General

Album of the Year

• The Blessed Unrest — Sara Bareilles
• Random Access Memories — Daft Punk — WINNER
• Good Kid, M.A.A.D City — Kendrick Lamar
• The Heist — Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
• Red — Taylor Swift

Record of the Year

• Get Lucky — Daft Punk & Pharrell Williams — WINNER
• Radioactive — Imagine Dragons
• Royals — Lorde
• Locked Out of Heaven — Bruno Mars
• Blurred Lines — Robin Thicke featuring T.I. & Pharrell Williams

Song of the Year

• Just Give Me a Reason — Jeff Bhasker, Pink & Nate Ruess (Pink featuring Nate Ruess)
• Locked Out of Heaven — Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine & Bruno Mars (Bruno Mars)
• Roar — Lukasz Gottwald, Max Martin, Bonnie McKee, Katy Perry & Henry Walter (Katy Perry)
• Royals — Joel Little & Ella Yelich O’Connor (Lorde) — WINNER
• Same Love — Ben Haggerty, Mary Lambert & Ryan Lewis (Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Mary Lambert)

Best New Artist

• James Blake
• Kendrick Lamar
• Macklemore & Ryan Lewis — WINNER
• Kacey Musgraves
• Ed Sheeran

Pop

Best Pop Solo Performance

• Brave — Sara Bareilles
• Royals — Lorde — WINNER
• When I Was Your Man — Bruno Mars
• Roar — Katy Perry
• Mirrors — Justin Timberlake

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance

• Get Lucky — Daft Punk & Pharrell Williams — WINNER
• Just Give Me a Reason — Pink featuring Nate Ruess
• Stay — Rihanna featuring Mikky Ekko
• Blurred Lines — Robin Thicke featuring T.I. & Pharrell Williams
• Suit & Tie — Justin Timberlake & Jay Z

Best Pop Vocal Album

• Paradise — Lana Del Rey
• Pure Heroine — Lorde
• Unorthodox Jukebox — Bruno Mars — WINNER
• Blurred Lines — Robin Thicke
• The 20/20 Experience – The Complete Experience — Justin Timberlake

Best Pop Instrumental Album

• Steppin’ Out — Herb Alpert — WINNER
• The Beat — Boney James
• Handpicked — Earl Klugh
• Summer Horns — Dave Koz, Gerald Albright, Mindi Abair & Richard Elliot
• Hacienda — Jeff Lorber Fusion

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album

• Viva Duets — Tony Bennett & Various Artists
• To Be Loved — Michael Bublé — WINNER
• The Standards — Gloria Estefan
• Cee Lo’s Magic Moment — Cee Lo Green
• Now — Dionne Warwick

Dance / Electronic

Best Dance/Electronica Album

• Random Access Memories — Daft Punk — WINNER
• Settle — Disclosure
• 18 Months — Calvin Harris
• Atmosphere — Kaskade
• A Color Map of the Sun — Pretty Lights

Best Dance Recording

• Need U (100%) — Duke Dumont featuring A*M*E & MNEK
• Sweet Nothing — Calvin Harris featuring Florence Welch
• Atmosphere — Kaskade
• This Is What It Feels Like — Armin van Buuren featuring Trevor Guthrie
• Clarity — Zedd featuring Foxes — WINNER

Rock

Best Rock Performance

• Always Alright — Alabama Shakes
• The Stars (Are Out Tonight) — David Bowie
• Radioactive — Imagine Dragons — WINNER
• Kashmir (Live) — Led Zeppelin
• My God Is the Sun — Queens of the Stone Age
• I’m Shakin’ — Jack White

Best Rock Album

• 13 — Black Sabbath
• The Next Day — David Bowie
• Mechanical Bull — Kings of Leon
• Celebration Day — Led Zeppelin — WINNER
• …Like Clockwork — Queens of the Stone Age
• Psychedelic Pill — Neil Young with Crazy Horse

Best Metal Performance

• T.N.T. — Anthrax
• God Is Dead? — Black Sabbath — WINNER
• The Enemy Inside — Dream Theater
• In Due Time — Killswitch Engage
• Room 24 — Volbeat featuring King Diamond

Best Rock Song

• Ain’t Messin’ ‘Round — Gary Clark Jr., songwriter (Gary Clark Jr.)
• Cut Me Some Slack — Dave Grohl, Paul McCartney, Krist Novoselic & Pat Smear — WINNER
• Doom and Gloom — Mick Jagger & Keith Richards, songwriters (The Rolling Stones)
• God Is Dead? — Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi & Ozzy Osbourne, songwriters (Black Sabbath)
• Panic Station — Matthew Bellamy, songwriter (Muse)

Alternative

Best Alternative Music Album

• The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You — Neko Case
• Trouble Will Find Me — The National
• Hesitation Marks — Nine Inch Nails
• Lonerism — Tame Impala
• Modern Vampires of the City — Vampire Weekend — WINNER

R&B

Best R&B Performance

• Love and War — Tamar Braxton
• Best of Me — Anthony Hamilton
• Nakamarra — Hiatus Kaiyote featuring Q-Tip
• How Many Drinks? — Miguel featuring Kendrick Lamar
• Something — Snarky Puppy with Lalah Hathaway — WINNER

Best Urban Contemporary Album

• Love and War — Tamar Braxton
• Side Effects of You — Fantasia
• One: In the Chamber — Salaam Remi
• Unapologetic — Rihanna — WINNER
• New York: A Love Story — Mack Wilds

Best R&B Album

• R&B Divas — Faith Evans
• Girl on Fire — Alicia Keys — WINNER
• Love in the Future — John Legend
• Better — Chrisette Michele
• Three Kings — TGT

Best Traditional R&B Performance

• Please Come Home — Gary Clark Jr. — WINNER
• Get It Right — Fantasia
• Quiet Fire — Maysa
• Hey Laura — Gregory Porter
• Yesterday — Ryan Shaw

Best R&B Song (Songwriters Award)

• Best of Me — Anthony Hamilton & Jairus Mozee
• Love and War — Tamar Braxton, Darhyl Camper Jr., LaShawn Daniels & Makeba Riddick
• Only One — PJ Morton (featuring Stevie Wonder)
• Pusher Love Girl — James Fauntleroy, Jerome Harmon, Timothy Mosley & Justin Timberlake — WINNER
• Without Me — Fantasia Barrino, Missy Elliott, Al Sherrod Lambert, Harmony Samuels & Kyle Stewart

Rap

Best Rap Performance

• Started From the Bottom — Drake
• Berzerk — Eminem
• Tom Ford — Jay Z
• Swimming Pools (Drank) — Kendrick Lamar
• Thrift Shop — Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Wanz — WINNER

Best Rap/Sung Collaboration

• Power Trip — J. Cole featuring Miguel
• Part II (On the Run) — Jay Z featuring Beyoncé
• Holy Grail — Jay Z featuring Justin Timberlake — WINNER
• Now or Never — Kendrick Lamar featuring Mary J. Blige
• Remember You — Wiz Khalifa featuring The Weeknd

Best Rap Album

• Nothing Was the Same — Drake
• Magna Carta… Holy Grail — Jay Z
• Good Kid, M.A.A.D City — Kendrick Lamar
• The Heist — Macklemore & Ryan Lewis — WINNER
• Yeezus — Kanye West

Best Rap Song

• F***in’ Problems — Tauheed Epps, Aubrey Graham, Kendrick Lamar, Rakim Mayers & Noah Shebib (ASAP Rocky featuring Drake, 2 Chainz & Kendrick Lamar)
• Holy Grail — Shawn Carter, Terius Nash, J. Harmon, Timothy Mosley, Justin Timberlake & Ernest Wilson (Jay Z featuring Justin Timberlake)
• New Slaves — Christopher Breaux, Ben Bronfman, Mike Dean, Louis Johnson, Malik Jones, Elon Rutberg, Sakiya Sandifer, Che Smith, Kanye West & Cydell Young (Kanye West)
• Started From the Bottom — W. Coleman, Aubrey Graham & Noah Shebib (Drake)
• Thrift Shop — Ben Haggerty & Ryan Lewis — WINNER

Country

Best Country Solo Performance

• I Drive Your Truck — Lee Brice
• I Want Crazy — Hunter Hayes
• Mama’s Broken Heart — Miranda Lambert
• Wagon Wheel — Darius Rucker — WINNER
• Mine Would Be You — Blake Shelton

Best Country Album

• Night Train — Jason Aldean
• Two Lanes of Freedom — Tim McGraw
• Same Trailer Different Park — Kacey Musgraves — WINNER
• Based on a True Story — Blake Shelton
• Red — Taylor Swift

Best Country Duo/Group Performance

• From This Valley — The Civil Wars — WINNER
• Don’t Rush — Kelly Clarkson featuring Vince Gill
• Your Side of the Bed — Little Big Town
• Highway Don’t Care — Tim McGraw, Taylor Swift & Keith Urban
• You Can’t Make Old Friends — Kenny Rogers with Dolly Parton

Best Country Song (Songwriters Award)

• Begin Again — Taylor Swift, songwriter (Taylor Swift)
• I Drive Your Truck — Jessi Alexander, Connie Harrington & Jimmy Yeary (Lee Brice)
• Mama’s Broken Heart — Brandy Clark, Shane McAnally & Kacey Musgraves (Miranda Lambert)
• Merry Go ‘Round — Shane McAnally, Kacey Musgraves & Josh Osborne (Kacey Musgraves) — WINNER
• Mine Would Be You — Jessi Alexander, Connie Harrington & Deric Ruttan (Blake Shelton)

New Age

Best New Age Album

• Lux — Brian Eno
• Illumination — Peter Kater
• Final Call — Kitaro
• Awakening the Fire — R. Carlos Nakai & Will Clipman
• Love’s River — Laura Sullivan — WINNER

Jazz

Best Jazz Instrumental Album

• Guided Tour — The New Gary Burton Quartet
• Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue — Terri Lyne Carrington — WINNER
• Life Forum — Gerald Clayton
• Pushing the World Away — Kenny Garrett
• Out Here — Christian McBride Trio

Best Improvised Jazz Solo

• Don’t Run — Terence Blanchard
• Song for Maura — Paquito D’Rivera
• Song Without Words #4: Duet — Fred Hersch
• Stadium Jazz — Donny McCaslin
• Orbits — Wayne Shorter — WINNER

Best Jazz Vocal Album

• The World According to Andy Bey — Andy Bey
• Attachments — Lorraine Feather
• Liquid Spirit — Gregory Porter — WINNER
• WomanChild — Cécile McLorin Salvant
• After Blue — Tierney Sutton

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album

• Brooklyn Babylon — Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society
• Night in Calisia — Randy Brecker, Włodek Pawlik Trio & Kalisz Philharmonic — WINNER
• Wild Beauty — Brussels Jazz Orchestra featuring Joe Lovano
• March Sublime — Alan Ferber
• Intrada — Dave Slonaker Big Band

Best Latin Jazz Album

• La Noche Más Larga — Buika
• Song for Maura — Paquito D’Rivera and Trio Corrente — WINNER
• Yo — Roberto Fonseca
• Egg?n — Omar Sosa
• Latin Jazz-Jazz Latin — Wayne Wallace Latin Jazz Quintet

Gospel / Contemporary Christian Music

Best Gospel Album

• Grace (Live) — Tasha Cobbs
• Best For Last: 20 Year Celebration Vol. 1 — Donald Lawrence
• Best Days Yet — Bishop Paul S. Morton
• God Chaser (Live) — William Murphy
• Greater Than (Live) — Tye Tribbett — WINNER

Best Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music Performance

• Break Every Chain (Live) — Tasha Cobbs — WINNER
• Hurricane — Natalie Grant
• Lord, I Need You — Matt Maher
• Overcomer — Mandisa
• If He Did It Before… Same God (Live) — Tye Tribbett

Best Gospel Song

• Have Your Way — Calvin Frazier & Deitrick Haddon (Deitrick Haddon)
• If He Did It Before… Same God (Live) — Tye Tribbett — WINNER
• If I Believe — Wirlie Morris, Michael Paran, Charlie Wilson & Mahin Wilson
• A Little More Jesus — Erica Campbell, Tina Campbell & Warryn Campbell
• Still — Percy Bady

Best Contemporary Christian Music Song

• Hurricane — Matt Bronleewe, Natalie Grant & Cindy Morgan (Natalie Grant)
• Love Take Me Over — Steven Curtis Chapman
• Overcomer — David Garcia, Ben Glover & Christopher Stevens (Mandisa) — WINNER
• Speak Life — Toby McKeehan, Jamie Moore & Ryan Stevenson (TobyMac)
• Whom Shall I Fear (God of Angel Armies) — Ed Cash, Scott Cash & Chris Tomlin

Best Contemporary Christian Music Album

• We Won’t Be Shaken — Building 429
• All the People Said Amen (Live) — Matt Maher
• Overcomer — Mandisa — WINNER
• Your Grace Finds Me (Live) — Matt Redman
• Burning Lights — Chris Tomlin

Latin

Best Latin Pop Album

• Faith, Hope Y Amor — Frankie J
• Viajero Frecuente — Ricardo Montaner
• Vida — Draco Rosa — WINNER
• Syntek — Aleks Syntek
• 12 Historias — Tommy Torres

Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album

• El Objeto Antes Llamado Disco — Café Tacvba
• Ojo Por Ojo — El Tri
• Chances — Illya Kuryaki and the Valderramas
• Treinta Días — La Santa Cecilia — WINNER
• Repeat After Me — Los Amigos Invisibles

Best Regional Mexican Music Album (Including Tejano)

• El Free — Banda Los Recoditos
• En Peligro de Extinción — Intocable
• A Mi Manera — Mariachi Divas de Cindy Shea — WINNER
• Romeo y Su Nieta — Paquita La Del Barrio
• 13 Celebrando El 13 — Joan Sebastian

Best Tropical Latin Album

• 3.0 — Marc Anthony
• Como Te Voy a Olvidar — Los Angeles Azules
• Pacific Mambo Orchestra — Pacific Mambo Orchestra — WINNER
• Sergio George Presents Salsa Giants — Various Artists
• Corazón Profundo — Carlos Vives

American Roots

Best Americana Album

• Old Yellow Moon — Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell — WINNER
• Love Has Come for You — Steve Martin & Edie Brickell
• Buddy and Jim — Buddy Miller & Jim Lauderdale
• One True Vine — Mavis Staples
• Songbook — Allen Toussaint

Best Americana Roots Song

• Love Has Come for You — Steve Martin & Edie Brickell — WINNER
• Build Me Up from Bones — Sarah Jarosz
• Keep Your Dirty Lights On — Tim O’Brien & Darrell Scott
• Shrimp Po-Boy, Dressed — Allen Toussaint
• Invisible — Steve Earle

Best Bluegrass Album

• It’s Just a Road — The Boxcars
• Brothers of the Highway — Dailey & Vincent
• This World Oft Can Be — Della Mae
• Three Chords and the Truth — James King
• The Streets of Baltimore — Del McCoury Band — WINNER

Best Blues Album

• Remembering Little Walter — Billy Boy Arnold, Charlie Musselwhite, Mark Hummel, Sugar Ray Norcia & James Harman
• Cotton Mouth Man — James Cotton
• Get Up! — Ben Harper with Charlie Musselwhite — WINNER
• Seesaw — Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa
• Down in Louisiana — Bobby Rush

Best Folk Album

• My Favorite Picture of You — Guy Clark — WINNER
• Sweetheart of the Sun — The Greencards
• Build Me Up from Bones — Sarah Jarosz
• The Ash & Clay — The Milk Carton Kids
• They All Played for Us: Arhoolie Records 50th Anniversary Celebration — Various Artists

Best Regional Roots Music Album

• The Life & Times Of… The Hot 8 Brass Band — Hot 8 Brass Band
• Hula Ku’i — Kahulanui
• Le Fou — Zachary Richard
• Dockside Sessions — Terrance Simien & The Zydeco Experience — WINNER
• Apache Blessing & Crown Dance Songs — Joe Tohonnie Jr.

Reggae

Best Reggae Album

• One Love, One Life — Beres Hammond
• Ziggy Marley In Concert — Ziggy Marley — WINNER
• The Messiah — Sizzla
• Reggae Connection — Sly & Robbie and The Jam Masters
• Reincarnated — Snoop Lion

World Music

Best World Music Album

• Savor Flamenco — Gipsy Kings — WINNER (TIE)
• No Place for My Dream — Femi Kuti
• Live: Singing for Peace Around the World — Ladysmith Black Mambazo — WINNER (TIE)
• The Living Room Sessions Part 2 — Ravi Shankar

Children’s

Best Children’s Album

• Blue Clouds — Elizabeth Mitchell & You Are My Flower
• The Mighty Sky — Beth Nielsen Chapman
• Recess — Justin Roberts
• Singing Our Way Through: Songs for the World’s Bravest Kids — Alastair Moock & Friends
• Throw a Penny in the Wishing Well — Jennifer Gasoi — WINNER

Spoken Word

Best Spoken Word Album

• America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren’t — Stephen Colbert — WINNER
• Carrie and Me — Carol Burnett
• Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls — David Sedaris
• Still Foolin’ ‘Em — Billy Crystal
• The Storm King — Pete Seeger

Comedy

Best Comedy Album

• Calm Down Gurrl — Kathy Griffin — WINNER
• I’m Here to Help — Craig Ferguson
• A Little Unprofessional — Ron White
• Live — Tig Notaro
• That’s What I’m Talkin’ About — Bob Saget

Musical Theater

Best Musical Theater Album

• Kinky Boots — WINNER
• Matilda: The Musical
• Motown: The Musical

Music for Visual Media

Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media

• Django Unchained
• The Great Gatsby (Deluxe Edition)
• Les Misérables (Deluxe Edition)
• Muscle Shoals
• Sound City: Real to Reel — WINNER

Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media

• Argo — Alexandre Desplat
• The Great Gatsby — Craig Armstrong
• Life of Pi — Mychael Danna
• Lincoln — John Williams
• Skyfall — Thomas Newman — WINNER
• Zero Dark Thirty — Alexandre Desplat

Best Song Written for Visual Media

• Atlas (from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire) — Coldplay
• Silver Lining (from Silver Linings Playbook) — Diane Warren (Jessie J)
• Skyfall (from Skyfall) — Adele Adkins & Paul Epworth — WINNER
• We Both Know (from Safe Haven) — Colbie Caillat & Gavin DeGraw
• Young and Beautiful (from The Great Gatsby) — Lana Del Rey & Rick Nowels
• You’ve Got Time (from Orange Is the New Black) — Regina Spektor

Composing & Arranging

Best Instrumental Composition

• Pensamientos for Solo Alto Saxophone and Chamber Orchestra — Clare Fischer — WINNER

Best Instrumental Arrangement

• On Green Dolphin Street — Gordon Goodwin — WINNER

Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)

• Swing Low — Gil Goldstein (Bobby McFerrin & Esperanza Spalding) — WINNER

Crafts

Best Recording Package

• Long Night Moon — Sarah Dodds & Shauna Dodds — WINNER

Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package

• Wings Over America (Deluxe Edition) — Simon Earith & James Musgrave — WINNER

Best Album Notes

• Afro Blue Impressions (Remastered & Expanded) — Neil Tesser (John Coltrane) — WINNER

Production

Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical

• Random Access Memories — Engineers: Peter Franco, Mick Guzauski, Florian Lagatta & Daniel Lerner; Mastering: Bob Ludwig — WINNER

Producer of the Year, Non-Classical

• Pharrell Williams — WINNER

Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical

• Summertime Sadness (Cedric Gervais Remix) — Cedric Gervais (Lana Del Rey) — WINNER

Production — Surround Sound & Classical

Best Surround Sound Album

• Live Kisses — Al Schmitt (Paul McCartney) — WINNER

Best Engineered Album, Classical

• Winter Morning Walks — David Frost, Brian Losch & Tim Martyn — WINNER

Producer of the Year, Classical

• David Frost — WINNER

Classical

Best Orchestral Performance

• Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4 — Osmo Vänskä & Minnesota Orchestra — WINNER

Best Opera Recording

• Adès: The Tempest — Thomas Adès — WINNER

Best Choral Performance

• Pärt: Adam’s Lament — Tõnu Kaljuste — WINNER

Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance

• Roomful of Teeth — Brad Wells & Roomful of Teeth — WINNER

Best Classical Instrumental Solo

• Corigliano: Conjurer — Evelyn Glennie — WINNER

Best Classical Vocal Solo

• Winter Morning Walks — Dawn Upshaw — WINNER

Best Classical Compendium

• Hindemith: Violinkonzert; Symphonic Metamorphosis; Konzertmusik — Christoph Eschenbach — WINNER

Best Classical Contemporary Composition

• Winter Morning Walks — Maria Schneider — WINNER

Music Video & Film

Best Music Video

• Suit & Tie — Justin Timberlake featuring Jay-Z — WINNER

Best Music Film

• Live 2012 — Coldplay — WINNER

Special Merit Awards

• MusiCares Person of the Year: Carole King
• Lifetime Achievement Award: The Beatles; Clifton Chenier; The Isley Brothers; Kraftwerk; Kris Kristofferson; Armando Manzanero; Maud Powell
• Trustees Awards: Rick Hall; Jim Marshall; Ennio Morricone