Music star Burna Boy has been nominated for the 2023 Recording Academy Awards, also known as the Grammys.
The Academy released the list of nominations on Tuesday, with the awards ceremony set for February 5, 2023.
Burna Boy’s latest album, Love Damini, It was nominated in the Best Global Music Album category, along with other albums by international music stars.
The singer was also nominated for Best Global Music Performance for her hit song “Last Last.”
It also appeared on Nigeria’s Tems nominations list as Future’s “Wait For U”, leading Tems and Drake to nominations in the Best Rap Melodic Performance and Best Rap Song categories.
See the full list of nominees below:
Best Global Music Album
Shuruaat – Berklee Indian Ensemble
Love, Damini – Burna Boy
Queen of Sheba – Angelique Kidjo (Official Video)
Between Us… (Live) – Anoushka Shankar, Metropole Orkest and Jules Buckley with Manu Delago
Shakura – Masa Tukami
Best Global Music Performance
“Udhero Na” – Adrooj Aftab and Anoushka Shankar
“Gimme Love” – Matt B and Eddy Kenzo
“The Last Last” – Burna Boy
“Neva Bow Down” – Featuring Rocky Dawuni Blvk H3ro
“Bayethe” – Wouter Kellerman, Zaken Bantwini & Nomcebo Zikode
Best Pop Solo Performance
“Easy on Me” – Adele
“Moscow Mule” – Bad Bunny
“Bad Habit” – Steve Lacy
“Woman” – Doja Cat
“About Damn Time” – Lizzo
“As It Was” – Harry Styles
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
“Don’t Shut Me Up” – ABBA
“Bam Bam” – Camilla Cabello with Ed Sheeran
“My Universe” – Coldplay and BTS
“Unholy” – Sam Smith and Kim Petras
“I Like You (A Happier Song) – Post Malone & Doja Cat
Best Pop Vocal Album
Trips – ABBA
30 – Adele
Music of the Spheres – Coldplay
Harry’s House – Harry Styles
Special – Lizzo
Best Dance/Electronic Recording
“Break My Soul” – Beyonce
“Rosewood” – Bonobo
“Don’t forget my love” – Diplo & Miguel
“I’m Good (Blue)” – David Guetta & Bebe Rexha
“Scared” – Kaytranada with HER
Attention, the best instrumental or a cappella
As Days Go By (An Arrangement of the Family Matters Theme Song) – Armund Hutton, arranger
How Deep Is Your Love – Matt Cusson, arranger
Main Titles (Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness) – Danny Elfman, Adaptor
Best instrumental composition
African Tales – Paquito D’Rivera
The Invisible City – Miguel Zenon
Fronteras Suite: Al-Musafir Blues – Danilo Perez
Shelter – Geoffrey Keezer
Photos – Pascal Le Beouf
The best rap album
God did it – DJ Khaled
I Never Liked You – Future
Come Home The Kids Miss You – Jack Harlow
Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers – Kendrick Lamar
It’s Almost Dry – Pusha T
Best Melodic Rap Performance
“Beautiful” – DJ Khaled featuring Future & SZA
“Wait For U” – Future featuring Drake & Thems
“First Class” – Jack Harlow
“Die Hard” – Kendrick Lamar with Blxst and Amanda Reifer
“Big Energy (Live)” – Latto
The best rap song
“Churchill Downs” – Jack Harlow with Drake
“The Heart Part 5” – Kendrick Lamar
“God Did” – DJ Khaled featuring Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, John Legend and Fridayy
“Wait For U” – Future featuring Drake & Thems
“Pushin P” – Gunna & Future featuring Young Thug
Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical
Amy Allen
Not Charles
Dream
Tobias Jesso Jr.
Laura Veltz
Song of the Year
“abcdefu” – GAYLE
“About Damn Time” – Lizzo
“All Too Well (10 Minute Version, The Short Film)” – Taylor Swift
“As It Was” – Harry Styles
“Bad Habit” – Steve Lacy
“Break My Soul” – Beyonce
“Easy on Me” – Adele
“God Did” – DJ Khaled featuring Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, John Legend and Fridayy
“The Heart Part 5” – Kendrick Lamar
“Like That” – Bonnie Raitt
Best Improvised Jazz Soloist
“Rounds (Live)” – Ambrose Akinmusire
“Keep on holding on” – Gerald Albright
“Falling” – Melissa Aldana
“The Drum’s Call” – Marcus Baylor
“Cherokee/Koko” – John Beasley
“Endangered Species” – Wayne Shorter and Leo Genovese
The best album of the great jazz bands
Bird Lives – John Beasley, Marcus Lindgren and the SWR Big Band
Remembering Bob Freedman – Ron Carter & The Jazzaar Festival Big Band conducted by Christian Jacob
Generation Gap Jazz Orchestra – Steven Feifke, Bijon Watson, Generation Gap Jazz Orchestra
Center Stage: Steve Gadd, Eddie Gomez, Ronnie Cuber and the WDR Big Band directed by Michael Abene
Architecture in the Storm – Assembly of Shadows by Remy Le Beouf
The best Latin Jazz album
At Fandango Wall in New York – Artruro O’Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra
Crisalida – Danilo Perez with Global Messengers
If you want – Flora Purim
Rhythm & Soul – Arturo Sandoval
American musical – Miguel Zenon
The best reggae album
Kalling – Kabaka pyramid
Gift – Koffee
Scorcha – Sean Paul
Third Time’s The Charm – Protoje
Com Fly Wid Mi – Shaggy
Album of the year
“Bad Habit” – Steve Lacy
“The Heart Part 5” – Kendrick Lamar
“About Damn Time” – Lizzo
“As It Was” – Harry Styles
“Don’t Shut Me Up” – ABBA
“Easy on Me” – Adele
“Break My Soul” – Beyonce
“Wonderful Good Morning” – Mary J. Blige
“You And Me On The Rock” – Brandi Carlile starring Lucius
“Woman” – Doja Cat
Best Bluegrass Album
Toward the Fray – The Infamous Stringdusters
Almost Proud – Del McCoury Band
Called from my mountain – Peter Rowan
Crooked Tree – Holly Tuttle and Golden Highway
Get Yourself Outside – Yonder Mountain String Band
America’s Best Show
“Silver Moon (A Tribute to Michael Nesmith)” – Eric Alexandrakis
“There You Go Again” – Asleep at the Wheel with Lyle Lovett
“The Message” – Blind Boys of Alabama Featuring Black Violin
“You and Me On The Rock” – Brandi Carlile starring Lucius
“Made Up Mind” – Bonnie Raitt
The best traditional blues album
Heavy Load Blues – Gov’t Mule
The Blues Don’t Lie – Buddy Guy
Enter the board – Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder
The Sun Is Shining Down – John Mayall
Mississippi Son – Charlie Musselwhite
Bets Contemporary Blues album:
Done Come Too Far – Shemekia Copeland
Crown – Eric Wales
Bloodline Maintenance – Ben Harper
Set Sail – North Mississippi Allstars
Brother Johnny – Edgar Winter
The best folk album
Spellbound – Judy Collins
The Revealer – Madison Cunningham
The Light at the End of the Line – Janis Ian
The Age of Apathy – Aoife O’Donovan
Hell on Church Street – Punch Brothers
Best Regional Roots Music Album
Full Circle – Sean Ardoin and Creole Rock and Soul from Tigerland with the LSU Golden Band
Natalie Nolan – Natalie Ai Kamauu
Halau Hula Keali’l O Nalani – Live at the Getty Center – Halau Hula Keali’l O Nalani
Lucky Man – Nathan & The Zydeco Cha Chas
Live at the 2022 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival – Ranky Tanky
Best Orchestral Performance
Adams, John Luther: Silas – The Breath of the World – Doug Perkins
Dvorak: symphonies 7-9 – Gustavo Dudamel
Eastman: Stay On It – Christopher Rountree
John Williams – The Beryl Concert – John Williams
Works by Florence Price, Jessie Montgomery, Valerie Coleman – Michael Repper
Best Classical Solo Instrumental
“Abels: Isolation Variation” – Hailey Hahn
“Bach: the art of life” – Daniil Trifonov
“Beethoven: Diabelli Variations” – Mitsuko Uchida
“Letters for the Future” – Time For Three, Xian Chang, Conductor (The Philadelphia Orchestra)
Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
Eden – Joyce DiDonato, Maxim Emelyanychev
How I’ll Find You – Sasha Cooke, Kirill Kuzman
Okpebholo: Sir, how come you here? – Will Liverman, Paul Sanchez
Stranger – works for tenor by Nico Mulhy – Nicholas Phan
Voice of Nature – Anthropocene – Renee Fleming, Yannick Nezet-Seguin
Best Contemporary Classical Composition
“Akiho: Suite Lineous” – Andy Aikho
Bermel: Intonations – Derek Bermel
“Gubaidulina – Wrath of God” – Sofia Gubaidulina
“Puts: Get in Touch” – Kevin Puts
“Simon: Requiem for Slaves” – Carlos Simon
The best solo performance in town
“Heartfirst” by Kelsea Ballerini.
“Something In the Orange” – Zach Bryan
“In Her Arms” – Miranda Lambert
“Circles Around This Town” – Maren Morris
“Live Forever” – Willie Nelson
Best Performance by Country Couples/Groups:
“Wishful Drinking” – Ingrid Andress and Sam Hunt
“Midnight Rider’s Prayer” – The Osbourne Brothers
“Outrunnin’ Your Memory” – Luke Combs and Miranda Lambert
“Love You – Review” – Reba McEntire and Dolly Parton
“Never Wanted To Be That Girl” – Carly Pearce and Ashley McBryde
Going Where The Lonely Go – Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
The best country song
“Circles Around This Town” – Maren Morris
“Doing This” – Luke Combs
“That You Think About Me (Taylor’s Version, From The Vault)” – Taylor Swift
“If I Were a Cowboy” – Miranda Lambert
“I’ll love you till the day I die” – Willie Nelson
“Til You Can’t” – Cody Johnson
The best album in the country
Growin’ Up – Luke Combs
Palomino – Miranda Lambert
Ashley McBryde presents: Lindeville – Ashley McBryde
Humble Quest – Maren Morris
A Beautiful Time – Willie Nelson
The best gospel album
“Die to Live” – Maranda Curtis
“Breakthrough: The Exodus (Live)” – Ricky Dillard
“Clarity” – Doe
“Kingdom Book One Deluxe” – Maverick City Music & Kirk Franklin
“All Things New” – Tye Tribbett
Check out the full nominations on the Grammys website, as the event’s performers and presenters will be announced soon.
