Grammy Awards 2005
The 47th Grammy Awards · Held February 13, 2005 · 66 categories · everything in 2005
Album of the Year
- Winner Genius Loves Company · Ray Charles
- Nominee American Idiot · Green Day
- Nominee Confessions · Usher
- Nominee The College Dropout · Kanye West
- Nominee The Diary of Alicia Keys · Alicia Keys
Record of the Year
- Winner Here We Go Again · Ray Charles, Norah Jones
- Nominee American Idiot · Green Day, Green Day
- Nominee Heaven · Los Lonely Boys
- Nominee Let's Get It Started · The Black Eyed Peas
- Nominee Yeah! · Usher, Lil Jon, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges
Song of the Year
- Winner Daughters · John Mayer
- Nominee If I Ain't Got You · Alicia Keys
- Nominee Jesus Walks · C. Smith, Kanye West
- Nominee Live Like You Were Dying · Tim Nichols, Craig Wiseman
- Nominee The Reason
Best New Artist
- Winner Maroon 5
- Nominee Gretchen Wilson
- Nominee Joss Stone
- Nominee Kanye West
- Nominee Los Lonely Boys
Best Alternative Music Album
- Winner A Ghost Is Born · Wilco
- Nominee Franz Ferdinand · Franz Ferdinand
- Nominee Good News for People Who Love Bad News · Modest Mouse
- Nominee Medúlla · Björk
- Nominee Uh Huh Her · PJ Harvey
Best Bluegrass Album
- Winner Brand New Strings · Ricky Skaggs, Kentucky Thunder
Best Contemporary Blues Album
- Winner Keep It Simple · Keb' Mo'
Best Contemporary Instrumental Album
- Winner Henry Mancini: Pink Guitar
- Nominee EP 2003: Music for the Epicurean Harkener · Mason Williams
- Nominee Forever, for Always, for Luther
- Nominee Honey-Dipped · Dave Koz
- Nominee Pure · Boney James
Best Contemporary Jazz Album
- Winner Unspeakable · Bill Frisell
Best Contemporary R&B Album
- Winner Confessions · Usher
Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album
- Winner Nothing Without You · Smokie Norful
Best Contemporary World Music Album
- Winner Egypt · Youssou N'Dour
Best Country Album
- Winner Van Lear Rose · Loretta Lynn
Best Country Instrumental Performance
Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
- Winner Top of the World · The Chicks
Best Country Song
- Winner Live Like You Were Dying · Tim McGraw
Best Dance/Electronic Album
- Winner Kish Kash · Basement Jaxx
- Nominee Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned · Prodigy
- Nominee Creamfields · Paul Oakenfold
- Nominee Legion of Boom · The Crystal Method
- Nominee Reflections · Paul van Dyk
Best Dance/Electronic Recording
- Winner Toxic · Britney Spears
- Nominee Comfortably Numb · Scissor Sisters
- Nominee Get Yourself High · The Chemical Brothers
- Nominee Good Luck · Basement Jaxx, Lisa Kekaula
- Nominee Slow · Kylie Minogue
Best Female Country Vocal Performance
- Winner Redneck Woman · Gretchen Wilson
Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
- Winner Sunrise · Norah Jones
- Nominee Oceania · Björk
- Nominee The First Cut Is the Deepest · Sheryl Crow
- Nominee What You Waiting For? · Gwen Stefani
- Nominee You Had Me · Joss Stone
Best Female R&B Vocal Performance
- Winner If I Ain't Got You · Alicia Keys
- Nominee I Want You · Janet Jackson
- Nominee I'm Still in Love · Teena Marie
- Nominee U-Haul · Angie Stone
- Nominee Whatever · Jill Scott
Best Gospel Choir or Chorus Album
Best Hard Rock Performance
- Winner Slither · Velvet Revolver
- Nominee Duality · Slipknot
- Nominee Feelin' Way Too Damn Good · Nickelback
- Nominee Megalomaniac · Incubus
- Nominee Some Kind Of Monster · Metallica
Best Jazz Instrumental Album
Best Jazz Performance
- Winner Speak Like a Child · Herbie Hancock, Harvey Mason
Best Jazz Vocal Album
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
Best Latin Jazz Album
- Winner Land of the Sun · Charlie Haden
Best Latin Pop Album
- Winner Amar Sin Mentiras · Marc Anthony
- Nominee El Rock de Mi Pueblo · Carlos Vives
- Nominee MTV Unplugged · Diego Torres
- Nominee Pau-Latina · Paulina Rubio
- Nominee Sinverguenza · Bacilos
Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album
- Winner Street Signs · Ozomatli
Best Male Country Vocal Performance
- Winner Live Like You Were Dying · Tim McGraw
Best Male Pop Vocal Performance
- Winner Daughters · John Mayer
- Nominee Cinnamon Girl · Prince
- Nominee Let's Misbehave · Elvis Costello
- Nominee Love's Divine · Seal
- Nominee You Raise Me Up · Josh Groban
Best Male R&B Vocal Performance
- Winner Call My Name · Prince
- Nominee Burn · Usher
- Nominee Charlene · Anthony Hamilton
- Nominee Happy People · R. Kelly
- Nominee What We Do Here · Brian McKnight
Best Melodic Rap Performance
- Winner Yeah! · Usher, Lil Jon, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges
- Nominee All Falls Down · Kanye West, Syleena Johnson
- Nominee Dip It Low · Christina Milian, Fabolous
- Nominee Slow Jamz · Twista, Kanye West, Jamie Foxx
- Nominee Why · Jadakiss, Anthony Hamilton
Best Metal Performance
- Winner Whiplash · Motörhead
- Nominee Live for This · Hatebreed
- Nominee Nymphetamine · Cradle of Filth
- Nominee The End Of Heartache · Killswitch Engage
- Nominee Vermilion · Slipknot
Best Mexican/Mexican-American Album
- Winner Intimamente · Intocable
Best New Age, Ambient or Chant Album
- Winner Returning · Will Ackerman
- Nominee American River · Jonathan Elias
- Nominee Atlantis: A Symphonic Journey · David Arkenstone
- Nominee Piano · Peter Kater
- Nominee Two Horizons · Máire Brennan
Best Polka Album
Best Pop Instrumental Performance
- Winner 11th Commandment · Ben Harper
- Nominee Chasing Shadows · Herb Alpert, Russ Freeman, James Genus, Gene Lake, Jason Miles
- Nominee Rat Pack Boogie · Brian Setzer
- Nominee Song F · Bruce Hornsby
- Nominee Take You Out · George Benson
Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals
- Winner Heaven · Los Lonely Boys
- Nominee It's My Life · No Doubt
- Nominee My Immortal · Evanescence
- Nominee She Will Be Loved · Maroon 5
- Nominee The Reason · Hoobastank
Best Pop Vocal Album
- Winner Genius Loves Company · Ray Charles
- Nominee Afterglow · Sarah McLachlan
- Nominee Brian Wilson Presents Smile · Brian Wilson
- Nominee Feels Like Home · Norah Jones
- Nominee Mind Body & Soul · Joss Stone
Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album
- Winner All Things New · Steven Curtis Chapman
Best R&B Album
- Winner The Diary of Alicia Keys · Alicia Keys
Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals
- Winner My Boo · Usher, Alicia Keys
Best R&B Song
- Winner You Don't Know My Name · Alicia Keys
Best Rap Album
- Winner The College Dropout · Kanye West
- Nominee Suit · Nelly
- Nominee The Black Album · Jay-Z
- Nominee The Definition · LL Cool J
- Nominee To the 5 Boroughs · Beastie Boys
Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group
- Winner Let's Get It Started · The Black Eyed Peas
- Nominee Ch-Check It Out · Beastie Boys
- Nominee Don't Say Nuthing' · The Grand Wizzards
- Nominee Drop It Like It's Hot · Snoop Dogg, Pharrell Williams
- Nominee Lean Back · Terror Squad
Best Rap Solo Performance
- Winner 99 Problems · Jay-Z
- Nominee Just Lose It · Eminem
- Nominee On Fire · Lloyd Banks
- Nominee Overnight Celebrity · Twista
- Nominee Through the Wire · Kanye West
Best Rap Song
- Winner Jesus Walks · Miri Ben-Ari, C. Smith, Kanye West
- Nominee 99 Problems · Jay-Z, Rick Rubin
- Nominee Drop It Like It's Hot · Snoop Dogg, Chad Hugo, Pharrell Williams
- Nominee Hey Mama · Will Adams, Anthony Henry
- Nominee Let's Get It Started · Jaime Gomez, George Pajon, Jr., Allan Pineda
Best Reggae Album
- Winner True Love · Toots & The Maytals
- Nominee African Holocaust · Steel Pulse
- Nominee Black Magic · Jimmy Cliff
- Nominee Def Jamaica
- Nominee The Dub Revolutionaries
Best Rock Album
- Winner American Idiot · Green Day, Green Day
- Nominee Contraband · Velvet Revolver
- Nominee Hot Fuss · The Killers
- Nominee The Delivery Man · Elvis Costello
- Nominee The Reason · Hoobastank
Best Rock Gospel Album
Best Rock Instrumental Performance
- Winner Mrs. O'Leary's Cow · Brian Wilson
- Nominee Instrumental Illness · The Allman Brothers Band
- Nominee O Baterista · Rush
- Nominee Onda · Los Lonely Boys
- Nominee Whispering a Prayer · Steve Vai
Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
- Winner Vertigo · U2
- Nominee American Idiot · Green Day, Green Day
- Nominee Monkey to Man · Elvis Costello
- Nominee Somebody Told Me · The Killers
- Nominee Take Me Out · Franz Ferdinand
Best Rock Song
- Winner Vertigo · Paul Hewson, Adam Clayton, The Edge, Larry Mullen Jr.
- Nominee American Idiot · Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, Tré Cool
- Nominee Fall To Pieces · Duff, Dave Kushner, Slash, Matt Sorum, Scott Weiland
- Nominee Float On · Isaac Brock, Dann Gallucci, Eric Judy, Benjamin Weikel
- Nominee Somebody Told Me · Brandon Flowers, Dave Keuning, Mark Stoermer, Ronnie Vannucci
Best Salsa/Merengue Album
Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance
- Winner Code of Silence · Bruce Springsteen
- Nominee Breathe · Melissa Etheridge
- Nominee Metropolitan Gride · Tom Waits
- Nominee The Revolution Starts Now · Steve Earle
- Nominee Wonderwall · Ryan Adams
Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album
- Winner Worship & Faith · Randy Travis
Best Spoken Word Album
- Winner My Life · Bill Clinton
Best Tejano Album
Best Traditional Gospel Album
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
- Winner Stardust: The Great American Songbook, Volume III · Rod Stewart
- Nominee Count Your Blessings · Barbara Cook
- Nominee Just for a Thrill · Ronnie Milsap
- Nominee Only You · Harry Connick Jr.
- Nominee Ultimate Mancini · Monica Mancini
Best Traditional R&B Performance
- Winner Musicology · Prince
Best Traditional World Music Album
Best Tropical Latin Album
- Winner ¡Ahora Si! · Israel "Cachao" López
Best Urban/Alternative Performance
- Winner Cross My Mind · Jill Scott