The 66th Grammy Awards will acquire place Feb. 4 in a ceremony at Crypto.com Arena in downtown Los Angeles, organizers claimed Thursday. Nominations for music’s most prestigious awards clearly show will be exposed Nov. 10.
The announcement from the Recording Academy, which presents the yearly Grammys, follows information of quite a few rule modifications set to be instituted for the 2024 ceremony, which will be broadcast stay on CBS and will stream on Paramount+.
Soon after two a long time in which 10 nominees ended up allowed into each and every of the show’s top rated categories — album, report and tune of the year, as properly as finest new artist — the 66th Grammys will lessen the selection of nominees for each and every prize to 8. The academy will also hand out a few new awards for greatest African tunes functionality, greatest pop dance recording and very best substitute jazz album, bringing the whole variety of classes to 94.
To be suitable for nomination for up coming year’s prizes, an album or music must have been launched concerning Oct. 1, 2022, and Sept. 15, 2023 — an uncommon window of 11 and a 50 percent months compared with the 12-month time period employed for this year’s clearly show.
Amid the presumptive entrance-runners for album of the yr are Taylor Swift’s “Midnights” and SZA’s “SOS,” equally critical successes and professional blockbusters other LPs in the early operating include “The Record” by Boygenius and Foo Fighters’ “But Here We Are,” which addresses the 2022 dying of that band’s longtime drummer, Taylor Hawkins.
Taylor Swift performs throughout her Eras Tour on Might 5.
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Miley Cyrus’ chart-topping “Bouquets” is possible to gain nods for document and tune of the calendar year, even though Peso Pluma may well trip the explosion of regional Mexican audio to a finest new artist nomination. It remains to be noticed whether the Recording Academy will honor region star Morgan Wallen, who has 2023’s most thriving LP by considerably with “A single Matter at a Time,” as perfectly as a one, “Last Night time,” now in its 12th week atop Billboard’s Very hot 100. Wallen was shut out at the 65th Grammys for the second yr in a row right after being caught on tape drunkenly applying the N-phrase to refer to a mate back in 2021.
Large winners at the most the latest Grammys, which took place in February, incorporated Harry Styles, who took album of the 12 months with “Harry’s House” Lizzo’s “About Damn Time,” which was named document of the calendar year Bonnie Raitt, whose “Just Like That” received song of the yr and jazz singer Samara Joy, named greatest new artist.
Overnight rankings for the exhibit have been up 30% from 2022, with about 12.5 million viewers.
