Record of the Year 

• Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher (Dead Oceans)
• Run the Jewels – RTJ4 (Jewel Runners, Inc.)
• Perfume Genius  – Set My Heart On Fire Immediately (Matador Records)
• Yves Tumor – Heaven To A Tortured Mind (Warp Records)
• Thundercat – It Is What It Is (Brainfeeder)
• Waxahatchee – Saint Cloud (Merge Records)
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Best Live/Livestream Act 

• Run the Jewels (Jewel Runners, LLC.)
• Phoebe Bridgers (Dead Oceans)
• Fontaines D.C. (Partisan Records)
• Perfume Genius (Matador Records)
• Arca (XL Recordings)

A2IM Humanitarian Award

• Rev. Moose    (Marauder/NIVA)
• Killer Mike & EL-P of Run the Jewels (Jewel Runners, Inc.)
• Megan Thee Stallion (300 Entertainment)
• Paul Redding (Beggars Group)   
• Kevin Liles (300 Entertainment)

Best Alternative Rock Record

• Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher (Dead Oceans)
• Soccer Mommy – Color Theory (Loma Vista Recordings)
• Car Seat Headrest – Making A Door Less Open (Matador Records)
• Lido Pimienta – Miss Colombia (Anti- Records)
• Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Sideways to New Italy (Sub Pop Records)

Best Americana Record

• Bonny Light Horseman – Bonny Light Horseman (37d03d)
• Kevin Morby – Sundowner (Dead Oceans)
• Calexico – Seasonal Shift (Anti- / City Slang)
• Courtney Marie Andrews – Old Flowers (Fat Possum Records)
• Lucinda Williams – Good Souls Better Angels (Highway 20/Thirty Tigers)

Best Blues Record

• Bobby Rush – Rawer Than Raw (Deep Rush Records/Thirty Tigers)
• Don Bryant – You Make Me Feel (Fat Possum Records)
• Robert Cray Band – That’s What I Heard (Nozzle Records/Thirty Tigers)
• Fantastic Negrito – Have You Lost Your Mind Yet? (Cooking Vinyl Ltd.)
• Sonny Landreth – Blacktop Run (Provogue Records)

Best Classical Record

• Erik Hall – Music for 18 Musicians (Steve Reich) (Western Vinyl)
• Paul Moravec – Sanctuary Road (Naxos American Classics)
• Echo Collective – The See Within (7K!)
• Niklas Paschburg – Svalbard (7K!)
• Vitamin String Quartet – Vitamin String Quartet Performs Lana Del Rey (CMH Label Group/Vitamin Records)

Best Country Record

• Margo Price – That’s How Rumors Get Started (Loma Vista Recordings)
• Waxahatchee – Saint Cloud (Merge Records)
• Colter Wall – Western Swing & Waltzes And Other Punchy Songs (La Honda Records/Thirty Tigers)
• Various Artists – Willie Nelson American Outlaw (Live At Bridgestone Arena/2019) (Blackbird Productions)
• Jaime Wyatt – Neon Cross (New West Records)

Best Dance/Electronic Record

• Caribou – Suddenly (Merge Records)
• Arca – KiCk i (XL Recordings)
• Ela Minus – acts of rebellion (Domino Recording Co.)
• Yaeji – What We Drew (XL Recordings)
• Actress – Karma & Desire (Ninja Tune)

Best Folk/Bluegrass Record

• Ben Harper – Winter Is For Lovers (Anti- Records)
• Angel Olsen- Whole New Mess (Jagjaguwar)
• Gillian Welch – Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs (Acony Records)
• Jason Molina – Eight Gates (Secretly Canadian)
• Laura Marling – Song For Our Daughter (Partisan Records)

Best Hip-Hop/Rap Record

• Run the Jewels – RTJ4 (Jewel Runners, Inc.)
• clipping. – Visions of Bodies Being Burned (Sub Pop Records)
• Little Simz – Drop 6 (AGE101/AWAL)
• The Koreatown Oddity – Little Dominiques Nosebleed (Stones Throw Records)
• Naeem – Startisha (37d03d)

Best Jazz Record 

(Presented by Qobuz)

• Gil-Scott Heron & Makaya McCraven – We’re New Again – A Reimagining by Makaya McCraven (XL Recordings)
• Jeff Parker – Suite for Max Brown (International Anthem)
• Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge – Azymuth JID004 (Jazz Is Dead)
• Christian McBride – The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait of Four Icons (Mack Avenue Music Group)
• John Carroll Kirby – My Garden (Stones Throw Records)
• Raul Midon – The Mirror    (Artistry Music)
• Jyoti – Mama, You Can Bet! (SomeOthaShip/eOne)

Best Latin Record

• Bad Bunny – El Último Tour Del Mundo (Rimas Entertainment)
• Gabriel Garzón-Montano – Agüita (Jagjaguwar in partnership with Stones Throw Records)
• The Mavericks – En Español (Mono Mundo Recordings/Thirty Tigers)
• Buscabulla – Regresa (Ribbon Music)
• Jungle Fire – Jungle Fire (Nacional Records)

Best Metal Record

• Architects – “Animals” (from For Those That Wish to Exist, Epitaph Records)
• HUM – Inlet (Earth Analog Records)
• Ghostemane – Anti-Icon (Blackmage)
• Ingested – Where Only Gods May Tread (Unique Leader Records)
• Pyrrhon – Abscess Time (Willowtip Records)

Best Outlier Record 

(Presented by The Orchard)

• Khruangbin – Mordechai (Dead Oceans)
• Oneohtrix Point Never – Magic Oneohtrix Point Never (Warp Records)
• Yves Tumor – Heaven To A Tortured Mind (Warp Records)
• Beverly Glenn-Copeland – Transmissions (Transgressive/[PIAS])
• Mary Lattimore – Silver Ladders (Ghostly International)
• Moses Sumney – Græ (Jagjaguwar)