Assignment #3

Ke$ha : AnimalReleased on Jan 1 2010
by RCA Records
Producers and writers include;
kesha Rose Sebert
Dr. Luke
Benny Blanco
David Gamson
Greg Kurstin
Max Martins

None of the Album Nominee's of the Year in my personal opinion deserved to be really nominated for album of the year. 


Arcade Fire - The Suburbs, in  my opinion should not have been nominated at all, considering that this album and songs on the album were not given much radio play at all. 


Eminem - Recovery also doesn't fit the award category because from the very beginning the album wasn't given good reviews, the only song a nobody to the music industry would recognize would be "Love the way you lie" by Eminem & Rhianna. 


Lady Antebellum - Need You Now also doesn't fit the award standards because the band only had three songs that were given radio play. Their only memorable song was, "Need You Now" their debut single. The single debuted at #50 on the billboard charts and eventually reached its peak at #1 for a week. 


Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster was one of the only albums I considered for the award at the Grammies. The only problem with the album is that the album its self is not an actual album release. Its an EP (Extended Play) of her debut album Fame, therefore it cannot be nominated for a Grammy due to the fact that it is not categorized as a proper album release. The album topped at #5 on the billboard charts, only gaining three tracks to the top of the charts, "Alejandro", "Bad Romance" and "Telephone".


Katy Perry - Teenage Dream was also another album I considered, released three tracks, a debuted at #1 on the charts, but didn't stay for long.


The only person I believe should have won that Grammy is Ke$ha. Animal was released on Jan 1 2010, debuted at #1. "Tik Tok" the debut single, was a summer time hit, and stayed #1 on the charts for 9 consecutive weeks in 11 countries, breaking records that Elvis had been the holder of. "Blah Blah Blah" and "Your Love is My Drug" the second and third released tracts also were given similar success and topped the top 10. "Take it Off" was the albums final released single.  It topped charts in Canada, the US and the UK before even being announced as a single. 


Ke$ha has always been given mixed reviews about the Album Animal, but the reason I believe that the album deserves to be considered for the Grammy "Album of the Year" is because the album was given so much success of a debut artist out of all new artists in 2010. The term overnight success would be labeled to Ke$ha in my opinion, having 4 tracks officially released and all of them debuting on the top ten put her in the place of earning a Grammy. Ke$ha had been writing the album for over 2 years and produced over 200 songs for the album.


These are the reasons why those people who won, or were nominated didn't deserve to be or win, and why Kesha Rose Sebert's debut album, Animal really did deserve to win.