| Kendrick Lamar |
Kendrick Lamar has emerged as the front-runner for next year's Grammy Awards, with 11 nominations in total.
The hip-hop star is up for album of the year for To Pimp A Butterfly, a dense, detailed trawl of black music, US politics and his personal demons.
His competition comes from Taylor Swift, whose pop smash 1989 is finally nominated, a year after its release.
It came out too late to be eligible for last year's awards, a fate which has befallen Adele's 25 this time around.
Swift ties with R&B star The Weeknd for second place, with seven nominations apiece, while Ed Sheeran and James Bay represent the UK.
Sheeran is up for two of the major prizes - song of the year and record of the year - for his emotive ballad Thinking Out Loud.
The former award goes to the writers (in this case Sheeran and Amy Wadge), while the record of the year category takes into account the performance and production of a hit song.
Other nominees for song of the year include The Weeknd's breakthrough hit Can't Feel My Face and Mark Ronson's global smash Uptown Funk.
Swift is nominated for the tongue-in-cheek single Blank Space, as is Lamar for Alright, the hope-filled centrepiece of his album.
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