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Here Are All the Artists Performing at the 2022 Grammys
The Recording Academy has announced the first round of artists performing at the 2022 Grammy Awards, and music’s biggest night has booked some of the industry’s most glamorous stars, Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, and BTS will take the stage, and Lil Nas X has been scheduled alongside Jack Harlow, with whom he is nominated for Best Melodic Rap Performance for“Industry Baby.” Country superstars Brothers Osborne and alt-country icon Brandi Carlile will also perform. Eilish and Rodrigo are nominated in seven categories, while Lil Nas X is up for five, and all three artists are under consideration for the big general field categories: Best Album, Best Record, and Best Song. Rodrigo is also one of the favorites for Best New Artist. Meanwhile, Carlile is nominated in five categories, includ...
2022 Grammy Awards to Be Held April 3rd in Las Vegas
Following its postponement earlier this month, the Recording Academy has revealed a new date and location for the 2022 Grammys. The event will now be held April 3rd at Las Vegas’ MGM Grand Garden Arena (via Variety). Originally set for January 31st at Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Arena (formerly the Staples Center), the Grammy Awards were postponed due to the COVID-19 Omicron surge. In moving to the MGM Grand and the new date, the Grammys have bumped the previously scheduled CMT Awards from the venue. That ceremony will be rescheduled to November. Vegas’ MGM Grand Garden Arena hosted the Latin Grammys back in November, so the Academy is already familiar with the setup. That should make it easier to bring in returning host Trevor Noah and scores of music’s biggest names for the event. ...
2022 Grammy Awards Ceremony Postponed Indefinitely Due to Omicron Concerns
With the Omicron variant of COVID-19 reportedly reaching 1 million daily cases, The Recording Academy and CBS have postponed the 64th annual Grammy Awards. The ceremony was scheduled to take place on Monday, January 31st, 2022. In a joint statement released by The Recording Academy and CBS, they cited “uncertainty surrounding the Omicron variant” as the driving factor behind the move. “After careful consideration and analysis with city and state officials, health and safety experts, the artist community and our many partners, the Recording Academy and CBS have postponed the 64th Annual GRAMMY Awards Show,” the statement reads. “The health and safety of those in our music community, the live audience, and the hundreds of people who work tirelessly to produce ou...
2022 Grammy Awards Postponed Due to COVID-19 Surge
It’s the encore that nobody wanted: For the second year in a row, the Recording Academy has postponed the Grammy Awards due to concerns over COVID-19. The decision comes as the Omicron variant surges across the world and case counts reach record highs. The 2022 Grammys were supposed to be doled out on January 31st at Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Arena (formerly the Staples Center). However, an Academy spokesperson has now confirmed to Variety that the gala has been postponed to a new date still to be determined. Last year’s event was pushed back to March due to COVID-19 concerns, and the venue was changed from its home at Staples Center to the Los Angeles Convention Center to avoid crowding. The Recording Academy generally counts on revenue from ticket sales to boost its coffers, but the 2...
Harvey Mason Jr. on Recording Academy’s Future: ‘We Needed to Improve and We Needed to Evolve’
Still, he’s the first to admit there is plenty more progress to be made in his efforts to “modernize everything about the Academy,” including looking at new areas of revenue, making sure the Grammy voting process is as transparent as possible, and leading industry standards on diversity. Mason started his tenure forged by fire, as chairman of the board of trustees he stepped into the interim president/CEO position in January 2020 after the Academy suspended his predecessor, Deborah Dugan, for alleged misconduct only five months after she’d been hired. Dugan, who was officially fired in March 2020, filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission just days after being put on leave alleging sexual harassment, discrimination and improper business dealings by the Academy...
New Grammy Award Rules Include Update to Dance/Electronic Category
Amid transformative times for the Grammy Awards, The Recording Academy has announced a slew of rule changes to be implemented in 2022. Following criticism of the organization’s controversial Nominations Review Committee, the metamorphosis of the Grammys took another step forward today after The Recording Academy shared a laundry list of updates to the award ceremony’s annual guidelines, including a change to the Dance/Electronic category. Billboard reports that the category formerly known as Best Dance Recording has now been renamed Best Dance/Electronic Recording. The change was reportedly made to align with its corresponding category related to albums, which has been called Best Dance/Electronic Album. Kaytranada won the Grammy Awards for Best Dance Recording and Best Da...
Grammys Eliminate Secret Nomination Review Committees
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-01T16:20:21+00:00“>May 1, 2021 | 12:20pm ET The Recording Academy has announced a series of reforms designed to make the Grammy Awards more transparent while reducing future controversies. Via Billboard and Variety, the biggest change is the almost total elimination of the secret nominating committees which determine who is eligible to receive the awards. The Academy has also reduced the number of categories in which members may vote, added two new categories, and rolled out a reorganization of the “craft” categories (packaging, producer, and liner notes). The secretive nomination committees has long been a point of contention, in part because, since nobody knows who they ar...
The Recording Academy and Stem on New Ways Artists Can Get Paid
Kyle Meredith With.. Harvey Mason Jr. and Milana Lewis Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Play | Stitcher | Radio Public | RSS Harvey Mason Jr., chairman and interim CEO of the Recording Academy and Grammys, and Milana Lewis, founder of Stem, both join Kyle Meredith With… to discuss how the two companies are spearheading new ways to make sure artists get paid for their work. First, Harvey Mason Jr. takes us through the Recording Academy’s Summer of Advocacy, namely how they’re bringing aid to the music community and their efforts to lobby Congress. Mason also discusses activism in the pop world, partnering with the Color of Change organization, their continuing efforts with MusiCares, and the 2021 Grammy ceremony. Milana...
