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Thirteen past Grammy winners, ranging from Amy Grant to Kim Petras, will help announce the 66th Annual Grammy Award nominees in a livestream event on Nov. 10. The announcement will be accessible on live.Grammy.com and YouTube.
Other Grammy winners on board for the event include: Arooj Aftab, Vince Gill, Jimmy Jam, Jon Bon Jovi, Samara Joy, Muni Long, Cheryl Pawelski, Judith Sherman, St. Vincent, Jeff Tweedy and “Weird Al” Yankovic. They will be joined by CBS Mornings co-hosts Gayle King, Nate Burleson and Tony Dokoupil and Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason jr.
Joy was the surprise winner for best new artist last year. Jon Bon Jovi will be the 2024 MusiCares Person of the Year honoree.
The nominations event will kick off with a special presentation announcing the nominees in the general field and select other categories. There will be two changes in general field categories this year. There will be just eight nominations, down from 10 the last two years, for album, record and song of the year, plus best new artist, which have always comprised the general field. Also, two additional categories are being bumped up to the general field for the first time – producer of the year, non-classical and songwriter of the year, non-classical.
Video announcements of the nominees in the remaining categories will also be published on live.Grammy.com and YouTube while the event is underway. The full list of nominees will be published on Grammy.com immediately following the presentation.
Here’s the timeline for when these events will occur on Nov. 10. All times are approximate and subject to change.
10:45 a.m. ET / 7:45 a.m. PT: Grammy nominations pre-show
11 a.m. ET / 8 a.m. PT: Nominations livestream event
11:25 a.m. ET / 8:25 a.m. PT: Nominations livestream event ends: Full nominations list posted on Grammy.com
11:25 a.m. ET / 8:25 a.m. PT: Grammy nominations wrap-up show
Only nine women have received Grammy nominations for producer of the year, non-classical in the 49 years the Recording Academy has presented that award. Despite that tepid track record, you might want to bet on Brandi Carlile to be in the running when the nominations in that category are announced later this year. It will be the category’s 50th year.
Carlile produced Brandy Clark’s eponymous album, which was released May 19, and reteamed with Shooter Jennings to co-produce Tanya Tucker’s Sweet Western Sound, which is due June 2. That album is Tucker’s long-awaited follow-up to While I’m Livin’. Carlile and Jennings won Grammys as producers of While I’m Livin’, which was voted best country album.
No woman has been nominated for producer of the year, non-classical since Linda Perry five years ago. And no woman has ever won in the category, either on her own or as part of a collaboration.
The women who have been nominated for producer of the year, non-classical are Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman (of Prince & the Revolution, 1984); Janet Jackson (alongside Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, 1989); Mariah Carey (alongside Walter Afanasieff, 1991); Paula Cole (1997); Sheryl Crow (1998); Lauryn Hill (1998); Lauren Christy (of The Matrix, 2003); and Perry (2018).
It’s a very different story in the producer of the year, classical category. Three women have won in that category, which was introduced five years after producer of the year, non-classical. And one of those women, Judith Sherman, has won seven times, which puts her in a tie with David Frost, Steven Epstein and Robert Woods for the most wins by anyone in the category’s history. Joanna Nickrenz has won twice (once alongside Marc Aubort). Elaine Martone has won once.
Carlile has become a Grammy darling in recent years. She has won nine Grammys, including three at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards in March. She produced her eponymous 2005 debut album, and co-produced her fourth album in 2012, but the rest of her studio albums have been produced by others.
Carlile moved into production for other artists with The Secret Sisters’ You Don’t Own Me Anymore (2017) and Saturn Return (2020). She co-produced both albums with Tim and Phil Hanseroth, with whom she also co-produced the 2017 Various Artists album Cover Stories. Carlile teamed with Dave Cobb to produce Lucius’ 2022 album Second Nature.
In an interview with Billboard’s Jessica Nicholson, Clark praised Carlile’s skills as a producer. “She pushed me a lot,” Clark said. “I’ve never been as challenged by a producer as I was by her.”
Clark noted Carlisle’s approach to narrowing down the songs that ultimately make up the album: “I gave her like 18-24 songs and asked her to pick about a dozen. I liked them all, but I was surprised by some of her choices. She told me, ‘I chose the songs that I thought sounded like you wrote them in your bedroom, and not in the writing room.’”
That’s the kind of sound advice that shows what a good producer can do.
By winning five Juno Awards this year, The Weeknd has upped his career total of Juno wins to 22. Only one artist in Juno history has won more awards: That’s the great Anne Murray, who has picked up 25 over the years.
Watching The Weeknd close in on Murray’s long-held record echoes the way Beyoncé closed in on – and this year surpassed – classical conductor Sir Georg Solti’s record as the all-time Grammy Award winner. Even if Murray’s record is eventually toppled, the fact she has held it so long speaks volumes. (The artists who are next up on the Juno leaderboard are also global superstars: Bryan Adams is in third place with 21 Junos, while Celine Dion is in fourth place with 20.)
Murray’s collection of Junos includes back-to-back awards for both album of the year and single of the year for 1980-81. She took the album awards with New Kind of Feeling and Anne Murray’s Greatest Hits, and the single prizes with “I Just Fall in Love Again” and “Could I Have This Dance.”
Murray was one of the top pop/country crossover artists of the 1970s and ’80s. She topped the Billboard Hot 100 once (with “You Needed Me” in 1978) and the Hot Country Songs 10 times. She won a Grammy for best female pop vocal performance with “You Needed Me” and for best female country vocal performance three times, with “Love Song,” “Could I Have This Dance” and “A Little Good News.”
Murray was best known for ballads, such as the exquisitely sad “Broken Hearted Me,” but she also had some midtempo hits, including covers of The Beatles’ sassy “You Won’t See Me” and The Monkees’ endearing “Daydream Believer.”
Murray also had a wonderfully dry sense of humor in concert. When a fan would yell out a request, she would counter with a dry “Not yet. First, I want to work you up to feverish pitch.”
Here are nine things to know about Anne Murray.
She made the top 10 on the Hot 100 with her first charted hit.
“Snowbird” made No. 8 in September 1970. It brought her two Grammy nominations – best contemporary vocal performance, female and best new artist. She lost both awards (to Dionne Warwick and the Carpenters, respectively), but she went on to win four Grammys. And she landed a performance slot on that first live Grammy telecast in March 1971, where she sang James Taylor’s song of the year nominee, “Fire and Rain.”
She had three Hot 100 hits with covers of Beatles songs.
She reached the chart with versions of the Fab Four’s “You Won’t See Me,” “Day Tripper” and “I’m Happy Just to Dance With You.” The acts were Capitol Records labelmates, though The Beatles broke up in 1970, just as Murray’s career took off.
Kenny Loggins wrote two of her biggest hits.
Loggins wrote “Danny’s Song,” which Murray took to No. 7 on the Hot 100 in April 1973. He co-wrote “Love Song,” which was a No. 12 hit for Murray in March 1974. Murray later had a country hit with Kenny’s cousin, Dave Loggins. Their collab, “Nobody Loves Me Like You Do,” topped Hot Country Songs in December 1984.
She is one of just four women to win Grammys in both pop and country solo vocal performance categories.
She followed Olivia Newton-John and Linda Ronstadt in accomplishing the feat, and preceded k.d. lang.
She prevailed over a strong field of nominees to win a Grammy for “You Needed Me.”
The other nominees for best pop vocal performance, female were Olivia Newton-John for “Hopelessly Devoted to You,” Donna Summer for “MacArthur Park,” Carly Simon for “You Belong to Me” and Barbra Streisand for her solo recording of “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers” (which was released before her duet version with Neil Diamond). So was Murray’s Grammy win a huge upset? Not at all: “You Needed Me” was the only single by a woman to receive a record of the year nomination that year. Murray competed with Billy Joel (who won), Bee Gees, Gerry Rafferty and Chuck Mangione.
She had one of the biggest hits from the Urban Cowboy soundtrack.
“Could I Have This Dance” topped the Hot Country Songs chart in November 1980 and reached No. 33 on the Hot 100. It was the third No. 1 country hit to emerge from the soundtrack, following Mickey Gilley’s remake of “Stand by Me” and Johnny Lee’s “Lookin’ for Love.” The soundtrack topped Top Country Albums for eight weeks. The soundtrack and the John Travolta/Debra Winger film didn’t exactly do for country music what Travolta’s Saturday Night Fever and the Bee Gees-dominated soundtrack had done for disco in 1977-78, but it got partway there. If Fever was a home-run as a cultural phenomenon, this was at least a base hit.
In 1984, she won both album of the year and single of the year at the CMA Awards.
She won both awards with “A Little Good News” and the album of the same name. It was her second single of the year nod, following “You Needed Me.”
She had a 1981 album with a title that was similar to that of a 2019 blockbuster.
The title of Murray’s 1981 album posed the philosophical question, Where Do You Go When You Dream. Nearly four decades later, the title of Billie Eilish’s debut album posed a similar question, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? Sometimes great artists – even from different generations and genres – think alike.
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Over the decades he’s spent in the rap game, Snoop Dogg has earned himself all kinds of accolades and awards, but the Doggfather has a bone to pick with the Recording Academy as he’s never been the recipient of the highly-coveted Grammy Award.
A day after Beyoncé made history by taking home a record 29th Grammy Award, Snoop Dogg took to his Instagram account to point out the fact that though he’s dropped multiple classic songs and albums and has earned himself 20 Grammy Award nominations, he’s never taken a single golden trophy home. Posting the names of a few rap artists who’ve won multiple Grammy’s, Snoop wrote in the caption “Snoop dogg. 20 nominations. 0 wins. 👊🏾🐾👏🏿.”
It is lowkey bewildering that Snoop’s never taken home a single Grammy given his prolific run in which he’s dropped bangers such as “What’s My Name,” “Beautiful,” “Drop It Like It’s Hot,” and “Sexual Eruption.”
Still, the Recording Academy never blessed him with a single win. Even being besties with Martha Stewart didn’t seem to sway them in his direction. Still, regardless of how he feels about constantly being snubbed by the Academy, Snoop Dogg did partake in the Recording Academy’s Black Music Collective event in honor of Dr. Dre. and others and performed at the pre-Grammy ceremony. So he can’t be that mad at them.
What do y’all think of Snoop Dogg never having received a Grammy award? Which year should he have taken one home? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Ice-T and his voluptuously wife attended the recent Grammy Awards but it seemed that an onlooker was the one who was in love with the Coco.
As per Page Six the Rap legend was in the house for the 65th Annual Grammy Awards. While the celebrity couple seemed to thoroughly enjoy all the festivities it was an off camera moment that truly tickled Ice Oscillator. While watching one of the performances the wife and husband looked on and so did another attendee. An unidentified gentleman sitting to the left of them was clearly stunned by Coco’s unique physique. So much so he did a double take when he really got a good glance at her.
The moment was caught on camera and eventually landed on the “Power” rapper’s radar. He reposted the clip to his social media channels. “Lol… I love how the white dude looked at me then took time to check Coco out,” the Law & Order: SVU star wrote. “I TOTALLY understand” he added. The post was pure comedy and several of his Rap peers, including Busta rhymes, left laughing emojis in the comments section. Some of his other followers claimed they weren’t surprised either and compliment on how stunning she looked.
Ice-T not only attended but he also participated in the historic tribute to Hip-Hop. Initially he declined the offer from Q-Questlove but ultimately was convinced when The Roots member told him “[He said], ‘You don’t want to be sitting at home watching this show, saying you should’ve been there,’”. You can watch the performance below.
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