Here is a full list of the Grammy Nominees…

THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF RECORDING ARTS & SCIENCES, INC.
Final Nominations List
45th Annual GRAMMY® Awards
(For recordings released during the Eligibility Year October 1, 2001 through September 30, 2002
Note: More or less than 5 nominations in a category are as a result of ties)General Field
Category 1 - 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.)

• A Thousand Miles
Vanessa Carlton
Ron Fair, producer; Tal Herzberg, Jack Joseph Puig & Michael C. Ross, engineers/mixers
Track from: Be Not Nobody
[A&M Records]

• Without Me
Eminem
Jeff Bass & Eminem, producers; Steve King, engineer/mixer
Track from: The Eminem Show
[Aftermath/Interscope Records]

• Don’t Know Why
Norah Jones
Norah Jones, Arif Mardin & Jay Newland, producers; Arif Mardin & Jay Newland, engineers/mixers
Track from: Come Away With Me
[Blue Note Records]

• Dilemma
Nelly Featuring Kelly Rowland
Bam & Ryan Bowser, producers; Brian Garten, engineer/mixer
Track from: Nellyville
[Universal Records]

• How You Remind Me
Nickelback
Nickelback & Rick Parashar, producers; Joey Moi & Randy Staub, engineers/mixers
Track from: Silver Side Up
[Roadrunner Records]

General Field
Category 2 - Album Of The Year
(Award to the Artist(s) and to the Album Producer(s), Recording Engineer(s)/Mixer(s) & Mastering Engineer(s), if other than the artist.)

• Home
Dixie Chicks
Dixie Chicks & Lloyd Maines, producers; Gary Paczosa, engineer/mixer; Robert Hadley & Doug Sax, mastering engineers
[Open Wide/Monument/Columbia Records]

• The Eminem Show
Eminem
Jeff Bass, Dr. Dre, Eminem & Denaun Porter, producers; Steve Baughman, Mauricio “Veto” Iragorri & Steve King, engineers/mixers; Brian “Big Bass” Gardner, mastering engineer
[Aftermath/Interscope Records]

• Come Away With Me
Norah Jones
Norah Jones, Arif Mardin, Jay Newland & Craig Street, producers; Husky Huskolds, Arif Mardin & Jay Newland, engineers/mixers; Ted Jensen, mastering engineer
[Blue Note Records]

• Nellyville
Nelly
Jason “Jay E” Epperson, Just Blaze, The Neptunes, The Trackboyz & Waiel “Wally” Yaghnam, producers; Steve Eigner, Brian Garten, Russ Giraud, Gimel “Young Guru” Keaton, Greg Morgenstein, Matt Still & Rich Travali, engineers/mixers; Herb Powers, mastering engineer
[Universal Records]

• The Rising
Bruce Springsteen
Brendan O’Brien, producer; Nick Didia & Brendan O’Brien, engineers/mixers; Bob Ludwig, mastering engineer
[Columbia Records Group]

General Field
Category 3 - Song Of The Year
(A Songwriter(s) Award. A song is eligible if it was first released or if it first achieved prominence during the Eligibility Year. (Artist names appear in parenthesis.) Singles or Tracks only.)
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Nominations for the 45th annual Grammy Awards, honoring the best of the music industry, were announced in New York today.

A diverse group of artists, including rock, R&B, rap and country musicians, picked up nominations for the 45th annual Grammy Awards.

This year no single artist dominated, although eight performers received five nominations each. Grammy awards in 104 categories are presented every year in an internationally televised ceremony by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. The Academy invited recording artists like Justin Timberlake to present the major nominations. “For album of the year, the nominations are: “Home,” Dixie Chicks; “The Eminem Show,” by Eminem; “Come Away With Me,” by Norah Jones’ “Nellyville,” by Nelly; and “The Rising,” by Bruce Springsteen,” Timberlake announced. “The Rising,” Bruce Springsteen’s response to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, was expected to feature prominently in this year’s Grammys.

In addition to recognizing the year’s prominent popular rock and R&B hits, the Grammys recognize diverse genres including gospel, jazz and classical music.

While Grammy veterans James Taylor, Elton John, Sheryl Crow and controversial rapper Eminem all received nominations, the awards ceremony also serves to recognize new and promising artists.

Rapper Nelly, himself the recipient of five nominations, announced the cream of this year’s crop.

“Best new artist nominees, of course, Ashanti, Michelle Branch, Norah Jones, Avril Lavigne and John Mayer,” he said.

Eighteen-year-old Avril Lavigne’s hit “Complicated” was also nominated for song of the year. R&B artist Ashanti received five nominations, as did singer Nora Jones.

Jones was a big winner in the nomination competition. Her hit “Don’t Know Why” was nominated for Record, Album and Song of the year.

The February 23 Grammy ceremony returns to New York for the first time in five years after a headline grabbing rift between former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and a Grammy official.

Current mayor Michael Bloomberg lobbied to bring the ceremony back to the city.

“This sends a message to all 175 countries around the world that will watch the Grammys that this is the happening place,” said the mayor. “This is where showtime really takes place. Whether it is on court or on the stage, New York is where you want to be.”

The Grammy Award Ceremony is expected to generate $40 million.

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After a four-year absence–which, curiously, ended just after Mayor Rudy Giuliani left office–the Grammy Awards will return to Gotham for the 45th annual ceremony, to be held February 23, 2003, at Madison Square Garden.

The awards fest, typically held during the week, will air on CBS for the first time on a Sunday night.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Senator Charles Schumer and singer Marc Anthony joined Recording Academy chief Michael Greene Wednesday to trumpet the news from the Garden, the site of the last New York Grammys in 1998. The ceremony moved to Los Angeles after a bitter public feud erupted between Greene and then-Mayor Giuliani. Giuliani accused the Recording Academy president of being abusive to one of his aides (allegedly telling her to “Go [bleep] yourself!").

Greene denied making the remarks and then blamed the aide, leading Giuliani to lash out at the academy honcho. “If they want to go back to L.A., they can,” he fumed at the time. “We could replace the Grammys in a day. You say we’re going to lose $40 million? We’ll replace that with three other things.”

On Wednesday, however, all was peaceful again between New York’s top officials and the Recording Academy. Next year will mark the tenth time the Grammys have been held in the Big Apple.

“This is just wonderful news for this city,” said Mayor Bloomberg, who reportedly began lobbying the academy just days after his election. “It will show the terrorists they can’t win. New York City is the capital of culture and music. This is where the Grammys belong.”

Greene, meanwhile, took one last parting shot at Giuliani, telling New Yorkers “you’ve got a great new mayor.”

Either way, it’s good news for the city, still recovering from the post-September 11 economic fallout. The Grammys are expected to generate an estimated $40 million for the local economy.

“It feels great to be back at the Garden and it is with great pride that CBS will broadcast the Grammy Awards from New York next February on a new night,” CBS president Les Moonves said in a statement.