Album of the Year:
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Raising Sand
Best Rap Album:
Lil Wayne, Tha Carter III
Best Male Pop Vocal Performance:
John Mayer, “Say”
Record of the Year:
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, “Please Read This Letter”
Best New Artist:
Adele
Best Rock Album:
Coldplay, Viva la Vida
Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals:
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, “Rich Woman”
Song of the Year:
Coldplay, “Viva la Vida”
Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group:
Sugarland, “Stay”
Best R&B Album:
Jennifer Hudson, Jennifer Hudson
Industry Icon Award:
Clive Davis
Producer of the Year, Non-Classical:
Rick Rubin (Death Magnetic, Home Before Dark, Mercy, Seeing Things, Weezer)
Best Rock Song:
Bruce Springsteen, “Girls in Their Summer Clothes”
Best Rock Instrumental Performance:
“Peaches En Regalia,” Zappa Plays Zappa, Featuring Steve Vai & Napoleon Murphy Brock
Best Metal Performance:
Metallica, “My Apocalypse”
Best Hard Rock Performance:
The Mars Volta, “Wax Simulacra”
Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals:
Kings of Leon, “Sex on Fire”
Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance:
John Mayer, “Gravity”
Best Alternative Music Album:
Radiohead, In Rainbows
Best Pop Vocal Album:
Duffy, Rockferry
Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals:
Coldplay, “Viva la Vida”
Best Female Pop Vocal Performance:
Adele, “Chasing Pavements”
Best Pop Instrumental Album:
Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, Jingle All The Way
Best Pop Instrumental Performance:
Eagles, “I Dreamed There Was No War”
Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books):
Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth (Beau Bridges, Cynthia Nixon and Blair Underwood)
Best Contemporary R&B Album:
Mary J. Blige, Growing Pains
Best R&B Song:
Ne-Yo, “Miss Independent” (Mikkel S. Eriksen, T.E. Hermansen and S. Smith, songwriters)
Best Urban/Alternative Performance:
Chrisette Michele Featuring will.i.am, “Be OK”
Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance:
Al Green Featuring Anthony Hamilton, “You’ve Got the Love I Need”
Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals:
Al Green Featuring John Legend, “Stay With Me (by the Sea)”
Best Female R&B Vocal Performance:
Alicia Keys; ” Superwoman”
Best Male R&B Vocal Performance:
Ne-Yo, “Miss Independent”
Best Rap Song:
Lil Wayne Featuring Static Major, “Lollipop” (D. Carter, S. Garrett, D. Harrison, J. Scheffer and R. Zamor, songwriters)
Best Rap Song Collaboration:
Estelle Featuring Kanye West, “American Boy”
Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group:
Jay-Z and T.I. Featuring Kanye West and Lil Wayne, “Swagga Like Us”
Best Rap Solo Performance:
Lil Wayne, “A Milli”
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album:
Natalie Cole, Still Unforgettable
Best Country Album:
George Strait, Troubadour
Best Country Song:
Sugarland, “Stay” (Jennifer Nettles, songwriter)
Best Bluegrass Album:
Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, Honoring the Fathers of Bluegrass: Tribute to 1946 and 1947
Best Country Instrumental Performance:
Brad Paisley, James Burton, Vince Gill, John Jorgenson, Albert Lee, Brent Mason, Redd Volkaert and Steve Wariner, “Cluster Pluck”
Best Country Collaboration With Vocals:
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, “Killing the Blues”
Best Male Country Vocal Performance:
Brad Paisley, “Letter to Me”
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Best Female Country Vocal Performance:
Carrie Underwood, “Last Name”
Best Reggae Album:
Burning Spear, Jah Is Real
Best Hawaiian Music Album:
Tia Carrere and Daniel Ho, Ikena
Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album:
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Raising Sand
Best Traditional Folk Album:
Pete Seeger, At 89
Best Traditional Blues Album:
B.B. King, One Kind Favor
Best Contemporary Blues Album:
Dr. John and the Lower 911, City That Care Forgot
Best Long Form Music Video:
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, “Runnin’ Down a Dream”
Best Short Form Music Video:
Weezer, “Pork and Beans”
Best Classical Album:
Weill, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Producer of the Year, Classical:
David Frost
Best Classical Crossover Album:
The King’s Singers, Simple Gifts
Best Classical Contemporary Composition:
John Corigliano, composer, Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan (JoAnn Falletta, conductor)
Best Classical Vocal Performance:
John Corigliano, Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan
Best Small Ensemble Performance:
Spotless Rose, Hymns to the Virgin Mary
Best Chamber Music Performance:
Elliott Carter, Pacifica Quartet, String Quartets Nos. 1 and 5
Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (Without Orchestra):
Gloria Cheng, Piano Music of Salonen, Stucky, and Lutoslawski
Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (With Orchestra):
Hilary Hahn, Schoenberg, Sibelius: Violin Concertos (Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor)
Best Choral Performance:
Sir Simon Rattle, “Symphony of Psalms”
Best Opera Recording:
Weill, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Best Orchestral Performance:
Shostakovich, “Symphony No. 4,” Bernard Haitink, conductor (Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
Best Engineered Album, Classical:
Traditions and Transformations: Sounds of Silk Road Chicago
Best Electronic/Dance Album:
Daft Punk, Alive 2007
Best Dance Recording:
Daft Punk, “Harder Better Faster Stronger”
Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album:
Kirk Franklin, The Fight of My Life
Best Traditional Gospel Album:
The Blind Boys of Alabama, Down in New Orleans
Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album:
Gaither Vocal Band, Lovin’ Life
Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album:
CeCe Winans, Thy Kingdom Come
Best Rock or Rap Gospel Album:
TobyMac, Alive and Transported
Best Gospel Song:
Kirk Franklin, “Help Me Believe”
Best Gospel Performance:
Mary Mary, “Get Up”
Best Latin Jazz Album:
Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, Song for Chico
George Carlin Paul Schiraldi
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album:
The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Monday Night Live at the Village Vanguard
Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group:
Chick Corea and Gary Burton, The New Crystal Silence
Best Jazz Instrumental Solo:
Terence Blanchard, soloist, “Be-Bop”
Best Jazz Vocal Album:
Cassandra Wilson, Loverly
Best Contemporary Jazz Album:
Randy Brecker, Randy in Brasil
Best New Age Album:
Jack DeJohnette, Peace Time
Best Comedy Album:
George Carlin, It’s Bad For Ya
Best Polka Album:
Jimmy Sturr and His Orchestra, Let the Whole World Sing
Best Contemporary World Music Album:
Mickey Hart, Zakir Hussain, Sikiru Adepoju and Giovanni Hidalgo, Global Drum Project
Best Traditional World Music Album:
Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Ilembe: Honoring Shaka Zulu
Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album:
Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys, Live at the 2008 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
Best Native American Music Album:
Come to Me Great Mystery—Native American Healing Songs
Best Norteño Album:
Los Tigres del Norte, Raíces
Best Banda Album:
Joan Sebástian, No Es de Madera
Best Tejano Album:
Ruben Ramos and the Mexican Revolution, Viva la Revolucion
Best Regional Mexican Album:
Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano, Amor, Dolor Y Lágrimas: Música Ranchera
Best Tropical Latin Album:
José Feliciano, Señor Bachata
Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album:
45, Jaguares
Best Latin Pop Album:
Juanes, La Vida…Es un Ratico
Best Musical Show Album:
In the Heights
Best Musical Album for Children:
They Might Be Giants, Here Come The 123s
Best Spoken Word Album for Children:
Bill Harley, Yes to Running!
Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s):
Natalie Cole, “Here’s That Rainy Day” (Nan Schwartz, arranger)
Best Instrumental Arrangement:
Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman, “Define Dancing” (From Wall-E) (Thomas Newman, arranger)
Best Instrumental Composition:
“The Adventures of Mutt” (From Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)
Best Surround Sound Album:
Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition; Night on Bald Mountain; Prelude to Khovanshchina
Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical:
MGMT, “Electric Feel,” Justice Remix (Justice, remixers)
Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical:
The Raconteurs (Joe Chiccarelli, Vance Powell and Jack White III), Consolers of the Lonely
Best Historical Album:
Art of Field Recording, Volume I: Fifty Years of Traditional American Music (Documented by Art Rosenbaum)
Best Album Notes:
Miles Davis, Kind of Blue: 50th Anniversary Collector’s Edition (Francis Davis, album notes writer)
Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package:
In Rainbows
Best Recording Package:
Metallica, Death Magnetic (Bruce Duckworth, Sarah Moffat and David Turner, art directors)
Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media:
Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman, “Down to Earth” (From Wall-E)
Best Score Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media:
James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer, The Dark Knight
Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media:
Juno