Seven out of nine experts predict her to win, giving her 4/11 odds: Glenn Gamboa (Newsday), Tim Gray (Variety), Edna Gundersen, Lyndsey Parker (Yahoo Music), Chris Willman and Gold Derby's Tom O'Neil and Paul Sheehan.
But another two experts anticipate an upset victory for Kendrick Lamar ("To Pimp a Butterfly"), giving him 7/2 odds: Matthew Jacobs (Huffington Post) and Phil Gallo.
I really want 1989 to win just to piss off everyone who thinks TPAB should and will win (which is basically everyone else). Another "and the cynics were outraged" from Long Live tea
Edit: I posted this on Taylor Swift base and I'mmposting it again so ya'll won't set up queen Taylor for any disappointments and draggings if she doesn't win Got this from Gold Derby
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Originally posted by TerenceFletcher
Well... Back to the topic at hand:
Four of the last five AOTY winners have at least had nominations in the big below-the-line categories:
2015 - Beck's Morning Phase won Best Engineered Album. None of the other AOTY nominees were nominated, and none of the five had their producers nominated for Producer of the Year.
2014 - Daft Punk's Random Access Memories won Best Engineered Album, and again none of the other AOTY nominees were nominated and none of the five nominees had their producers nominated.
2013 - Markus Dravs, producer of Mumford and Sons' Babel, was nominated for Producer of the Year, but lost to Dan Auerbach (El Camino - The Black Keys). Jeff Bhasker (Some Nights - fun.) was also nominated. None of the five AOTY nominees were nominated for Best Engineered Album.
2012 - Paul Epworth (21 - Adele) won Producer of the Year, and The Smeezingtons (Doo-Wops and Hooligans - Bruno Mars) and Butch Vig (Wasting Light - Foo Fighters) were nominated. None of the five AOTY nominees were nominated for Best Engineered Album.
2011 - Arcade Fire's The Suburbs was not nominated in either category. None of the five AOTY nominees were nominated in Best Engineered Album. Dr. Luke (Teenage Dream - Katy Perry) and RedOne (The Fame Monster - Lady Gaga) were nominated for Producer of the Year, but both lost to Danger Mouse.
While Chris Stapleton's Traveller has its producer (Dave Cobb) nominated for Producer of the Year, Alabama Shakes' Sound and Color is nominated for Best Engineered Album AND its producer (Blake Mills) is nominated for Producer of the Year. This is the first time for at least the past five years where an AOTY nominee has gotten nominations in both categories. While a nomination and/or win in one of the two categories seems to show strength in AOTY, nominations in both could be an even stronger indicator.
It is also worth noting that Blake Mills received his Producer of the Year nomination with Sound and Color being the only thing he produced this year.
Alabama shakes, Stapleton and Lamar deserves it more, they all (esp Stapleton) made a great sales-impression and they all (esp Lamar) got high, even #1 on most year-end lists!
1989 has Acclaim too, but giving it to her would smell a bit too much like billboard awards
Taylor hasn't won a Grammy since 2012 ya'll shouldn't be so sure about her snatching anything tbh. They did snub Begin Again in the country categories after all so anything is possible