Mariah is also up for Best Contemporary R&B Album, Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance (for “Mine Again”), Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (“It’s Like That”), Best R&B Song and Best Female R&B Vocal Performance (both for “We Belong Together”).

Gwen Stefani’s first studio effort sans No Doubt, Love, Angel, Music, Baby, stands in the way of Carey’s Album of the Year win. Both women will vie for that prize at the February 8 ceremony, which will air live from Los Angeles’ Staples Center Arena. But Mariah and Gwen face tough competition from three other Album of the Year hopefuls: Paul McCartney’s Chaos and Creation in the Backyard (nominated on the 25th anniversary of former bandmate John Lennon’s assassination), U2’s How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb and Kanye West’s Late Registration.

Stefani and Mariah will contend with Kelly Clarkson (“Since U Been Gone”), Sheryl Crow (“Good Is Good”) and Bonnie Raitt (“I Will Not Be Broken”) in the Best Female Pop Vocal Performance category.

West’s “Gold Digger” is also up for Record of the Year, along with “Feel Good Inc.” by the Gorillaz, “Hollaback Girl” by Stefani and “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” by Green Day. Like Carey, U2 scored a nod for Song of the Year (for “Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own”), along with Rascal Flatts’ “Bless the Broken Road,” Bruce Springsteen’s “Devils & Dust” and John Legend’s “Ordinary People.”

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