The vacation season is in full swing however Recording Academy voting members nonetheless have one essential job to cross off their to-do lists.
Voters — comprised of music professionals throughout all genres and disciplines, together with recording artists, songwriters, producers, and engineers — ought to solid their ballots for the ultimate spherical of Grammy Awards voting beginning now by way of Jan. 4, with a cut-off of 6:00 p.m. PT. Their votes will in the end decide the winners of the 66th annual present on Feb. 4.
Almost 16,000 eligible entries had been submitted for Grammy consideration by the identical Grammy voters who will now undergo the ultimate voting course of.
As a reminder, the artist with probably the most nominations this yr is SZA who boasts 9 for “SOS.” Her 2022 document is up for probably the most coveted award of the night, album of the yr, the place Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Boygenius, Miley Cyrus, Jon Batiste, Lana Del Rey and Janelle Monae are additionally nominated.
Swift might probably rating probably the most album of the yr wins if her chart-topping “Midnights” sweeps the class whereas “Barbie: The Soundtrack” might additionally clear up with its 12 nominations, together with 4 out of the 5 slots within the songs written for the visible media class.
Tied with seven nods are Victoria Monét, Phoebe Bridgers (six of these for her work with Boygenius, one for a collaboration with SZA) and mixing engineer Serban Ghenea. Then eight musicians are tied for having six nominations every: producer Jack Antonoff, Batiste, Boygenius, Brandy Clark, Cyrus, Eilish, Rodrigo and Swift.
This yr’s poll additionally sees the inaugural class of nominees for the three new classes launched this yr: greatest African music efficiency, greatest various jazz album and greatest pop dance recording. Moreover, most of this yr’s main nominees are girls artists or teams.
The 2024 Grammy Awards will broadcast reside out of the Crypto.com Area in Los Angeles on Feb. 4 and air on the CBS Tv Community. Trevor Noah will host the present for the fourth consecutive yr.
