Stevie's Grammy Submissions
 

From Nickslive, here are Stevie's Grammy Submissions for this year's awards. Nominations will be announced in early December:

Stevie Nicks | Lindsey Buckingham and the Grammy Possibilities

Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham
Two amazing artists putting out arguably their best solo material
Could a Grammy be next?

2011 has been an incredible year for both Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham. Within the span of 5 months both have put out critically and to a certain extent commercially successful albums. They have both toured North America this spring, summer and fall and continue to tour with upcoming shows booked in the UK and Australia. They have surrounded themselves with incredible musicians backing them up in the studio and on the road which resulted in two stellar albums, cool videos and really amazing interesting live performances in some great historic venues! It goes without saying that each has had an amazing run as a solo artists over the years, not to mention being members of Fleetwood Mac, so to see this level of artistic achievement from them at this stage in their careers is just mind blowing... And both show no signs of stopping now! In fact it almost feels like they are just getting started! They continue to roll on with Lindsey releasing a live DVD/CD package out Oct 31st in the UK & November 1st in North America and Stevie is reportedly prepping her "Making of" In Your Dreams documentary. It's also been an incredible year for fans on both sides of the fence so any Grammy nominations on top of all this would just be icing on the cake!

I'm really excited for both of them and wish them both the best of luck as the list of artists and their submissions is fairly lengthy with a lot of really great performers this year hoping to grab a nomination.

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION
Here's a list of submissions for Grammy consideration for both Lindsey and Stevie. Actual nominations are announced at some point in December with awards given out early next year.

Stevie and her team have submitted two songs in 5 categories. "Secret Love" for Song of the Year, Record of the Year and Best Short Form Music Video categories. They have also submitted "Soldiers Angel" in the Best Rock Performance and Best Rock Song categories. Stevie's album "In Your Dreams" was also placed in the Best Pop Vocal Album and Album of the Year categories. Lindsey Buckingham and his team have submitted his album "Seeds We Sow" in for consideration in the Best Pop Vocal Album and Album of the Year categories with the lead single "In Our Own Time" being submitted to the Best Pop Solo Performance and Song of the Year categories. GOOD LUCK TO BOTH!!

STEVIE NICKS

BEST POP VOCAL ALBUM
- In Your Dreams - Stevie Nicks

ALBUM OF THE YEAR
- In Your Dreams - Stevie Nicks

BEST ROCK PERFORMANCE
- Soldiers Angel - Stevie Nicks

BEST ROCK SONG
- Soldiers Angel - Stevie Nicks

(Songwriter award)

SONG OF THE YEAR
- Secret Love - Stevie Nicks
(songwriter award)

RECORD OF THE YEAR
- Secret Love - Stevie Nicks

BEST SHORT FORM MUSIC VIDEO
- Secret Love - Stevie Nicks


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Not gonna lie, I'm not holding out a lot of hope...

Ditto.

Mick

Oh, I think she stands a good chance at a nomination. Best rock song or rock performance, most likely. She's a grande dame of the industry now, and that earns some votes (though probably not enough for a win).

Secret Love's a nice tune, but I don't really think it's "Song of the Year" material.

I don't understand. Stevie's team submits for Grammy consideration? In any case, I think she could win a grammy from this record. Not sure I agree with the choices above. I do think In Your Dreams is good enough to be Album of the Year but that won't happen. I think she gets best female vocal maybe if for Moonlight. And I quite frankly if there was a song for record or song of the year, I think For What It's Worth is a better selection than Secret Love.

I really like Solider's Angel but don't see that as best rock performance. Very odd. Again, her best work and she deserves to win a grammy but I don't think the above choices were the best ones.

By the way - I rarely see grammy awards go to truly the best so maybe better that she not win.

Well IMO, Stevie has a real great chance of receiving The Best Rock Performance, with that Epic Soldiers Angel performance at Buffalo Sturgis gig.. with the crazy wind which almost blew her & the band off stage..Now that's true dedication, kept her focus throughout the whole performance. I would love to know what was going through her mind at the time. :angel: Amazing!!!!

"D***it! I'm getting through this entire song come hell or high wind!"

sooooo No single for Soldiers Angel and its under consideration just cause with Linds? Moonlight, Secret Love, and FWIW should be all thats considered...who plans these things????

Stevie wont win any of these catagories...I just want a few nominations for Stevie!!..Adele has these catagories wrapped up but give the Queen of Rock n Roll her due and give her a few nominations!

I also think if that Moonlight "A Vampires Dream" was released as Stevies 2nd single, she would of stood a chance in the Song Of The Year ( songwriter award ) Nominations.

"I'm going to win a Grammy for this!"

Put up with current crap music of today I hope Stevie or Lindsey at lease get a nomination.I have a feeling that Adele will clean house.Anyway I rather see Adele get the awards then those rap crap artists.

Why do people put down other genres of music in order to lift up their favs?

how do we know
 

these are the official submissions? not here to challenge anyone, but how was this obtained?

She will be nominated...and just may win.
 

Except for Street Angel and TOSOTM...she always gets a Grammy nod. TILL had several nominations as Album of the year...Planets Of The Universe was best song nod...

Maybe she will even get a lifetime achievement Grammy!

She did get a Grammy nomination for TOSOTM: Best Female Rock Vocal, "Whole Lotta Trouble."


Record companies and individuals submit recording to the Grammy nomination committee for consideration and to assess eligibility, etc.

This year, the Grammy org has reduced the number of categories from 109 to 78, and it has eliminated male/female category distinctions. So Best Male Rock Vocal and Best Female Rock Vocal is now one category: Best Rock Vocal. They've done the same with every genre. Best rock instrumental recording was eliminated.

These are the awards for the entire Rock category:
Rock Field

Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance
Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance
Grammy Award for Best Rock Song
Grammy Award for Best Rock Album

Stevie has good shot at a nomination or two in this category because this year she's met all the criteria the Grammy committee responds to, including her recent Grammy museum appearance/student lecture. They'll also want both sexes represented in the Rock Field or risk criticism. (However, Lady Gaga will probably take the nomination for her big rock hit "You and I," which features Queen's Brian May on guitar. Lindsey won't receive any nominations in the rock category. The nomination process filters out artists and albums with what it considers "insufficient sales" (i.e. less than 50,ooo units).

But, it's Adele's year. Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Pop Vocal Album of the Year, Best Pop Vocal will all go to her. With 4 million in U.S. sales, 21 is 2011's biggest seller. That's twice as many albums the #2 best-seller, Lady Gaga's "Born This Way"1.9 mill. Adele also has two #1 singles, Rolling in the Deep and Someone Like You, and she just might find herself nominated twice for Song of the Year and Record of the Year. Someone Like You just moved back to #1 this week.

I don't care if Stevie is nominated or not. I rather see the organization demand that Beyonce return her undeserved Grammy for Song of the Year (which goes to the songwriter) since she didn't write it (or any of the other songs she falsely claimed to have written. NeYo, Rob Fusari, and a number of "collaborators" have called her out for it. The Oscar committee stripped her of a nomination when it discovered she had not contributed either music or lyrics to "Listen." Interestingly, Stevie is still unaware that Beyonce's father scripted her story of how she was inspired to write Bootylicious after hearing Edge while on a plane, etc..All scripted lies, as detailed in a two page interview with hitmaker Rob Fusari in Billboard.

I'm not sure but didn't Coldplay and Red Hot Chilli Peppers release new albums this year? I think they have pretty good chances of winning album of the year if I've got my facts right.

I really wish they'd put Moonlight forward for a nomination, IMO it's the best song from the record.

A lifetime achievement thing would be cool, I'd love to see her win anything tbh, she obviously deserves recognition for her work.

The only one Stevie has any chance at is Best Pop Vocal Album. Since that's not one which carries a lot of notoriety and prestige, she just might be able to get away with winning it. Though like others have mentioned, I can definitely foresee an Adele clean sweep this year. But just as 1977 was Stevie & Fleetwood Mac's time in the sun, so is 2011 for Adele. :)

I agree Stevie's chances of a win are very slight. I'd be amazed if she wasn't nominated in two or three categories, though.

Edit: I initially couldn't fathom the choice of Secret Love for the songwriting award, but now I've realised it's because she can't submit anything with a co-credit, isn't it? That does rather leave the field a bit more sparse, and SL probably not a bad choice. It has no chance of winning, though. :(

For songwriting and video, For What It's Worth should have been put forth. :distress:

...but strangely enough, the "geniuses" in Stevie's camp did not submit IYD for best rock album. :shrug: You really have to wonder what drugs these people are taking. Or maybe they know something the rest of us don't know... After all, there have been some oddball album of the year Grammys given out over the years: Turbulent Indigo by Joni Mitchell, River: The Joni Letters by Herbie Hancock, Two Against Nature by Steely Dan, etc. From what I can recall, none of these albums exactly blew the minds of the critics when they came out (although Turbulent Indigo did garner some glowing raves). I do believe that IYD absolutely deserves to be acknowledged with a Grammy, but the whole marketing of the album just seemed so reticent and tentative. Instead of assaulting the airwaves with the A-list "hit" songs from the album right from the get-go in rapid succession, they just kind of allowed it to plod along while releasing radio-unfriendly songs to radio without accompanying videos and spacing the releases too far apart. It would be a miracle if even half of the voting Grammy Academy knew Stevie had released an album.

I definitely think that the FWIW video should have been presented rather than Secret Love.

However, I think Song of the Year is awarded to the composer, which for FWIW, would have been Mike Campbell, at least to my understanding. I'm not sure if Stevie would get anything for having written the lyrics.... I might be wrong.

ETA: And all this just reminds me of when Kathy Griffin & Bette Midler called Stevie because she thought she was a member of the Academy, haha.

I agree. Soldiers Angel is her best shot at receiving a Grammy in this (rock) category. BUT if nominated she'll also up against males & bands in the rock category, since the Grammy's eliminated best "female" rock performance and lumped them all together. It would be nice to see IYD at least earn a nomination for album of the year, but no way would she win that. Adele is going to sweep. And Stevie has not got a chance in the pop categories imo.
Soldier's Angel is her best bet!

That performance of Soldier's Angel DESERVES a Grammy!!!

I would have nominated IYD best rock vocal album. That is all.

Secret Love should not be nominated for anything. However, Soldiers Angel I think deserves a nomination, so does the album.

I'm sorry.I'm not puting down other genres down.Rap was fine when it first hit the airwave.now I'm just tired of it.It's not my cup of tea anymore.

IN OUR DREAMS!!!! :wavey:

I think she deserves at least one nomination for the Album of the Year. "In Your Dreams" is such a wonderful album and should be praised by academy. Stevie is a legend and the only thing she lacks is of course Grammy Award on her shelf. I don't think that "Secret Love" will get any nomination (yet still I cross my fingers for its success). I wonder why they didn't submit "For What It's Worth"...great song, great video...

I'd like to have seen Anabel Lee submitted. It's a great song, and it would be great to see Edgar and Stevie going up to the stage together to accept an award. He hasn't gotten any awards in a LONG time.

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If "For What it's Worth" were nominated, Stevie and Mike Campbell would share the nomination. Lyrics and music are held in equal esteem as both are "composed." Unfortunately, anyone listed on a song's publishing credits - regardless of how much they actually contributed to the writing of the song - shares the nomination with all those listed. (Billboard Magazine recently detailed the disturbing practice of major entertainers demanding a piece of the publishing/songwriting credit for monetary purposes and to build their credibility as "artist.")
Red Hot Chilli Peppers album has suffered from disastrous PR since it was the first album specially mastered to optimize digital sound quality for iTunes Store and the general consensus was that the album was overly compressed and distorted on CD and mp4. Coldplay's album was released in October, so it missed the qualifying period. And the plagiarism scandal with the first single release may have hurt its chances for a nomination. (Chris Martin says he was inspired to write it after hearing a song in a club, not realizing that the song he was ripping off was built off of a huge chunk of "I Go to Rio," so the composers of that song were added to the album credits after an avalanche of criticism including feature stories about the band's history of song theft. Coldplay settled with Joe Satriani out of court after they ripped off one of his songs for the Grammy winning Viva La Vida.
Warner should have gone for Best Rock album, even though all the sub genre which used to have their own categories, have been merged into this one.

Grammy Awards only recognize recorded performances that have been commercially released. That amazing performance, which requires the visual to really impact, would have to be issued as part of compilation or live album or track in order to qualify.

Also, all of the MALE and FEMALE vocal categories have been merged. No more Male Pop Vocal and Female Pop Vocal, just Best Pop Vocal, Best Rock Vocal, etc.

I don't know - it's annoying - like the people who say "music isn't good anymore" or "all new music sucks". Sorry folks, Pink Floyd can't record forever.

It's just lack of exposure to decent material; it leads some people to believe that there really must be no good new music, or that all R&B/Rap/Hip-hop sucks, which simply is not true.

What is true is that there is a severe lack of decent radio stations, and decent DJs who know how to enthrall an audience - or who even have the freedom to do so, anymore.

Corporate radio with label incentives is the true downfall of the music industry. Not internet piracy. People cannot buy what they do not know exists. DJs used to introduce us to new artists, new tracks - they used to play deep album cuts - they used to play b-sides.

On topic, there's no way Secret Love is winning anything Grammy related, except possibly for the video because it was well done and visually stimulating. I do however hold out hope that In Your Dreams could win overall as an album.

Regarding Coldplay, I don't believe Chris Martin would rip off anyone intentionally. The man is simply too good hearted and genuinely honest to do something mean spirited - and besides - they are so huge worldwide there's no way it could be done without someone catching on. What I do believe is that his cushy marriage to the beautiful Gwennyth Paltrow has totally destroyed his muse and ruined his ability to write lyrics with any substance or depth. Boredom leads to finding inspiration in the creations of others instead of finding creativity inside of yourself.

Seriously?
 

"Stevie has a real great chance of receiving The Best Rock Performance."

I can't find the quote to quote this and I don't mean to be snotty but reading that just made me crack up for some reason. I mean really? :laugh: As much as I would love for that to happen in all likely-hood it will not for many of the reasons people have stated, namely the lack of big commercial success but then again there have been exceptions to this in the past.

This is 100% accurate. Instead of diverse playlists with all kinds of artists, Top 40, AC, AAC, etc. have blurred together and they all play the same 40 songs from the same 20 brands, not one of which is over 4o years old (except for the odd 41 year old that sneaks in with songwriting/production chores by of-the-moment studio hit-makers, like Max Martin, etc.

I don't agree entirely that nominations are based a lot on commercial success. Why then would there be a list of of 290 submissions for Best Rock Performance? Looking at the list, there is some really obscure artists on there with music I've never even heard of. If a chunk of the criteria was based on commercial success and an artist knows ahead of time the track wasn't all that successful, why go through the bother of submitting it for consideration.

O.k. then I was just looking for reasons to disagree with that statement that she has a great chance of winning. :p

Well that is your entitled opinion, & this is mine= i still believe she has a great chance to win LOL:thumbsup: That performance was submitted for good reason or was it not?? I guess i was thrilled that Stevies people/Warner's? chose Soldiers Angel in the first place to be submitted in that category.
Anyway Its all good:wavey:

Soldier's Angel? Really?
 

For What It's Worth or You Could Be the One would have actually had a shot. I wonder if she got pressure from Lindsey. Wish she'd surround herself with better advisors.