Nominations Announced for “The 66th Annual Grammy Awards”

SZA Tops This Year’s Nominations with Nine; Phoebe Bridgers, Serban Ghenea and Victoria Monét Earn Seven; Jack Antonoff, Jon Batiste, boygenius, Brandy Clark, Miley Cyrus, Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo and Taylor Swift Each Have Six

“Music’s Biggest Night®” Airs Sunday, February 4, 2024, on CBS

Nominees for THE 66TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS® have been announced and topping this year’s list are SZA (9), Phoebe Bridgers (7), Serban Ghenea (7), Victoria Monét (7), Jack Antonoff (6), Jon Batiste (6), boygenius (6), Brandy Clark (6), Miley Cyrus (6), Billie Eilish (6), Olivia Rodrigo (6) and Taylor Swift (6). As the only peer-voted music award, the GRAMMY Awards® are selected by The Recording Academy®’s voting membership body of music makers, who represent all genres and creative disciplines, including recording artists, songwriters, composers, producers, mixers and engineers. The nominees were announced via a livestream on live.GRAMMY.com.

The GRAMMY Awards will return to Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Arena on Sunday, February 4, 2024 (8:00-11:30 PM, live ET/5:00-8:30 PM, live PT) on the CBS Television Network and stream live and on-demand on Paramount+* (live and on-demand for Paramount+ with SHOWTIME subscribers, or on demand for Paramount+ Essential subscribers the day after the special airs)*.

“We are thrilled to kick off GRAMMY season with this year’s diverse and genre-bending slate of nominees, representing the best of their craft and an incredible year of music,” said Harvey Mason jr, CEO of the Recording Academy. “From breakthrough acts to legacy artists, we are amazed by all the musicians recognized for their outstanding contributions to music today. We can’t wait to spotlight these remarkable creators and celebrate another amazing year in music on February 4.”

This year’s eligibility period includes recordings released between October 1, 2022 and September 15, 2023. The final round of GRAMMY voting, which will determine GRAMMY recipients, will take place December 14, 2023 through January 4, 2024.

Prior to the telecast, the GRAMMY Awards Premiere Ceremony® will be held at Peacock Theater at 12:30 PM, PT and will be streamed live on live.GRAMMY.com and the Recording Academy’s YouTube channel.

THE 66TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS will be produced by Fulwell 73 Productions for the Recording Academy. Ben Winston, Raj Kapoor and Jesse Collins are executive producers.

The following is a sampling of nominations from THE 66TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS’ 94 categories. For a complete nominations list, visit GRAMMY.com.

Record of the Year
Worship – Jon Batiste
Not Strong Enough – boygenius
Flowers – Miley Cyrus
What Was I Made For? [from the motion picture “Barbie”] – Billie Eilish
On My Mama – Victoria Monét
vampire – Olivia Rodrigo
Anti-Hero – Taylor Swift
Kill Bill – SZA

Album of the Year
World Music Radio – Jon Batiste
the record – boygenius
Endless Summer Vacation – Miley Cyrus
Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd – Lana Del Rey
The Age of Pleasure – Janelle Monáe
GUTS – Olivia Rodrigo
Midnights – Taylor Swift
SOS – SZA

Song of the Year
A&W – Jack Antonoff, Lana Del Rey & Sam Dew, songwriters (Lana Del Rey)
Anti-Hero – Jack Antonoff & Taylor Swift, songwriters (Taylor Swift)
Butterfly – Jon Batiste & Dan Wilson, songwriters (Jon Batiste)
Dance the Night (from Barbie the Album) – Caroline Ailin, Dua Lipa, Mark Ronson & Andrew Wyatt, songwriters (Dua Lipa)
Flowers – Miley Cyrus, Gregory Aldae Hein & Michael Pollack, songwriters (Miley Cyrus)
Kill Bill – Rob Bisel, Carter Lang & Solána Rowe, songwriters (SZA)
vampire – Daniel Nigro & Olivia Rodrigo, songwriters (Oliva Rodrigo)
What Was I Made For? [from the motion picture Barbie] – Billie Eilish O’Connell & Finneas O’Connell, songwriters (Billie Eilish)

Best New Artist
Gracie Abrams
Fred again..
Ice Spice
Jelly Roll
Coco Jones
Noah Kahan
Victoria Monét
The War and Treaty

Producer of the Year, Non-Classical
Jack Antonoff
Dernst “D’Mile” Emile II
Hit-Boy
Metro Boomin
Daniel Nigro

Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical
Edgar Barrera
Jessie Jo Dillon
Shane McAnally
Theron Thomas
Justin Tranter

Best Pop Vocal Album
chemistry – Kelly Clarkson
Endless Summer Vacation – Miley Cyrus
GUTS – Olivia Rodrigo
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Midnights – Taylor Swift

Best Pop Dance Recording
Baby Don’t Hurt Me – David Guetta, Anne-Marie & Coi Leray
Miracle – Calvin Harris Featuring Ellie Goulding
Padam Padam – Kylie Minogue
One in a Million – Bebe Rexha & David Guetta
Rush – Troye Sivan

Best Dance/Electronic Music Album
Playing Robots Into Heaven – James Blake
For That Beautiful Feeling – The Chemical Brothers
Actual Life 3 (January 1-September 9 2022) – Fred again..
Kx5 – Kx5
Quest For Fire – Skrillex

Best Rock Album
But Here We Are – Foo Fighters
Starcatcher – Greta Van Fleet
72 Seasons – Metallica
This Is Why – Paramore
In Times New Roman… – Queens of the Stone Age

Best Alternative Music Album
The Car – Arctic Monkeys
the record – boygenius
Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd – Lana Del Rey
Cracker Island – Gorillaz
I Inside the Old Year Dying – PJ Harvey

Best R&B Album
Girls Night Out – Babyface
What I Didn’t Tell You (Deluxe) – Coco Jones
Special Occasion – Emily King
JAGUAR II – Victoria Monét
CLEAR 2: SOFT LIFE EP – Summer Walker

Best Melodic Rap Performance
Sittin’ on Top of the World – Burna Boy Featuring 21 Savage
Attention – Doja Cat
Spin Bout U – Drake & 21 Savage
All My Life – Lil Durk Featuring J. Cole
Low – SZA

Best Rap Song
Attention – Rogét Chahayed, Amala Zandile Dlamini & Ari Starace, songwriters (Doja Cat)
Barbie World [from Barbie the Album] – Isis Naija Gaston, Ephrem Louis Lopez Jr. & Onika Maraj, songwriters (Nicki Minaj & Ice Spice Featuring Aqua)
Just Wanna Rock – Mohamad Camara, Symere Woods & Javier Mercado, songwriters (Lil Uzi Vert)
Rich Flex – Brytavious Chambers, Isaac “Zac” De Boni, Aubrey Graham, J. Gwin, Anderson Hernandez, Michael “Finatik” Mule & Shéyaa Bin Abraham-Joseph, songwriters (Drake & 21 Savage)
SCIENTISTS & ENGINEERS – Andre Benjamin, Paul Beauregard, James Blake, Michael Render, Tim Moore & Dion Wilson, songwriters (Killer Mike Featuring André 3000, Future & Eryn Allen Kane)

Best Alternative Jazz Album
Love In Exile – Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, Shahzad Ismaily
Quality Over Opinion – Louis Cole
SuperBlue: The Iridescent Spree – Kurt Elling, Charlie Hunter, SuperBlue
Live at the Piano – Cory Henry
The Omnichord Real Book – Meshell Ndegeocello

Best Country Album
Rolling Up the Welcome Mat – Kelsea Ballerini
Brothers Osborne – Brothers Osborne
Zach Bryan – Zach Bryan
Rustin’ in the Rain – Tyler Childers
Bell Bottom Country – Lainey Wilson

Best Americana Album
Brandy Clark – Brandy Clark
The Chicago Sessions – Rodney Crowell
You’re the One – Rhiannon Giddens
Weathervanes – Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
The Returner – Allison Russell

Best Música Mexicana Album (Including Tejano)
Bordado a Mano – Ana Bárbara
La Sánchez – Lila Downs
Motherflower – Flor de Toloache
Amor Como en las Películas de Antes – Lupita Infante
GÉNESIS – Peso Pluma

Best African Music Performance
Amapiano – ASAKE & Olamide
City Boys – Burna Boy
UNAVAILABLE – Davido Featuring Musa Keys
Rush – Ayra Starr
Water – Tyla

Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media (Includes Film and Televison)
Barbie – Mark Ronson & Andrew Wyatt, composers
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – Ludwig Göransson, composer
The Fabelmans – John Williams, composer
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny – John Williams, composer
Oppenheimer – Ludwig Göransson, composer

THE 66TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS is distributed internationally by Paramount Global Content Distribution, excluding Latin America.

The Recording Academy also debuted a new merchandise collection with Amazon Music. As the exclusive merch provider for THE 66TH GRAMMY AWARDS, Amazon Music offers customers a range of apparel featuring new designs that put a spin on classic GRAMMY iconography – available for fans to shop worldwide beginning today, exclusively in the GRAMMY Awards official Amazon store at Amazon.com/grammys.

*Paramount+ with SHOWTIME subscribers will have access to stream live via the live feed of their local CBS affiliate on the service, as well as on demand. Paramount+ Essential subscribers will not have the option to steam live, but will have access to on-demand the day after the special airs.

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