Spotify’s users have spoken and their streams have been tallied. The digital music service analyzed data on its top song and album streams to predict which nominees will win big at this Sunday’s highly anticipated GRAMMY Awards.
Album of the Year: The Heist (Macklemore & Ryan Lewis)
The Heist has over 40 percent more streams than Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories, and more than three times as many as the other three nominees combined.
Best New Artist: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
This pair is the clear favorite, beating Kendrick Lamar by 70 percent and fellow newcomer Ed Sheeran by nearly triple the number of streams.
Best Pop Solo Performance: Royals (Lorde)
The race for Best Pop Solo is close, with Justin Timberlake’s Mirrors and Katy Perry’s Roar duking it out for second place.
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance: Get Lucky, Daft Punk Feat. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers
Daft Punk did get lucky with 20 percent more streams of this hit than runner-up Blurred Lines.
Here is the complete nominations list for the following GRAMMY categories, in order of most to least streams on Spotify:
- Record of the Year
- Imagine Dragons, Radioactive
- Blurred Lines, Robin Thicke feat. T.I. and Pharrell
- Locked out of Heaven, Bruno Mars
- Royals, Lorde
- Get Lucky, Daft Punk Feat. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers
- Album of the Year
- The Heist, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
- Random Access Memories, Daft Punk
- Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City, Kendrick Lamar
- Red, Taylor Swift
- The Blessed Unrest, Sara Bareilles
- Best New Artist
- Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
- Kendrick Lamar
- Ed Sheeran
- James Blake
- Kacey Musgraves
- Best Pop Solo Performance
- Royals, Lorde
- Mirrors, Justin Timberlake
- Roar, Katy Perry
- When I Was Your Man, Bruno Mars
- Brave, Sara Bareilles
- Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
- Get Lucky, Daft Punk Feat. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers
- Blurred Lines, Robin Thicke feat. T.I. and Pharrell
- Just Give Me a Reason, Pink feat. Nate Ruess
- Suit & Tie, Justin Timberlake & Jay-Z
- Stay, Rihanna feat. Mikky Ekko