Nov. 6 | The Grammy Nominations

On Friday November 10th, the Recording Academy will announce the nominations for the 66th annual Grammy Awards. Let’s take a look at how we got here:

Submissions: In July, Academy members and media companies (labels, managers, etc.) submit their own or their roster’s eligible work for consideration via the Academy’s online entry process. This year’s eligibility period runs from October 1, 2022 - September 15, 2023.

Note that tracks have a two year shelf life, so even if the song came out in the previous year’s eligibility period, it can still be eligible this year as long as it wasn’t on last year’s ballot.

Screening: To ensure that all submissions are competing in their proper genre category, each entry is reviewed by a series of screening committees. These committees are made up of experts in their genre field like A&R’s, DSP programmers, artists, etc.- industry professionals who are in tune with the modern landscape of their specific genre space.

First Ballot: Once all submissions have been screened into their proper genre category, the first ballot goes out to the Academy’s voting membership where the top 5 vote-getters in each category become nominations. In the General Field categories (Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Album of the Year, Best New Artist), the top 8 vote-getters become nominations.

Voting via an online ballot, members can vote in up to 10 categories across 3 genre fields. For each category, a voter may select up to 5 entries.

Each category on the ballot recognizes the work of a different contributor to the project: Song categories recognize the work of the compositions’ credited songwriters, Performance categories recognize the work of the musicians playing on the record, and Album categories recognize the the performing musicians, producers and engineers who are credited on at least 51% of the album.

Final Ballot: Looking ahead, the final ballot containing the nominations will go live in mid-December to determine the year’s winners. This time around, voters only get one selection per category, where the nominee with the highest number of votes takes home the Grammy.

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