I can’t believe it’s about that time again for the Grammy Awards! Woo hoo. The show will be airing 1/31/2010 for the 52nd Grammy Awards. Below is a list of some of the most popular categories and the nominees that brought us some good music in 2009. Also for a full list go on to www.grammy.com.

And I must ask, who is The Ting Tings?

Pop Duo or Group With Vocals
The Fray – Never Say Never
Black Eyed Peas – I Gotta Feeling
Bon Jovi – We Weren’t Born to Follow
Daryl Hall and John Oates – Sara Smile
MGMT – Kids

Country Duo or Group With Vocals
Brooks and Dunn – Cowgirls Don’t Cry
Rascal Flatts – Here Comes Goodbye
Sugarland – It Happens
Zac Brown Band – Chicken Fried
Lady Antebellum – I Run to You

Best Rock Album
Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown
Dave Matthews Band – Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King
U2 – No Line on the Horizon
AC/DC – Black Ice
Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood – Live from Madison Square Garden

Rap Album Of The Year
Common-Universal Mind Control
Mos Def-The Ecstatic
Eminem-Relapse
Flo Rida-R.O.O.T.S.
Q-Tip-The Renaissance

Best Rap Solo Performance
Drake – Best I Ever Had
Eminem – Beautiful
Jay-Z – D.O.A (Death of Auto-Tune)
Kid Cudi – Day ‘N’ Nite
Mos Def – Casa Bey

Song of the Year
You Belong With Me – Taylor Swift
Poker Face – Lady Gaga
Use Somebody – Kings of Leon
Pretty Wings – Maxwell
Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) – Beyoncé

Record of the Year
Lady Gaga – Poker Face
Beyoncé – Halo
Black Eyed Peas – I Gotta Feeling
Kings of Leon – Use Somebody
Taylor Swift – You Belong With Me

Album of the Year
Lady Gaga – The Fame
Beyoncé – I Am…Sasha Fierce
Taylor Swift – Fearless
Black Eyed Peas – The E.N.D.
Dave Matthews Band – Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King

Best New Artist
The Ting Tings
Zac Brown Band
Keri Hilson
MGMT
Silversun Pickups