BEYONCE AND TAYLOR SWIFT GATHER MOST 2010 GRAMMY NOMINATIONS

The Recording Academy announced the nominees for the 2010 Grammy Awards and Beyonce and Taylor Swift take home the most nominations

The Grammy’s announced the nominees for the 2010 Grammy Awards and Beyoncee took home the most nominations with 10 followed by Country Star Taylor Swift who was nominated for 8 awards. Beyonce was nominated for Album of the Year “I Am…Sasha Fierce,” Song of the Year for “Singles Ladies (Put a Ring On it)” and Record of the Year “Halo.” Taylor Swift recieved 8 nominations, including album of the year “Fearless,” as well as song and record of the year for “You Belong With Me.” The Black Eyed Peas, Maxwell and Kanye West each received 6 nominations each, while Jay-Z and DJ David Guetta took home 5. The Grammy’s once again held their Grammy Live Nomination event which was hosted by LL Cool J and featured musical performances from Sugarland, Maxwell, Nick Jonas and the Administration and The Black Eyed Peas.

Backstage after receiving their 6 nominations the Black Eyed Peas talked about how proud they are not to rest on their past success.

“These nominations, I’m so proud that we didn’t get swallowed by yesterday’s success. It means so much to us because before we did this album we sat down as a group and said ‘OK guys, what are we going to do? What kind of record are we going to make. Are we going to make a record based on what people expect us to do or are we going to go out and do what we need to do?’ And that is be inspired by the DJ’s. The Guetta’s, The Chuckies, The Diplo’s, The Steve Aoki’s, The Boys Noise, The Benny Benassi’s these guys are defying gravity. When the music industry is collapsing dance music still plays all over the world and to be nominated is awesome.”

Colbie Caillat, who received 4 nominations talked about how surprised and honored she was to recieve multiple nominations.

“I’m very surprised. I’m very honored to be nominated four times for the Grammy’s. I can’t even believe it. I’m kind of speechless. The one I’m most excited about is Pop Vocal for Album. That’s an honor for me.”

Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush of Sugarland also talked about how excited they were to perform at The Grammy Nominations event outdoors for their fans.

“It was exciting. It was exciting to do it outside and it’s for our Christmas record which is called ‘Gold and Green.’ We thought it’d be appropriate to do it in front of the big Christmas Tree. It was nice. It was fun and it was my first time playing piano on national television. You did well. Normally it’s just for my house and the studio but whatever. It’s cool. If you put a choir on anything it gets good.”

Just a few of the other acts who took home nominations were Lady Gaga, Dave Matthews Band’s for their album “Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King,” Kings of Leon, MGMT, The Ting Tings, Silversun Pickups, Zac Brown Band and R&B vocalist Keri Hilson. Other notable artists nominated in nonmusical categories were former President Jimmy Carter, Michael J. Fox, Steve Martin for his banjo album, David Hyde Pierce, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Stephen Colbert, Kathy Griffin, Spinal Tap and George Lopez. The Grammy Awards will be held January 31st at The Staples Center in Los Angeles, Ca. rn