| Adult Contemporary | Brett Cameron | It Comes in Waves & When It's Here I'll Know |
| Adult Contemporary | Chris Ayer | Endless Wonder |
| Adult Contemporary | Monica Pasqual | You Can't Kill Light |
| Adult Contemporary | Samara Jade | Wave of Birdsong |
| Adult Contemporary | West My Friend | In Constellation |
| Alt. Country | Cal Nash Band | Summer State of Mind |
| Alt. Country | Chance Meyer and The Bloody 98s | Ashdown |
| Alt. Country | Jake La Botz | They're Coming For Me |
| Alt. Country | Renee Wahl | Cut to the Bone |
| Americana | Anna Rose | The Light Between |
| Americana | Burnstick | Kîyânaw |
| Americana | Jesse Malin | Sunset Kids |
| Americana | JigJam | Phoenix |
| Americana | Mean Mary | Cold |
| Bluegrass | Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves | Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves |
| Bluegrass | Daniel Crabtree | The Storyteller in Me |
| Bluegrass | Various Artists | In the Key of Blue: The Crooked Road's Mountains of Music Homecoming 2018 Live Concert Recordings |
| Blues | Frank Bey | All My Dues Are Paid |
| Blues | Hamish Anderson | Out of My Head |
| Blues | Ilya Portnov | 3 |
| Blues | Screamin' John & TD Lind | Mr. Little Big Man |
| Blues | Sunday Wilde | Sunday Wilde & The 1 Eyed Jacks |
| CCM/Gospel | Carol Angel | New Things |
| CCM/Gospel | J. Douglas Wright | Breathing Fire Like Dragons |
| CCM/Gospel | Mighty Men of Faith | Undisputable Is He |
| CCM/Gospel | Neshama Carlebach | Believe |
| CCM/Gospel | Tabernacle Worship | Surrender |
| Children's Music | Diana Panton | A Cheerful Little Earful |
| Children's Music | Jessa Campbell & The Saplings | Can You Feel It? |
| Children's Music | Music with Gina | All of Us |
| Children's Music | Renee & Friends | Kindred |
| Children's Music | Sonia De Los Santos | ¡Alegría! |
| Compilation | Roman Miroshnichenko | Top 10 Songs of 10 Years (Anthology) |
| Compilation | Various Artists | In the Key of Blue: The Crooked Road's Mountains of Music Homecoming 2018 Live Concert Recordings |
| Compilation | Various Artists | Tell It to Me: Revisiting the Johnson City Sessions, 1928-1929 |
| Concept | Anna Nalick | The Blackest Crow |
| Concept | Rozina Pátkai | Taladim |
| Concept | S. J. Jananiy | Shiva Mahimai, Vol. 2 |
| Concept | The David Foster Wallace Project | To Combat Loneliness: Compositions Based on the Works of David Foster Wallace |
| Concept | Wouter Kellerman | In a Different Light |
| Contemporary Classical | David Chesky | España |
| Contemporary Classical | Eleanor Alberga | String Quartets 1, 2 & 3 (performed by Ensemble Arcadiana) |
| Contemporary Classical | Giovanni Piacentini | Between Worlds |
| Contemporary Classical | Hevreh Ensemble | A Path of Light |
| Contemporary Classical | Michail Travlos | Night Visions |
| Country | Becky Denton | Fire & Grace |
| Country | Jon Rogalia | A Little Too Country |
| Country | Michael B Ware | The Ride of Your Life |
| Dance/Electronica | 5önikk | Electric |
| Dance/Electronica | BZ | Infinite Point |
| Dance/Electronica | Delaporte | Como Anoche |
| Dance/Electronica | Sweeps | Terminal 14 |
| Dance/Electronica | VILIFY | Paradise Is a State of Mind |
| Debut | Amanda Broadway Band | The Ache |
| Debut | Eliza Thorp | Queen of the Sea |
| Debut | JS Williams | From a Plane |
| Debut | STORRY | Ch III: The Come Up |
| Debut | VLTIMAS | Something Wicked Marches In |
| Eclectic | Chloe Pourmorady Ensemble | Begin Majesty |
| Eclectic | Kathleen Supové | Eye to Ivory |
| Eclectic | Madame Dolores | Pantry of Salt and Sugar |
| Eclectic | SACH | Elevación |
| Eclectic | Sofía Rei & JC Maillard | Keter |
| Film / TV / Game Score | Ed Hartman | As the Earth Turns (Original Soundtrack Recording) |
| Film / TV / Game Score | Flesh Juicer | The FJ's horror story : The door of old mansion |
| Film / TV / Game Score | Ian Chen | Fantastic Creatures (Original Soundtrack) |
| Film / TV / Game Score | Sandra Stadler & Bänz Isler | Der Bär in Mir (Original Soundtrack) |
| Folk/Singer-Songwriter | Ana Egge | Is It the Kiss |
| Folk/Singer-Songwriter | Benjamin Dakota Rogers | Better by Now |
| Folk/Singer-Songwriter | Big Little Lions | Inside Voice |
| Folk/Singer-Songwriter | Ceci Juno | Fantasmas |
| Folk/Singer-Songwriter | Charm of Finches | Your Company |
| Folk/Singer-Songwriter | Suzie Brown | Under the Surface |
| Funk/Fusion/Jam | Excessive | Flared Opinions |
| Funk/Fusion/Jam | Flyjack | Soul Catcher |
| Funk/Fusion/Jam | Joan Torres's All Is Fused | Revolution |
| Funk/Fusion/Jam | JORODU | JORODU |
| Funk/Fusion/Jam | Petra Várallyay Trio | Deadline Haze |
| Indie / Alt. Rock | Air For Ants | Once Again With Feeling |
| Indie / Alt. Rock | Manuel the Band | Room for Complication |
| Indie / Alt. Rock | Palmyra Delran and The Doppel Gang | Come Spy With Me |
| Indie / Alt. Rock | Paul Pedana | A Sole Existence Reflects Eternity |
| Indie / Alt. Rock | Ryan Hamilton and The Harlequin Ghosts | This Is the Sound |
| Indie / Alt. Rock | The Dollyrots | Daydream Explosion |
| Instrumental | César Orozco & Jorge Glem | Stringwise |
| Instrumental | Foli Griô Orquestra | AJO |
| Instrumental | Gold Dust Lounge | Gold Dust Lounge |
| Instrumental | House of Waters | Rising |
| Instrumental | Ted Yoder | Feels Like Home |
| Jazz Instrumental | Aaron Weinstein | 3×3 |
| Jazz Instrumental | Diego Ramirez | Sketches of México |
| Jazz Instrumental | Emilio Solla Tango Jazz Orchestra | Puertos: Music from International Waters |
| Jazz Instrumental | Ferenc Nemeth feat. Gregory Tardy & Tzumo Arpad | Freedom |
| Jazz Instrumental | Richard Peña | Synergy |
| Jazz With Vocals | Jazz Affair | Wishes |
| Jazz With Vocals | Rodrigo Simões | Jazz Brésilien |
| Jazz With Vocals | Rozina Pátkai | Taladim |
| Jazz With Vocals | Sundae + Mr. Goessl | Fun & Fancy |
| Jazz With Vocals | The Lost American JazzBook (feat. Tammi Brown) | Taxonomy of Pleasure |
| Latin | Cimarrón | Orinoco |
| Latin | Delia Fischer | Tempo Mínimo |
| Latin | LPT | Sin Parar |
| Latin | OKAN | Sombras |
| Latin | Orchestra Fuego | Vengan Todos a Bailar |
| Live Performance | Andrea Beaton and Troy MacGillivray | Face the Music |
| Live Performance | Ben Racine Band | Live à Montréal |
| Live Performance | Mike Mentz | Live in Floyds Knobs |
| Live Performance | Skyline | Symphojazz |
| Live Performance | The Susie Glaze New Folk Ensemble | Live at McCabe's |
| Metal/Hardcore | The Infernal Pathway | 1349 |
| Metal/Hardcore | Outstrider | Abbath |
| Metal/Hardcore | Built to Destroy | Incite |
| Metal/Hardcore | Rituals of Power | Misery Index |
| Metal/Hardcore | The Heretics | Rotting Christ |
| New Age | FLOW (feat. Will Ackerman, Fiona Joy, Lawrence Blatt & Jeff Oster) | Promise |
| New Age | Monica Williams | Within Us All |
| New Age | Paul Adams & Elizabeth Geyer | Deeper Imaginings |
| New Age | Sangeeta Kaur | Compassion |
| New Age | Suraaj Parab | So Close So Far |
| Pop | Bonne Finken | Gauntlet |
| Pop | Brett Cameron | It Comes in Waves & When It's Here I'll Know |
| Pop | Christian Heath | Here I Am |
| Pop | Nick de la Hoyde | A Beautiful Mess |
| Pop | Temporary Hero | QUENCH |
| R&B/Soul | A-natural | The Ascension of A-natural |
| R&B/Soul | Don'Te | After Hours |
| R&B/Soul | Jay Saint | ExCommitted |
| R&B/Soul | Lenny Harold | Cosmic |
| R&B/Soul | STORRY | Ch III: The Come Up |
| Rap/Hip-Hop | D1C3 | White Noise |
| Rap/Hip-Hop | Eastern Sunz | Fuel for a Fool's Errand |
| Rap/Hip-Hop | Gold Lemonade | School of Hard Drops |
| Rap/Hip-Hop | SplytSecond | The SplytRugga Mixtape |
| Rap/Hip-Hop | TJA | Meeting of the Minds, Pt. 1 |
| Reggae/Ska/Dancehall | Aaron Nigel Smith | In Our America |
| Reggae/Ska/Dancehall | Eljuri | Resiste: La Colección Reggae de Eljuri |
| Reggae/Ska/Dancehall | Gotaflika | Go Up |
| Reggae/Ska/Dancehall | Jim the Boss | Dub in HiFi |
| Reggae/Ska/Dancehall | Taj Weekes & Adowa | To All My Relations |
| Rock/Hard Rock | Moron Police | A Boat on the Sea |
| Rock/Hard Rock | Richard and The Young Lions | Richard and The Young Lions: Volume 2 |
| Rock/Hard Rock | Shallow Side | Saints & Sinners |
| Rock/Hard Rock | Spidergawd | V |
| Rock/Hard Rock | Voyager | Colours in the Sun |
| Spoken Word | Jeremy McEwen | Cardboard Horses: A Collection of Dream Poems |
| Spoken Word | Sekou Andrews & The String Theory | Sekou Andrews & The String Theory |
| Tribute | Diego Ramirez | Sketches of México |
| Tribute | Edie Daponte | Under Paris Skies |
| Tribute | Eleazar Mora | Javier Solís, Una Orquesta y Una Voz |
| Tribute | Little Kruta | Justice |
| Tribute | Marius Noss Gundersen | Brazilian Guitar Music |
| World Beat | Foli Griô Orquestra | AJO |
| World Beat | Graeme Drum | Eclectic X |
| World Beat | Mélisande [électrotrad] | Les myriades |
| World Beat | Sofía Rei & JC Maillard | Keter |
| World Beat | Yazhi Guo | The Dragon's Song |
| World Traditional | Daniel Ho & The Suzhou Masters | Embroidering Melodies |
| World Traditional | Drukgyal Tsering | Tacit |
| World Traditional | Grupo Ofá | Obatalá: Uma Homenagem a Mãe Carmen |
| World Traditional | Mao Ya | Moon over City Ruins |
| World Traditional | Masoud Rezaei | Until |
| Song Category | Nominee (* = Vox Pop Nominee) | Nominated Song |
| A Cappella | Jazz Affair* | Jour Heureux |
| A Cappella | Lachi | Money |
| A Cappella | Milana Zilnik | Nature Boy |
| A Cappella | Patrice Jégou | Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (feat. Take 6) |
| Acoustic | Aidan Gallagher* | I Love You |
| Acoustic | Harmonious Wail | Move |
| Acoustic | Jake Morley | No Drama |
| Acoustic | Martin Zarzar | To Dream in Color |
| Acoustic | Paulo Bastos | O Caminho do Moleiro |
| Adult Contemporary | BELLSAINT | Can't Stop a Woman |
| Adult Contemporary | Neshama Carlebach* | Believe |
| Adult Contemporary | Nihira Joshi Deshpande | Nirmohiya (feat. Rhythm Shaw) |
| Adult Contemporary | STORRY | A Lost Find |
| Adult Contemporary | Unsung Lilly | Demons |
| Alt. Country | Aminah Hughes | Storm of Time |
| Alt. Country | Angela Saini | Handrail |
| Alt. Country | Aspen Jacobsen | Georgia Boy |
| Alt. Country | Ryan Newton* | Casting Shadows (On the Heels of Tomorrow) |
| Alt. Country | Stone & Snow | This Kind of Sadness |
| Americana | Annie Bacon & her OSHEN | Long Road (feat. The Singer & the Songwriter) |
| Americana | Jesse Malin | Room 13 (feat. Lucinda Williams) |
| Americana | Liz and the Lovelies | Sleep In |
| Americana | Mean Mary | Sparrow |
| Americana | Sawyer Fredericks* | Born |
| Americana | The Rough & Tumble | The Hardest Part |
| Bluegrass | Conversion | An American Easter (The Joy of Mary M) |
| Bluegrass | Daniel Crabtree | Piedmont Train |
| Bluegrass | Evie Ladin Band | Let Me Lay Down |
| Bluegrass | Grain Thief | Pedal Down |
| Bluegrass | The Roscoe Dandies* | Devil's Hollow |
| Blues | Brick Fields* | Soul of a Woman |
| Blues | Cash McCall | One Who's Got a Lot |
| Blues | David Whitman | Shuffle Blues |
| Blues | Joe Flip | Mess Around |
| Blues | The Muddy Basin Ramblers | Dharma Train |
| CCM/Gospel | Katie Braswell | Louder |
| CCM/Gospel | Mean Mary* | Friend I Never Had |
| CCM/Gospel | Neshama Carlebach | Believe |
| CCM/Gospel | Patrick Foreman | He's Able (feat. David Scott) |
| CCM/Gospel | Rob Cariddi / Fort Million | Holy Ground |
| Children's Music | J Edna Mae | Trail of Kind |
| Children's Music | Lucy Kalantari & The Jazz Cats | Flick of My Wrist |
| Children's Music | Martin Zarzar* | The Storyteller |
| Children's Music | Sara Lovell | I Don't Sleep in a Bed |
| Children's Music | Stephanie Leavell | I Can Do Things |
| Country | Adam Warner | Big Storm |
| Country | Dani Strong | Mrs. Jones (Evelyn) |
| Country | Madelyn Paquette | Broke Like Me |
| Country | Mallory Johnson | Drunk Mind, Sober Heart |
| Country | Mike Hilliard* | Two Chimneys |
| Cover | Chesney Claire | Bad (orig. by Michael Jackson) |
| Cover | Dr. Albert Flipout's one CAN band* | Sweet Child O' Mine (orig. by Guns N' Roses) |
| Cover | Goldschatz | Absolutely Right (orig. Five Man Electrical Band) |
| Cover | Little Kruta | One (orig. by Metallica) |
| Cover | SKy76 | Twist in My Sobriety (orig. by Tanita Tikaram) |
| Dance/Electronica | 32Stitches | Are We There Yet (feat. Baer) |
| Dance/Electronica | Bonne Finken | Down Down |
| Dance/Electronica | Justin Mise* | Take a Piece |
| Dance/Electronica | Nathalie Hazim | Apaga la Luz (Nueva Versión) |
| Dance/Electronica | Serge Bulat | Yehy Vaya (feat. OYME) |
| Eclectic | Crystal Sound Project | My Lover's Hands (feat. Aida Nosrat) |
| Eclectic | Kribophoric* | March of Hades |
| Eclectic | Orchid Ensemble | Ghosts of the Living |
| Eclectic | Petra Várallyay Trio | Deadline Haze |
| Eclectic | Sofía Rei & JC Maillard | Tikkun |
| Folk/Singer-Songwriter | Charm of Finches | Fish in the Sea |
| Folk/Singer-Songwriter | Jonatha Brooke | Fire |
| Folk/Singer-Songwriter | Marta Palombo | Him |
| Folk/Singer-Songwriter | Rebecca Hurn | Homesick |
| Folk/Singer-Songwriter | Sawyer Fredericks* | Born |
| Funk/Fusion/Jam | Caio Makako | Neogeo |
| Funk/Fusion/Jam | Frank Colón | Wishful Thinking |
| Funk/Fusion/Jam | Jennifer Maidman & Verna Gillis* | Psycho Loco (feat. Annie Whitehead, Jerry Marotta & John Medeski) |
| Funk/Fusion/Jam | Joan Torres's All Is Fused | High Stakes |
| Funk/Fusion/Jam | Richard Peña | Passageways |
| Holiday Song | Justin Mise* | Santa Moves (feat. Noelle Holley) |
| Holiday Song | Mary Fahl | Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas |
| Holiday Song | Nadia Vaeh | Holidazed & Confused |
| Holiday Song | Nickie Conley | 100 Christmas Kisses |
| Holiday Song | The Stan Laurels | Noche Buena |
| Indie / Alt. Rock | Gollay | White Stag |
| Indie / Alt. Rock | Jesse Malin | Strangers & Thieves (feat. Billie Joe Armstrong) |
| Indie / Alt. Rock | Rowan | Big Wave |
| Indie / Alt. Rock | Ryan Hamilton and The Harlequin Ghosts | This Is the Sound |
| Indie / Alt. Rock | Sawyer Fredericks* | Flowers For You |
| Indie / Alt. Rock | The Covasettes | Twit Twoo |
| Instrumental | Los Importantes de la Noche | Area 51 |
| Instrumental | Orchid Ensemble* | From a Dream |
| Instrumental | Pascal Le Boeuf | Media Control |
| Instrumental | Roman Smirnov & Andrew Leshkin | Old Friends |
| Instrumental | Sultans of String | The Grand Bazaar (feat. Béla Fleck & Robi Botos) |
| Jazz Instrumental | David Whitman | With Love |
| Jazz Instrumental | Eddy/Meyer Trio* | Swing Gitan |
| Jazz Instrumental | Gabriel Chakarji | Enredadera |
| Jazz Instrumental | Harmonious Wail | Move |
| Jazz Instrumental | Petros Klampanis | Easy Come Easy Go |
| Jazz With Vocals | Alexis Babini | Just After Sundown |
| Jazz With Vocals | Juana Luna | Vou |
| Jazz With Vocals | Kevin Hays & Chiara Izzi | Circles of the Mind (feat. Nir Felder) |
| Jazz With Vocals | Loryn Taggart | In My Company |
| Jazz With Vocals | Roberto Tola* | Slow Motion (feat. Darryl Walker) |
| Jazz With Vocals | The Lost American JazzBook (feat. Tammi Brown) | Ambassador of Bop |
| Latin | El Feeling* | Que Te Vaya Cabrón (feat. Lolita de Sola) |
| Latin | La Excelencia | Salsa Na'Ma |
| Latin | LPT | Sin Parar |
| Latin | Ludmila Mercerón & Salsa de Reyes | A Santiago |
| Latin | Sergio Pereira | Nu Brasil |
| Love Song | Jason Gill* | Air I Breathe |
| Love Song | Kelly & Gibson | Why Do We Love Like This |
| Love Song | LACES | moved |
| Love Song | Loryn Taggart | The Wedding Song |
| Love Song | Nathalie Hazim | Más de lo que Soñé |
| Metal/Hardcore | Abbath | Harvest Pyre |
| Metal/Hardcore | Fiùran* | 10 Feet Tall |
| Metal/Hardcore | FUTURE AFTER A SECOND | Invert |
| Metal/Hardcore | Killset | Closure |
| Metal/Hardcore | Misery Index | New Salem |
| New Age | Darlene Koldenhoven | Sequoia Serenade |
| New Age | FLOW (feat. Will Ackerman, Fiona Joy, Lawrence Blatt & Jeff Oster) | Adrift at Sea |
| New Age | Matthew Kocel* | Valhalla |
| New Age | Phil Rey & Felicia Farerre | Home |
| New Age | Suzanne Teng & Gilbert Levy | Autumn Monsoon |
| Pop | FLAVIA | Expectations |
| Pop | Kayla Stockert | Where Did You Go |
| Pop | Martene Clayton* | Should've Been (feat. Black Poet) |
| Pop | Nick de la Hoyde | Animals |
| Pop | SIKORA | Wanderlust |
| Pop | The Inoculated Canaries | Donna |
| R&B/Soul | CarolAnn Brevard* | In a Mood |
| R&B/Soul | Celeste Buckingham | Trip |
| R&B/Soul | High Key | Ain't Cool No More |
| R&B/Soul | STORRY | Leave My Heart Behind |
| R&B/Soul | TEFO | Play Play |
| Rap/Hip-Hop | 222Unique* | Flex on Em |
| Rap/Hip-Hop | Deshawn White | Dance Party |
| Rap/Hip-Hop | Eastern Sunz | Like This (feat. Vursatyl) |
| Rap/Hip-Hop | Gold Lemonade | How You Feel |
| Rap/Hip-Hop | SplytSecond | Blow You Away (feat. Beraud) |
| Reggae/Ska/Dancehall | Father Goose Music* | Rise Up Now |
| Reggae/Ska/Dancehall | Safety Orange | Grin on My Face |
| Reggae/Ska/Dancehall | Sgt. Remo | Can't Cool Mi |
| Reggae/Ska/Dancehall | Wiseman | So High |
| Rock / Hard Rock | Butterfingers | Dancing (To the Beat of My Own Drum) |
| Rock / Hard Rock | Calum Jones | One for the Road |
| Rock / Hard Rock | Soraia* | Evergreen |
| Rock / Hard Rock | The Dollyrots | Everything |
| Rock / Hard Rock | VATTICA | Criminal |
| Rock / Hard Rock | Wyldlife | Neon Nightmare |
| Social Action | Anne Heaton | Joy |
| Social Action | Edwin Perez | El Muro - The Wall |
| Social Action | HuDost | Rise Together (feat. Jars of Clay) |
| Social Action | Sawyer Fredericks* | Amen |
| Social Action | Wouter Kellerman | Baroque to the Rescue (feat. Konshens The MC & Lady Zamar) |
| Spoken Word | 2 Dub Official | Movin' On |
| Spoken Word | Jeremy McEwen | Goat Gladiators |
| Spoken Word | Pascal Le Boeuf + Bec Plexus | Mirror Image |
| Spoken Word | Sekou Andrews & The String Theory | Be Voiceful |
| Spoken Word | Shaneen Bonner* | Sad Days Are Over |
| Story | Ellis Paul | Scarecrow in a Corn Maze |
| Story | Kevin Campbell | This Ain't No Fairytale |
| Story | Lucy Kalantari & The Jazz Cats | Flick of My Wrist |
| Story | Mean Mary* | Cold (House by the Sea) |
| Story | Olivia Frances | The Bee & the Rose |
| Used in Ad Campaign | Chelsea Grams | Keep Up |
| Used in Ad Campaign | NEEDSHES | Unbelievable |
| Used in Ad Campaign | TVTE* | I Will |
| Used in Film / TV / Game Score | Bryan Elijah Smith | In Through the Dark |
| Used in Film / TV / Game Score | CarolAnn Brevard* | Miss Represent |
| Used in Film / TV / Game Score | MATHIA | Hold On |
| Used in Film / TV / Game Score | Milana Zilnik | Frozen Song |
| Used in Film / TV / Game Score | Zac Silva & James McCaffrey | Friends With Death (Original Score) |
| World Beat | Cilay Ensemble* | Muaro |
| World Beat | Jarana Beat | Diablos! |
| World Beat | OMNION | Trayambakam |
| World Beat | Sofía Rei & JC Maillard | Rachamim |
| World Beat | Tri Nguyen & Graeme Drum | Walking |
| World Traditional | Heilung | Norupo |
| World Traditional | Lenka Lichtenberg | A Nay Kleyd |
| World Traditional | RUNA | Bright Morning Stars |
| World Traditional | W. Ed Harris* | Morrison's |
| World Traditional | Wesli | Lolé Lolé Remix |
| EP Category | Nominee | Nominated EP |
| Dance/Electronica | ÅMBE | Catcher in the Lie (NoWhereEver) |
| Dance/Electronica | Cherokee | Californism |
| Dance/Electronica | Guy Scheiman & Inaya Day | Deeper Feeling |
| Dance/Electronica | Ogechi | AphroPhunkaDelic |
| Eclectic | Dub Mentor | A Slow Hot Wind |
| Eclectic | JoJo Worthington | TCYK |
| Eclectic | Nacre | Still Possible |
| Eclectic | Ruud Houweling | The Wind Just Blew a Day Away |
| Instrumental | David Jay | The Spaniard |
| Instrumental | Greg Starr | Time Present and Time Past |
| Instrumental | R. Scott | Ghosts of Merced (A Four-Part Suite) |
| Instrumental | Whitten | How to Speak to Giants |
| Instrumental | John Kamfonas | Unbound: Preludes I |
| Jazz | KILTER | KILTER |
| Live Performance | Chase Walker Band | Live at The Woodshed |
| Live Performance | Nina Lee | Live at Rockwood |
| Pop | Amy Gerhartz | Hold On |
| Pop | BELLSAINT | Technicolor Dream |
| Pop | Hildur Höglind | Take Off |
| Pop | Roken | Bella Notte |
| Pop | Valeree | Masochist |
| Rock | Major Moment | The Sequel |
| Rock | No Resolve | The Divide |
| Rock | Steven Dreams | Steven Dreams |
| Rock | The Coolies | Uh-Oh! It's...The Coolies |
| Rock | Uptight Sugar | I'm Ok, You're Ok |
| Roots/Country | Adam Warner | Can't Get Enough |
| Roots/Country | Calista Garcia | Wild Woman |
| Roots/Country | Jonatha Brooke | Imposter |
| Roots/Country | Lunar Bloom | Lunar Bloom |
| Roots/Country | The Two's | Push On |
| Urban | Coco Jones | H.D.W.Y |
| Urban | Eileen | Redemption |
| Urban | Intellect | Depth |
| Urban | SILVABLACK | KULTURE SHOCK |
| Urban | Smiley Rojas-Nunez | Her Touch |
| World | AJOYO | War Chant |
| World | David Jay | The Spaniard |
| World | Denzel Drey | I Feel Good |
| World | Lucette van den Berg | Afile |
| Music Producer Category | Nominee | Nominated Work |
| Dance/Electronica | 5önikk | 5önikk - Electric |
| Dance/Electronica | BZ Lewis | BZ - Infinite Point |
| Dance/Electronica | Dion Todd, Philip Larsen, Stonebridge & Damien Hall, Lenny Fontana, Guy Scheiman, Perry Twins, DJ Strobe, Dirty Disco, Ronnie (Chico) di Chicco | Dion Todd - Be Alright (feat. Maya) |
| Eclectic | Dub Mentor | Dub Mentor - 4YX |
| Eclectic | Jeremy McEwen | Jeremy McEwen - Cardboard Horses: A Collection of Dream Poems |
| Instrumental | Will Ackerman, Tom Eaton | FLOW (feat. Will Ackerman, Fiona Joy, Lawrence Blatt & Jeff Oster) - Promise |
| Instrumental | François Couture | François Couture - La Suite au Chalet (performed by Antoine Malette Chénier & Jean-Luc Côté) |
| Instrumental | Tom Moore | Tom Moore & Sherry Finzer - A Journey for Mankind |
| Instrumental | Wouter Kellerman, Wessel van Rensburg, Ralf Schmitt, Andy Innes, Mauritz Lotz, Lonnie Park, Corneille H. Hutton | Wouter Kellerman - In a Different Light |
| Jazz | David Whitman, Chris Montgomery | David Whitman - Soul Flow |
| Jazz | Joan Torres | Joan Torres's All Is Fused - Revolution |
| Jazz | Petros Klampanis | Petros Klampanis - Irrationalities |
| Jazz | Richard Li, Jazzy Su | Skyline - City Explorations |
| Jazz | Udo Pannekeet | Udo Pannekeet - Electric Regions |
| Live Performance | Nicky Estor | Ben Racine Band - Live à Montréal |
| Live Performance | Douglas Knehans, Greg Gurr, Silas Brown | Douglas Knehans, Judith Weusten, Antonis Pratsinakis - Backwards From Winter |
| Pop | Michael Mazzotta | JACLYN - JACLYN |
| Pop | Monica Pasqual, BZ Lewis | Monica Pasqual - You Can't Kill Light |
| Pop | Hafid Salazar Banoy, Nathalie Hazim, Alexandro Seguí | Nathalie Hazim - Más de lo que Soñé |
| Pop | Yachun Asta Tzeng | Yachun Asta Tzeng - Yourself |
| Rock | Kevin Billingslea, Andrey Borzykin, Adam Soucy | Major Moment - The Sequel |
| Rock | Steven Van Zandt | Richard and The Young Lions - Richard and The Young Lions: Volume 2 |
| Rock | Kim Shattuck, The Coolies | The Coolies - Uh-Oh! It's...The Coolies |
| Rock | John Fields, The Dollyrots | The Dollyrots - Daydream Explosion |
| Rock | Mike Murray | Uptight Sugar - I'm Ok, You're Ok |
| Roots/Country | Donna Ulisse | Daniel Crabtree - The Storyteller in Me |
| Roots/Country | Ellis Paul | Ellis Paul - The Storyteller's Suitcase |
| Roots/Country | Lucinda Williams, Tom Overby (Producers); Geoff Sanoff, Michael Iurato (Executive Producers) | Jesse Malin - Sunset Kids |
| Roots/Country | Sonny Ratcliff | The Morning Sea - Half Keys |
| Roots/Country | David Chen | The Muddy Basin Ramblers - Hold That Tiger |
| Urban | Brandon Barré | Ro Wright - The Recipe |
| Urban | Joseph Vitterito, Jason Hart, D | Agency - Alarm |
| Urban | Monsieur XS | Monsieur XS - 909 & love |
| World | Danilo Gossain, Eduardo Diaz, Francisco Cabanzo | Gaiteros 4G - Caminolargo |
| World | Shy-Anne Hovorka, Julia Mazzaferro | Graeme Drum - Eclectic X |
| World | Christopher Juul | Heilung - Futha |
| World | Gabriel Ethier | Mélisande [électrotrad] - Les myriades |
| World | Chris McKhool, John "Beetle" Bailey | Sultans of String - Refuge |
| Design Category | Nominee | Nominated Work |
| Album Art / Photography | DULK (Antonio Segura Donat) | Moron Police - A Boat on the Sea |
| Album Art / Photography | Fred Lammers | Palmyra Delran and the Doppel Gang - Come Spy With Me |
| Album Art / Photography | Major Moment, Dmitry Kazakov | Major Moment - The Sequel |
| Album Art / Photography | Rikke Kloster | Liga Latina - Liga Latina |
| Album Art / Photography | Yi-Hsiang Chao | FUTURE AFTER A SECOND - OFiN |
| Album Packaging | Andrew Swainson | Sugarfoot - In the Clearing |
| Album Packaging | Ellis Paul | Ellis Paul - The Storyteller's Suitcase - Deluxe Version |
| Album Packaging | Jheng-Han Li, Hsin-Hung Chen, Hsiao-Yin Tai | Emerge House Band - Time |
| Album Packaging | Louis Arzonico | The Coolies - Uh-Oh! It's...The Coolies |
| Album Packaging | Miller Gallego | Gaiteros 4G - Caminolargo |
| Artist Concert Photo | Fong-Yau Ye | Brahman - Fireball Festival |
| Artist Concert Photo | Isabelle Nuzzo | Encore |
| Artist Concert Photo | Isabelle Nuzzo | Glow |
| Artist Publicity Photo | An-Tse Shao | EMERGING FROM THE COCOON |
| Artist Publicity Photo | Peng-Yu Chen, Wei-Wei Wu, Yi-Shuan Liao | Amazing Show - You Are My Crazy Lover |
| Artist Publicity Photo | Jørn Veberg | Gaahls WYRD - Ghosts Invited |
| Artist Publicity Photo | Logan Miller | Casii Stephan - Trapeze Artist |
| Artist Publicity Photo | Søren Bech | Heilung - Futha |
| Music Promo Poster | Ashleigh Flynn, Kate Flather | Ashleigh Flynn & The Riveters - Spare Room Event Poster |
| Music Promo Poster | Paixpro, Hsien-Chen Tsai | Amazing Show - The Great Paradisiacal Mountain |
| Music Promo Poster | Robert Cornelius | Amanda Duncan - Big Time Superhero |
| Music Promo Poster | Shi-Ching Yang | Amazing Show - King of Light Concert Tour |
| Music Promo Poster | Yi-Hsiang Chao | Flesh Juicer - Build It on Brutal Taichung 2019 |
| Music Website | Alexandra Razumova | Major Moment Website |
| Music Website | Ashleigh Flynn, Kate Flather | Ashleigh Flynn & The Riveters Website |
| Music Website | Krzysztof A. Janczak | Krzysztof A. Janczak Website |
| Music Website | Tom Jestus Jr. | Casii Stephan Website |
| Swag | Ashleigh Flynn, Kate Flather | Ashleigh Flynn & The Riveters - B-17 Baseball T-Shirt |
| Swag | Elizabeth Warburton | Joan Torres's All Is Fused - Revolution T-Shirt |
| Swag | Ellis Paul | Ellis Paul - The Storyteller's Suitcase - Deluxe Version |
| Swag | Laureen Hale, Justin LaBrash | Justin LaBrash - Cowboy Boot Can Coozie |
| Swag | Major Moment | Major Moment - The Sequel Puzzle |
| Short Form Video Category | Nominee (* = Vox Pop Nominee) | Nominated Video |
| Animated / Stop-Motion | A-Flight | 2019 Golden Bell Award 54th short film (Art Coordinator: Timothy Motion) |
| Animated / Stop-Motion | Brian Shankar Adler* | Mantra |
| Animated / Stop-Motion | DAE | Where We're Going |
| Animated / Stop-Motion | Jarana Beat | 43 Ofrendas (Tirineni Tsïtsïki) (feat. L Rebolloso, A Pimienta, Frino, A Flores & F Guadar) |
| Animated / Stop-Motion | Stuck in the Sound | Alright |
| Animated / Stop-Motion | Zac Silva & James McCaffrey | Friends With Death (Original Score) |
| Concept / Experimental | Austin Yip | Episode Ia: Dialogue… (from Eurydice: Le Ballet de la Nuit) |
| Concept / Experimental | KIN | Be a Little Lonely |
| Concept / Experimental | Nick de la Hoyde | Ghost |
| Concept / Experimental | Pascal Le Boeuf + Bec Plexus | Mirror Image |
| Concept / Experimental | The Jellybricks* | Brooklyn |
| Director | Aminah Hughes* | Aminah Hughes - I Need to Learn |
| Director | An-Tse Shao | FUTURE AFTER A SECOND - Invert |
| Director | Lisa Mann | Strangers on a Plane - All My Life |
| Director | OUTERSPACE Leo, Timothy Motion, FK WU | 2019 Golden Bell Award 54th short film |
| Director | Zach "Reazon" Heiligman & Max Heiligman | DAE - Where We're Going |
| Lyric | Lowkey | Letter to the 1% (feat. Mai Khalil) |
| Lyric | Major Moment* | Talking To Myself |
| Lyric | Mike Field | The Ghost and The Paperboy |
| Lyric | Nia Monaé | The Blueprint |
| Lyric | Pascal Le Boeuf + Bec Plexus | Mirror Image |
| Narrative | Árstíðir | Entangled |
| Narrative | Christopher Sorensen | Way. Way. Back |
| Narrative | David Leask | When You Think No One Loves You |
| Narrative | Madison Violet | Tell Me |
| Narrative | Sincerely S.P.A.D.E.* | The Lie |
| Performance | Copper Viper | Hung Up Alone |
| Performance | Nia Monaé | I.C.Y. |
| Performance | Raven Quinn* | Alchemy (feat. George Lynch) |
| Performance | The Songery | The Dark |
| Performance | Wouter Kellerman | Shape of You (feat. Ndlovu Youth Choir) |
| Social Action | Alena Murang | Pemung Jae |
| Social Action | Amiss O.mega* | Unity |
| Social Action | Anne Heaton | Joy |
| Social Action | Branjae | Street Light |
| Social Action | DJ WILLY WOW! | MLK That Way (feat. Chuck D) |
| Social Action | Wouter Kellerman | Baroque to the Rescue (feat. Konshens The MC & Lady Zamar) |
| Long Form Video Category | Nominee | Nominated Video |
| Best Overall | Elio Pace | Elio Pace presents Elvis Presley |
| Best Overall | Elizabeth Joan Kelly | Farewell, Doomed Planet! |
| Best Overall | Hope Remains | Making Of: Breathing Again |
| Best Overall | Ludmila Mercerón & Salsa de Reyes | En Directo Desde las Armas |
| Director | David Hernández & Enrique Alonso | Nuestro Changüi |
| Director | Ludmila Mercerón & Salsa de Reyes | En Directo Desde las Armas |
| Director | Matt Daniel-Baker | Elio Pace presents Elvis Presley |
