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The 61st #Grammy Award nominations were announced Friday morning .# ShawnMendes, #JanelleMonáe, #AlessiaCara and Apple Music's #Zane Lowe joined "CBS This Morning" to announce the nominees in the top categories Friday morning. Mendes and Monáe walked away with their own nominations while Cara, a four-time Grammy nominee and last year's best new artist, was not eligible.  With #Drake and #KendrickLamar leading the way in the biggest categories, both earning nods for record, album and song of the year. Those two aside, this year's top awards are dominated by women.  After backlash over the lack of female nominees last year, 2019 sees mostly young women in the best new artist category and five women competing with three men for album of the year.  There were also some notable snubs. Beyoncé and Jay-Z -- typically a favorite of the academy -- didn't get any love in the main categories for their collaborative album, "Everything Is Love." Kanye Wes...

Like most major awards shows, the #Grammys in recent years has attempted a precarious balancing act: The leading nominees in 2019 , like those from this year, come from hip-hop — namely #Kendrick Lamar, #Drake and #ChildishGambino — but they are joined by a handful of women from multiple genres, many of them newcomers to this particular party. That doesn’t seem like an accident: After tensions came to a boil after the ceremony in January, the Recording Academy said it actively sought younger voters and empowered a task force focused on diversity and inclusion. Here to discuss the new crop of nominees and what it might mean for the show in February is The New York Times pop music team: the chief pop critic Jon Pareles, the pop critic Jon Caramanica, the music editor Caryn Ganz and the pop reporter Joe Coscarelli. PARELES Let’s start with a caveat: Having the most nominations does not guarantee wins. It’s more a measure of how many categories someone can qualify for — and in the er...

Unannounced Kendrick Lamar leaks point to foul play. About 48 hours ago, Kendrick Lamar 's unreleased material began piling up without his consent, precipitated by a leak of presumed collaboration with Busta Rhymes which also featured a consolidated effort from the one and only Michael Jackson. Seven other songs followed, one as polished as the other. Among them was an unfathomable posse cut featuring every key member of TDE , save for the elusive ScHoolboy Q , and another exclusively arranged around SZA's vocal efforts. Although the origins of this leak are still unknown, the files have been traveling as pack under the unofficial heading of Bad Kid Chill City EP. The Independent reports that a fan has even gone to such lengths to create cover artwork for the unborn project. It would be premature to speculate on the song grouping, to any extent possible, in spite of the many existing theories. The material doesn't bear a sonic tag that would tie it down to any period ...