The Grammy Awards will happen on the MGM Grand Backyard Enviornment in Las Vegas on April 3, the Recording Academy has confirmed. The CMT Awards, initially scheduled for that day on the venue, shall be moved to a later date.
Trevor Noah, long-running host of The Each day Present and host of the 2021 Grammys, will return as grasp of ceremonies. In keeping with the announcement, extra particulars in regards to the dates and places of different official Grammy Week occasions, together with the Premiere Ceremony, the MusiCares Particular person of the 12 months profit live performance (this yr honouring Joni Mitchell) and the Clive Davis Pre-Grammy Gala (honouring Sony Music chief Rob Stringer) shall be introduced quickly.
Whereas the 2022 Grammy Awards had been transferring full velocity forward to happen on Jan. 31 earlier than a full viewers at its conventional venue, the Crypto.com Enviornment (previously often called the Staples Middle) in downtown Los Angeles, the latest COVID-19 surge has brought about the postponement or cancellation of a number of occasions throughout the nation, and the Grammys have been formally postponed on January 5. Sources inform Selection that sufficient artists and executives voiced reluctance about showing to persuade the Academy to postpone the present.
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As Selection famous earlier this month, the 17,000-seat MGM Grand Backyard Enviornment is in some ways probably the most sensible possibility. It was solely two months in the past that this enviornment hosted the Latin Grammys, so its advantages are well-known to the Academy. Apart from being acquainted, it additionally has the good thing about being largely darkish, since a lot site visitors has been siphoned off by the shiny new object that’s the T-Cellular Enviornment. The MGM’s web site exhibits no public occasions booked there between a John Mayer live performance on March 11 and Nick Cannon greater than two months afterward June 25.
Final yr’s present — which paradoxically was additionally scheduled for January 31 — was moved up six weeks to March 14, after a holiday-season virus spike in Southern California. In the end, the 2021 Grammys passed off in a scaled-down, tasteful setting on the Los Angeles Conference Middle earlier than small, rotating teams of nominees that modified each 45 minutes. It featured a mixture of reside and pre-recorded performances from Taylor Swift, BTS, Harry Kinds, Billie Eilish, Dangerous Bunny, Silk Sonic, Megan Thee Stallion and Cardi B and extra, and obtained largely constructive opinions. Most Grammy Week occasions have been cancelled, though MusiCares offered a scaled-down digital present and the Clive occasion passed off in two, five-hour-long instalments, with the legendary government interviewing such luminaries as Mitchell and Bruce Springsteen whereas exhibiting traditional clips of his favorite reside performances throughout the many years.
Sources inform Selection that the Academy and CBS are hoping for a full present with a reside viewers; the Grammys generate tens of millions of {dollars} in income and clearly drew in only a fraction of a standard yr’s quantity in 2021.
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The 2022 Grammy nominee checklist is led by Jon Batiste with 11 nods, adopted by Justin Bieber, Doja Cat and H.E.R. with eight apiece. Billie Eilish and Olivia Rodrigo adopted with seven nominations every. Jesse Collins, Raj Kapoor and Ben Winston will function government producers, with Kapoor taking on for Winston this yr as showrunner. Jeannae Rouzan Clay joins the group as co-executive producer. Hamish Hamilton will return as director.
Selection could have extra on the scenario because it develops.
The sixty fourth Annual Grammy Awards will broadcast reside from the MGM Grand Backyard Enviornment in Las Vegas on Sunday, April 3 (5pm-8:30pm, reside PT [11am-2.30pm Monday AEST]) on the CBS Tv Community and shall be accessible to stream reside and on demand on Paramount+.
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