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On The Download: Mid-Season 2009 Grammy Picks
Access Hollywood - September 1, 2009 3:32 PM PDT

By the On The Download staff

BURBANK, Calif. -- Nominations for the 51st Annual Grammy Awards won't be released until the end of the year, but we've got your preliminary look at what musical acts we at On The Download think will be nominated this year.

Why so early? The eligibility period for Grammy noms ended on August 31. Albums that were released between October 1, 2008 and August 31, 2009 are eligible to be nominated for the Grammy Awards taking place (earlier this year!) in January 2010. So we thought we'd get the ball rolling on the Grammy forecast.

There have been several stellar albums and efforts put forth this year. We're predicting who will receive nods in the four big categories: Song of the Year, Record of the Year, Album of the Year and Best New Artist categories.


Album of the Year:
"I Am... Sasha Fierce"-- Beyonce
"Fearless"-- Taylor Swift
"I Look To You"-- Whitney Houston
"21st Century Breakdown"-- Green Day
"Wilco (The Album)" -- Wilco

Record of the Year:
"Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)" - Beyonce
"Love Story" -- Taylor Swift
"Poker Face"-- Lady GaGa
"Boom Boom Pow" -- Black Eyed Peas
"Use Somebody" -- Kings of Leon

Song of the Year:
"Halo"-- written by Beyonce Knowles and Ryan Tedder
"Love Story" -- written by Taylor Swift
"Million Dollar Bill" -- Whitney Houston (Songwriter: Alicia Keys)
My Life Would Suck Without You - Kelly Clarkson (Songwriters: Max Martin, Dr. Luke and Claude Kelly)
"21 Guns" - written by Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool

Best New Artist:
David Cook
Gloriana
The Ting Tings
Keri Hilson
MGMT

I hope he does really end up getting nominated!!!

I hope he gets nominated for song, album, and everything of the year. The only frustrating thing about the Grammy's is that we aren't the ones voting and they usually don't pick who I want to win. Hopefully they will get it right this year. If DCTR went platinum in 10 weeks, how can he not win? LO went platinum the other day, now to get CBTM up there.

I think he deserves to be nominated for something. He writes and is an original.