The Grammy Awards or Gramophone Awards are named for small, gilded gramophone trophies which are given away annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the U.S. to appreciate the outstanding achievements of the artists, musical bands, in the record industry. Indeed, the awards which are equivalent to the Academy Awards (Oscars) for motion movies, featuring the highest music honor to its winners.
2008 Grammy Nominees
Rehab and Back to Black, Amy Winehouse
These two songs have been documented in my article, The Best English Songs, Which Won Five Top Awards of the 50th Annual Grammies. You can listen to her song there. Amy Winehouse won five awards at the 2008 Grammy Awards (Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best New Artist, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and Best Pop Vocal Album).
Candyman, Christina Aguilera
The song combines a gene of soul, and swing-jazz and was written by Linda Perry and Christina Aguilera. It was released as Aguilera's third studio album, Back to Basics in 2006. It was charted on major charts in Europe and parts of America. In UK alone, the single gained over 100,000 digital downloads. On January 28, 2007, its music video was filmed with the theme of 1940s World War II. “Candyman” came live on TRL and later on MTV's MakingThe Video on February 22, 2007.
1234, Feist
This Indie pop song was Feist's most successful single which was recorded in her third studio album, The Reminder. It was initially written by a Melbourne, Australia singer-songwriter, Sally Seltmann under the name of New Buffalo. The song was digitally released via iTune Music Store, and subsequently it was used extensively in an iPod nano commercial. This song was #2 at the US Hot Digital Songs, #8 in the US Hot 100, #34 at the US Modern Rock Tracks chart, #10 at the US Pop 100, #34 in the Triple J Hottest 100, #19 on the Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Best Songs of 2007. By April 6, 2008, “1234” received the Juno award for Single of the Year in Calgary. Time magazine once ranked “1234” as number two out of The 10 Best Songs of 2007, while the writer, Josh Tyrangiel called the song as a masterpiece and said, “with a mixture of wisdom and exuberance that's all her own.”
2007 Grammy Nominees
Be Without You, Mary J.Blige
This is the song written by American singer-songwriter Mary J.Blige, Bryan Michael Cox, Johnta Austin, and Jason Perry for Blige's album called The Breakthrough. This song won the Best Female R&B Vocal Performance and Best R&B Song categories at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards. This was also Blige most successful R&B song as it topped the Billboard chart for 75 weeks, U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart for 9 weeks, and has also topped the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart.
You re Beautiful, James Blunt
This is the song co-written by British singer James Blunt, Amanda Ghost and Sasha Skarbek for Blunt's album called Back to Bedlam. This song won him an Ivor Novello Award for airplay in 2006, entered #1 in several countries, and was in the Billboard Pop 100, Adult Contemporary, Hot Digital Songs, and was in the top-10 on most major charts. With this song, Blunt received three nominations of Song of the Year, Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, Record of the Year, while in the video category; he won the Best Male Video, Best Cinematography and MTV Award.
2006 Grammy Nominees
It s Like That, Mariah Carey
This song was written by Jermaine Dupri, Manuel Seal, Johnta Austin, and Mariah Carey to be included in Carey's first single and tenth studio album, The Emancipation of Mimi which was released in 2005. It was nominated for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 2006 Grammy Award. “It's like that” was one of Carey most successful song as it was Carey's first platinum digital single as certified by the RIAA. This song was charted at the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, Billboard Hot Adult R&B Airplay, Pop 100, Top 40 Tracks, Cadena 100 Hot List, and J-Wave Tokio Hot 100 Airplay chart. It reached the top twenty in Norway, France and Germany, and the top ten in Australia and United Kingdom.
Since U Been Gone, Kelly Clarkson
This song has a punk-pop influence in drums and guitar riffs, and was written and produced by Max Martin and Lukasz “Dr. Luke” Gottwald. It was recorded by Kelly Clarkson as in her second single album, Breakaway in the U.S. and the first in Europe in 2004. This song was successful that it reached number two on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and the Canadian airplay chart, and was charted at the Pop 100, Mainstream Top 40, Hot Dance Airplay. Clarkson received the Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for the song at the Grammy Awards of 2006. In March 2006, over 500,000 digital downloads and over 1,800,000 downloads sold in January 2008, bringing the song to another plateau and breakthrough milestone.
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