This year, the General Field categories have expanded to 10 nominees per category. In 2009, he was up for his collaboration with Estelle, “American Boy,” and in 2012, for his song “All of the Lights” with Rihanna and Kid Cudi. West has been nominated for Song of the Year, an award for songwriters, three times. He was nominated once for Record of the Year in 2006 for “Gold Digger,” losing to Green Day’s “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” despite an incendiary performance with Jamie Foxxand an HBCU band. In 2005, West was nominated but didn’t win for “Jesus Walks” and lost Best New Artist to Maroon 5. In addition to Album of the Year, West has yet to win any award in the General Field categories, including Record of the Year, Song of the Year, or Best New Artist. “‘Cause, you don’t want to be the person that beat Donda for Album of the Year.” “I feel like this year, just should nobody put their album in the category for Album of the Year so I can finally win Album of the Year,” West said. 4 interview on the Drink Champs podcast, expressing his disbelief that neither one of his hit albums, 2010’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy or 2011’s Watch The Throne, with Jay-Z, were even nominated for Album of the Year. Last year, before his Jesus is King win, West went viral after posting a video urinating on one of his Grammy trophies as a sign of protest. These include Alicia Key’s Diary of Alicia Keys in 2005, Mariah Carey’s The Emancipation of Mimi in 2006, Lil Wayne‘s Tha Carter III in 2009, The Weeknd’s Beauty Behind the Madness in 2016, Drake‘s Views in 2017, and even this year, with Lil Nas X’s Montero. West has also been in the running for Album of the Year as a producer on other artists’ projects. West, or Ye’s, most recent album to be nominated in the category was 2008’s Graduation but he lost to Herbie Hancock’s River: The Joni Letters.
The following year, his album Late Registration was nominated, but U2 took home the award for How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb. In 2005, he was nominated for his debut album, The College Dropout, but lost to Ray Charles’ Genius Loves Company. Should Donda win, it would be West’s first time winning the category. This marks the fourth of West’s solo albums to be nominated in this prestigious category.
The rapper/producer has garnered a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year for his album Donda. Kanye West just reached another milestone. The rapper/producer/designer/mogul nabbed five more Grammy nominations for 2022, bringing his career total to 75