Fantasia
Lose To Win - ROY, (SOY), R&B Perf, (R&B Song)
Jennifer Hudson
It’s Your World - ROY, (SOY), R&B Perf, (R&B Song)
Walk It Out - Music Vid
Bring Back The Music - Trad R&B
Test Of Faith - Trad R&B, (R&B Song), (Song/Visual Media)
He Loves Me Still - Gospel Perf/Song, (Song/Visual Media)
Hush Child (Get You Through This Silent Night) - Gospel Perf/Song, (Song/Visual Media)
Be Grateful - Gospel Perf/Song
JHUD - AOY, R&B Album
Kelly Price
It’s My Time - ROY, SOY, R&B Perf, R&B Song, Music Vid
Metamorphosis - R&B Perf, R&B Song
Last Night - Trad R&B
Through The Fire - Trad R&B
Sing Pray Love Vol. 1 Sing - R&B Album
August Alsina
BNA
I Luv This S*** - ROY, SOY, R&B Perf, R&B Song, Music Vid
Hold You Down - SOY, R&B Song
Rich - Rap/Sung
Down On Your Luck - Rap/Sung
Testimony - AOY, Urban Contemp Album
K.Michelle
BNA
Can’t Raise A Man - R&B Perf, (R&B Song)
Kelis
Jerk Ribs - ROY, SOY, R&B Song
Rumble - R&B Perf
Food - AOY, Urban Contemp Album
Smokey Robinson
Quiet Storm - ROY, Trad R&B
You Really Got A Hold On Me - Rock Perf
Ooh Baby Baby - Trad R&B
Smokey & Friends - AOY, R&B Album
Mary J. Blige
Suitcase - ROY, (SOY), R&B Perf, (R&B Song), Music Vid
Therapy - ROY, SOY, Trad R&B, R&B Song
Little Drummer Boy - Trad R&B
Do You Hear What I Hear? - Pop Duo/Group
The First Noel - Gospel Perf/Song
F For You - ROY, SOY, Dance Recording, Music Vid
A Mary Christmas - AOY, R&B Album
Think Like A Man Too (Music From And Inspired By The Film) - AOY, R&B Album
Trey Songz
Touchin, Lovin - R&B Perf
Na Na - R&B Song, Music Vid
You’re Mine (Eternal) - Music Vid
They Don’t Know (Remix) - Music Vid
Trigga - AOY, Urban Contemp Album
Jazmine Sullivan
Forever Don’t Last - ROY, SOY, Trad R&B, R&B Song
Dumb - R&B Perf, Music Vid
Cried - SOY
Faith Evans
I Deserve It - R&B Perf, R&B Song
Best In Me - R&B Perf, (R&B Song)
I Feel Good, I Look Good, I’m God Good - Gospel Perf/Song
Rejoice With Me! - Gospel Perf/Song
Kem
Nobody - Trad R&B
It’s You - R&B Song
Promise To Love - AOY, R&B Album
Tank
You’re My Star - R&B Perf, R&B Song
Stronger - R&B Album
Usher
Good Kisser - ROY, SOY, R&B Perf, R&B Song, Music Vid
She Came To Give It To You - Pop Duo/Group
New Flame - ROY, SOY, R&B Perf, R&B Song, Music Vid
George Tandy Jr.
BNA
March - ROY, SOY, Trad R&B, R&B Song, Music Vid
The Foundation - AOY, R&B Album
Aretha Franklin
Rolling In The Deep (The Aretha Version) - ROY, Trad R&B
I Will Survive (The Aretha Version) - Pop Solo
Nothing Compares 2U - Improvised Jazz Solo
Sings The Great Diva Classics - AOY, R&B Album
Jeremih
Don’t Tell ’Em - ROY, SOY, R&B Perf, R&B Song
The Body - ROY, Rap/Sung, Rap Song
Hold You Down - SOY, R&B Perf, R&B Song
Party Girls - Rap/Sung, Rap Song, Music Vid
All That (Lady) - Music Vid
Marsha Ambrosius
Run - ROY, SOY, R&B Perf, R&B Song, Music Vid
As - Trad R&B
Friends & Lovers - AOY, Urban Contemp Album
Dave Hollister
Spend The Night - R&B Perf, (R&B Song)
Mali Music
BNA
Beautiful - ROY, SOY, R&B Perf, R&B Song, Music Vid
I Believe - Gospel Perf/Song
Mali Is... - AOY, Urban Contemp Album, Engineered Album/Non Classical
Ashanti
Never Should Have - ROY, SOY, R&B Perf, R&B Song
I Got It - R&B Perf, R&B Song, Music Vid
Christmas Love - Song/Visual Media
Braveheart - AOY, Urban Contemp Album
Joe
Love & Sex Pt. 2 - ROY, (SOY), R&B Perf, (R&B Song)
Home For Christmas - R&B Perf, (R&B Song)
Bridges - AOY, R&B Album
Leela James
Fall For You - ROY, SOY
Say That - Trad R&B, R&B Song
Fall For You - AOY, R&B Album
Meshell Ndegeocello
Ain’t Nobody’s Business - R&B Perf
Comet, Come To Me - Alt Album
Boyz II Men
Diamond Eyes - (SOY), Pop Duo/Group
You Just Got Slapped - (Song/Visual Media)
Can’t Let Go - R&B Perf
Luke James
Options - ROY, (SOY), R&B Perf, (R&B Song)
Options (No Rap Version) - Music Vid
Persevere - R&B Perf
Hush Child (Get You Through This Silent Night) - Gospel Perf/Song, (Song/Visual Media)
Be Grateful - Gospel Perf/Song
Luke James - Urban Contemp Album
Robin Thicke
Get Her Back - ROY, SOY, R&B Perf, R&B Song, Music Vid
Calling All Hearts - ROY, Pop Duo/Group, Music Vid
Paula - AOY, R&B Album
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
Stranger To My Happiness - Trad R&B, R&B Song
We Get Along - Trad R&B
Give The People What They Want - R&B Album
SoMo
BNA
Ride - ROY, SOY, R&B Perf, R&B Song
SoMo - AOY, R&B Album
Candice Glover
BNA
Cried - ROY, (SOY), Trad R&B, Music Vid
Passenger - (SOY)
Music Speaks - AOY, R&B Album
Lalah Hathaway
Shine - ROY, SOY, R&B Perf, R&B Song
Jesus Children - Trad R&B
Sweet Baby - Trad R&B
If This World Were Mine - Trad R&B
Avery Sunshine
Call My Name - Trad R&B, R&B Song
The Sunroom - R&B Album
Keyshia Cole
She - ROY, SOY, R&B Perf, R&B Song, Music Vid
Rick James - R&B Perf
Keke Wyatt
Lie Under You - ROY, SOY, R&B Perf, R&B Song
Rain - R&B Perf
Fall In Love - R&B Song
Ke’Ke’ - AOY, R&B Album
Morgan James
Call My Name - ROY, Trad R&B
Hunter - AOY, Pop Album
Jagged Edge
Hope - ROY, SOY, R&B Perf, R&B Song
Traci Braxton
Last Call - (R&B Song)
Goapele
Hey Boy - ROY, SOY, R&B Perf, R&B Song
Raheem DeVaughn
That Kinda Girl - ROY, R&B Perf
Best In Me - R&B Perf, R&B Song
Tomorrow - Trad R&B
Charlie Wilson
I Still Have You - ROY, SOY, Trad R&B, R&B Song
Turn Off The Lights - R&B Perf
Bound 2 - ROY, SOY, Rap/Sung, Rap Song, Music Vid
Shaliek
Ain’t Supposed To Cry - R&B Perf, (R&B Song)
Fillin In The Blanks - R&B Song
Blood Sweat Tears - R&B Album
Calvin Richardson
We Gon’ Love Tonite - ROY, SOY, R&B Perf, R&B Song
I Am Calvin - AOY, R&B Album
Daley
Broken - Pop Solo
Love & Affection - R&B Perf
Look Up - Trad R&B, R&B Song
Days & Nights - AOY, R&B Album
Blood Orange
You’re Not Good Enough - R&B Perf, R&B Song
Cupid Deluxe - Alt Album
Ruben Studdard
Love, Look What You’ve Done To Me - ROY, Pop Solo
If This World Were Mine - Trad R&B
Meant To Be - R&B Song
Unconditional Love - AOY, R&B Album
Snarky Puppy
Closer To The Source - Trad R&B, (R&B Song)
Lingus - Improvised Jazz Solo
We Like It Here - Jazz Instrumental Album
We Like It Here - Music Film
Bando Jonez
Sex You - ROY, (SOY), R&B Perf, (R&B Song), Music Vid
Anthony Hamilton
As - Trad R&B
Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child - Trad R&B
Say That - Trad R&B, (R&B Song)
Diane Schuur
Watch What Happens - (Improvised Jazz Solo)
I Remember You (With Love To Stan And Frank) - Jazz Vocal Album
Al Jarreau
My Old Friend - Trad R&B
Sweet Baby - Trad R&B
My Old Friend: Celebrating George Duke - AOY, Jazz Vocal Album
Dr. John
I’ve Got The World On A String - Pop Duo/Group
Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child - Trad R&B
Memories Of You - (Improvised Jazz Solo)
Nobody Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen - Gospel Perf/Song
Another Murder In New Orleans - ROY, (SOY), Amer Roots Perf, (Amer Roots Song), Music Vid
Ske-Dat-De-Dat: The Spirit of Satch - AOY, Jazz Vocal Album
Dianne Reeves
I Want You - Trad R&B
Beautiful Life - AOY, Jazz Vocal Album
Miguel
Simplethings - Song/Visual Media
Primetime - ROY, SOY, R&B Perf, R&B Song
Ashley - Rap/Sung, Rap Song, Music Vid
Noel Gourdin
Heaven Knows - Trad R&B, R&B Song
City Heart Southern Soul - R&B Album
Kandi
Forever Love - R&B Song
You Cut Me Deep - R&B Song
Shouldn’t Have A Say - R&B Song
2 Chainz
Used 2 - Music Vid
24 Hours - ROY, SOY, R&B Perf, R&B Song, Music Vid
Cut Her Off - Rap Perf, Rap Song, Music Vid
Gospel/Christian
Erica Campbell
Help - Gospel Perf/Song
Help - Gospel Album
Colton Dixon
More Of You - CCM Perf/Song, Music Vid
Anchor - CCM Album
Michelle Williams
Say Yes - Gospel Perf/Song, Music Vid
Journey To Freedom - Gospel Album
Gloria Gaynor
Please Let Me Show You - CCM Perf/Song
We Will Survive - Gospel Album
Michael W. Smith
Sovereign Over Us - CCM Perf/Song
You Won’t Let Go - CCM Perf/Song
Christmas Time Is Here - Pop Duo/Group
Almost There - Pop Duo/Group
White Christmas - Pop Duo/Group
Silent Night - Pop Duo/Group
What Child Is This - Pop Duo/Group
Peace - Pop Duo/Group
Christmas Day - Pop Duo/Group
All Is Well - Pop Duo/Group
The Spirit Of Christmas - Trad Pop
Hymns - CCM Album
Sovereign - CCM Album
Sovereign - Music Film
Marvin Sapp
Home For Christmas - R&B Perf, R&B Song
Christmas Card - Gospel Album
Gladys Knight
Need You Love You - Gospel Perf/Song
Where My Heart Belongs - Gospel Album
Jason Nelson
I Am - Gospel Perf/Song
Country/Folk/Americana Roots
Miranda Lambert
Automatic - ROY, SOY, Country Solo, Country Song, Music Vid
Somethin’ Bad - ROY, (SOY), Country Duo/Group, (Country Song), Music Vid
Platinum - AOY, Country Album
Brantley Gilbert
Bottoms Up - ROY, SOY, Country Solo, Country Song, Music Vid
Small Town Throwdown - Country Duo/Group
Just As I Am - AOY, Country Album
Carrie Underwood
Something In The Water - ROY, SOY, Country Solo, Country Song
The Sound Of Music - Pop Solo
My Favorite Things - Pop Duo/Group
Somethin’ Bad - ROY, (SOY), Country Duo/Group, (Country Song), Music Vid
All Is Well - Pop Duo/Group
Eric Church
Give Me Back My Hometown - ROY, SOY, Country Solo, Country Song, Music Vid
Win, Lose Or Draw - Country Solo
Cowboys Like Us - Country Duo/Group
Raise ‘Em Up - Country Duo/Group
All Alright - SOY, Country Song
The Outsiders - AOY, Country Album
Hunter Hayes
Invisible - ROY, SOY, Country Solo, Country Song, Music Vid
Storyline - AOY, Country Album
Luke Bryan
Drink A Beer - ROY, (SOY), Country Solo, (Country Song)
Rollercoaster - Music Vid
This Is How We Roll - ROY, SOY, Country Duo/Group, Country Song, Music Vid
Ray Price
Beauty Lies In The Eyes Of The Beholder - ROY, (SOY), Country Solo, (Country Song)
I Believe - Country Solo
An Affair To Remember - ROY, Pop Duo/Group
Beauty Is…The Final Sessions - AOY, Country Album
Roseanne Cash
A Feather’s Not A Bird - ROY, SOY, Amer Roots Perf, Amer Roots Song
Etta’s Tune - Amer Roots Perf, Amer Roots Song
The River & The Thread - AOY, Americana Album
Zac Brown Band [Zac Brown]
All Alright - ROY, SOY, Country Duo/Group, Country Song
Sweet Annie - Music Vid
Black Water - Country Duo/Group
[Midnight Rider - Amer Roots Perf]
Alison Krauss
And When I Die - Amer Roots Perf
Going Up Home To Love In Green Pastures - Amer Roots Perf
Passenger
Heart’s On Fire - ROY, SOY, Amer Roots Perf, Amer Roots Song
Scare Away The Dark - Music Vid
Whispers - AOY, Folk Album
Dolly Parton
Home - ROY, SOY, Country Solo
Jolene - ROY, Country Duo/Group
Blue Smoke - AOY, Country Album
Kacey Musgraves
The Trailer Song - Country Solo, Country Song
Follow Your Arrow - Music Vid
Sara Evans
Slow Me Down - Country Solo, (Country Song)
Can’t Stop Loving You - Country Duo/Group
Slow Me Down - AOY, Country Album
Lady Antebellum
Bartender - ROY, SOY, Country Duo/Group, Country Song, Music Vid
White Christmas - Pop Duo/Group
747 - AOY, Country Album
Live: On This Winter’s Night - Music Film
Ray LaMontagne
Supernova - ROY, SOY, Pop Solo, Music Vid
Drive-In Movies - Amer Roots Perf, Amer Roots Song
Supernova - AOY, Pop Album
Tim McGraw
Meanwhile Back At Mama’s - ROY, (SOY), Country Duo/Group, (Country Song), Music Vid
Shotgun Rider - Country Solo
Sundown Heaven Town - AOY, Country Album
American Express Unstaged - Music Film
The Avett Brothers
Morning Song - ROY, SOY, Amer Roots Perf, Amer Roots Song
Magpie And The Dandelion - AOY, Americana Album
Neil Young
Changes - ROY, Amer Roots Perf
Down The Wrong Way - Rock Perf
A Letter Home - AOY, Folk Album
Dierks Bentley
Drunk On A Plane - ROY, SOY, Country Solo, Country Song, Music Vid
Bourbon In Kentucky - Music Vid
The South - ROY, (SOY), (Country Song)
Riser - AOY, Country Album
Riser - Music Film
Jason Aldean
Burnin’ It Down - Country Solo, (Country Song)
Cole Swindell
BNA
Chillin’ It - ROY, SOY, Country Solo, Country Song
Get Me Some Of That - SOY, Country Song
This Is How We Roll - SOY, Country Song
Cole Swindell - AOY, Country Album
Jennifer Nettles
Me Without You - ROY, SOY, Country Solo, Country Song
That Girl - Music Vid
His Hands - Country Duo/Group
Christmas Day - Pop Duo/Group
That Girl - AOY, Country Album
Lee Ann Womack
The Way I’m Livin’ - Country Solo, (Country Song)
Galveston - Country Duo/Group
The Way I’m Livin’ - Country Album
Brad Paisley
Perfect Storm - ROY, SOY, Country Solo, Country Song
River Bank - ROY, SOY, Country Solo, Country Song, Music Vid
Moonshine In The Trunk - AOY, Country Album
Martina McBride
If You Don’t Know Me By Now - Pop Solo
In The Basement - Pop Duo/Group
Bring It On Home To Me - Pop Duo/Group
An Affair To Remember - ROY, Pop Duo/Group
What Child Is This - Pop Duo/Group
Everlasting - AOY, Pop Album
Rascal Flatts
Rewind - ROY, (SOY), Country Duo/Group, (Country Song), Music Vid
Rewind - AOY, Country Album
Brandy Clark
BNA
Stripes - Country Solo, Country Song
His Hands - Country Duo/Group
Bad Girl Phase - Country Song
The Trailer Song - Country Song
12 Stories - AOY, Country Album
Cassadee Pope
BNA
The Animal In Me - ROY
Frame By Frame - AOY, Country Album
Chase Rice
BNA
Ready Set Roll - Country Solo, Country Song
The High Life - ROY, Country Duo/Group, Country Song, Music Vid
Ignite The Night - Country Album
Dan + Shay
BNA
19 You + Me - ROY, SOY, Country Duo/Group, Country Song
Where It All Began - AOY, Country Album
David Nail
Kiss You Tonight - ROY, (SOY), Country Solo, (Country Song), Music Vid
When They’re Gone (Lyle County) - Country Duo/Group
Galveston - Country Duo/Group
I’m A Fire - AOY, Country Album
Dustin Lynch
Where It’s At - Country Solo, (Country Song)
Where It’s At - Country Album
Eli Young Band
Dust - ROY, SOY, Country Duo/Group, Country Song, Music Vid
10,000 Towns - AOY, Country Album
Eric Paslay
BNA
Song About A Girl - ROY, SOY, Country Solo, Country Song, Music Vid
Country Side Of Heaven - Country Duo/Group
Rewind - SOY, Country Song
Eric Paslay - AOY, Country Album
Frankie Ballard
BNA
Sunshine & Whiskey - ROY, (SOY), Country Solo, (Country Song)
Sunshine & Whiskey - AOY, Country Album
Scotty McCreery
Feelin’ It - ROY, (SOY), Country Solo, (Country Song), Music Vid
See You Tonight - AOY, Country Album
Thomas Rhett
BNA
Get Me Some Of That - ROY, (SOY), (Country Song), Music Vid
Small Town Throwdown - Country Duo/Group
It Goes Like This - AOY, Country Album
Toby Keith
Shut Up And Hold On - Country Solo, Country Song
Drinks After Work - Country Album
Willie Nelson
The Wall - ROY, SOY, Amer Roots Perf, Amer Roots Song
It Ain’t You - Country Duo/Group, (Country Song), Music Vid
Make You Feel My Love - Country Duo/Group
Hard To Be An Outlaw - Amer Roots Perf, (Amer Roots Song)
Only Me - Amer Roots Perf, (Amer Roots Song)
Band Of Brothers - AOY, Country Album
Kenny Chesney
American Kids - ROY, (SOY), Country Solo, (Country Song), Music Vid
The Big Revival - AOY, Country Album
Blake Shelton
Neon Lights - ROY, (SOY), Country Solo, (Country Song)
I’d Want It To Be You - (SOY)
Medicine - Country Duo/Group, (Country Song)
Bringing Back The Sunshine - AOY, Country Album
Garth Brooks
People Loving People - ROY, (SOY), Country Solo, (Country Song)
Keith Urban
Cop Car - ROY, (SOY), Country Solo, (Country Song), Music Vid
Raise ’Em Up - Country Duo/Group
Don’t Let Me Down - Rock Perf
Little Big Town
Day Drinking - ROY, SOY, Country Duo/Group, Country Song, Music Vid
Silent Night - Pop Duo/Group
When They’re Gone (Lyle County) - Country Duo/Group
Country Side Of Heaven - Country Duo/Group
LeAnn Rimes
Smokin’ In The Boys Room - ROY, Country Solo
Gasoline and Matches - Music Vid
Lucinda Williams
Burning Bridges - ROY, Amer Roots Song
Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone - AOY, Americana Album
Lee Brice
I Don’t Dance - ROY, SOY, Country Solo, Country Song, Music Vid
I Don’t Dance Deluxe Edition - AOY, Country Album
Producer of Year
Vince Gill
He’ll Take Care Of You - ROY, Country Duo/Group
Tools Of The Trade - ROY, Country Duo/Group, (Country Song)
Christmas Time Is Here - Pop Duo/Group
Lay Down Sally - Country Duo/Group
Go Rest High On That Mountain - Country Duo/Group
Midnight Rider - Amer Roots Perf
Florida Georgia Line
Dirt - ROY, (SOY), (Country Song), Music Vid
This Is How We Roll - ROY, SOY, Country Duo/Group, Country Song, Music Vid
The South - ROY, (SOY), (Country Song)
Eric Clapton
Call Me The Breeze - ROY, Amer Roots Perf, Music Vid
Got To Get Better In A Little While - Rock Perf
Lay Down Sally - Country Duo/Group
Key To The Highway - Amer Roots Perf
Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad - Rock Perf
The Breeze: An Appreciation of JJ Cale - AOY, Americana Album
Crossroads: Eric Clapton Guitar Festival 2013 - Music Film
Amos Lee
Mountains Of Sorrow - SOY, Amer Roots Perf, Amer Roots Song
Do You Know? - Amer Roots Song
Mountains Of Sorrow, Rivers Of Song - Americana Album
Johnny Cash
Look Again To The Wind: Johnny Cash’s Bitter Tears Resvisited - AOY, Folk Album
Old Crow Medicine Show
Sweet Amarillo - ROY, Amer Roots Perf, Music Vid
Marching Through Georgia - Amer Roots Perf
Remedy - AOY, Folk Album
Gregg Allman
Midnight Rider - Amer Roots Perf
Statesboro Blues - Amer Roots Perf
Just Say When - Amer Roots Perf
All My Friends: Celebrating The Voice And Songs Of Gregg Allman - Americana Album
All My Friends: Celebrating The Songs & Voice Of Gregg Allman - Music Film
Jake Owen
Beachin’ - ROY, (SOY), Country Solo, (Country Song), Music Vid
Days Of Gold - AOY, Country Album
Kip Moore
Dirt Road - ROY, SOY, Country Solo, Country Song, Music Vid
Lucy Hale
Lie A Little Better - Country Solo, (Country Song), Music Vid
Road Between - Country Album
Sam Hunt
Leave The Night On - ROY, SOY, Country Solo, Country Song, Music Vd
Cop Car - SOY, Country Song
We Are Tonight - SOY, Country Song
The Head and the Heart
Another Story - Pop Duo/Group
Let’s Be Still - Americana Album
Chris Young
Who I Am With You - ROY, (SOY), Country Solo, (Country Song), Music Vid
Darius Rucker
Radio - ROY, SOY, Country Solo, Country Song
George Strait
I Got A Car - ROY, (SOY), Country Solo, (Country Song)
Cowboys Like Us - Country Duo/Group
Murder On Music Row - Country Duo/Group
The Cowboy Rides Away: Live From AT&T Stadium - AOY, Country Album
Jerrod Niemann
Drink To That All Night - ROY, (SOY), Country Solo, (Country Song), Music Vid
High Noon - AOY, Country Album
The Band Perry
Chainsaw - ROY, (SOY), (Country Song), Music Vid
Gentle On My Mind - Country Duo/Group
Alan Jackson
A Million Ways To Die - Country Solo, (Country Song), (Song/Visual Media)
Murder On Music Row - Country Duo/Group
Kenny Rogers
She Believes In Me - Country Duo/Group
You Can’t Make Old Friends - Country Album
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Songs From The Movie - Pop Album
Norah (Jones)
Long Time Gone - ROY, Amer Roots Perf
Traces Of You - ROY, (SOY)
Let It Ride - Pop Duo/Group
Kentucky - Music Vid
Don’t Know What It Means - Amer Roots Song
Foreverly - AOY, Americana Album
Rhonda Vincent
It’s Never Too Late - Gospel Perf/Song
Busy City - Amer Roots Perf
Only Me - Amer Roots Perf, (Amer Roots Song)
Only Me - Bluegrass Album
John Mellencamp
Troubled Man - ROY, SOY, Amer Roots Perf, Amer Roots Song
Plain Spoken - AOY, Americana Album
John Hiatt
Terms Of My Surrender - ROY, SOY, Amer Roots Perf, Amer Roots Song
Terms Of My Surrender - AOY, Americana Album
John Hiatt - Terms Of My Surrender: Live From The Franklin Theatre - Music Film
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Fever On The Bayou - ROY, SOY, Amer Roots Perf, Amer Roots Song
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John Fullbright
High Road - Amer Roots Perf, Amer Roots Song
The One That Lives Too Far - Amer Roots Perf
Songs - Americana Album
Leonard Cohen
Almost Like The Blues - ROY, SOY, Amer Roots Perf, Amer Roots Song
You Got Me Singing - Amer Roots Perf
Popular Problems - AOY, Folk Album
Nashville TV Show
The Music Of Nashville: Season 2: Volume 2 (Deluxe Edition) - Compilation Soundtrack
Keb' Mo'
The Old Me Better - SOY, Amer Roots Perf, Amer Roots Song
Down By The Riverside - Gospel Perf/Song
Diving Duck Blues - Amer Roots Perf
BLUESAmericana - AOY, Americana Album
Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers
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European Panel Officially Rules that We Are All Banksy Now
Now that Banksy's "Flower Thrower" trademark has been revoked, anyone can profit off his work.
09.17.2020
This week anonymous street artist Banksy officially lost the European trademark to his "Flower Thrower" mural.
The guerrilla graffiti artist had engaged in a prolonged legal battle with the small greeting card company Full Colour Black—which was selling products featuring the image of a Palestinian man throwing a bouquet of flowers. But now a panel at the European Union Intellectual Property Office has announced their decision to revoke the artist's trademark on the grounds that he could not definitively prove himself to be the mural's creator.
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</p><p>The trademark—which was established through Banksy's "handling service," Pest Control, back in 2014—is distinct from the traditional method for an artist to protect their work through copyright. For a copyright to be valid, the creator must be positively identified, which was not really an option for Banksy, the famously anonymous graffiti artist—who has made a name for himself out of being nameless.<br></p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-632"></div>
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<!-- End Ezoic - under_second_paragraph - under_second_paragraph --><p></p><p>Trademark, by contrast, is intended to help consumers identify genuine goods based on their branding. It's why Wal-Mart doesn't sell $5 Gucci knock-offs. Essentially, Banksy had attempted to avoid exposing his identity by operating as a brand rather than an individual. But in order to defend that trademark, there had to be a business using that branding. Enter <a href="https://grossdomesticproduct.com/" target="_blank">Gross Domestic Product</a>.</p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-633"> </div>
<!-- End Ezoic - incontent1 - mid_content --></p><p>Last Fall, Banksy introduced his online store along with <a href="https://hyperallergic.com/521125/banksy-opens-london-art-shop-same-week-he-sets-12m-auction-record/" target="_blank">a physical store front in the Croydon area of South London</a>. The store offered "solutions for wealth" including a "clutch" consisting of a brick with some leather straps attached for nearly $1000, a faux tiger-skin rug resembling the flayed, cavity-riddled corpse of Tony the Tiger, and—critically—prints of "flower thrower."</p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-634"> </div>
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<small class="image-media media-caption" placeholder="Add Photo Caption...">A view into the Gross Domestic Product Storefront in Croydon</small></p><p>If Banksy had been satisfied with allowing the store to function outwardly as a simple cash grab, the plan might have worked. Unfortunately, he wanted the world to know that he was too cool for anything like that.<br></p><p>Referring to the whole ordeal as "possibly the least poetic reason to ever make some art," Bansky explicitly acknowledged that his true motivation for launching Gross Domestic Product was to defend his trademark. A note posted at the Croydon storefront stated that "This shop has come about as a result of legal action. A greeting cards company are trying to sieze [sic] legal custody of the name Banksy from the artist, who has been advised the best way to prevent this is to sell his own range of branded merchandise."<span></span></p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-635"> </div>
<!-- End Ezoic - incontent2 - long_content --></p><p>Unfortunately for Banksy, trademark law explicitly states that a business must be operating in good faith—in genuine pursuit of profit—in order to retain a copyright. So it's not that surprising that <a href="https://www.worldtrademarkreview.com/brand-management/gross-domestic-failure-banksy-trademark-portfolio-risk-after-eu-registration-declared-invalid" target="_blank">the EUIPO came back with a decision</a> stating that: "Banksy was trying to use the sign only to show that he had an intention of using the sign, but his own words and those of his legal representative, unfortunately undermined this effort."</p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-636"> </div>
<!-- End Ezoic - incontent22 - long_content --></p><p>What is somewhat surprising is that <a href="https://euipo.europa.eu/eSearch/#details/trademarks/012575155" target="_blank">the panel's statement</a> went further, indicating that Banksy's efforts to retain the rights to his work while concealing his identity were futile—that trademark is subject to the same problems as copyright, because he can never prove himself to be the true owner of his work.</p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-637"> </div>
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</p><p>As the panel put it, Banksy "cannot be identified as the unquestionable owner of such works as his identity is hidden ... Therefore, the filing of a trademark cannot be used to uphold these rights which may not exist, or at least may not exist for the person claiming to own them."<br></p><p>The panel also stated that, "Banksy has chosen to remain anonymous and, for the most part, to paint graffiti on other people's property without their permission, rather than to paint it on canvases or his own property," In other words, if you want to hide who you are in order to avoid the consequences of violating other people's property rights, you basically nullify your own property rights.</p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-638"> </div>
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</script></center><p></p><p>Considering <a href="https://www.popdust.com/banksy-overrated-2645155215.html" target="_blank">how long it's been since anyone was really upset at their property getting the Banksy treatment</a>—it's the "vandalism" equivalent of throwing a gold brick through someone's window—it's hard not to read some stuffy spite into the EUIPO's statement. They are the enforcers of the established order of society, and if Banksy wants to sit on the sidelines and criticize the established order, then they don't have to do him any favors.</p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-639"> </div>
<!-- End Ezoic - incontent4 - longest_content --></p><p>What this means for the future is that any and all of Banksy's artwork—not just the "Flower Thrower"—may be subject to unregulated reproduction within the European Union. Essentially, unless Banksy decides to reveal his identity, anyone on Earth has as much claim to his creations as he does.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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</p><p>You could move to Paris tomorrow (if not for the fact that Americans are currently barred from the EU...), and open up a store selling nothing but Banksy-branded merchandise—from Hip-Hop Rat to Balloon Girl, to that kid catching ash on his tongue. You could even tell all your customers that you're Banksy, and there's seemingly nothing <del><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1034538/Graffiti-artist-Banksy-unmasked---public-schoolboy-middle-class-suburbia.html" target="_blank">Robin Gunningham</a></del> Pest Control could do to stop you.<br></p><h2></h2><h2></h2><p>With his trademark officially cancelled, you have as much legal claim to Banksy's art and secret identity as anyone else. We are all Banksy now.</p>
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Can Kim Kardashian Really Live Without Instagram and Facebook? Can You?
With social media giants like Facebook and Instagram woven into our daily lives, does a boycott have real weight?
09.16.2020
Kim Kardashian has nearly 190 million followers on Instagram, where she's in the habit of posting at least once a day.
If her followers were a nation, they would be the 8th most populous on the planet. But the citizens of Kardashia (Kimeroon? The United Kimdom?) will not be receiving any diplomatic news or thirst traps from their dear leader on Wednesday.
As she announced on Instagram on Tuesday, she is taking part in the one-day boycott of Instagram and Facebook organized by Stop Hate for Profit and promoted by other celebrities, from Katy Perry to Leonardo DiCaprio.
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<!-- End Ezoic - under_second_paragraph - under_second_paragraph --><p></p><p>With less than two months remaining before the 2020 presidential election, Kardashian expressed that she felt compelled to "freeze" her accounts for the day because "misinformation shared on social media has a serious impact on our elections and undermines our democracy."</p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-632"></div>
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</div></blockquote></div><h4>Stop Hate for Profit<br></h4><p>A coalition of organizations including the NAACP, the Anti-Defamation League, and Sleeping Giants, Stop Hate for Profit launched in June of 2020 with a stated goal of "hold[ing] social media companies accountable for hate on their platforms." Their particular aim of fighting the spread of racism, anti-semitism, and electoral misinformation has been focused on The Facebook Company—which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp.</p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-633"> </div>
<!-- End Ezoic - incontent1 - mid_content --></p><p><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-facebook-ad-boycott-could-pay-off-for-companies-more-than-advertising-on-facebook-2020-07-01" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Back in July the coalition led a push for more than 1,100 companies</a>—from Microsoft to Starbucks to Coca-Cola—to "pause" their Facebook advertising for that month. The sum of these companies' advertising amounts to billions of dollars in annual revenue for Mark Zuckerberg's monolith, yet Facebook's stock barely budged—and has, in fact, been steadily climbing since.</p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-634"> </div>
<!-- End Ezoic - incontent11 - mid_content --></p><p>Still, the advertising boycott seemed to be effective in forcing some concessions. As it's laid out on Stop Hate for Profit's website, it was in the wake of that effort that Facebook "announced the creation of a senior role to oversee civil rights ... established a dedicated team to study algorithmic racial bias" and "publicly released their long-delayed civil rights audit."</p><p>While Facebook may have hoped for those to be the kind of hollow corporate gestures that placate investors without really altering the profit model or addressing activists' concerns, the civil rights audit included the assessment that the way the company had caused "<a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/07/08/888888476/report-slams-facebook-for-vexing-and-heartbreaking-decisions-on-political-speech" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">significant setbacks for civil rights</a>."</p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-635"> </div>
<!-- End Ezoic - incontent2 - long_content --></p><p>Of particular concern was <a href="https://www.popdust.com/mark-zuckerberg-trump-2646117777.html" target="_self">Zuckerberg's lenient approach to President Donald Trump</a> and his campaign for violating Facebook's official policies in a number of posts and ads. Unfortunately, it's not clear that any social media platform has the perfect solution for handling the fact that bigotry is baked into the highest levels of the US government.</p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-636"> </div>
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</p><p>While <a href="https://www.popdust.com/trump-looting-shooting-2646126939.html" target="_self">Twitter has added fact checks</a> and limited the ways users could interact with a number of Donald Trump's tweets in recent months, their approach has sometimes been clumsy. And efforts to remove toxic communities from <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/juliareinstein/reddit-bans-subreddits-thedonald-chapotraphouse" target="_blank">Reddit attempted a balanced approach</a> that some claimed drew a false equivalency between violently hateful groups and groups violently opposed to hatred.<br></p><p>It's a difficult needle for online platforms to thread—especially when they're already widely <a href="https://www.popdust.com/trump-twitter-2646109103.html" target="_self">accused of suppressing and "shadow-banning" conservative voices</a>. How much does it serve the public interest to erase records of the president's hate and lies?</p><h4>The Sad Necessity of Social Media Censorship</h4><p>Do we really want privately owned, profit-seeking companies to be in charge of what information we're allowed to see? If you want to spread the idea that Mark Zuckerberg deserves to be in jail, do you want him to have a say in who sees that? Should there be any censorship on social media at all?</p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-637"> </div>
<!-- End Ezoic - incontent3 - longer_content --></p><p>Sadly, we don't have the choice to allow these platforms to exist as bastions of unfettered free speech. The reality is that their profit models are based on keeping people engaged, and—without oversight—that leads to algorithms that promote outrage, hatred, and misinformation.</p><p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/04/us/blm-protests-peaceful-report-trnd/index.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">True stories about peaceful BLM protests</a> just don't spread as well as <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/09/13/912449209/oregon-officials-warn-untrue-antifa-rumors-waste-precious-resources-for-fires" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">lies about Antifa fire-bombing the Pacific Northwest</a>. Functionally, this results in platforms that actively promote hatred and division for personal profit. And Facebook just so happens to be ground zero.</p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-638"> </div>
<!-- End Ezoic - incontent33 - longer_content --></p><p>In addition to the deluge of fabricated stories that spread across the platform in the lead-up to the 2016 US presidential election, Facebook has been implicated in election interference in countries around the world. They have promised to do better this November, but have done little to prove it.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">
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</p><p>Even more worrying, <a href="https://time.com/5880118/myanmar-rohingya-genocide-facebook-gambia/" target="_blank">the platform was instrumental in inciting recent hatred and genocidal violence against the minority population of Rohingya people in Myanmar</a>. In a volatile context in which racialized violence is already a major concern—like, for example, the United States in 2020—a platform like Facebook has a massive potential to fan the flames of hatred and division.<br></p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-639"> </div>
<!-- End Ezoic - incontent4 - longest_content --></p><p>One recent example of exactly that involved a militia group calling themselves "Kenosha Guard." The group—which was, by its nature, a violation of Facebook's policies—promoted an event for armed citizens to patrol the streets of the Wisconsin city.</p><p>While it's not clear that Kyle Rittenhouse saw the event before<a href="https://www.libertyproject.com/kyle-rittenhouse-rusten-sheskey-qualified-immunity-2647394285.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> taking an assault rifle across state lines and killing two strangers</a>, what we do know is that Facebook had ample time to remove the group and the event—which multiple users flagged for violating their policies—yet the pages were allowed to remain up even after blood had been shed.</p><p>Stop Hate for Profit hopes that pressure applied by celebrities and ordinary users during their <a href="https://www.stophateforprofit.org/week-of-action-toolkit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Week of Action</a> can push the company to "take action to address racism, hate, and disinformation on its platforms."</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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</p><p>In addition to Wednesday's boycott, the schedule calls for users to spend Thursday and Friday spreading awareness of Facebook's "role in inciting violence, spreading racism and hate, and contributing to electoral disinformation." But is any of this likely to bring about real change?<br></p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-640"> </div>
<!-- End Ezoic - incontent44 - longest_content --></p><h4>Can a Boycott Even Work?</h4><p>Sure, Kim Kardashian is among the highest profile figures on Instagram, but she's only taking one day off the platform. Even if every one of her 189 million followers followed her lead, it would hardly put a dent in the company's profits for September. And let's face it, many of those people are so addicted to social media that even one day off is out of the question.</p><p>The only way Mark Zuckerberg is likely to take the push seriously is if there's a threat of extending Wednesday's action to a sustained boycott. Which raises the question: Is it even possible for Kim Kardashian to quit Instagram and Facebook? Is it possible for any of us?</p><p></p><center><script async="" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- Popdust Mobile Banner 320x100 --><ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:320px;height:100px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-4301469008561137" data-ad-slot="6952751205"></ins><script>
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</script></center><p></p><p>In the case of Kim and the rest of the Kardashian-Jenner clan, so much of their livelihood is tied to messaging directly to their fans. While Kim stated in her post that she can't "continue to allow the spreading of hate, propaganda and misinformation," does her family (leaving aside the fact that her husband <a href="https://www.popdust.com/why-you-shouldnt-vote-kanye-2020-2647173266.html" target="_self">Kanye West is himself a prolific source of propaganda and misinformation currently attempting to interfere in the election</a>) really have a choice?</p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-641"> </div>
<!-- End Ezoic - bottomofpage - bottom_of_page --></p><p>In addition to using Zuckerberg's platforms to promote their various fashion and makeup ventures, they get paid big bucks for sponsored posts—with <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/49124484" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kylie Jenner reportedly earning more than $1 million per sponsored post in 2019</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a33977997/scott-disick-khloe-kardashian-upset-kuwtk/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">With <em>KUWTK</em> officially ending</a>, the reality TV dynasty will be all the more dependent on social media to maintain their celebrity and their incomes. Is there a viable option for reaching the masses that doesn't profit Mark Zuckerberg? Will they switch to vlogging on YouTube, or posting all their selfies on Twitter? Will the whole family end up <a href="https://www.popdust.com/why-is-bella-thornes-onlyfans-account-hurting-sex-workers-2647394390.html" target="_self">on OnlyFans</a>?</p><div id="d5377" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="d0575d0c8ddca6a522fb9b8c99b33ecf"><blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-version="4" style=" background:#FFF; border:0;
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</div></blockquote></div><p>More to the point, can we, as a society, really let go of the digital communities that keep us connected? According to every commercial that has aired during quarantine, we need those connections "<a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/90491778/every-covid-era-commercial-is-the-same-and-this-supercut-video-proves-it" target="_blank">now more than ever</a>."<br></p><p><strong>But if those connections support companies that profit from hate-mongering and efforts to undermine democracy, can we live without the tether of social media?</strong> Can we go back to chat rooms, phone calls, and Christmas cards? Can we still exist without blasting our thoughts and our lives out into the world?</p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-645"> </div>
<!-- End Ezoic - incontent_4 645 - longest_content --></p><p>Failing that, <a href="https://www.theverge.com/interface/2020/7/30/21346575/tech-antitrust-hearing-recap-bezos-zuckerberg-cook-pichai" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">will Congress manage to break up big tech companies</a>, so they're more susceptible to public pressure? Or do we just need to wait for some benevolent tech company to come along and connect us without giving a platform to hatred and lies?</p><h2></h2><p>Because if we can't make a credible threat of abandoning Facebook and Instagram, Mark Zuckerberg will just keep offering hollow solutions—he'll have no reason to stop harvesting his billions from the violent collapse of our society.</p>
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