The Grammys 2022: Black Coffee Clinches Award – See The Full List Of Winners

Album of the Year

• WINNER: Jon Batiste – We Are
• Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga – Love for Sale
• Justin Bieber – Justice (Triple Chucks Deluxe)
• Doja Cat – Planet Her (Deluxe)
• Billie Eilish – Happier Than Ever
• H.E.R. – Back of My Mind
• Lil Nas X – Montero
• Olivia Rodrigo – Sour
• Taylor Swift – Evermore
• Kanye West – Donda

Record of the Year

• ABBA – I Still Have Faith in You
• Jon Batiste – Freedom
• Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga – I Get a Kick Out of You
• Justin Bieber Featuring Daniel Caesar & Giveon – Peaches
• Brandi Carlile – Right on Time
• Doja Cat Featuring SZA – Kiss Me More
• Billie Eilish – Happier Than Ever
• Lil Nas X – Montero (Call Me by Your Name)
• Olivia Rodrigo – Drivers License
• WINNER: Silk Sonic – Leave the Door Open

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance

• Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga – I Get a Kick Out of You
• Justin Bieber & Benny Blanco – Lonely
• BTS – Butter
• Coldplay – Higher Power
• WINNER: Doja Cat Featuring SZA – Kiss Me More

Best Pop Vocal Album

• Justin Bieber – Justice (Triple Chucks Deluxe)
• Doja Cat – Planet Her (Deluxe)
• Billie Eilish – Happier Than Ever
• Ariana Grande – Positions
• WINNER: Olivia Rodrigo – Sour

Best R&B Album

• Snoh Aalegra – Temporary Highs in the Violet Skies
• Jon Batiste – We Are
• Leon Bridges – Gold-Diggers Sound
• H.E.R. – Back of My Mind
• WINNER: Jazmine Sullivan – Heaux Tales

 

Best Rap Performance

• WINNER: Baby Keem Featuring Kendrick Lamar – Family Ties
• Cardi B – Up
• Megan Thee Stallion – Thot Shit
• J. Cole Featuring 21 Savage & Morray – ​​My Life

Best New Artist

• Arooj Aftab
• Jimmie Allen
• Baby Keem
• Finneas
• Glass Animals
• Japanese Breakfast
• The Kid Laroi
• Arlo Parks
• WINNER: Olivia Rodrigo
• Saweetie

Best Country Album

• Sturgill Simpson – The Ballad of Dood & Juanita
• Brothers Osborne – Skeletons
• WINNER: Chris Stapleton – Starting Over
• Mickey Guyton – Remember Her Name
• Miranda Lambert, Jon Randall, and Jack Ingram – The Marfa Tapes

Song of the Year

• Ed Sheeran – Bad Habits
• Alicia Keys & Brandi Carlile – A Beautiful Noise
• Olivia Rodrigo – Drivers License
• H.E.R. – Fight for You
• Billie Eilish – Happier Than Ever
• Doja Cat Featuring SZA – Kiss Me More
• WINNER: Silk Sonic – Leave the Door Open
• Lil Nas X – Montero (Call Me by Your Name
• Justin Bieber Featuring Daniel Cesar & Giveon – Peaches
• Brandi Carlile – Right on Tim

Producer of the Year, Non-Classic

• WINNER: Jack Antonoff
• Rogét Chahayed
• Mike Elizondo
• Hit-Boy
• Ricky Reed

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album

• WINNER: Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga – Love for Sale
• Norah Jones – ’Til We Meet Again (Live)
• Tori Kelly – A Tori Kelly Christmas
• Ledisi – Ledisi Sings Nina
• Willie Nelson – That’s Life
• Dolly Parton – A Holly Dolly Christmas

Best Pop Solo Performance

• Justin Bieber – Anyone
• Brandi Carlile – Right on Time
• Billie Eilish – Happier Than Eve
• Ariana Grande – Positions
• WINNER: Olivia Rodrigo – Drivers License

Best Comedy Album

• Lavell Crawford – The Comedy Vaccine
• Chelsea Handler – Evolution
• WINNER: Louis C.K. – Sincerely Louis CK
• Lewis Black – Thanks for Risking Your Life
• Nate Bargatze – The Greatest Average American
• Kevin Hart – Zero F***s Given

Best Children’s Music Album

• 123 Andrés – Actívate
• 1 Tribe Collective – All One Tribe
• Pierce Freelon – Black to the Future
• WINNER: Falu – A Colorful World
• Lucky Diaz and the Family Jam Band – Crayon Kid

Best Jazz Vocal Album

• The Baylor Project – Generation
• Kurt Elling & Charlie Hunter – SuperBlu
• Nnenna Freelon – Time Travele
• Gretchen Parlato – Flo
• WINNER: Esperanza Spalding – Songwrights Apothecary Lab

Best Rap Album

• J. Cole – The Off-Season
• Nas – King’s Disease II
• WINNER: Tyler, the Creator – Call Me If You Get Lost
• Kanye West – Donda

Best Rap Song

• DMX Featuring Jay-Z & Nas – Bath Salt
• Saweetie Featuring Doja Cat – Best Friend
• Baby Keem Featuring Kendrick Lamar – Family Ties
• WINNER: Kanye West Featuring Jay-Z – Jail
• J. Cole Featuring 21 Savage & Morray – ​​My Life

Best Melodic Rap Performance

• J. Cole Featuring Lil Baby – Pride Is the Devil
• Doja Cat – Need to Know
• Lil Nas X Featuring Jack Harlow – Industry Baby
• Tyler, the Creator Featuring YoungBoy Never Broke Again, Ty Dolla $ign – WusYaName
• WINNER: Kanye West Featuring the Weeknd & Lil Baby – Hurricane

Best Progressive R&B Album

• Eric Bellinger – New Light
• Cory Henry – Something to Say
• Hiatus Kaiyote – Mood Valiant
• WINNER: Lucky Daye – Table for Two
• Terrace Martin, Robert Glasper, 9th Wonder & Kamasi Washington – Dinner Party: Desert
• Masego – Studying Abroad: Extended Stay

Best R&B Song

• H.E.R. – Damage
• SZA – Good Days
• Giveon – Heartbreak Anniversary
• WINNER: Silk Sonic – Leave the Door Open
• Jazmine Sullivan – Pick Up Your Feelings

Best Traditional R&B Performance

• Jon Batiste – I Need You
• BJ the Chicago Kid, PJ Morton & Kenyon Dixon Featuring Charlie Bereal – Bring It on Home to Me
• Leon Bridges, Robert Glasper – Born Again
• WINNER: H.E.R. – Fight for You
• Lucky Daye Featuring Yebba – How Much Can a Heart Take

Best R&B Performance

• Snoh Aalegra – Lost You
• Justin Bieber Featuring Daniel Cesar & Giveon – Peaches
• H.E.R. – Damage
• WINNER: Silk Sonic – Leave the Door Open
• WINNER: Jazmine Sullivan – Pick Up Your Feelings

Best Alternative Music Album

• Fleet Foxes – Shore
• Halsey – If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power
• Japanese Breakfast – Jubilee
• Arlo Parks – Collapsed in Sunbeams
• WINNER: St. Vincent – Daddy’s Home

Best Rock Album

• AC/DC – Power Up
• Black Pumas – Capitol Cuts – Live From Studio A
• Chris Cornell – No One Sings Like You Anymore Vol. 1
• WINNER: Foo Fighters – Medicine at Midnight
• Paul McCartney – McCartney III

Best Rock Song

• Weezer – All My Favorite Songs
• Kings of Leon – The Bandit
• Mammoth WVH – Distance
• Paul McCartney – Find My Way
• WINNER: Foo Fighters – Waiting on a War

Best Metal Performance

• Deftones – Genesis
• WINNER: Dream Theater – The Alien
• Gojira – Amazonia
• Mastodon – Pushing the Tides
• Rob Zombie – The Triumph of King Freak (A Crypt of Preservation and Superstition)

Best Rock Performance

• AC/DC – Shot in the Dark
• Black Pumas – Know You Better (Live From Capitol Studio A)
• Chris Cornell – Nothing Compares 2 U
• Deftones – Ohms
• WINNER: Foo Fighters – Making a Fire

Best Contemporary Classical Composition

• Andy Akiho – Akiho: Seven Pillars
• Louis Andriessen – Andriessen: The Only One
• Clarice Assad, Sérgio Assad, Sean Connors, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin & David Skidmore – Assad, Clarice & Sérgio, Connors, Dillon, Martin & Skidmore: Archetypes
• Jon Batiste – Batiste: Movement 11′
• WINNER: Caroline Shaw – Shaw: Narrow Sea

Best Classical Compendium

• Agave & Reginald L. Mobley – American Originals – A New World, A New Canon
• Michael Tilson Thomas – Berg: Violin Concerto; Seven Early Songs & Three Pieces for Orchestra
• Timo Andres & Ian Rosenbaum – Cerrone: The Arching Path
• Chick Corea – Plays
• WINNER: Amy Andersson – Women Warriors – The Voices of Change

Best Classical Solo Vocal Album

• Laura Strickling – Confessions
• Will Liverman – Dreams of a New Day – Songs by Black Composers
• WINNER: Sangeeta Kaur & Hila Plitman – Mythologies
• Joyce DiDonato – Schubert: Winterreise
• Jamie Barton – Unexpected Shadows

Best Classical Instrumental Solo

• WINNER: Jennifer Koh – Alone Together
• Simone Dinnerstein – An American Mosaic
• Augustin Hadelich – Bach: Sonatas & Partitas
• Gil Shaham Beethoven & Brahms: Violin Concertos
• Mark Grgić – Mak Bach
• Curtis Stewart – Of Power

Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance

• Jack Quartet – Adams, John Luther: Lines Made by Walking
• Sandbox Percussion – Akiho: Seven Pillars
• Sérgio Assad, Clarice Assad & Third Coast Percussion – Archetypes
• WINNER: Yo-Yo Ma & Emanuel Ax – Beethoven: Cello Sonatas – Hope Amid Tears
• Imani Winds – Bruits

Best Choral Performance

• Matthew Guard – It’s a Long Way
• WINNER: Gustavo Dudamel – Mahler: Symphony No. 8, ‘Symphony of a Thousand’
• Donald Nally – Rising w/The Crossing
• Kaspars Putniņš – Schnittke: Choir Concerto; Three Sacred Hymns; Pärt: Seven Magnificat-Antiphons
• Benedict Sheehan – Sheehan: Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom
• Craig Hella Johnson – The Singing Guitar

Best Opera Recording

• Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra – Bartók: Bluebeard’s Castle
• WINNER: The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus – Glass: Akhnaten
• London Symphony Orchestra; London Symphony Chorus & LSO Discovery Voices – Janáček: Cunning Little Vixen
• The Opera Philadelphia Orchestra – Little: Soldier Songs
• The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus – Poulenc: Dialogues Des Carmélites

Best Orchestral Performance

• Nashville Symphony Orchestra – Adams: My Father Knew Charles Ives; Harmonielehre
• Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh & Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra – Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
• San Francisco Symphony – Muhly: Throughline
• WINNER: Philadelphia Orchestra – Price: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3
• Seattle Symphony Orchestra – Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra; Scriabin: The Poem of Ecstasy

Producer of the Year, Classical

• Blanton Alspaugh
• Steven Epstein
• David Frost
• Elaine Martone
• WINNER: Judith Sherman

Best Engineered Album, Classical

• Sérgio Assad, Clarice Assad & Third Coast Percussion – Archetypes
• Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax – Beethoven: Cello Sonatas – Hope Amid Tears
• Manfred Honeck, Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh & Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra – Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
• WINNER: Chanticleer – Chanticleer Sings Christmas
• Gustavo Dudamel, Fernando Malvar-Ruiz, Luke McEndarfer, Robert Istad, Grant Gershon, Los Angeles Children’s Chorus, Los Angeles Master Chorale, National Children’s Chorus, Pacific Chorale & Los Angeles Philharmonic – Mahler: Symphony No. 8, ‘Symphony of a Thousand’

Best Spoken Word Album

• LeVar Burton – Aftermath
• WINNER: Don Cheadle – Carry On: Reflections for a New Generation From John Lewis
• J. Ivy – Catching Dreams: Live at Fort Knox Chicago
• Dave Chappelle & Amir Sulaiman – 8:46
• Barack Obama – A Promised Land

Best Contemporary Instrumental Album

• Randy Brecker & Eric Marienthal – Double Dealin’
• Rachel Eckroth – The Garden
• WINNER: Taylor Eigsti – Tree Falls
• Steve Gadd Band – At Blue Note Tokyo
• Mark Lettieri – Deep: The Baritone Sessions, Vol. 2

Best Tropical Latin Album

• WINNER: Rubén Blades y Roberto Delgado & Orquesta – Salswing!
• El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico – En Cuarantena
• Aymée Nuviola – Sin Salsa No Hay Paraíso
• Gilberto Santa Rosa – Colegas
• Tony Succar – Live in Peru

Best Regional Mexican Music Album (Including Tejano)

• Aida Cuevas – Antología de la Musica Ranchera, Vol. 2
• WINNER: Vicente Fernández – A Mis 80’s
• Mon Laferte – Seis
• Natalia Lafourcade – Un Canto por México, Vol. II
• Christian Nodal – Ayayay! (Súper Deluxe)

Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album

• Bomba Estéreo – Deja
• Diamante Eléctrico – Mira Lo Que Me Hiciste Hacer (Deluxe Edition)
• WINNER: Juanes – Origen
• Nathy Peluso – Calambre
• C. Tangana – El Madrileño
• Zoé – Sonidos de Karmática Resonancia

Best Música Urbana Album

• Rauw Alejandro – Afrodisíaco
• WINNER: Bad Bunny – El Último Tour del Mundo
• J Balvin – Jose
• Karol G – KG0516
• Kali Uchis – Sin Miedo (Del Amor y Otros Demonios) ∞

Best Latin Pop Album

• Pablo Alborán – Vértigo
• Paula Arenas – Mis Amores
• Ricardo Arjona – Hecho a la Antigua
• Camilo – Mis Manos
• WINNER: Alex Cuba – Mendó
• Selena Gomez – Revelación

Best Roots Gospel Album

• Harry Connick, Jr. – Alone With My Faith
• Gaither Vocal Band – That’s Gospel, Brother
• Ernie Haase & Signature Sound – Keeping On
• The Isaacs – Songs for the Times
• WINNER: Carrie Underwood – My Savior

Best Contemporary Christian Music Album

• Natalie Grant – No Stranger
• Israel & New Breed – Feels Like Home Vol. 2
• Kari Jobe – The Blessing (Live)
• Tauren Wells – Citizen of Heaven (Live)
• WINNER: Elevation Worship & Maverick City Music – Old Church Basement

Best Gospel Album

• Jekalyn Carr – Changing Your Story
• Tasha Cobbs Leonard – Royalty: Live at the Ryman
• Maverick City Music – Jubilee: Juneteenth Edition
• Jonathan McReynolds & Mali Music – Jonny X Mali: Live in LA
• WINNER: CeCe Winans – Believe for It

Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song

• Kirk Franklin & Lil Baby – We Win
• H.E.R. & Tauren Wells – Hold Us Together (Hope Mix)
• Chandler Moore & KJ Scriven – Man of Your Word
• WINNER: CeCe Winans – Believe for It
• Elevation Worship & Maverick City Music Featuring Chandler Moore & Naomi Raine – Jireh

Best Gospel Performance/Song

• Dante Bowe Featuring Steffany Gretzinger & Chandler Moore – Voice of God
• Dante Bowe – Joyful
• Anthony Brown, Group Therapy – Help
• WINNER: CeCe Winans – Never Lost
• Elevation Worship & Maverick City Music – Wait on You

Best Music Film

• Bo Burnham – Inside
• David Byrne – David Byrne’s American Utopia
• Billie Eilish – Happier Than Ever (A Love Letter to Los Angeles)
• Jimi Hendrix – Music, Money, Madness…Jimi Hendrix in Maui
• WINNER: Various Artists – Summer of Soul

Best Music Video

• AC/DC – Shot in the Dark
• WINNER: Jon Batiste – Freedom
• Tony Bennet & Lady Gaga – I Get a Kick Out of You
• Justin Bieber Featuring Daniel Caesar & Giveon – Peaches
• Billie Eilish – Happier Than Ever
• Lil Nas X – Montero (Call Me by Your Name)

Best Immersive Audio Album

• WINNER: Alicia Keys – Alicia
• Patricia Barber – Clique
• Harry Styles – Fine Line
• Steven Wilson – The Future Bites
• Anne Karin Sundal-Ask & Det Norske Jentekor – Stille Grender

Best Remixed Recording

• Soul II Soul – Back to Life (Booka T Kings of Soul Satta Dub)
• Papa Roach – Born for Greatness (Cymek Remix)
• K. D. Lang – Constant Craving (Fashionably Late Remix)
• Zedd & Griff – Inside Out (3scape Drm Remix)
• Demi Lovato & Ariana Grande – Met Him Last Night (Dave Audé Remix)
• WINNER: Deftones – Passenger (Mike Shinoda Remix)
• PVA – Talks (Mura Masa Remix)

Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical

• The Marías – Cinema
• Yebba – Dawn
• Low – Hey What
• WINNER: Tony Bennet & Lady Gaga – Love for Sale
• Pino Palladino & Blake Mills – Notes With Attachments

Best Historical Album

• Marian Anderson – Beyond the Music: Her Complete RCA Victor Recordings
• Various Artists – Etching the Voice: Emile Berliner and the First Commercial Gramophone Discs, 1889-1895
• Various Artists – Excavated Shellac: An Alternate History of the World’s Music
• WINNER: Joni Mitchell – Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 1: The Early Years (1963-1967)
• Prince – Sign o’ the Times (Super Deluxe Edition)

Best Album Notes

• Sunwook Kim – Beethoven: The Last Three Sonatas
• WINNER: Louis Armstrong – The Complete Louis Armstrong Columbia and RCA Victor Studio Sessions 1946-1966
• Willie Dunn – Creation Never Sleeps, Creation Never Dies: The Willie Dunn Anthology
• Various Artists – Etching the Voice: Emile Berliner and the First Commercial Gramophone Discs, 1889-1895
• Various Artists – The King of Gospel Music: The Life and Music Oof Reverend James Cleveland

Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package

• WINNER: George Harrison – All Things Must Pass: 50th Anniversary Edition
• Soccer Mommy – Color Theory
• Steven Wilson – The Future Bites (Limited Edition Box Set)
• Gang of Four – 77-81
• Mac Miller – Swimming in Circles

Best Recording Package

• Reckless Kelly – American Jackpot / American Girls
• Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – Carnage
• WINNER: 2nd Generation Falangao Singing Group & The Chairman Crossover Big Band – Pakelang
• Matt Berninger – Serpentine Prison
• Soul of Ears – Zeta

Best Dance/Electronic Album

• WINNER: Black Coffee – Subconsciously
• Illenium – Fallen Embers
• Major Lazer – Music Is the Weapon (Reloaded)
• Marshmello – Shockwave
• Sylvan Esso – Free Love
• Ten City – Judgement

Best Dance/Electronic Recording

• Afrojack & David Guetta – Hero
• Ólafur Arnalds Featuring Bonobo – Loom
• James Blake – Before
• Bonobo & Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – Heartbreak
• Caribou – You Can Do It
• WINNER: Rüfüs Du Sol – Alive
• Tiësto – The Business

Best Reggae Album

• Etana – Pamoja
• Gramps Morgan – Positive Vibration
• Sean Paul – Live N Livin
• Jesse Royal – Royal
• WINNER: Soja – Beauty in the Silence
• Spice – 10

Best Regional Roots Music Album

• Sean Ardoin and Kreole Rock and Soul – Live in New Orleans!
• Big Chief Monk Boudreaux – Bloodstains and Teardrops
• Cha Wa – My People
• Corey Ledet Zydeco – Corey Ledet Zydeco
• WINNER: Kalani Pe’a – Kau Ka Pe’a

Best Folk Album

• Mary Chapin Carpenter – One Night Lonely (Live)
• Tyler Childers – Long Violent History
• Madison Cunningham – Wednesday (Extended Edition)
• WINNER: Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi – They’re Calling Me Home
• Sarah Jarosz – Blue Heron Suite

Best Contemporary Blues Album

• The Black Keys Featuring Eric Deaton & Kenny Brown – Delta Kream
• Joe Bonamassa – Royal Tea
• Shemekia Copeland – Uncivil War
• Steve Cropper – Fire It Up
• WINNER: Christone “Kingfish” Ingram – 662

Best Traditional Blues Album

• Elvin Bishop & Charlie Musselwhite – 100 Years of Blues
• Blues Traveler – Traveler’s Blues
• WINNER: Cedric Burnside – I Be Trying
• Guy Davis – Be Ready When I Call You
• Kim Wilson – Take Me Back

Best Bluegrass Album

• Billy Strings – Renewal
• WINNER: Béla Fleck – My Bluegrass Heart
• The Infamous Stringdusters – A Tribute to Bill Monroe
• Sturgill Simpson – Cuttin’ Grass – Vol. 1 (Butcher Shoppe Sessions)
• Rhonda Vincent – Music Is What I See

Best Americana Album

• Jackson Browne – Downhill From Everywhere
• John Hiatt with The Jerry Douglas Band – Leftover Feelings
• WINNER: Los Lobos – Native Sons
• Allison Russell – Outside Child
• Yola – Stand for Myself

Best American Roots Song

• Rhiannon Giddens With Francesco Turrisi – Avalon
• Valerie June Featuring Carla Thomas – Call Me a Fool
• WINNER: Jon Batiste – Cry
• Yola – Diamond Studded Shoes
• Allison Russell – Nightflyer
• Linda Chorney Featuring Becca Byram, EJ Ouellette & Trevor Sewell – Bored

Best American Roots Performance

• WINNER: Jon Batiste – Cry
• Billy Strings – Love and Regret
• The Blind Boys of Alabama & Béla Fleck – I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free
• Brandy Clark Featuring Brandi Carlile – Same Devil
• Allison Russell – Nightflyer

Best Country Song

• Maren Morris – Better Than We Found It
• Kacey Musgraves – Camera Roll
• WINNER: Chris Stapleton – Cold
• Thomas Rhett – Country Again
• Walker Hayes – Fancy Like
• Mickey Guyton – Remember Her Name

Best Country Duo/Group Performance

• Jason Aldean & Carrie Underwood – If I Didn’t Love You
• WINNER: Brothers Osborne – Younger Me
• Dan + Shay – Glad You Exist
• Ryan Hurd & Maren Morris – Chasing After You
• Elle King & Miranda Lambert – Drunk (And I Don’t Wanna Go Home)

Best Country Solo Performance

• Luke Combs – Forever After All
• Mickey Guyton – Remember Her Name
• Jason Isbell – All I Do Is Drive
• Kacey Musgraves – Camera Roll
• WINNER: Chris Stapleton – You Should Probably Leave

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album

• The Count Basie Orchestra Directed by Scotty Barnhart – Live at Birdland!
• Jazzmeia Horn and Her Noble Force – Dear Love
• WINNER: Christian McBride Big Band – For Jimmy, Wes and Oliver
• Sun Ra Arkestra – Swirling
• Yellowjackets + WDR Big Band – Jackets XL

Best Jazz Instrumental Album

• Jon Batiste – Jazz Selections: Music From and Inspired by Soul
• Terence Blanchard Featuring The E Collective and the Turtle Island Quartet – Absence
• WINNER: Ron Carter, Jack DeJohnette & Gonzalo Rubalcaba – Skyline
• Chick Corea, John Patitucci & Dave Weckl – Akoustic Band Live
• Pat Metheny – Side-Eye NYC (V1.IV)

Best Latin Jazz Album

• WINNER: Eliane Elias With Chick Corea and Chucho Valdés – Mirror Mirror
• Carlos Henriquez – The South Bronx Story
• Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra – Virtual Birdland
• Dafnis Prieto Sextet – Transparency
• Miguel Zenón & Luis Perdomo – El Arte del Bolero

Best Improvised Jazz Solo

• Christian Scott Atunde – Sackodougou
• Kenny Barron – Kick Those Feet
• Jon Batiste – Bigger Than Us
• Terence Blanchard – Absence
• WINNER: Chick Corea – Humpty Dumpty (Set 2)

Best New Age Album

• Will Ackerman, Jeff Oster & Tom Eaton – Brothers
• WINNER: Stewart Copeland & Ricky Kej – Divine Tides
• Wouter Kellerman & David Arkenstone – Pangaea
• Opium Moon – Night + Day
• Laura Sullivan – Pieces of Forever

Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals

• Ólafur Arnalds – The Bottom Lin
• Tehillah Alphonso – A Change Is Gonna Come
• Jacob Collier – The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)
• Cody Fry – Eleanor Rigby
• WINNER: Vince Mendoza – To the Edge of Longing (Edit Version)

Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella

• Bill O’Connell – Chopsticks
• Robin Smith – For the Love of a Princess
• Emile Mosseri – Infinite Love
• WINNER: Charlie Rosen & Jake Silverman – Meta Knight’s Revenge
• Gabriela Quintero & Rodrigo Sanchez – The Struggle Within

Best Instrumental Composition

• Brandee Younger – Beautiful Is Black
• Tom Nazziola – Cat and Mouse
• Vince Mendoza – Concerto for Orchestra: Finale
• Arturo O’Farrill – Dreaming in Lions
• WINNER: Lyle Mays – Eberhard

Best Global Music Album

• Rocky Dawuni – Voice of Bunbon Vol. 1.
• Daniel Ho & Friends – East West Players Presents: Daniel Ho & Friends Live in Concert
• WINNER: Angélique Kidjo – Mother Nature
• Femi Kuti, Made Kuti – Legacy +
• Wizkid – Made in Lagos: Deluxe Edition

Best Global Music Performance

• WINNER: Arooj Aftab – Mohabbat
• Angélique Kidjo & Burna Boy – Do Yourself
• Femi Kuti – Pà Pá Pà
• Yo-Yo Ma & Angélique Kidjo – Blewu
• Wizkid Featuring Tems – Essence

Best Immersive Audio Album (63rd Grammy)

• Stemmeklang – Bolstad: Tomba Sonora
• Booka Shade – Dear Future Self (Dolby Atmos Mixes)
• Tove Ramlo-Ystad & Cantus – Fryd
• Alain Mallet – Mutt Slang II: A Wake of Sorrows Engulfed in Rage
• WINNER: Jim R. Keene & The United States Army Field Band – Soundtrack of the American Soldier

Best Song Written for Visual Media

• Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez Featuring Kathryn Hahn, Eric Bradley, Greg Whipple, Jasper Randall & Gerald White – Agatha All Along
• WINNER: Bo Burnham – All Eyes on Me
• P!nk – All I Know So Far
• H.E.R. – Fight for You
• Jennifer Hudson – Here I Am
• Leslie Odom, Jr. – Speak Now

Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media

• Kris Bowers – Bridgerton
• Hans Zimmer – Dune
• Ludwig Göransson – The Mandalorian: Season 2 – Vol. 2 (Chapters 13-16)
• WINNER: Carlos Rafael Rivera – The Queen’s Gambit
• WINNER: Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross – Soul

Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media

• Various Artists – Cruella
• Various Artists – Dear Evan Hansen
• Various Artists – In the Heights
• Various Artists – One Night in Miami…
• Jennifer Hudson – Respect
• Various Artists – Schmigadoon! Episode 1
• WINNER: Andra Day – The United States vs. Billie Holiday

Best Musical Theater Album

• Original Album Cast – Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella
• World Premiere Cast – Burt Bacharach and Steven Sater’s Some Lovers
• Original Broadway Cast – Girl From the North Country
• The 2020 Les Misérables Staged Concert Company – Les Misérables: The Staged Concert (The Sensational 2020 Live Recording)
• World Premiere Cast – Stephen Schwartz’s Snapshots
• WINNER: Barlow & Bear – The Unofficial Bridgerton Music