Up for three awards are R&B singer Erykah Badu, country mainstay Willie Nelson, conductor José Serebrier and alt-rocker Jack White (who picked up three with duo The White Stripes and one individual nod).

Nominees were revealed on Thursday morning (12/4) in Beverly Hills, CA. The 46th GRAMMY Awards will be held on Sunday, Feb. 8 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, and will be broadcast by CBS-TV that same night.

"Our voting membership highlighted truly outstanding nominees," Recording Academy President Neil Portnow said in a statement. "Embracing both high-profile and up-and-coming artists, the nominations reflect talent that was both commercially successful as well as critically acclaimed."

Album of the Year nominees include Missy Elliott's "Under Construction," Evanescence's "Fallen," OutKast's "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below," Justin Timberlake's "Justified," and The White Stripes' "Elephant."

In the Record of the Year category, "Crazy in Love" (Beyonce featuring Jay-Z), "Where is the Love?" (Black Eyed Peas and Justin Timberlake), "Clocks" (Coldplay), "Lose Yourself" (Eminem), and "Hey Ya" (OutKast) are vying for a prize.

Meanwhile, the Best New Artist nominees are alt-rockers Evanescence, rapper 50 Cent, alt-pop group Fountains of Wayne, R&B vocalist Heather Headley and dancehall artist Sean Paul.

Pharrell Williams is competing against himself in two categories: Best Rap/Sung Collaboration and Best Rap Song. The Best Rap Song category is new to the GRAMMYs this year.

Battling it out in the Best R&B Album category are Erykah Badu ("Worldwide Underground"), Blu Cantrell ("Bittersweet"), Aretha Franklin ("So Damn Happy"), The Isley Brothers featuring Ronald Isley a.k.a Mr. Biggs ("Body Kiss"), and Luther Vandross ("Dance with my Father"). Nominees for Best Contemporary R&B Album are Ashanti ("Chapter II"), Beyonce ("Dangerously In Love"), Mary J. Blige ("Love and Life"), Anthony Hamilton ("Comin' From Where I'm From") and R. Kelly ("Chocolate Factory").

Best Rock Album nominees include Audioslave's eponymous debut, Evanescence's "Fallen," Foo Fighters' "One by One," Matchbox Twenty's "More Than You Think You Are" and Nickelback's "The Long Road."

Nominees in the Best Country Album category include Faith Hill ("Cry"), Lyle Lovett ("My Baby Don't Tolerate"), Willie Nelson and Ray Price ("Run That One By Me One More Time"), Willie Nelson ("Live And Kickin'"), Shania Twain ("Up!") and the compilation album "Livin', Lovin', Losin'--Songs of the Louvin Brothers."

Ballots for the next round of voting will be mailed to the voting members of the Recording Academy on Dec. 11. They'll be returned to the accounting firm of Deloitte & Touche by Jan. 7, when they will be tabulated and the results kept secret until the telecast.

Click here to read the list of GRAMMY nominees.