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Nominees for Grammy Awards of 2007

Record of the Year
(Award to the artist and to the producer(s), recording engineer(s) and/or mixer(s), if other than the artist)

1. Be Without You - Mary J. Blige
2. You're Beautiful - James Blunt
3. Not Ready to Make Nice - Dixie Chicks
4. Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
5. Put Your Records On - Corinne Bailey Rae

Album of the Year
(Award to the artist(s) and to the album producer(s), recording engineer(s)/mixer(s), and mastering engineer(s), if other than the artist)

1. Taking The Long Way - Dixie Chicks
2. St. Elsewhere - Gnarls Barkley
3. Continuum - John Mayer
4. Stadium Arcadium - Red Hot Chili Peppers
5. FutureSex/LoveSounds - Justin Timberlake

Song of the Year
(Award to the artist and to the producer(s), recording engineer(s) and/or mixer(s), if other than the artist)

1. Be Without You - Mary J. Blige
2. Jesus, Take The Wheel - Carrie Underwood
3. Not Ready To Make Nice - Dixie Chicks
4. Put Your Records On - Corinne Bailey Rae
5. You're Beautiful - James Blunt

Best New Artist

1. James Blunt
2. Chris Brown
3. Imogen Heap
4. Corinne Bailey Rae
5. Carrie Underwood

Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
(For a solo vocal performance. Singles or Tracks only.)

1. Ain't No Other Man - Christina Aguilera
2. Unwritten - Natasha Bedingfield
3. You Can Close Your Eyes - Sheryl Crow
4. Stupid Girls - Pink
5. Black Horse and the Cherry Tree - KT Tunstall

Best Male Pop Vocal Performance
(For a solo vocal performance. Singles or Tracks only.)

1. You're Beautiful - James Blunt
2. Save Room - John Legend
3. Waiting on the World to Change - John Mayer
4. Jenny Wren - Paul McCartney
5. Bad Day - Daniel Powter

Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
(For established duos or groups, with vocals. Singles or Tracks only.)

1. My Humps - The Black Eyed Peas
2. I Will Follow You Into the Dark - Death Cab for Cutie
3. Over My Head (Cable Car) - The Fray
4. Is It Any Wonder? - Keane
5. Stickwitu - The Pussycat Dolls

Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals
(For a collaborative performance, with vocals, by artists who do not normally perform together. Singles or Tracks only.)

1. For Once in My Life - Tony Bennett & Stevie Wonder
2. One - Mary J. Blige & U2
3. Always on Your Side - Sheryl Crow & Sting
4. Promiscuous - Nelly Furtado & Timbaland
5. Hips Don't Lie - Shakira & Wyclef Jean

Best Pop Instrumental Performance
(For solo, duo, group or collaborative performances, without vocals. Singles or Tracks only.)

1. Mornin' - George Benson and Al Jarreau
2. Drifting - Enya
3. Subterfuge - Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
4. Song H - Bruce Hornsby
5. My Favorite Things - The Brian Setzer Orchestra

Best Pop Instrumental Album
(For albums containing 51% or more playing time of instrumental tracks.)

1. New Beginnings - Gerald Albright
2. Fire Wire - Larry Carlton
3. X - Fourplay
4. Fingerprints - Peter Frampton
5. Wrapped in a Dream - Spyro Gyra

Best Pop Vocal Album
(For albums containing 51% or more playing time of vocal tracks.)

1. Back to Basics - Christina Aguilera
2. Back to Bedlam - James Blunt
3. The River in Reverse - Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint
4. Continuum - John Mayer
5. FutureSex/LoveSounds - Justin Timberlake

Best Dance Recording
(For solo, duo, group or collaborative performances. Vocal or Instrumental. Singles or tracks only.)

1. Suffer Well - Depeche Mode
2. Ooh La La - Goldfrapp
3. Get Together - Madonna
4. I'm with Stupid - Pet Shop Boys
5. SexyBack - Justin Timberlake and Timbaland

Best Electronic/Dance Album
(For vocal or instrumental albums. Albums only.)

1. Supernature - Goldfrapp
2. Confessions on a Dance Floor - Madonna
3. A Lively Mind - Paul Oakenfold
4. Fundamental - Pet Shop Boys
5. The Garden - Zero 7

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
(For albums containing 51% or more playing time of VOCAL tracks.)

1. Duets: An American Classic - Tony Bennett
2. Caught in the Act - Michael Bublé
3. Wintersong - Sarah McLachlan
4. Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook - Bette Midler
5. Timeless Love - Smokey Robinson

Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance
(For a solo vocal performance. Singles or Tracks only.)

1. Nausea - Beck
2. Someday Baby - Bob Dylan
3. Route 66 - John Mayer
4. Saving Grace - Tom Petty
5. Lookin' for a Leader - Neil Young

Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
(For duo, group or collaborative performances, with vocals - singles or tracks only)

1. Talk - Coldplay
2. Dani California - Red Hot Chili Peppers
3. How to Save a Life - The Fray
4. Steady, As She Goes - The Raconteurs
5. The Saints Are Coming - U2 and Green Day

Best Hard Rock Performance
(For solo, duo, group or collaborative performances, with vocals - singles or tracks only)

1. Crazy Bitch - Buckcherry
2. Every Day Is Exactly The Same - Nine Inch Nails
3. Lonely Day - System of a Down
4. Vicarious - Tool
5. Woman - Wolfmother

Best Metal Performance
(For solo, duo, group or collaborative performances, with vocals - singles or tracks only)

1. Redneck - Lamb of God
2. Colony of Birchmen - Mastodon
3. Lies, Lies, Lies - Ministry
4. Eyes of the Insane - Slayer
5. 30/30-150 - Stone Sour

Best Rock Instrumental Performance
(For solo, duo, group or collaborative performances, without vocals - Includes rock, hard rock and metal, singles or tracks only.)

1. Chun Li's Spinning Bird Kick - Arctic Monkeys
2. The Wizard Turns On... - The Flaming Lips
3. Black Hole Sun - Peter Frampton
4. Castellorizon - David Gilmour
5. Super Colossal - Joe Satriani

Best Rock Song
(Includes rock, hard rock, and metal songs - singles or tracks only.)

1. Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
2. Dani California - Red Hot Chili Peppers
3. Lookin' for a Leader - Neil Young
4. Someday Baby - Bob Dylan
5. When You Were Young - The Killers

Best Rock Album
(Vocal or instrumental - includes hard rock and metal)

1. Try! - John Mayer Trio
2. Highway Companion - Tom Petty
3. Broken Boy Soldiers - The Raconteurs
4. Stadium Arcadium - Red Hot Chili Peppers
5. Living With War - Neil Young

Best Alternative Music Album
(Vocal or Instrumental.)

1. Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not - Arctic Monkeys
2. At War with the Mystics - The Flaming Lips
3. St. Elsewhere - Gnarls Barkley
4. Show Your Bones - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
5. The Eraser - Thom Yorke

Best Female R&B Vocal Performance
(For a solo vocal performance - singles or tracks only)

1. Ring the Alarm - Beyoncé
2. Be Without You - Mary J. Blige
3. Don't Forget About Us - Mariah Carey
4. Day Dreaming - Natalie Cole
5. I Am Not My Hair - India.Arie

Best Male R&B Vocal Performance
(For a solo vocal performance - singles or tracks only)

1. Heaven - John Legend
2. So Sick - Ne-Yo
3. Black Sweat - Prince
4. I Call It Love - Lionel Richie
5. Got You Home - Luther Vandross