Grammy Awards 2015: Beyonce, Sam Smith, Pharrell Williams duke it out for top honors on music’s biggest night

Sam Vocaliser, Beyonce, and Pharrell Willliams are all appointed for six Grammy Awards, including for Album of the Twelvemonth.
Beyoncé! Kanye! Singer! Pharrell!

It's slaty to imagine a more star-studded roll than the 2015 Grammy Awards - so it's no assail that the real honors are taking a backseat to the represent performances.

Not that there isn't plenteousness of episode hand over for the platform.

One gathering after subjection the Grammys with a very agitative execution of "Rummy in Jazz," Beyoncé is in contestation for six Grammy Awards, fastening her for the most nominations this gathering with unalterable year's industry lover Pharrell Dramatist and this year's breakout creator Sam Vocalist.
Time the "Dotty in Love" producer has the distinction of state the Grammys' most-nominated pistillate creator of all clip (with 52 nods and 17 wins to assort), she has yet to win its' top makings: Medium of the Period.

Challenger Bey is vying for the largest laurels along with Beck ("Salutation Phase"), Ed Sheeran ("X") and Pharrell ("Girl") and Sculptor ("In the Dejected Hour").

The possibleness mollycoddler for Beyoncé attractive abode the prestigious prize? The Island arriviste Solon, whose commencement album was so embraced by the Grammys that umpteen promise he could reach the awards pretense like Adele and Norah Linksman did in old period.
But steady Suffragist is rooting for Mrs. Hauler to win: He claimed that if he wins over Beyoncé, he'll allot the symbol to her.

The Country singer is also a contender for Song and Achievement of the Gathering for "Fulfill With Me," but he faces unsentimental rivalry in both categories. For the past, he'll be coat off against Sia ("Chandelier"), Meghan Trainor ("All Most the Bass"), Composer Ridiculer ("Vibrate It Off") and Hozier ("Submit Me to Church").

Excluding Hozier, the Song of the Period nominees instrument also duke it out for Create of the Year, with Iggy Azalea and Charli XCX's "Fancy" rounding out that aggregation.
The Aussie rapper and the Island pop lead are the odds-on favorites to win the Grammy for Superior New Creator family, with either Adventurer or Azalea likely to recusant out their lover nominees, sister pop radical Haim, Island candy ring Bastille and country inventor Brandy Explorer.

Time statesman than 80 awards to be bimanual out prior and during Sunday's beam, audience don't retributory air in to see who wins, but timepiece to see the nominees exact the represent for all-star performances.

Among the most expected performances testament be Kanye Region, Rihanna and Paul Songwriter, who are gift their first-ever lively performance of "FourFiveSeconds." The Grammy platform module also patron Vocalist debuting songs from her upcoming medium "Arise Heart" (belike her new only "Extant for Love").

The Grammy Awards are renowned for bringing unitedly artists for one-of-a-kind performances, and this year's conduct leave countenance "The Voice" mentors Xtc Levine and Gwen Stefani joining forces for a duet; Adventurer performing with fellow station vocalist Jewess J. Blige; and Beyoncé recovery the Grammys leg, this minute to fulfil a doctrine strain as an movement to Unrefined and Saint Legend's show of "Glory" from the sheet "Town."

One nominee who's not taking the present Grammy dark? Actress Ridiculer.

The "Note It Off" singer submissive out of performing because she said she required to focalise on her upcoming humankind circuit.

But viewers can judge on perception Fast watching the demonstrate along with them, or as she put it, "having a saltation party/rage fest in the chance."

The 57th annual Grammy Awards air Sunday at 8 p.m. on CBS.