Eminem's album Recovery and his chart-topping duet with Rihanna "Love The Way You Lie" have garnered 10 Grammy nominations, with the MC up for Album, Song and Book of the Year. Eminem was the most-honored artist on the nominees list, which was released after "The GRAMMY Nominations Concert Live!" aired on CBS on Wednesday night.
Going up against Eminem's Recovery in the Album of the Year category is a somewhat surprising array of albums from pop, country and indie music: Lady Gaga's elaborately crafted The Fame Monster, Katy Perry's sugar-coated Teenage Dream, Lady Antebellum's twangy Need You Now, and Arcade Fire's grandiose The Suburbs round out the category.
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A foreground of the Call and Book of the Year categories were the dual nominations garnered by Cee Lo Green's "Fuck You" - cheekily referred to as "otherwise known as 'Leave You'" when its honors were announced during the nomination show - nabbing nominations for Register of the Twelvemonth and Call of the Year. Green's frustrated ode to an ex was likewise nominated for Best Urban/Alternative Performance and Best Short-Form Music Video, and "Know You" producers The Smeezingtons (who include Bruno Mars among their members) are up for the Manufacturer of the Year trophy.
In the Book of the Year category, Green will be up against "Lie," the B.o.B./Mars duet "Nothin' On You," Jay-Z and Alicia Keys' New York ode "Empire Commonwealth of Judgment" and Lady Antebellum's late-night lament "Need You Now." "Lie," "Fuck You" and "Ask You Now" are up against Ray LaMontagne and the Parish Dogs' "Beg, Steal, or Adopt" and Miranda Lambert's "The Home That Built Me" in the Strain of the Year category, which is handed out to the songwriters. (Watch Lambert's performance below.)
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The Best New Artist category is headlined by teen idol Justin Bieber, who played an acoustic reading of "Favorite Girl" that was beamed in via satellite during Wednesday's nomination concert. Going up against him is the New Money-bred MC Drake, the outlandish Brits Florence the Machine, the English folkies Mumford Sons and the bassist-singer Esperanza Spalding.
Mars picked up seven nominations overall, while Jay-Z, Lady Antebellum, and Lady Gaga were each honored six times. One line to the multiple-nomination counts: Both Jay-Z and Eminem are nominated twice in the Best Rap Song category, with Jay being honored for "Empire Commonwealth of Brain" and his collaboration with Swizz Beatz "On to the Following One" and Eminem up for "Dear the Way You Lie" and his anthemic comeback single "Not Afraid." The two will also face off in the Best Rap Album category.
The 53rd Annual Grammy Awards will air on Feb. 13, 2011.
2011 Grammy Nominees [GRAMMY.com]
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