65th Annual Grammy Awards Nominations to Be Announced With 5 New Categories

The Recording Academy will announce nominees for the 65th Grammy Awards on Tuesday with some significant additions. The academy had earlier this year added five new categories, including songwriter of the year to honour music's best composer and a special song for social change award. The non-classical songwriter category will recognise one individual who was the “most prolific” non-performing and non-producing songwriter for a body of new work. It will take a different approach than song of the year, which awards the songwriters who wrote the lyrics or melodies to one song. MTV Europe Music Awards 2022: Armaan Malik Wins ‘Best India Act’ at the EMAs.

This year's announcement will be made on a livestream beginning at noon Eastern, 9 am Pacific at https://live.grammy.com/. Among those announcing the nominees this year will be Olivia Rodrigo, John Legend, Machine Gun Kelly and Smokey Robinson. Possible nominees include Beyonce, Kendrick Lamar, Harry Styles and Adele. Some other hopefuls include Lizzo and Steve Lacy, who both had two of the biggest songs this year. MTV Europe Music Awards 2022: Taylor Swift Wins Big in Germany at the EMAs, Bags the Best Artist and 3 Other Honours.

The Grammy Awards will be handed out February 5 in Los Angeles.

The new category for songwriters is a huge step forward. Last year, a rule update allowed that any songwriter, producer, engineer or featured artist on an album nominated for album of the year could ultimately earn a nomination. The four other categories include best spoken word poetry album, alternative music performance, Americana music performance and score soundtrack for video games and other interactive media.

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