Grammy nominations 2018 - live updates: Kendrick Lamar and Jay-Z dominate top categories

Surprise snubs for Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran in major categories suggest academy is attempting to improve its record on diversity

Grammy Award nominations for 2018

The Recording Academy has announced nominees for the 60th Grammy Awards with Kendrick Lamar and Jay-Z dominating a male-heavy list of nominees.

Jay-Z leads with eight nominations including for Album, Song and Record of the Year.

Kendrick follows closely with seven nominations, while Ed Sheeran, despite being one of the hottest predictions for Album of the Year, was only nominated in two categories: Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Pop Vocal Performance ("Shape of You"). Sheeran released his third album ÷ [Divide] in March and broke several music industry records for sales and streaming.

Lorde received a nomination for Album of the Year for her record Melodrama, competing with Kendrick, Jay-Z, Childish Gambino and Bruno Mars.

See the complete list of nominations here.

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Taylor Swift appeared to be snubbed for her song "Look What You Made Me Do", but did receive a nod alongside Zayn Malik for "I Don't Wanna Live Forever", which featured in the film Fifty Shades of Grey. "Better Man", the song she penned for Little Big Town, also received a nomination for Best Country Song.

Artists reacted to the nominations on social media, with one of 2017's biggest new artists Khalid tweeting his delight at receiving five nominations. He noted how three years ago he had written about wanting to go to the Grammys in the future.

The 60th Grammy Awards take place in precisely two months time, on 28 January 2018.

Key Points

• Nominations appear to be an improvement on diversity from last year, with several major nods for Kendrick Lamar, Jay Z, Bruno Mars and Childish Gambino
• Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran both snubbed in the bigger categories
• ​Reminder of what took place at the 59th Grammy Awards

[28 November 2017 14:24 · Steve Anderson]

Aw, Khalid tweeted this three years ago

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Here's an interview we did with Khalid - nominated for five Grammys (!!!) earlier this year

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We're going to wrap up our liveblog - keep an eye on The Independent's music coverage for more on the Grammy nominations, reactions and predictions across this week