Here are the nominations for the 47th annual Grammy awards:

Album Of The Year:
* Ray Charles & Various Artists - Genius Loves Company
* Green Day - American Idiot
* Alicia Keys - The Diary Of Alicia Keys
* Usher - Confessions
* Kanye West - The College Dropout


Record Of The Year:
* "Let's Get It Started" - Black Eyed Peas
* "Here We Go Again" - Ray Charles & Norah Jones
* "American Idiot" - Green Day
* "Heaven" - Los Lonely Boys
* "Yeah!" - Usher Featuring Lil Jon & Ludacris

Song Of The Year:
* "Daughters" - John Mayer
John Mayer, songwriter
* "If I Ain't Got You" - Alicia Keys
Alicia Keys, songwriter
* "Jesus Walks" - Kanye West
C. Smith & Kanye West, songwriters
* "Live Like You Were Dying" - Tim McGraw
Tim Nichols & Craig Wiseman, songwriters
* "The Reason" - Hoobastank
Daniel Estrin & Douglas Robb, songwriters

Best New Artist:
* Los Lonely Boys
* Maroon5
* Joss Stone
* Kanye West
* Gretchen Wilson

For all us Prince fans, he received five Grammy nominations, one in the pop category and four in the R&B category.

Best Male Pop Vocal Performance:
* "Let's Misbehave" - Elvis Costello
* "You Raise Me Up" - Josh Groban
* "Daughters" - John Mayer
* "Cinnamon Girl" - Prince
* "Love's Divine" - Seal

Best Male R&B Vocal Performance:
* "Charlene" - Anthony Hamilton
* "Happy People" - R. Kelly
* "What We Do Here" - Brian McKnight
* "Call My Name" - Prince
* "Burn" - Usher

Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance:
* "You're My Everything" - Anita Baker
* "Sinner's Prayer" - Ray Charles & B.B. King
* "I Can't Stop" - Al Green
* "New Day" - Patti LaBelle
* "Musicology" - Prince

Best R&B Song:
* "Burn" - Usher
Bryan Michael Cox, Jermaine Dupri & Usher Raymond, songwriters
* "Call My Name" - Prince
Prince, songwriter
* "My Boo" - Usher & Alicia Keys
Jermaine Dupri, Alicia Keys, Usher Raymond, Manuel Seal & Adonis Shropshire, songwriters
* "Yeah!" - Usher Featuring Lil Jon & Ludacris
Chris Bridges, Sean Garrett, LaMarquis Jefferson, Robert McDowell, James Phillips, Jonathan Smith & Patrick J. Que Smith, songwriters
* "You Don't Know My Name" - Alicia Keys
Alicia Keys, Harold Lilly & Kanye West, songwriters

Best R&B Album:
* Anita Baker - My Everything
* Al Green - I Can't Stop
* Alicia Keys - The Diary Of Alicia Keys
* Prince - Musicology
* Jill Scott - Beautifully Human: Words & Sounds Vol. 2

This is for JanFan:

Best Contemporary R&B Album:
* Brandy - Afrodisiac
* Janet Jackson - Damita Jo
* Christina Milian - It's About Time
* Usher - Confessions
* Mario Winans - Hurt No More

Best Female R&B Vocal Performance:
* "I Want You" - Janet Jackson
* "If I Ain't Got You" - Alicia Keys
* "I'm Still In Love" - Teena Marie
* "Whatever" - Jill Scott
* "U-Haul" - Angie Stone

I can't put up all of the Grammy nominees here, so if you want top know who has the best rap album and stuff, you'll have to go to www.grammy.com.

What a pathetic line up. Really. There are so many killer artists out there that blow the albums of the year out of the water. Thank God I'm exposed to the universe that lays outside the boundaries of the toilet bowl that is commercial music.

Jill Scott's "Whatever" is the f-ing bomb!