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There will be significant changes during the 64th Grammy Awards, which will be broadcast on CBS.
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The Grammy Awards changes the method of voting.
The 2022 Grammy Awards show, officially known as the 64th GRAMMY Awards, rescheduled from January 31 to April 3, will be held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
On November 23, 2021, the Recording Academy announced their 86-category nominee list for the Show, which was previously slated for Los Angeles’ STAPLES Center.
The organisers cited the uncertainty surrounding the Omicron variant at the time as the cause for the postponement.
They said “holding the show on January 31st simply contains too many risks.”
Wizkid, Burna Boy, Femi Kuti, Made, and Tems are among the five Nigerian artists on the list.
According to the organizers, the Recording Academy has made significant modifications behind the scenes to ensure that the GRAMMY Awards regulations and procedures are fair and transparent.
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They emphasized that the modifications will be implemented immediately for the 64th GRAMMY Awards.
Here are the major changes to expect:
- Addition of two new categories
The 2022 GRAMMY Awards will feature two brand-new categories: Best Global Music Performance (Global Music Field) and Best Msica Urbana Album (Latin Music Field). The total number of GRAMMY Award categories now stands at 86.
- Elimination of nominations review committees in general and genre fields
The Recording Academy discontinued nominations review committees in general and genre areas this year.
As a result of this change, nominees for all GRAMMY Awards general and genre categories will henceforth be chosen by a majority, a peer-to-peer vote of Recording Academy voting members.
Previously, many of these categories relied on highly competent music peers who represented and voted within respective genre groups to choose the final nominees.
The results of GRAMMY nominations and victories are now in the hands of the whole Recording Academy voting membership body, providing additional validity to the peer-recognized process.
- Voters will cast votes in fewer categories.
Starting this year, GRAMMY Award Voters will be able to vote in 10 particular genre field categories among no more than three fields, down from 15 previously. This significant change assures that music creators vote in the categories in which they are the most aware and qualified.
- Realignment of craft categories
Six existing craft fields will be combined into two fields beginning in 2021: Presentation Field and Production Field. This modification allows the GRAMMY Awards to more accurately reflect the overlapping peer groups within the voter membership body.
Voters in either newly consolidated field would be able to vote in as many categories as they felt eligible to vote in, subject to category vote restrictions, without being overly restricted by the three-field constraint.
This benefits the GRAMMY Awards’ legitimacy by embracing and leveraging voters’ specialities without limiting their choice or contributions owing to the field constraints imposed by the recent reduction in the number of categories voters may vote in.
Here is the updated Field:
- Package Field, Notes Field and Historical Field renamed and consolidated to Package, Notes & Historical Field
- Production, Non-Classical Field; Production, Immersive Audio Field; and Production, Classical Field renamed and consolidated to Production Field