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Adele has received nominations for her best-selling third album 25 Kevork Djansezian/Getty

Beyonce, Drake and Adele are leading nominations for the Grammys 2017. Pop star Meghan Trainor announced the nominees in the four main categories: album of the year, song of the year, record of the year and best new artist, live on CBS This Morning on 5 December.

Music's finest will flock to the Staples Center in Los Angeles on 12 February 2017 when the 59th Grammys will take place. Competing in the coveted album of the year category are Beyonce's Lemonade, Adele's 25 and Drake's Views. Justin Bieber's Love Yourself is up for song of the year alongside Beyonce's Formation and Lukas Graham's 7 Years.

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The Late Late Show presenter James Corden will host the ceremony for the first time, taking over from LL Cool J who enjoyed a five-year run.

Announcing Corden as the new face of the music awards, Recording Academy president Neil Portnow previously said: "Thanks to Carpool Karaoke, we've all been on some incredible rides with James, and The Recording Academy couldn't be more excited to welcome his passion and enthusiasm for music, both as an entertainer and a fan, to the Grammy stage."

The Grammys 2015 saw Taylor Swift win album of the year for 1989, Mark Ronson scoop record of the year for Uptown Funk, Ed Sheeran earn song of the year for Thinking Out Loud and Meghan Trainor crowned best new artist.

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Beyonce has received nominations for her sixth solo studio album Lemonade REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz

Grammys 2017 nominations list

Album of the year

Beyonce – Lemonade

Adele – 25

Drake – Views

Justin Bieber – Purpose

Sturgill Simpson – A Sailor's Guide To Earth

Record of the year

Rihanna – Work

Adele – Hello

Beyonce – Formation

Lukas Graham – 7 Years

Twenty One Pilots – Stressed Out

Song of the year

Beyonce – Formation

Adele – Hello

Mike Posner – I Took A Pill In Ibiza

Justin Bieber – Love Yourself

Lukas Graham – 7 Years

Best new artist

Chance The Rapper

Anderson .Paak

The Chainsmokers

Kelsea Ballerini

Maren Morris

Best pop vocal album

25 — Adele

Purpose — Justin Bieber

Dangerous Woman — Ariana Grande

Confident — Demi Lovato

This Is Acting — Sia

Best dance/electronic album

Skin — Flume

Electronica 1: The Time Machine — Jean-Michel Jarre

Epoch — Tycho

Barbara Barbara, We Face a Shining Future — Underworld

Louie Vega Starring...XXVIII — Louie Vega

Best rock album

California — Blink-182

Tell Me I'm Pretty — Cage the Elephant

Magma — Gojira

Death of a Bachelor — Panic! at the Disco

Weezer — Weezer

Best alternative music album

22, a Million — Bon Iver

Blackstar — David Bowie

The Hope Six Demolition Project — PJ Harvey

Post Pop Depression — Iggy Pop

A Moon Shaped Pool — Radiohead

Best urban contemporary album

Lemonade — Beyoncé

Ology — Gallant

We Are King — King

Malibu — Anderson .Paak

Anti — Rihanna

Best urban contemporary album

Lemonade — Beyoncé

Ology — Gallant

We Are King — King

Malibu — Anderson .Paak

Anti — Rihanna

Best country solo performance

Love Can Go to Hell — Brandy Clark

Vice — Miranda Lambert

My Church — Maren Morris

Church Bells — Carrie Underwood

Blue Ain't Your Color — Keith Urban

Best song written for visual media

Can't Stop The Feeling – Justin Timberlake

Heathens – Twenty One Pilots

Just Like Fire – Pink

Purple Lamborghini – Skrillex and Rick Ross

Try Everything – Shakira

The Veil – Peter Gabriel

Best music video

Formation — Beyoncé

River — Leon Bridges

Up & Up — Coldplay

Gosh — Jamie XX

Upside Down & Inside Out — OK Go

Producer of the year, non-classical

Benny Blanco

Greg Kurstin

Max Martin

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Ricky Reed

Best pop duo/group performance

Closer — The Chainsmokers featuring Halsey

7 Years — Lukas Graham

Work — Rihanna featuring Drake

Cheap Thrills — Sia Featuring Sean Paul

Stressed Out — Twenty One Pilots

Culcha Vulcha — Snarky Puppy

Best rock performance

Joe (Live From Austin City Limits) — Alabama Shakes

Don't Hurt Yourself — Beyoncé featuring Jack White

Blackstar — David Bowie

The Sound of Silence (Live On Conan) — Disturbed

Heathens — Twenty One Pilots

Best metal performance

Shock Me — Baroness

Silvera — Gojira

Rotting In Vain — Korn

Dystopia — Megadeth

The Price Is Wrong — Periphery

Best r'n'b performance

Turnin' Me Up — BJ the Chicago Kid

Permission — Ro James

I Do — Musiq Soulchild

Needed Me — Rihanna

Cranes In the Sky — Solange

Best traditional r'n'b performance

The Three Of Me — William Bell

Woman's World — BJ the Chicago Kid

Sleeping With the One I Love — Fantasia

Angel — Lalah Hathaway

Can't Wait — Jill Scott

Best r'n'b song

Come See Me – PartyNextDoor featuring Drake

Exchange – Bryson Tiller

Kiss It Better – Rihanna

Lake By The Ocean – Maxwell

Luv – Tory Lanez

Best r'n'b album

In My Mind — BJ the Chicago Kid

Lalah Hathaway Live — Lalah Hathaway

Velvet Portraits — Terrace Martin

Healing Season — Mint Condition

Smoove Jones — Mya

Best rap performance

No Problem — Chance the Rapper featuring Lil Wayne & 2 Chainz

Panda — Desiigner

Pop Style — Drake featuring the Throne

All the Way Up — Fat Joe & Remy Ma featuring French Montana & Infared

That Part — Schoolboy Q featuring Kanye West

Best rap/sung performance

Freedom — Beyoncé featuring Kendrick Lamar

Hotline Bling — Drake

Broccoli — D.R.A.M. featuring Lil Yachty

Ultralight Beam — Kanye West featuring Chance the Rapper, Kelly Price, Kirk Franklin & the-Dream

Famous — Kanye West featuring Rihanna

Best rap album

Coloring Book — Chance the Rapper

And the Anonymous Nobody — De La Soul

Major Key — DJ Khaled

Views — Drake

Blank Face LP — Schoolboy Q

The Life of Pablo — Kanye West

Best country solo performance

Love Can Go to Hell — Brandy Clark

Vice — Miranda Lambert

My Church — Maren Morris

Church Bells — Carrie Underwood

Blue Ain't Your Color — Keith Urban

Best country duo/group performance

Different For Girls — Dierks Bentley featuring Elle King

21 Summer — Brothers Osborne

Setting the World On Fire — Kenny Chesney & P!nk

Jolene — Pentatonix featuring Dolly Parton

Think of You — Chris Young With Cassadee Pope

Best country song

Blue Ain't Your Color — Keith Urban

Die a Happy Man" – Thomas Rhett

Humble and Kind — Tim McGraw

My Church — Maren Morris

Vice —Miranda Lambert

Best country album

Big Day In a Small Town — Brandy Clark

Full Circle — Loretta Lynn

Hero — Maren Morris

A Sailor's Guide to Earth — Sturgill Simpson

Ripcord — Keith Urban

Best music video

Formation — Beyoncé

River — Leon Bridges

Up & Up — Coldplay

Gosh — (Jamie XX)

Upside Down & Inside Out — OK Go

Can't Wait — Jill Scott

Best r'n'b song

Come See Me – PartyNextDoor featuring Drake

Exchange – Bryson Tiller

Kiss It Better – Rihanna

Lake By The Ocean – Maxwell

Luv – Tory Lanez

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