Everything you need to know about the 2022 Grammy Awards

After that drama finally Sunday’s Oscars, the Grammy Awards have an enormous present to fill.

It’s a uncommon 12 months wherein the Recording Academy’s marquee ceremony honoring the perfect in music follows the globally televised Academy Awards, which honor movie achievements. It’s a rarer factor nonetheless to have the Oscars dominate headlines for days main as much as the Grammys as a result of a winner slapped a presenter through the reside ceremony.

Placing Will Smith and Chris Rock’s still-brewing feud apart, the sixty fourth Grammy Awards happen Sunday. Right here’s every little thing it’s essential know.

What time is the present? What channel?

The Grammys will happen on the MGM Backyard Enviornment in Las Vegas and will probably be broadcast reside at 5 p.m. Pacific on CBS. The ceremony may also be obtainable to stream reside and on demand on Paramount+.

The present was beforehand scheduled to happen in Los Angeles on Jan. 31 however was postponed and later moved to Las Vegas over issues in regards to the Omicron variant of COVID-19. That’s additionally why it’s going down after the Oscars this 12 months.

Who’s internet hosting?

“The Day by day Present” host Trevor Noah is returning to emcee the ceremony for the second 12 months in a row and hasn’t but commented on how the gig may go in a different way.

Noah has been fairly quiet on social media within the run-up to the Grammys, and his late-night present has been in reruns all week because the slap heard ’around the world. However the comic resurfaced Wednesday on Twitter to razz CBS for razzing his singing.

However aren’t there two ceremonies?

Certainly, there are. There are dozens of Grammy classes — 86 this 12 months, not together with particular awards — and easily not sufficient time to suit all of them right into a roughly three-hour telecast.

So the principle present — which incorporates the 4 general-field classes of album, report and track of the 12 months and greatest new artist — focuses on placing collectively unlikely efficiency pairings and some different awards and speeches sprinkled all through.

The majority of the Grammy Awards are doled out throughout a pre-show referred to as the academy’s Premiere Ceremony. That present acknowledges every little thing from international music to spoken phrase to kids’s album and takes place a couple of hours earlier than the televised program.

Grammy winner and present nominee LeVar Burton will probably be internet hosting the Premiere Ceremony on the MGM Grand Convention Marquee Ballroom. Madison Cunningham, Falu, Nnenna Freelon, Kalani Pe’a, John Popper and the Isaacs will open the present. Others scheduled to carry out embrace present nominees Jimmie Allen, Ledisi, Mon Laferte, Allison Russell and Curtis Stewart.

That ceremony will stream reside Sunday from Las Vegas at 12:30 p.m. Pacific on the Recording Academy’s YouTube channel and on reside.grammy.com.

Who’s nominated?

Olivia Rodrigo, left, Woman Gaga and Jon Batiste are up for Grammys this 12 months.

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“The Late Present With Stephen Colbert” bandleader Jon Batiste leads the sector with 11 nominations, and different acts with a number of nominations embrace Justin Bieber, Doja Cat and H.E.R. (every with eight) and Billie Eilish and Olivia Rodrigo (every with seven).

Right here’s who’s nominated within the high 4 classes:

File of the Yr

• “I Nonetheless Have Religion in You” — ABBA
• “Freedom” — Jon Batiste
• “I Get a Kick Out of You” — Tony Bennett & Woman Gaga
• “Peaches” — Justin Bieber that includes Daniel Caesar & Giveon
• “Proper on Time” — Brandi Carlile
• “Kiss Me Extra” — Doja Cat that includes SZA
• “Happier Than Ever” — Billie Eilish
• “Montero (Name Me by Your Title)” — Lil Nas X
• “Drivers License” — Olivia Rodrigo
• “Go away the Door Open” — Silk Sonic

Album of the Yr

• “We Are” — Jon Batiste
• “Love for Sale” — Tony Bennett & Woman Gaga
• “Justice (Triple Chucks Deluxe)” — Justin Bieber
• “Planet Her (Deluxe)” — Doja Cat
• “Happier Than Ever” — Billie Eilish
• “Again of My Thoughts” — H.E.R.
• “Montero” — Lil Nas X
• “Bitter” — Olivia Rodrigo
• “Evermore” — Taylor Swift
• “Donda” — Kanye West

Music of the 12 months

• “Dangerous Habits”
• “A Lovely Noise”
• “Drivers License”
• “Combat for You”
• “Happier Than Ever”
• “Kiss Me Extra”
• “Go away the Door Open”
• “Montero (Name Me by Your Title)”
• “Peaches”
• “Proper on Time”

New Artist

• Arooj Aftab
• Jimmie Allen
• Child Keem
• Finneas
• Glass Animals
• Japanese Breakfast
• The Child Laroi
• Arlo Parks
• Olivia Rodrigo
• Saweetie

Right here’s the complete checklist of nominees.

What’s the distinction between album, report and track of the 12 months?

A superb query, if we do say so ourselves. The report of the 12 months goes to the performer and acknowledges the artists, producers and engineers who contribute to that recording. The album of the 12 months prize is awarded for a complete album. And the track of the 12 months is given to the songwriter(s) and doesn’t embrace the performer, except in addition they co-wrote the track.

Who’s performing?

Korean pop band BTS will carry out on the 2022 Grammy Awards.

(Richard Shotwell / Invision / Related Press)

Not Kanye West. And doubtless not the Foo Fighters.

Ye, a 22-time Grammy winner, stated in March that he was pulled from the efficiency slate due to his “regarding on-line conduct,” which stemmed from what he’s written about his ex-wife, Kim Kardashian, her boyfriend, Pete Davidson, and even Grammys host Noah. The “Donda” rapper is nominated for album of the 12 months, melodic rap efficiency, rap album and rap track. It’s unclear if he’ll attend both ceremony.

In the meantime, rock band the Foo Fighters, who had been scheduled to carry out on the Grammys have canceled all upcoming live performance dates following the demise of the band’s drummer, Taylor Hawkins final week.

To date, the Recording Academy has tapped this 12 months’s high nominee Batiste, Brothers Osbourne, BTS, Brandi Carlile, Eilish, H.E.R., J Balvin with Maria Becerra, Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow, John Legend, Nas, Silk Sonic, Rodrigo and Carrie Underwood to carry out.

Different acts equivalent to Maverick Metropolis Music, Aymée Nuviola and Billy Strings will carry out “in particular segments that may showcase Las Vegas and highlight genres not traditionally represented on the Grammys Awards telecast,” the academy stated.