{"id":35234,"date":"2025-09-21T17:02:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T17:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/35234\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T17:02:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T17:02:31","slug":"will-jack-antonoff-return-to-grammys-producer-of-the-year-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/35234\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Jack Antonoff Return to Grammy\u2019s Producer of the Year Finals?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe biggest surprise of the 2025 Grammy Awards<\/a> season didn\u2019t occur on Grammy night, but when the nominations were announced on Nov. 8, 2024 and Jack Antonoff<\/a> was not in the running for producer of the year, non-classical.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe had been nominated in that category for five straight years, winning in the last three years. Had he been nominated again last year, he would have become the first producer or producing team to be nominated in the category six years running since Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis<\/a>, who were up every year from 2001-2006.<\/p>\n

\n\tAntonoff\u2019s omission was especially perplexing because he was nominated for album of the year with two albums last year \u2013 Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2019s The Tortured Poets Department and Sabrina Carpenter<\/a>\u2019s breakthrough collection, Short N\u2019 Sweet.<\/p>\n

\n\tOne of the big questions going into the 2026 Grammys<\/a> is whether Antonoff will return to the producer of the year, non-classical finals. Another question is whether he will receive double nods for album of the year for the third year in a row. He very well may, thanks to his involvement with Kendrick Lamar<\/a>\u2019s GNX (where he is credited as a producer on 11 of the 12 tracks) and Carpenter\u2019s Man\u2019s Best Friend (where he is credited as a producer on nine of the 12 tracks).<\/p>\n

\n\tAntonoff first received double album of the year nods two years ago for Swift\u2019s Midnights (which won) and Lana Del Rey<\/a>\u2019s Did You Know That There\u2019s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd.<\/p>\n

\n\tPrior to that, he had been nominated for album of the year six times, but never with more than one album in a given year. His previous album of the year nominees were with his alt-pop trio fun.<\/a>\u2019s Some Nights (2013), Swift\u2019s 1989 (2016, which won), Lorde<\/a>\u2019s Melodrama (2018), del Rey\u2019s Norman F***ing Rockwell (2020), and Swift\u2019s Folklore (2021, which won) and Evermore (2022).<\/p>\n

\n\tThus, Antonoff has received 12 album of the year nominations and could very well up that total to 14 when this year\u2019s nominations are announced.<\/p>\n

\n\tAntonoff\u2019s failure to land a nod for producer of the year (non-classical) last November was seen as a desire on the part of the committee which made the final choices to give other producers a chance at Grammy glory. Indeed, three of the nominees \u2013 Alissia, Ian Fitchuk<\/a> and Mustard<\/a> \u2013 had never been nominated in the category before. The other two nominees, Daniel Nigro<\/a> and Dernst \u201cD Mile<\/a>\u201d Emile II, were on their second and third nominations in the category, respectively. Nigro won.<\/p>\n

\n\tHere\u2019s how the producer of the year, non-classical voting process works, taken from the Rules & Guidelines booklet for the 68th Grammy Awards: \u201cThe first round of voting is in the hands of the general voting membership via the first ballot. The second round of voting, however, takes place in a national craft nominating committee. The top 30 selections from the general voting membership appear on the ballot for the national craft nominating committees, made up of 25-30 voting members representing all the chapters. The committees review the recordings and vote by confidential ballot to select the five nominations.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe process is exactly the same in songwriter of the year, non-classical as well as these three other categories: best instrumental composition; best arrangement, instrumental or a cappella; and best arrangement, instruments and vocals.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe question now is, having given other producers a chance to get some Grammy love, will the committee let Antonoff again compete in the category he has dominated for the past decade \u2014 and which he\u2019ll have an extremely convincing case for once again in 2026?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The biggest surprise of the 2025 Grammy Awards season didn\u2019t occur on Grammy night, but when the nominations…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[10779,156,21726,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-35234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-awards","tag-entertainment","tag-grammys","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}