Carey, West, Legend Top Grammy Noms

Mariah Carey has officially made 2005 her comeback year. The diva has topped off the unstoppable commercial success of her latest album, The Emancipation of Mimi, with multiple Grammy nominations, including nods for Album of the Year, and Song and Record of the Year for "We Belong Together." Carey is tied with hip-hop superstar Kanye West and R&B newcomer (and West protege) John Legend, with eight nominations apiece.

West, the artist with the outsized ego who received ten nods last year for his debut The College Dropout, continues to raise the question, Is it bragging if you deliver? He'll duke it out with Carey for Album of the Year, for his multiplatinum follow-up, Late Registration, and Song of the Year, for "Gold Digger." Legend is up for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance, for "Ordinary People" off his debut Lifted, and Best New Artist.

Also earning multiple nods were U2 and Gwen Stefani, both nominated for Album of the Year for How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb and Love, Angel, Music, Baby, respectively, in a category that also includes Paul McCartney's Chaos and Creation in the Backyard. Stefani's "Hollaback Girl" is also nominated for Record of the Year, alongside Carey, West, Green Day's "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" and Gorillaz's "Feel Good Inc."