PMA GRAMMY Live Blog Tonight

PMA will be tuning into the GRAMMYs tonight at 8PM EST, giving you minute-to-minute updates and reactions on “music’s biggest night”. I’ll be tweeting the GRAMMY Pre-Telecast, which covers many, many categories that don’t get to air on TV.

Before the night begins, here are the big nominees:

Record of the Year

• “Halo” – Beyoncé
  • Beyoncé Knowles & Ryan Tedder, producers; Jim Caruana, Mark “Spike” Stent & Ryan Tedder, engineers/mixers
• “I Gotta Feeling” – Black Eyed Peas
  • David Guetta & Frederick Riesterer, producers; will.i.am, Dylan “3-D” Dresdow & Padraic “Padlock” Kerin, engineers/mixers
• “Use Somebody” – Kings of Leon
  • Jacquire King & Angelo Petraglia, producers; Jacquire King, engineer/mixer
• “Poker Face” – Lady Gaga
  • Lady Gaga RedOne, producer; Robert Orton, RedOne & Dave Russell, engineers/mixers
• “You Belong With Me” – Taylor Swift
  • Nathan Chapman & Taylor Swift, producers; Chad Carlson & Justin Niebank, engineers/mixers

Album of the Year

• I Am… Sasha Fierce – Beyoncé
  • Bangladesh, Ian Dench, D-Town, Toby Gad, Sean Garrett, Amanda Ghost, Jim Jonsin, Beyoncé Knowles, Rico Love, Dave McCracken, Terius Nash, Radio Killa, Stargate, Christopher “Tricky” Stewart, Ryan Tedder & Wayne Wilkins, producers; Jim Caruana,Mikkel S. Eriksen, Toby Gad, Kuk Harrell, Jim Jonsin, Jaycen Joshua, Dave Pensado, Radio Killa, Mark “Spike” Stent, Ryan Tedder,Brian “B-LUV” Thomas, Marcos Tovar, Miles Walker & Wayne Wilkins, engineers/mixers; Tom Coyne, mastering engineer
• The E.N.D. – Black Eyed Peas
  • Apl.de.ap, Jean Baptiste, Printz Board, DJ Replay, Funkagenda, David Guetta, Keith Harris, & will.i.am, producers; Dylan “3D” Dresdow,Padraic “Padlock” Kerin & will.i.am, engineers/mixers; Chris Bellman, mastering engineer
• The Fame – Lady Gaga
  • Flo Rida, Colby O’Donis & Space Cowboy, featured artists; Brian & Josh, Rob Fusari, Martin Kierszenbaum, RedOne & Space Cowboy, producers; 4Mil, Robert Orton, RedOne, Dave Russell & Tony Ugval, engineers/mixers; Gene Grimaldi, mastering engineer
• Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King – Dave Matthews Band
  • Jeff Coffin, Tim Reynolds & Rashawn Ross, featured artists; Rob Cavallo, producer; Chris Lord-Alge & Doug McKean, engineers/mixers;Ted Jensen, mastering engineer
• Fearless – Taylor Swift
  • Colbie Caillat, featured artist; Nathan Chapman & Taylor Swift, producers; Chad Carlson, Nathan Chapman & Justin Niebank, engineers/mixers; Hank Williams, mastering engineer

Song of the Year

• “Poker Face” – Lady Gaga
  • Lady Gaga & RedOne, songwriters
• “Pretty Wings” – Maxwell
  • Hod David & Musze, songwriters
• “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” – Beyoncé
  • Thaddis Harrell, Beyoncé Knowles, Terius Nash & Christopher Stewart, songwriters
• “Use Somebody” – Kings of Leon
  • Caleb Followill, Jared Followill, Matthew Followill & Nathan Followill, songwriters
• “You Belong With Me” – Taylor Swift
  • Liz Rose & Taylor Swift, songwriters

Best New Artist

• Zac Brown Band
• Keri Hilson
• MGMT
• Silversun Pickups
• The Ting Tings

You can see the rest of the nominees at Wikipedia.