Grammy 2024 nominations live: Taylor Swift and Barbie album expected to lead nominations

The actor and musician spoke to Annabel Nugent earlier this year about releasing her debut album, leaving The Sex Lives of College Girls and the one time on Mean Girls: The Musical she wished she had spoken up.

Read the full interview with Reneé Rapp below:

Taylor Swift is gunning for a record seventh nomination for Song of the Year, which would mean she overtakes Paul McCartney and Lionel Richie as the most nominated artist in the category.

Helen Brown praises Swift’s “feline vocal stealth and assured lyrical control” in her review of Midights.

Read the full review below:

Miley Cyrus’s poppy, post-breakup single “Flowers” became an earworm hit earlier this year. It could be up for Best Song, or her album, Endless Summer Vacation, could be in the running for Best Record.

In her four-star review of the album, Helen Brown writes that Endless Summer Vacation is a “lovely long bask in Cyrus’s maturing talent”.

Read the full review below:

Rapper Doja Cat has spent the best part of the year trying to shake off her viral TikTok beginnings. Her latest album Scarlet, and her hit track “Paint the Town Red” feel like an active defiance of that trajectory.

In her four-star review of Scarlet, Roisin O’Connor: “Possibly sick of being told she is too pop to be considered a quote-unquote real rapper, Doja Cat ditches her brighter, manic sound of old – exemplified by past tracks like the 2019 TikTok sensation “Say So” – and returns with something darker, more brooding.”

Read the full review below:

One year after the sudden death of Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, the band channelled that grief into their latest record But Here We Are. It’s predicted that the band could be up for a Best Album nomination at the Grammys.

In her four-star review of the album Roisin O’Connor, she writes: “As a tribute, and a farewell, it could hardly be better.”

Read the full review here:

LA-based artist Gracie Abrams met Annabel Nugent last year. They spoke about why the 24-year-old chose a different path to her Hollywood parents and has already developed her own devoted fanbase.

Read the full interview below:

Annabel Nugent met London singer Raye just after she had been released from the clutches of her label. The pair had an emotional discussion about artistic autonomy, learning to forgive and finally releasing her debut album.

Find out more about Raye, who could be in the running for Best New Artist at the Grammy Awards, below:

Olivia Rodrigo was 18 years old when she became the youngest person to debut atop the US Billboard 100 chart. The singer and former Disney Channel star, now 20, released her second album GUTS in September, which is now predicted to be in the running for several Grammy nomination categories.

The Independent’s chief albums critic, Helen Brown, wrote that in GUTS, Rodrigo revels in “an even angrier, wittier, rockier mood” than in her debut album Sour.

Read the full review of GUTS below:

Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa and Sam Smith were all featured on Barbie: The Album. But will it be favoured by the Recording Academy?

In his review of the movie soundtrack, Adam White wrote: “Nostalgia powers much of this album, which was curated by Mark Ronson from an artist wishlist he and Gerwig put together during production of the film.”

“Unusually, the bigger names on Barbie: The Album are the most underwhelming. Dua Lipa’s disco number “Dance the Night” is a flat imitation of far better tracks on her Future Nostalgia record.”

Read The Independent’s review of Barbie: The Album below:

The Independent’s music editor, Roisin O’Connor, takes a look at the artists and albums we’re likely to see nominated this afternoon: