On January 31st, the 52nd annual Grammys will determine the year’s best artists, albums, and songs. If you actually care (you’ll see what I mean in a moment), here are this year’s nominees (as announced tonight at a huge-waste-of-time ceremony hosted by the one and only LL Cool J):

Record of the Year:

• Beyonce — “Halo”

• Black Eyed Peas — “I Gotta Feeling”

• Kings of Leon — “Use Somebody”

• Lady Gaga — “Pokerface”

• Taylor Swift — “You Belong With Me”

Song of the Year:

• Lady Gaga – “Pokerface”

• Maxwell – “Pretty Wings”

• Beyonce — Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)

• Kings of Leon — “Use Somebody”

• Taylor Swift — “You Belong With Me”

Album of the Year:

• Beyonce — I Am… Sasha Fierce

• Black Eyed Peas — The E.N.D.

• Lady Gaga — The Fame

• Dave Matthews Band — Big Whiskey And The Groogrux King

• Taylor Swift — Fearless

Best New Artist:

• Zac Brown Band

• Keri Hilson

• MGMT

• Silversun Pickups

• The Ting Tings

Best Rock Album:

• AC/DC — Black Ice

• Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood — Live From Madison Square Garden

• Green Day — 21st Century Breakdown

• Dave Matthews Band — Big Whiskey And The Groogrux King

• U2 — No Line On The Horizon

Best Rock Song:

• Pearl Jam — “The Fixer”

• U2 — “I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight”

• Green Day — “21 Guns”

• Kings of Leon — “Use Somebody”

• Bruce Springsteen — “Working On A Dream”

Best Alternative Music Album:

• David Byrne & Brian Eno — Everything That Happens Will Happen Today

• Death Cab For Cutie — The Open Door

• Depeche Mode — Sounds of The Universe

• Phoenix — Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

• Yeah Yeah Yeahs — It’s Blitz!

Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals:

• Black Eyed Peas — “I Gotta Feeling”

• Bon Jovi — “We Weren’t Born To Follow”

• The Fray — “Never Say Never”

• Hall & Oates — “Sara Smile”

• MGMT — “Kids”

Best Rap Solo Performance:

• Drake — “Best I Ever Had”

• Eminem — “Beautiful”

• Jay-Z — “D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)”

• Kid Cudi — “Day ‘N Nite”

• Mos Def — “Casa Bey”

Find the rest of the madness here.