Grammy Nominations Christen James Blunt As The Middling One-Hit Wonder Of 2006

noah | December 7, 2006 12:28 pm
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That undeserving, yet over-Grammy-nominated artist we asked about yesterday? Turns out your suspicions were right: James Blunt received five nods from the Grammy committee, but hey–one of those nominations was for Best New Artist, so maybe he’ll win that and get out of our lives. (Mary J. Blige topped the nominations list, scoring eight, while the Red Hot Chili Peppers somehow managed to nab six, including one for their utterly craptacular “Dani California” clip.) We’re still poring over the nominations list, but so far our favorite cage-match in the making comes courtesy of Best Rock Instrumental Performance, which pits the NME’s favorite bunch of blokes, the Arctic Monkeys, against Peter Frampton’s cover of Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun.”

Final Nominations List: 49th Annual GRAMMY® Awards [grammy.com]

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