Taylor Swift And Kendrick Lamar Lead In Grammy Nominations

Taylor Swift’s wildest dreams have come true.

The pop star dominated the major categories for the 58th annual Grammy Awards, scoring nods for Album, Song and Record of the Year — but her pal Kendrick Lamar is the leading nominee with 11 nominations.

Swift's “1989” and Lamar's “To Pimp a Butterfly” will both vie for Album of the Year along with The Weeknd (“Beauty Behind the Madness”), Alabama Shakes (“Sound & Color”) and Chris Stapleton ("Traveller").

The 25-year-old earned seven nominations overall, including nods for Record and Song of the Year for “Blank Space.” Going up against “Blank Space” in both categories is Ed Sheeran for "Thinking Out Loud."

The other nominees for Record of the Year are Mark Ronson (ft. Bruno Mars) for “Uptown Funk,” The Weekend for “Can't Feel My Face” and D'Angelo and The Vanguard for “Really Love.”

As for Song of the Year, the category that honors songwriters, Kendrick Lamar's “Alright,” Little Big Town's “Girl Crush” and Wiz Khalifa's “See You Again” also earned nods.

Meghan Trainor heads up the list of nominees in the Best New Artist category. The pop star received a nod along with country star Sam Hunt, pop singer Tori Kelly, Australian singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett and British singer-songwriter James Bay.

And for those expecting an epic battle between Swift and Adele for Grammy glory, it wasn’t meant to be: The “Hello” singer’s new album “25” was released two months after the deadline for consideration for the 2016 Grammys.

As for which artists received the most nods, Lamar's double-digit tally was followed by Swift and The Weeknd with seven nominations, Drake with five nods and Alabama Shakes, Pharrell Williams and Kanye West all earning four nods.

58th GRAMMY AWARDS NOMINEES

Album of the year: "Sound & Color," Alabama Shakes; "To Pimp a Butterfly," Kendrick Lamar; "Traveller," Chris Stapleton; "1989," Taylor Swift; "Beauty Behind the Madness," The Weeknd.

Record of the year: "Really Love," D'Angelo and The Vanguard; "Uptown Funk," Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars; "Thinking Out Loud," Ed Sheeran; "Blank Space," Taylor Swift; "Can't Feel My Face," The Weeknd.

Song of the year (songwriter's award): "Alright," Kendrick Duckworth, Mark Anthony Spears and Pharrell Williams; "Blank Space," Max Martin, Shellback and Taylor Swift; "Girl Crush," Hillary Lindsey, Lori McKenna and Liz Rose; "See You Again," Andrew Cedar, Justin Franks, Charles Puth and Cameron Thomaz; "Thinking Out Loud," Ed Sheeran and Amy Wadge.

Best new artist: Courtney Barnett, James Bay, Sam Hunt, Tori Kelly, Meghan Trainor.

Best pop vocal album: "Piece by Piece," Kelly Clarkson; "How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful," Florence + The Machine; "Uptown Special," Mark Ronson; "1989," Taylor Swift; "Before This World," James Taylor.

Best pop solo performance: "Heartbeat Song," Kelly Clarkson; "Love Me Like You Do," Ellie Goulding; "Thinking Out Loud," Ed Sheeran; "Blank Space," Taylor Swift; "Can't Feel My Face," The Weeknd.

Best pop duo/group performance: "Ship to Wreck," Florence + The Machine; "Sugar," Maroon 5; "Uptown Funk," Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars; "Bad Blood," Taylor Swift featuring Kendrick Lamar; "See You Again," Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth.

Best rock album: "Chaos and the Calm," James Bay; "Kintsugi," Death Cab for Cutie; "Mister Asylum," Highly Suspect; "Drones," Muse; ".5: The Gray Chapter," Slipknot.

Best alternative music album: "Sound & Color," Alabama Shakes; "Vulnicura," Bjork; "The Waterfall," My Morning Jacket; "Currents," Tame Impala; "Star Wars," Wilco.

Best urban contemporary album: "Ego Death," The Internet; "You Should Be Here," Kehlani; "Blood," Lianne La Havas; "Wildheart," Miguel; "Beauty Behind the Madness," The Weeknd.

Best R&B album: "Coming Home," Leon Bridges; "Black Messiah," D'Angelo and The Vanguard; "Cheers to the Fall," Andra Day; "Reality Show," Jazmine Sullivan; "Forever Charlie," Charlie Wilson.

Best rap album: "2014 Forest Hills Drive," J. Cole; "Compton," Dr. Dre; "If You're Reading This It's Too Late," Drake; "To Pimp a Butterfly," Kendrick Lamar; "The Pinkprint," Nicki Minaj.

Best country album: "Montevallo," Sam Hunt; "Pain Killer," Little Big Town; "The Blade," Ashley Monroe; "Pageant Material," Kacey Musgraves; "Traveller," Chris Stapleton.

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