Leading up to the Grammy nominations on Nov. 7, Rolling Stone is breaking down 10 different categories . For each, we’re predicting the nominees, as well as who will (and who should) win on Grammy night.

“There were so many incredible records,” says J.J. Italiano, Head of Global Music Curation & Discovery at Spotify. That makes forecasting the Record of the Year category — which honors a song’s recorded version, and which is given to all the people involved in its crafting — a wide-open game, and one that close listeners can have a lot of fun prognosticating. Italiano says the split between Song and Record remains important to the way pop music is thought about. “It’s really cool that there is a tradition where we think about song structure and we think about recording on an annual ba

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