Norah aims to best Boss with top album

VETERAN rocker Bruce Springsteen and two of pop music's bright young stars, Norah Jones and Avril Lavigne, led the nominations for the music industry's top prize, the Grammys, yesterday.

Other artists grabbing multiple nominations included rappers Eminem and Nelly, and singer Vanessa Carlton.

Springsteen's poignant album The Rising, in part inspired by the September 11 attacks on the US, was nominated for Album of the Year, along with chanteuse Jones's debut album, Come Away With Me, at a news conference in New York's Madison Square Garden.