The 66th Annual Grammy Awards are an upcoming music awards ceremony which recognizes the best recordings, compositions, and artists of the eligibility year (from October 1, 2022 to September 15, 2023) as determined by the members of National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. They will be held on February 4, 2024 at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, their 21st year at the venue, and will be broadcast on CBS and available to stream on Paramount+.[1] A host for the ceremony has yet to be announced. The nominations were announced on November 10, 2023.
Background
For the 2024 ceremony, the academy announced several changes for different categories and eligibility rules:[2][3][4]
In order to qualify as a nominee on a project nominated for Album of the Year, the credited [lead] artists, featured artists, songwriters, producers, engineers, mixers and mastering engineers must play on a total of 20% of an album's playing time. There had previously been no minimum level of involvement required at the preceding two Grammy Awards.
The requirement that a project must include at least 51% performance-based material has been removed from the Best Music Film category.
The Grammy ballot was reduced from 26 fields to 11, not including the General Field. The Recording Academy stated that this was done to ensure that all voting members were able to exercise all ten of their allocated votes, as this was prevented due to some fields previously only containing one category. In addition to their votes in the General Field, voters are encouraged to cast up to ten genre category votes spread across a maximum of three fields. As of the 66th Annual Grammy Awards, the fields are listed as follows:
Pop & Dance/Electronic Music (6 categories)
Rock, Metal & Alternative Music (6 categories)
R&B, Rap & Spoken Word Poetry (10 categories)
Jazz, Traditional Pop, Contemporary Instrumental & Musical Theater (9 categories)
Country & American Roots Music (13 categories)
Gospel & Contemporary Christian Music (5 categories)
Latin, Global, African, Reggae & New Age, Ambient or Chant Music (10 categories)
Children's, Comedy, Audiobook Narration and Storytelling, Visual Media & Music Video/Film (9 categories)
On June 16, 2023, the Recording Academy declared that "only human creators are eligible to be submitted for consideration for, nominated for, or win a Grammy Award. A work that contains no human authorship is not eligible in any categories." The Academy further specified that works featuring AI-generated material are eligible for an award only if a human contributed to the work meaningfully in the category, and that contributors of only AI-generated material are not eligible for an award.[5][6]
Final round voting is scheduled to take place from December 14, 2023, to January 4, 2024.[9] Winners will be announced during the Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony and telecast.
Jon Batiste, Jon Bellion, Nick Cooper, Pete Nappi & Tenroc, producers; Jon Batiste, Pete Nappi, Kaleb Rollins, Laura Sisk & Marc Whitmore, engineers/mixers; Jon Batiste, Jon Bellion, Jason Cornet & Pete Nappi, songwriters; Chris Gehringer, mastering engineer
Jack Antonoff, Zach Dawes, Lana Del Rey & Drew Erickson, producers; Jack Antonoff, Michael Harris, Dean Reid & Laura Sisk, engineers/mixers; Jack Antonoff, Lana Del Rey & Mike Hermosa, songwriters; Ruairi O'Flaherty, mastering engineer
Dan Nigro, producer; Serban Ghenea, Sterling Laws, Mitch McCarthy, Dan Nigro, Dave Schiffman, Mark "Spike" Stent, Sam Stewart & Dan Viafore, engineers/mixers; Dan Nigro & Olivia Rodrigo, songwriters; Randy Merrill, mastering engineer
Rob Bisel, ThankGod4Cody & Carter Lang, producers; Rob Bisel, engineer/mixer; Rob Bisel, Cody Fayne, Carter Lang & Solána Rowe, songwriters; Dale Becker, mastering engineer
Parade – Micaela Diamond, Alex Joseph Grayson, Jake Pedersen & Ben Platt, principal vocalists; Jason Robert Brown & Jeffrey Lesser, producers; Jason Robert Brown, composer & lyricist (2023 Broadway Cast)
Shucked – Brandy Clark, Jason Howland, Shane McAnally & Billy Jay Stein, producers; Brandy Clark & Shane McAnally, composers/lyricists (Original Broadway Cast)
Stanley Brown, Karen V Clark Sheard, Kaylah Jiavanni Harvey, Rodney Jerkins, Elyse Victoria Johnson, J Drew Sheard II, Kierra Valencia Sheard & Hezekiah Walker, songwriters
The Moaninest Moan of Them All: The Jazz Saxophone of Loren McMurray, 1920-1922
Colin Hancock, Meagan Hennessey & Richard Martin, compilation producers; Richard Martin, mastering engineer; Richard Martin, restoration engineer (Various Artists)
Playing for the Man at the Door: Field Recordings from the Collection of Mack McCormick, 1958–1971
Jeff Place & John Troutman, compilation producers; Randy LeRoy & Charlie Pilzer, mastering engineers; Mike Petillo & Charlie Pilzer, restoration engineers (Various Artists)
Patrick Dillett, Mitchell Graham, Jesse Lewis, Kyle Pyke, Andrew Scheps & John Weston, engineers; Helge Sten, mastering engineer (Shara Nova & A Far Cry)
Owen Lantz, Will Maclellan, Catherine Marks, Mike Mogis, Bobby Mota, Kaushlesh "Garry" Purohit & Sarah Tudzin, engineers; Pat Sullivan, mastering engineer (boygenius)