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Nominations for the 56th Annual Grammy Awards were announced on Friday night on a CBS television special that aired live from the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles. Jay Z tops the nominations with nine; Kendrick Lamar, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Justin Timberlake, and Pharrell Williams each have seven; and Drake and mastering engineer Bob Ludwig are up for five.

Neil Portnow, President/CEO of The Recording Academy, says:

“This year’s nominations reflect the talented community of music makers who represent some of the highest levels of excellence and artistry of the year in their respective fields. Once again, The Academy’s awards process and its voting membership have produced an impressive list of nominations across various genres promising music fans a spectacular show filled with stellar performances and unique ‘GRAMMY Moments.’ We are off to a great start and look forward to GRAMMY Sunday as Music’s Biggest Night takes the stage.”

Summary of nominations for veteran acts

Led Zepellin is nominated in the Best Rock Album category for “Celebration”, as are David Bowie for “The Next Day”, Black Sabbath for “13”, and Neil Young With Crazy Horse for “Psychedelic Pill”. Zepellin and Bowie will also face off in the Best Rock Performance category for “Kashmir (Live)” and “The Stars (Are Out Tonight)”, respectively.

Best Rock Song nominees include The Rolling Stones for “Doom And Gloom”, Black Sabbath for “God Is Dead?”, and Dave Grohl, Paul McCartney, Krist Novoselic & Pat Smear for “Cut Me Some Slack”. Black Sabbath are also nominated in the Best Metal Performance category for “God Is Dead”, as are veteran rockers Anthrax for “T.N.T.”.

Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell’s “Old Yellow Moon” is nominated in the
Best Americana Album category. There are also nominations for Mavis Staples’ “One True Vine”, Allen Toussaint’s “Songbook”, Buddy Miller And Jim Lauderdale’s “Buddy And Jim”, and Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s “Love Has Come For You”.

Toussaint is also up for Best American Roots Song for his “Shrimp Po-Boy, Dressed”, as are Martin and Brickell for “Love Has Come For You”, and Steve Earle for “Invisible”.

Guy Clark’s “My Favorite Picture Of You” is among the nominees for Best Folk Album.

The late Ravi Shankar’s “The Living Room Sessions Part 2” is up for Best World Music Album, as are the Gipsy Kings’ “Savor Flamenco”, Femi Kuti’s “No Place For My Dream”, and Ladysmith Black Mambazo’s “Live: Singing For Peace Around The World”.

The Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album category includes nominations for Tony Bennett’s “Viva Duets”, Gloria Estefan’s “The Standards”, and Dionne Warwick’s “Now”.

Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton’s performance of “You Can’t Make Old Friends” is nominated in the Best Country Duo/Group Performance category.

Brian Eno’s “Lux” is up for Best New Age Album.

Nominees in the Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package category include The Rolling Stones’ “The Brussels Affair”, and Paul McCartney & Wings’ “Wings Over America (Deluxe Edition)”.

Bill Withers’ “The Complete Sussex And Columbia Albums” and The Rolling Stones’ “Charlie Is My Darling – Ireland 1965” are both nominated for Best Historical Album.

Paul McCartney’s “Live Kisses” film is among the nominees for Best Music Film. “Live Kisses” is also nominated in the Best Surround Sound Album category.

The ‘Big Four’ categories

No veteran acts made the cut in the biggest categories. The nominees for Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist are:

Record Of The Year

• “Get Lucky” — Daft Punk & Pharrell Williams
• “Radioactive” – Imagine Dragons
• “Royals” — Lords
• “Locked Out Of Heaven” — Bruno Mars
• “Blurred Lines” – Robin Thicke Featuring T.I. & Pharrell.

Album Of The Year

• The Blessed Unrest — Sara Bareilles
• Random Access Memories — Daft Punk
• Good Kid, M.A.A.D City — Kendrick Lamar
• The Heist — Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
• Red — Taylor Swift.

Song Of The Year

• “Just Give Me A Reason” — Jeff Bhasker, Pink & Nate Ruess, songwriters (Pink Featuring Nate Ruess)
• “Locked Out Of Heaven” — Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine & Bruno Mars, songwriters (Bruno Mars)
• “Roar” — Lukasz Gottwald, Max Martin, Bonnie McKee, Katy Perry & Henry Walter, songwriters (Katy Perry)
• “Royals” — Joel Little & Ella Yelich O’Connor, songwriters (Lorde)
• “Same Love” — Ben Haggerty, Mary Lambert & Ryan Lewis, songwriters (Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Featuring Mary Lambert).

Best New Artist

• James Blake
• Kendrick Lamar
• Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
• Kacey Musgraves
• Ed Sheeran.

A complete list of nominees in the 82 categories is available at Grammy.com

The 56th Grammy Awards airs live from L.A.’s Staples Center on Sunday, January 26, 2014 at 8 pm on CBS.