Lil Wayne's Free Weezy Album Due In March

Lil Wayne says he's no longer speaking to Birdman, and confirms that "The Free Weezy Album" is on the way.

Lil Wayne hasn't revealed much on the going-ons between him and Birdman, save for a few tweets and the legal documents that surfaced after he filed his $51 million-lawsuit against Cash Money. Recently Weezy got on the phone with Rolling Stone, and opened up a bit about his current situation, including The Free Weezy Album.

Around Valentine's Day it was reported that FWA would be dropping as a mixtape, and although Lil Wayne tweets hinted at this too, Mack Maine shot it down. Talking to Rolling Stone, Wayne confirmed that he is working on it while he waits on the release of Tha Carter V (which he says is "super-done"), and that he plans to release it for free in March.

"I'm working on it every day, man," he said of FWA. "I guarantee it's going to be something dope. If you don't want a musician being creative, don't get The Free Weezy Album."

As for the highly anticipated C5, he says, "It's super-done. Cake baked, icing on top, name on top, candles lit. I would have released it yesterday if I could. But it's a dead subject right now. It's a jewel in the safe. It's that stash-house money."

Finally, on the subject of Birdman, Tunechi is reportedly no longer speaking to the man he dubbed his father. "I have no words," he said of the situation. "I'm super-numb to it, to tell you the truth." He also would not speak on the ongoing legal issues.

The Reason Behind Drake's Surprise Album Release

It's still unclear whether If You're Reading This is a price-tagged mixtape or if his long-awaited fourth LP, tentatively titled Views From the 6, evolved into this collection. The album features previously released cuts like "6 God" and "Used To," the rapper's collaboration with Lil Wayne that also appears on Wayne's Sorry 4 The Wait 2. Views From the 6's rumored artwork also appears on the bottom half of the If You're Reading This cover.

In addition to Lil Wayne, the-light-on-features If You're Reading This also boasts appearances by Travi$ Scott and OVO's in-house singer PartyNextDoor. Longtime Drake producers Boi-1da and Noah "40" Shebib" contribute beats t

o Drake's latest along with Vinylz (who recently teamed up with Drake, Kanye West and Big Sean for the latter's "Blessings"), Illmind, Wondagurl, Frank Dukes and PartyNextDoor.

Given what's transpired between Drake and Diddy in recent months, many on social media wondered about the timing of the release. Drake unveiled the album at the same time Diddy performed at a live-streamed pre-NBA All-Star Game concert in New York, leaving fans to speculate if the Nothing Was the Same rapper was trying to overshadow the Bad Boy mogul. Diddy has allegedly accused Drake of stealing the beat to the Grammy-nominated hit "0-100/The Call Up," even though Boi-1da offered it to both rappers. The beef resulted in Diddy reportedly punching Drake at a Miami nightclub this past December.

Source: RollingStone

Drake Releases Surprise Album - Hints On Cash MoneyExit

Rap superstar Drake surprised everyone Friday, 13th February with the sudden, unexpected release of a new project. The 17-song record, If You’re Reading This, It’s Too Late, came out just hours after the rapper released a long-form music video called Jungle.

Always one for grand statements, Drake saw his surprise new mixtape “If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late” explodes onto the top of the U.S. album chart, selling 535,000 units and finally dethroning Taylor Swift’s monster hit, “1989,” which had spent 11 non-consecutive weeks at the No. 1 spot.

Label squabbles aside, Drake’s latest has already made headlines for other reasons, chiefly its big week on Spotify. According to Billboard, “If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late” has achieved the highest number of streams for a debut week in Spotify history (17.3 million streams in three days), beating out Drake’s own “Nothing Was the Same,” which previously held that record with 15.8 million streams.

In addition to Drake’s huge week, a second release entered this week’s chart with, ahem, a bang: the soundtrack to “Fifty Shades of Grey,” which moved 258,000 units following the film’s complete domination of Valentine’s Day weekend (raking in $94.4 million). The album features sensual tunes from Beyonce, Ellie Goulding and Sia, among others.

So where does that leave Ms. Swift? The reign of “1989” may be coming to an end, with the album slipping to the chart’s fifth spot this week, moving 125,000 units, a 16% change from last week, when Swift was still No. 1. This lapse coincides with the lukewarm reception for Swift’s latest music video, “Style,” which some found to be “very boring.”

The album follows on the heels of recent similar little-or-no-notice projects  by D’Angelo, J. Cole, and, of course, Beyonce. While D’Angelo’s Black Messiah and Cole’s 2014 Forest Hills Drive both sold well and were critically acclaimed, Drake’s album, in terms of sheer numbers, is closest to Queen Bey. The Beyhive snatched up 80 thousand copies of her 2013 self-titled record in the first three hours, on the way to sales of over 600,000 in the first few days. It was platinum by week three,  and has now sold over five million worldwide.

Drake’s record is starting out almost as strong. It looks like his first-three-day sales total will be around 500,000 - maybe not Nothing Was the Same, which had a more traditional (and, by extension, expensive) roll-out, had

first-week sales of 658,000. If Drizzy ends up anywhere close to that after week one, the current trend of sudden superstar albums is likely to continue for a while to come.
Bey’s 617,000, but within shouting distance. For comparison, the rapper’s last album, 

The mystery surrounding this album is intense, and has almost overshadowed the music. There have been months of rumors about Drake releasing a mixtape. Simultaneously, he has been talking of an upcoming album since this past summer; one he claimed would be called Views From the 6. As of yet, he hasn’t said whether this is meant to replace one of those projects, or is in addition to it. However, he does call it a “tape” in the project’s handwritten thank you’s.

The somewhat sparse nature of the record has led to speculation that it was released as a contractual obligation, because he wants to get off of Cash Money Records. There is a certain plausibility to this theory, since the label’s flagship artist Lil Wayne is currently suing them, and Nicki Minaj reportedly turned away label co-founder Birdman from her recent Grammy party. Wayne has been very public about wanting to takeMinaj and Drake with him when he leaves Cash Money.

It is not known how many albums Drake owes the label, but it is public knowledge that Wayne had a four-album deal. This release would, not surprisingly, be Drizzy’s fourth, something that has not gone unnoticed. In addition, there was a fair amount of confusion around the record’s release. All of If You’re Reading This… was briefly available for free on Soundcloud right after going up on iTunes, then taken down.

There is one final clue as to Drake’s state of mind. Notably, the thank-you’s for the album, which go as far as to mention “Amanda who took me to that poetry reading in Baltimore” and “the entire Raptors organization,” have no mention of Birdman or Cash Money.

NEWS: DEBORAH VANESSA COULD BE ARRESTED

The pretty TV presenter/model/ musician was worried about what she claimed to be false reports of her raking in millions of cedis with her nude photo on social media but she has more to worry about after the revelation that, she could be arrested over her spreading of the said money-making nude picture(s).

Legal luminary, John Assan Benson, has advised that any Ghanaian can lodge an official complain to the police for Debora Vanessa Owusu Bonsu aka Deborah Vanessa or Sister Debbie –to be arrested for circulating her naked pictures on the internet.

Unknown to many Ghanaians, the public circulation of naked pictures or videos – whether willingly or unwillingly is a criminal offence – it’s against Ghana’s Criminal Act.

The Criminal Act states: “A person who publishes or offer for sale an obscene book, writing, or representation commits a misdemeanor”- section 280 of Criminal Offences Act, 1960.(Act 29) Section 281 (1) of Act 29 also states that “A person commits a misdemeanor (a) for the purpose of or by way of trade, or for the purpose of distribution or public exhibition , makes , produces, or has in his possession any one or more obscene writing , drawings , prints , paintings, printed matter, picture, emblem , photographs, cinematography films or other obscene objects.”

The Criminal Code of Ghana debars anyone from publishing or offering for sale, any material that has the tendency to deprave societal morals. Any publication that is unnecessarily and improperly calculated to excite passions or corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences can be held for promoting obscenity.

Obscenity also involves having in your possession, putting into circulation or publicly exhibiting obscene drawings, prints, posters, photographs or any other related obscene objects. This means that downloading indecent materials and images from the internet as is often done, also amounts to a criminal offence, even though there are no plans to publish or circulate the obscene objects.

This is because downloading constitutes a pseudo- photograph (would-be). Moreover, downloading in effect is making a new copy of the original material. Possessing a material of obscene nature amounts to an offence, whether or not there is intent to circulate it. For the purposes of trading or sale in obscene publication, if any person imports, conveys or exports materials related to obscenity, that person also commits a criminal offence.

In an interview with Lawyer Benson, he corroborated the illegality in Deborah Vanessa’s conduct. “It’s criminal! Under our criminal codes, you can’t circulate nude pictures of yourself or another person. You can’t publish that. She (Vanessa) who put it out there and all those who further circulated are all liable.”

He added that, “Even the newspapers in town that carries naked pictures of girls on their front pages commits criminal acts! Unfortunately, that portion of the law nobody seems interested in. The police are not interested in enforcing it” he explained.

Though the paper drew Lawyer Benson’s attention to the fact that Deborah Vanessa willingly snapped and uploaded her nude picture unto her Instagram page, he insisted that her will to share is what even makes the case worse. “On her own, she can pose nude and snap but the moment it’s published or circulated in the public, it becomes criminal under our criminal codes!” he emphasized.

He also advised that, “Any Ghanaian can lodge an official complaint at the Police Station for her to be invited, arrested and prosecuted.”

Sister Debbie confirmed on Neat FM’s Tuesday Entertainment Ghana on 20^th Jan, 2014, her action without mincing words. She said: “Boudoir photography is into arts and modeling as well. That is something I do and I am passionate about. In our society, majority of us are not used to such photographs, which is fine,” she said.

Boudoir photography is another form of photography that has to do with taking sexually suggestive images of nude women or women in lingerie at luxurious hotel suites. According to Sister Debbie, the artistic nude picture was barter between herself and her photographer who was working on one f her projects.

“The artistic nude picture which was taken in June 2014 is a barter trade between me and my photographer and that is not the first nude picture that I have put out there. I have three sets. I said barter because when I need promo pictures which should cost me over GH¢2,000, the photographer will do it for me,” she added.

The ‘Borla’ singer, who received a lot of bashing from her Ghanaian fans after her nude pictures were released, disclosed that when she gets those negative remarks about her nude pictures she does not get angry.

She continued: “When people see the picture and they don’t like it, I don’t get mad. It is not a problem because if you don’t understand, it is normal that you would dislike it or something.  I feel as a human being, if you are passionate about something you should do it as long as it is legal and it won’t affect anyone or you won’t be attacking anyone.”

She also admitted that since she posted the picture on Instagram, views on her YouTube account had shot up massively.

“When I found out that the picture was already out there and people were tweeting, I also posted it myself so that people will not think it was a leaked picture. Around that period, the views for my ‘Borla’ video had gone down and, yes, after I posted the picture myself, my views shot up to about 5,000 views. So yes, it did help and I would agree to the fact that I used it to push myself,” she noted.

She recently expressed her happiness at a recent feature of her naked picture by a Romanian newspaper, LiberTatea Lumea.  In the publication, she is praised for outshining Kim Kardashian.

Deborah, who was the 1st runner-up of Miss Malaika Beauty Contest in 2004, again, posted a picture of the newspaper publication on her Instagram page and remarked:

“I woke up in Romanian newspaper #LiberTateaLumea in @mummyzboi ‘s locker room in Cluj!!! It says that I’m one of the most loved Ghanaian artistes especially because of my songs and extremely hot pictures and that African media soon forgot about Kim K’s nude pics after I posted mine to the delight of my fans.”

 Source: Razz News Online

Watch Justin Bieber’s Sad Valentine’s Day Video: Missing Selena Gomez?

If you follow the news, you’d probably know by now Justin will always think Selena is “the one.” I learned that he can’t find “the same feeling with any other girl but Selena.” He holds her on a higher pedestal than any of the other girls he’s been with. This Valentine’s Day must be difficult for Justin. He’s been convinced that Selena would come back to him eventually, and it looks like that’s not happening now more than ever. Selena Gomez on the other hand Still Thinks About Justin Bieber. Justin will always have a place in Selena’s heart no matter what. Even though she’s with Zedd, she’s still looking out for him. Selena posted a hot picture with Zedd on Feb. 9 and wrote a very flirty caption. She quickly deleted the caption because “she doesn’t want to hurt Justin.” But hold your horses, Jelena fans. Selena is very happy with Zedd and looking forward to spending Valentine’s Day with only him.

Watch the emotional instagram video here

Happy Valentine's Day

A video posted by Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) on Feb 14, 2015 at 10:26am PST

The Grammys - Kanye And Beyonce Steal Show

Nobody swung from an actual chandelier, but the 57th Annual Grammy Awards were a three-and-a-half-hour emotional roller coaster, shifting from moments that were thrilling (AC/DC’s pyrorific opening set) to sober (President Obama’s message about domestic violence) to historic (Paul McCartney taking the stage with Kanye West and Rihanna). Legends like Annie Lennox stepped in to raise the bar, while West threatened to step onstage and cause a scene when Beck grabbed Album of the Year from Beyoncé — this time he was kidding (mostly). After Taylor Swift finished shaking it off in the front row, we were left with these 21 moments that best summarize the night’s beautiful highs and embarrassing lows.

It was once the most daring, adventurous thing in music. Kanye West — one of music's few monocultural icons under the age of 40; rap's master of prog-centric, Hawaii-recorded, 9-minute epics — was stripping his performances bare. Doing "Blood on the Leaves" as a silhouette at the Video Music Awards or wearing a mask to Bonnaroo, West took the very idea of celebrity and reduced it to a stark shadow. Thing is — we've seen it. His performance of "Only One" was all heartbreak with no 808s, performing on a steamy porthole in the type of fuzzy suit that Rev. Run wears around the house. Later, he teamed with Rihanna and Paul McCartney, assuredly three of the richest people in the room, for a performance in front of a white square and some cloth. They rehearsed for that? What was once a unique way for West to subvert these giant award shows is no longer noteworthy. Blank space just seems more and more like an empty gesture.

The very minimalism that hurt Kanye became a real benefit to Usher and his harpist, who performed Stevie Wonder's "If It's Magic" with two spotlights and nothing else. Unlike Kanye's stylized AutoTune croon, Usher went with nothing but his naked voice and a smooth suit — and didn't need much more to wow a crowd. But even more impressive with the idea of raw talent wowing a crowd was Stevie himself, who played, like, four bars of harmonica and stole the whole thing.

After the show, Kanye West vented to E!'s Khloe Kardashian, admonishing the Grammys for "diminishing art and not respecting the craft" of Album of the Year nominee Beyoncé. While the performer might have lost the award to Beck, her subsequent performance left no one doubting the craft. Backed by an all-male gospel choir arranged to form an X, she sang "Take My Hand Precious Lord" (MLK's favorite song) and hit every note — then hit those notes again and again.

Last year Madonna popped up during Macklemore and Ryan Lewis' gay-marriage-themed moment on the Grammy stage, but the Queen is always at her best when she can realize her own full vision. "Living for Love" was a snapshot of the imaginative, athletic performances she dreams up for her brilliant tours. Debuting her first Rebel Heart single live, she echoed the song's video, arriving in a matador's cape while masked, muscled minotaurs swarmed the stage. She tangled with her dancers for nearly five minutes — lifted, tossed and spun above their shoulders in front of a massive screen — before she pulled out the last stop and brought out a red-robed gospel choir. Promising "Love's gonna lift me up," she exited the stage in equally dramatic fashion: hoisted up and away, out of the frame as the audience was left stunned beneath her. 

While the memoriam montage remains one of the more poignant moments of the Grammy ceremony, it never fails to bring sharp focus to musicians left off the reel. This year that meant Stooges drummer Scott Asheton, Gwar's Oderus Urungus, Mars Volta/Jack White keyboardist "Ikey" Owens, footwork pioneer DJ Rashad, Survivor singer Jimi Jamison, Primal Scream guitarist Robert "Throb" Young, Jethro Tull bassist Glenn Cornick, Static-X's Wayne Static and DJ E-Z Rock of "It Takes Two" fame, among others. However, perhaps the biggest memoriam oversight was Joan Rivers, who, earlier in the day, posthumously won the Best Spoken Word Album Grammy for her Diary of a Mad Diva.

By this time last year, Sam Smith and Mary J. Blige had both appeared on Disclosure records but otherwise had little in common. They've since collaborated, offered mutual inspiration and now, performed together on the Grammy stage. And where those Disclosure records showed how naturally both singers could align themselves to a groove, these five minutes proved what they can do when given the chance to let loose. Smith, who readily admits his love for R&B singers like Blige, seemed to tremble for a moment, but from there he showed no sign of nerves, adding a delicate touch to what is now the best alternate version of "Stay With Me." Sorry, Darkchild.

On a night when every performer, presenter and attendee seemed obsessed with themselves, Sia remained firmly committed to being invisible, letting her music speak for itself. In a total removal of ego, she never appeared in the onscreen graphics showing each category's nominees (the box reserved for her smiling face simply showed a blond wig) and performed her entire Record of the Year-nominated "Chandelier" with her back to the audience as Maddie Ziegler, the 12-year-old dancer who appeared the song's video, pranced and cavorted with an identically outfitted Kristen Wiig. The anxious, desperate, visceral choreography said it all. Wiig beautifully portrayed the intense desperation of a party girl attempting to escape her demons as Ziegler jerked and swooped by her side, showing her an alternate reality — and love. The SNL vet, a surprise addition to Sia's performance, was remarkably limber, emotional and free. There was plenty of skin onstage last night, but Sia managed to execute the only truly naked — and perfect — performance.

What a blessing and a curse to have the great Annie Lennox as the special guest of your Grammys performance. Still-emerging Irish newcomer Hozier teamed with the Eurythmics songstress for a hair-raising medley of his breakthrough hit "Take Me to Church" and the Screamin' Jay Hawkins' classic "I Put a Spell on You" (covered by Lennox on her latest album, Nostalgia) which gave a night opened by AC/DC it's biggest jolt of electricity. But who was talking about Hozier after the smoke cleared? Lennox stole the performance that stole the show. She belted out that husky "Sweet Dreams" voice, sounding more powerful and ferocious than ever. She danced with the rolling hips of the sexiest-scariest 61-year-old in a sparkly shirt on the planet. She played an invisible harmonica. She ended with eyes ablaze, clearly more entranced by the moment than every audience member in the palm of her hand.

It's difficult to spoil a commercial break, but this year, Target and Imagine Dragons rose to the occasion. Though Grammy producers spared us from the Vegas band's White Man Group drum assault, Target purchased an entire ad block and filled it with a clip from what appeared to have been a recent hometown gig. The entire endeavor set a weird precedent: With the right campaign and corporate sponsor, any performer can literally buy their way into music's biggest night. As the ceremony ended, a press release trumpeted the "first live concert experience to air during a

commercial break in the 57-year history of the Grammy Awards." With any luck, it will also be remembered as the last such "experience" — or better yet, won't be remembered at all.

Dressed in boots, leather pants and a vest straight out of The Road Warrior, Miranda Lambert delivered a sassy, pyro-heavy version of Platinum's "Little Red Wagon" that could make Kiss' makeup run. With her whole band playing crimson instruments — including the steel guitar of Spencer Cullum Jr. — it was impossible to miss the "red" theme, but the lack of subtlety is what made it impossible to look away. Lambert boasted about her "backyard swagger," swatted away her bangs like flies and shot a seemingly endless stream of looks at the camera. And in an especially rock & roll turn, Lambert warranted the only seven-second delay of the evening, with CBS censors silencing her "I do all the shit you wanna do" rant.

Katy Perry's performance of "By the Grace of God" was prefaced by two very important messages, the first coming from none other than President Barack Obama. Via a video message taped in the White House, Obama made a brief but powerful statement directed towards the stars in the room, encouraging them to take a stand against sexual assault and domestic violence. Citing statistics on how many women have been victims of rape and domestic violence, Obama was a great intro to the impassioned spoken word of domestic violence activist and survivor Brooke Axtell. While Perry's performance was strong and poignant in its own right, nothing compares to hearing the POTUS take such a strong public stance against violence against women just before a woman had a platform to deliver her experiences in her own words. 

Don't call it a comeback. LL Cool J, hosting the Grammys for the fourth time, has got this down to a science. He got in one great joke ("I'm goin' back to Cali… I –I – guess so…") before announcing — up front — that he was avoiding a monologue ("for your safety and mine"). He got the the right balance of "promote social media" and "not sound like a dad" ("hashtag to your heart's content") and gave props to 89-year-old Newport Jazz Festival founder George Wein without being treacly ("Everybody say, Hi George!"). Even if the Grammys aren't going to actually air rap awards, at least the whole thing gets to be hosted by one of its greatest performers.

Missed The Grammy's - Here's A Full List Of Award Winners

While Sam Smith and Beck dominated the 57th annual Grammy Awards, they were hardly the only winners Sunday night. From Pearl Jam's Jeff Ament (and Eddie Vedder, using his pseudonym "Jerome Turner") scoring Best Recording Package to Beyoncé taking home Best Surround Sound Album, here is the full rundown of all the Grammy winners.

Record of the Year
Sam Smith – "Stay With Me (Darkchild Version)"  Steve Fitzmaurice, Rodney Jerkins & Jimmy Napes, producers; Steve Fitzmaurice, Jimmy Napes & Steve Price, engineers/mixers; Tom Coyne, mastering engineer Label: Capitol Records; Publishers: Sony/ATV Songs LLC obo Naughty Worlds Ltd./Universal-Polygram Int. Tunes, Inc. obo Salli Isaak Songs, Ltd./Universal Polygram Int. Tunes, Inc. obo Method Paperwork

Song of the Year
Sam Smith - "Stay With Me (Darkchild Version)"
James Napier, William Phillips & Sam Smith, songwriters

Album of the Year
Beck - Morning Phase
Beck Hansen, producer; Tom Elmhirst, David Greenbaum, Florian Lagatta, Cole Marsden Greif-Neill, Robbie Nelson, Darrell Thorp, Cassidy Turbin & Joe Visciano, engineers/mixers; Bob Ludwig, mastering engineer

Best New Artist
Sam Smith

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance 
A Great Big World With Christina Aguilera - "Say Something"

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga - Cheek To Cheek

Best Pop Solo Performance
Pharrell Williams - "Happy"

Best Pop Vocal Album
Sam Smith - In The Lonely Hour

Best Rock Performance
Jack White - "Lazaretto"

Best Rock Album  Beck - Morning Phase

Best Rock Song
Paramore - "Ain't It Fun"
Hayley Williams & Taylor York, songwriters

Best Alternative Rock Album
St. Vincent - St. Vincent

Best Metal Performance
Tenacious D - "The Last In Line"

Best Rap Performance
Kendrick Lamar - "I"

Best Rap/Sung Collaboration
Eminem Featuring Rihanna - "The Monster"

Best Rap Song
Kendrick Lamar - "I"
K. Duckworth & C. Smith, songwriters

Best Rap Album
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP2

Best R&B Performance 
Beyoncé Featuring Jay Z – "Drunk In Love"

Best Traditional R&B Performance
"Jesus Children"
Robert Glasper Experiment Featuring Lalah Hathaway & Malcolm-Jamal Warner

Best R&B Song
Beyoncé Featuring Jay Z - "Drunk In Love"
Shawn Carter, Rasool Diaz, Noel Fisher, Jerome Harmon, Beyoncé Knowles, Timothy Mosely, Andre Eric Proctor & Brian Soko, songwriters

Best Urban Contemporary Album
Pharrell Williams - Girl

Best R&B Album
Toni Braxton & Babyface - Love, Marriage & Divorce

Best Contemporary Instrumental Album
Chris Thile & Edgar Meyer - Bass & Mandolin

Best Dance/Electronic Album
Aphex Twin - Syro

Best Dance Recording
Clean Bandit Featuring Jess Glynne - "Rather Be"

Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media 
Frozen
Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez, Tom MacDougall & Chris Montan, compilation producers

Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media 
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Alexandre Desplat, composer

Best Song Written for Visual Media
"Let It Go" from Frozen
Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez, songwriters (Idina Menzel)

Best Country Album 
Miranda Lambert - Platinum

Best Country Solo Performance 
Carrie Underwood - "Something In The Water"

Best Country Duo/Group Performance
The Band Perry - "Gentle On My Mind"

Best Country Song
"I'm Not Gonna Miss You"
Glen Campbell & Julian Raymond, songwriters (Glen Campbell)

Best Bluegrass Album  The Earls Of Leicester - The Earls Of Leicester

Best American Roots Performance
Rosanne Cash - "A Feather's Not A Bird"

Best American Roots Song 
Rosanne Cash - "A Feather's Not A Bird"

Best Americana Album 
Rosanne Cash - The River & The Thread

Best Folk Album
Old Crow Medicine Show - Remedy

Best Music Video
Pharrell Williams - "Happy"

Best Music Film
20 Feet From Stardom
Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer & Judith Hill
Morgan Neville, video director; Gil Friesen & Caitrin Rogers, video producers
We Are From LA, video director; Kathleen Heffernan, Solal Micenmacher, Jett Steiger, video producers

Producer of the Year, Non-Classical 
Max Martin
"Bang Bang" (Jessie J, Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj)
"Break Free" (Ariana Grande Featuring Zedd)
"Dark Horse" (Katy Perry Featuring Juicy J)
"Problem" (Ariana Grande Featuring Iggy Azalea)
"Shake It Off" (Taylor Swift)
"Unconditionally" (Katy Perry)

Best Instrumental Composition 
John Williams - "The Book Thief"

Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella 
Pentatonix - "Daft Punk"

Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals 
Billy Childs - "New York Tendaberry"

Best Recording Package 
Jeff Ament, Don Pendleton, Joe Spix & Jerome Turner, art directors
Pearl Jam - Lightning Bolt

Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package 
Susan Archie, Dean Blackwood & Jack White, art directors
The Rise & Fall Of Paramount Records, Volume One (1917-27)

Best Album Notes
Ashley Kahn
John Coltrane - Offering: Live At Temple University

Best Historical Album
Colin Escott & Cheryl Pawelski, compilation producers; Michael Graves, mastering engineer
Hank Williams - The Garden Spot Programs, 1950

Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical 
Beck - Morning Phase
Tom Elmhirst, David Greenbaum, Florian Lagatta, Cole Marsden Greif-Neill, Robbie Nelson, Darrell Thorp, Cassidy Turbin & Joe Visciano, engineers; Bob Ludwig, mastering engineer

Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical
Tijs Michiel Verwest, remixer
John Legend – "All Of Me (Tiesto's Birthday Treatment Remix)"

Best Surround Sound Album
Beyoncé - Beyoncé
Elliot Scheiner, surround mix engineer; Bob Ludwig, surround mastering engineer; Beyoncé Knowles, surround producer

Best Regional Roots Music Album
Jo-El Sonnier - The Legacy

Best Reggae Album
Ziggy Marley - Fly Rasta

Best World Music Album
Angelique Kidjo - Eve

Best Children's Album
Neela Vaswani - I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up For Education And Changed The World (Malala Yousafzai)

Best Musical Theatre Album
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical 
Jessie Mueller, principal soloist; Jason Howland, Steve Sidwell & Billy Jay Stein, producers (Carole King, composer & lyricist) (Original Broadway Cast)

Best Blues Album
Johnny Winter - Step Back

Best Spoken Word Album
Joan Rivers - Diary Of A Mad Diva

Best Comedy Album
"Weird Al" Yankovic - Mandatory Fun

Best New Age Album
Ricky Kej & Wouter Kellerman - Winds Of Samsara

Best Improved Jazz Solo
Chick Corea - "Fingerprints"

Best Jazz Vocal Album
Dianne Reeves - Beautiful Life

Best Jazz Instrumental Album 
Chick Corea Trio - Trilogy

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album 
Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band - Life In The Bubble

Best Latin Jazz Album
Arturo O'Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra - The Offense Of The Drum