Grammy nominations to be announced, with 5 new categories

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Recording Academy will announce nominees for the sixty fifth Grammy Awards on Tuesday with some vital additions.

The academy earlier this 12 months 5 new classes together with songwriter of the 12 months to honor music’s finest composer and a particular tune for social change award.

The non-classical songwriter class will acknowledge one particular person who was the “most prolific” non-performing and non-producing songwriter for a physique of recent work. It would take a unique method than tune of the 12 months, which awards the songwriters who wrote the lyrics or melodies to at least one tune.

This 12 months’s announcement will likely be made on a livestream starting at midday Japanese, 9 a.m. Pacific at https://reside.grammy.com/. Amongst these asserting the nominees this 12 months will likely be Olivia Rodrigo, John Legend, Machine Gun Kelly and Smokey Robinson.

Doable nominees embody Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar, Harry Types and Adele. Another hopefuls embody Lizzo and Steve Lacy, who each had two of the most important songs this 12 months.

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

The brand new class for songwriters is a large step ahead. Final 12 months, a rule replace allowed that any songwriter, producer, engineer or featured artist on an album nominated for album of the 12 months may in the end earn a nomination.

The 4 different classes embody finest spoken phrase poetry album, different music efficiency, Americana music efficiency and rating soundtrack for video video games and different interactive media.