47th Annual GRAMMY Award Nominations

The Grammys will be held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles , CA on Sunday, February 13th and will be broadcast at 8PM (ET) on CBS. Please see below for this year’s nominees in the Christian music categories.

Best Gospel Performance
For solo, duo, group as collaborative performances. Singles or tracks with vocal containing Gospel lyrics. All genres of Gospel music are eligible.

Album	Track	Artist	Record Company
The Fighting Temptations Soundtrack	The Stone	Shirley Caesar & Ann Nesby	Music World Music/Columbia
Genius Loves Company	Heaven Help Us All	Ray Charles & Gladys Knight	Concord Records
N'awlinz Dis Dat Or D'udda	Lay My Burden Down	Dr. John & Mavis Staples	EMI/Blue Note
Somethin' 'Bout Love	Celebrate (He Lives)	Fred Hammond	Verity/Zomba Label Group
There Will Be A Light	There Will Be A Light	Ben Harper & The Blind Boys Of Alabama	Virgin

Best Rock Gospel Album
For albums containing 51% or more playing time of vocal tracks.

Album	Artist	Record Company
Take Me Away	Sarah Kelly	Gotee Records
Collide	Skillet	Ardent Records
Lose This Life	Tait	ForeFront Records
Wire	Third Day	Essential Records
Welcome To Diverse City	TobyMac	ForeFront Records
Holy Hip Hop "Taking The Gospel To The Streets" - Various Artists	David (Damonsta) Lynch, producer	Holy Hip Hop Music

Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album
For albums containing 51% or more playing time of vocal tracks.

Album	Artist	Record Company
The Creed	Avalon	Sparrow Records
All Things New	Steven Curtis Chapman	Sparrow Records
Who We Are Instead	Jars Of Clay	Essential Records
Everyday People	Nicole C. Mullen	Word Special Projects
Rising Son	RainSong	Soar/Red Sea