The Recording Academy will announce nominees for the 65th Grammy Awards on Tuesday with some significant additions.
Grammy nominations to be announced, with 5 new categories
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Recording Academy will announce nominees for the 65th Grammy Awards on Tuesday with some significant additions.
The academy earlier this year five new categories including songwriter of the year to honor music's best composer and a special song for social change award.
The non-classical songwriter category will recognize one individual who was the "most prolific" non-performing and non-producing songwriter for a body of new work. It will take a different approach than song of the year, which awards the songwriters who wrote the lyrics or melodies to one song.
This year's announcement will be made on a livestream beginning at noon Eastern, 9 a.m. Pacific at https://live.grammy.com/. Among those announcing the nominees this year will be Olivia Rodrigo, John Legend, Machine Gun Kelly and Smokey Robinson.