Cee Lo Green, Robyn, Drake, Nicki Minaj and the Arcade Fire are all among this year’s Grammy nominees.

Cee Lo’s ‘F*** You’ is up for both Song of the Year and Record of the Year (Year taken to mean the last 18 months or so, we guess), against Jay-Z and Alicia Keys’ ‘Empire State of Mind’, Eminem and Rihanna’s appalling ‘Love the Way You Lie’, B.o.B’s ‘Nothing On You’ and Lady Antebellum’s ‘Need You Now’. Both the Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs and Lady Gaga’s The Fame Monster are up for album of the year, while Drake and Florence and the Machine are up for the Best New Artist award.

Drake’s Thank Me Later is up for Best Rap Album, and his ‘Over’ will battle it out with Eminem (‘Not Afraid’), Ludacris (‘How Low’), Kanye (‘Power’) and T.I. (‘I’m Back’) for best Rap Solo Performance. Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group will be contested by Big Boi & Cutty’s ‘Shutterbugg’, Drake’s ‘Fancy’ featuring Swizz Beats and T.I., Ludacris and Nicki Minaj’s ‘My Chick Bad’, Young Jeezy and Plies’ ‘Lose my Mind’, and Jay-Z and Swizz Beats’ ‘On to the Next One’. Best R’n’B Album award is contested by Chris Brown, R. Kelly, Usher, Janelle Monae and Ryan Leslie.

Gaga pops up again for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance with ‘Bad Romance’, a category that the live version of Beyonce’s ‘Halo’ is also in. ‘Telephone’, one of two Gaga/Beyonce collaborations in the last year, pops up with a nomination for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals. Elsewhere, Goldfrapp, La Roux, Groove Armada and the Chemical Brothers will fight it out for Best Electronic/Dance Album.

Some of the best picks appear in the Best Dance Recording category, with Goldfrapp’s ‘Rocket’, La Roux’s ‘In for the Kill’, Rihanna’s ‘Only Girl (In the World)’, Gaga’s ‘Dance in the Dark’ and Robyn’s ‘Dancing on my Own’ getting the nod. Arcade Fire, Vampire Weekend, Band of Horses and more are up for Best Alternative Music Album.

You can read the full list of nominations here. The awards take place on February 13.

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