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Francis Specker\/CBS \u00a92025 CBS Broadcasting<\/p>\nThis article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at UCD chapter and does not reflect the views of Her Campus.<\/p>\n
The Golden Globes hosted their awards ceremony on the 11th of January, presenting awards to many amazing actors, directors, and other film and TV artists. With that, the awards season continues, shifting its focus to the music industry. The next major entertainment awards ceremony is\u00a0the Grammy Awards, which recognizes the musical achievements of producers, musicians, songwriters and other industry professionals. The 2026 GRAMMYS are scheduled for Sunday, the 1st of February, making it the 68th ceremony since its conception in 1959. However, the Grammys have significantly grown since then.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
May 4th of 1959 was the date of the first-ever Grammy Awards ceremony, recognizing musical achievements of 1958.\u00a0Hosted by Mort Sahl, a\u00a0Canadian-American\u00a0actor and comedian, the ceremony was held\u00a0simultaneously\u00a0at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles and the Park Sheraton Hotel in New York City.\u00a0The ceremony\u00a0presented 28 total awards. The first-ever Record of the Year award was presented to \u201cNel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare)\u201d by Domenico Modugno, an Italian singer, actor and later politician.\u00a0\u00a0He also won the Song of the Year award. The Album of the Year Award went to\u00a0\u2018The Music\u00a0from\u00a0Peter Gunn\u2019 by Henry Mancini, composer,\u00a0conductor\u00a0and musician. There was, however,\u00a0no Best New Artist award at the 1st Grammy\u00a0Awards;\u00a0the award was introduced to the\u00a0GRAMMYS\u00a0the following year in 1960 and presented to Walden Robert\u00a0Cassotto, known as Bobby Darin. Additional accomplishments include\u00a0Frank Sinatra\u2019s six nominations, his Grammy for art direction and the Best Album Cover award for \u2018Only the Lonely\u2019. Eliza Fitzgerald is another notable artist who won awards for Best Female Vocal Performance and Best Individual Jazz Performance.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Over time, the awards have changed their ceremonial dates from late spring to the month of February.\u00a0After 2004, the awards have been consistently held around early February\u00a0(excluding the 2021 and 2022 ceremonies, which were postponed due to COVID safety concerns).\u00a0Multiple locations were used for the Grammy Awards until 2000, when the Crypto.com Arena (formerly the Staples Center) in Los Angeles was designated the official venue for the GRAMMYS. The awards have been hosted very rarely anywhere else since.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s GRAMMYS will present 95 awards, including two new categories: The Best Traditional Country Album and Best Album Cover. There was also a merger of two categories, The Best Recording\u00a0Package\u00a0and Best Boxed or Special\u00a0Limited-Edition\u00a0package, resulting in a net total change of one award. There are 11 total fields this year, each representing a group of related genres: <\/p>\n
Pop & Dance\/Electronic<\/p>\n
Rock, Metal & Alternative Music<\/p>\n
R&B, Rap & Spoken Word Poetry<\/p>\n
Jazz, Traditional Pop, Contemporary Instrumental & Musical Theater<\/p>\n
Country & American Roots Music<\/p>\n
Gospel & Contemporary Christian Music<\/p>\n
Latin, Global, Reggae & New Age, Ambient, or Chant<\/p>\n
Children\u2019s, Comedy, Audio Books, Visual Media & Music Video\/Film<\/p>\n
Package, Notes & Historical <\/p>\n
Production, Engineering, Composition & Arrangement<\/p>\n
Classical <\/p>\n
Francis Specker\/CBS \u00a92025 CBS Broadcasting<\/p>\n
The Big Four awards that most people look forward to are Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year and Best New Artist. This year, the nominees are as follows:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Record of the Year:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cDtMF\u201d \u2013 Bad Bunny\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cManchild\u201d \u2013 Sabrina Carpenter\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAnxiety\u201d \u2013\u00a0Doechii\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWILDFLOWER\u201d \u2013 Billie Eilish\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAbracadabra\u201d \u2013 Lady Gaga\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cluther\u201d \u2013 Kendrick Lamar\u00a0with\u00a0SZA\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Subway\u201d \u2013 Chappell Roan\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAPT.\u201d \u2013 ROS\u00c9, Bruno Mars\u00a0<\/p>\n
Album of the Year:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018DeB\u00cd\u00a0TiRAR\u00a0M\u00e1S\u00a0FOToS\u2019\u00a0\u2013 Bad Bunny\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018SWAG\u2019\u00a0\u2013 Justin Bieber\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018Man\u2019s Best Friend\u2019\u00a0\u2013 Sabrina Carpenter\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018Let God Sort Em Out\u2019\u00a0\u2013 Clipse, Pusha T & Malice\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018MAYHEM\u2019\u00a0\u2013 Lady Gaga\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018GNX\u2019\u00a0\u2013 Kendrick Lamar\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018MUTT\u2019\u00a0\u2013 Leon Thomas\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018CHROMAKOPIA\u2019\u00a0\u2013 Tyler, The Creator\u00a0<\/p>\n
Song of the Year:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAbracadabra\u201d \u2013 Lady Gaga\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAnxiety\u201d \u2013\u00a0Doechii\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAPT.\u201d \u2013 ROS\u00c9, Bruno Mars\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cDtMF\u201d\u00a0\u2013 Bad Bunny\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cGolden\u201d \u2013 HUNTR\/X: EJAE, Audrey Nuna, REI AMI\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cLuther\u201d \u2013 Kendrick Lamar\u00a0with\u00a0SZA\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cManchild\u201d \u2013 Sabrina Carpenter\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWILDFLOWER\u201d \u2013 Billie Eilish\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Best New Artist:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Olivia Dean\u00a0<\/p>\n
KATSEYE\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Marias\u00a0<\/p>\n
Addison Rae\u00a0<\/p>\n
sombr\u00a0<\/p>\n
Leon Thomas\u00a0<\/p>\n
Alex Warren\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lola Young\u00a0<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s Grammys will be hosted by comedian, actor and writer Trevor Noah, making\u00a0it\u00a0his sixth consecutive year hosting the ceremony.\u00a0The GRAMMYS will be hosted at Crypto.com\u00a0Arena in Los Angeles. Viewers can watch the broadcast live on the CBS network or stream on demand with Paramount+ at 8:00 Eastern Standard Time (5:00 PM for Pacific Standard Time).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at UCD chapter and does not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[133894,133895,269,93,61,60,278,33367],"class_list":{"0":"post-274954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-chapterchapter","9":"tag-chapterucd","10":"tag-culture","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-music","15":"tag-sponsoredno"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}