Lorde, Metallica, Katy Perry, Robin Thicke to Perform at 2014 GRAMMYs


Metallica photo courtesy of Facebook.com

January 7, 2014. Another January day, another round of GRAMMY performer announcements. Lorde, Katy Perry and Robin Thicke with Chicago will take the stage later this month. (Thicke, if you remember, performed at the GRAMMY nominations concert last month with Earth, Wind & Fire (read the OFC interview), so he’s just continuing on that same train, it seems.)

But the most surprising part of the announcement? That Metallica, eight-time GRAMMY winners mind you, will perform with the GRAMMY Cultural Ambassador to China, Lang Lang.

Related: Behind the Song – Lorde’s ‘Royals’

All four are nominated this year: Lorde with four nods (Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Pop Solo Performance for “Royals” and Best Pop Vocal Album for Pure Heroine); Thicke with three noms (Record of the Year and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for “Blurred Lines,” Best Pop Vocal Album for Blurred Lines); Perry with two (Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance for “Roar”); and Metallica with one (for their Metallica Through the Never soundtrack(Music up for Best Recording Package). Read more on radio.com

Click HERE to read more on official Grammy.com website!

Music's Biggest Night, the 56th Annual GRAMMY Awards, will return to Los Angeles' Staples Center on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014, and will be broadcast in high-definition and 5.1 surround sound on the CBS Television Network from 8–11:30 p.m. (ET/PT).


	Robin Thicke - photo courtesy of Facebook.com

Highlighted nominations for the 56th annual Grammys:

Record Of The Year
Award to the Artist and to the Producer(s), Recording Engineer(s)
and/or Mixer(s), if other than the artist.

Get Lucky

Daft Punk & Pharrell Williams

Radioactive

Imagine Dragons

Royals

Lorde

Locked Out Of Heaven

Bruno Mars

Blurred Lines

Robin Thicke Featuring T.I. & Pharrell

Album Of The Year
Award to the Artist(s) and to the Album Producer(s), Recording
Engineer(s) and/or Mixer(s) & Mastering Engineer(s), if other than the
artist.

The Blessed Unrest

Sara Bareilles

Random Access Memories

Daft Punk

Good Kid, M.A.A.D City

Kendrick Lamar

The Heist

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

Taylor Swift

Song Of The Year
A Songwriter(s) Award. A song is eligible if it was first released or if
it first achieved prominence during the Eligibility Year. (Artist names
appear in parentheses.) Singles or Tracks only.

Just Give Me A Reason

Jeff Bhasker, Pink & Nate Ruess, songwriters (Pink Featuring Nate Ruess)

Locked Out Of Heaven

Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine & Bruno Mars, songwriters (Bruno Mars)

Roar

Lukasz Gottwald, Max Martin, Bonnie McKee, Katy Perry & Henry Walter, songwriters (Katy Perry)

Royals

Joel Little & Ella Yelich O'Connor, songwriters (Lorde)

Same Love

Ben Haggerty, Mary Lambert & Ryan Lewis, songwriters (Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Featuring Mary Lambert)

Best New Artist
For a new artist who releases, during the eligibility year, the first
recording which establishes the public identity of that artist.