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Music Industry’s Bests Compete Once Again for Grammy Awards 2023: See Full List of Nominees

November 29, 2022 genzmag

Beyoncé leads the nomination with nine nods while her husband Jay-Z lands with five nods. They now share the record of the most Grammy nominations in history – with 88 each in total.

It’s the time of the year again! Nominations are already up for the 2023 Grammy Awards which will take place at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. Leading the 65^th Grammy Awards is decorated “Queen Bey” with nine nominations, including the Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Album of the Year, Best Dance/Electronic Recording, Best Dance/Electronic Music Album, Best R&B Performance, and Best R&B Song.

Following Beyoncé is Kendrick Lamar with eight nominations while both Adele and Brandi Carlile earned seven nods each. Next in line are a rather diverse group of artists that garnered six nominations, this includes rapper-producer DJ Khaled, songwriter Terius Gesteelde-Diamant, engineer Randy Merill, singer-songwriter Mary J. Blige, rapper-songwriter Future, and British pop icon Harry Styles.

Also making history during the announcement was Bad Bunny with his chart-reigning Un Verano Sin Ti – which became the very first all-Spanish-language album to ever got nominated in the most coveted Album of the Year category. The Puerto Rican rapper-singer was also on the list for the Best Pop Solo Performance and Best Musica Urbana Album categories.

Grammy Awards 2023: Complete List of Nominees

Spearheaded by the Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr., the nomination ceremony featured performances of former Grammy winners and nominees Dan + Shay, Cyndi Lauper, Smokey Robinson, John Legend, and Machine Gun Kelly.

Also, for the 2023 Grammy Award, the Recording Academy added five new categories to recognize outstanding achievement for Songwriter of the Year Nonclassical, Best Alternative Music Performance, Best Americana Performance, Best Spoken Word Poetry Album, and Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games.

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Here’s the complete list of Nominees for the 65^th Grammy Awards:

Record of the Year

ABBA (Don’t Shut Me Down)
Adele (Easy on Me)
Beyoncé (Break My Soul)
Brandi Carlile Featuring Lucius (You and Me on the Rock)
Doja Cat (Woman)
Harry Styles (As It Was)
Kendrick Lamar (The Heart Part 5)
Lizzo (About Damn Time)
Mary J. Blige (Good Morning Gorgeous)
Steve Lacy (Bad Habit)

Album of the Year

ABBA (Voyage)
Adele (30)
Bad Bunny (Un Verano Sin Ti)
Beyoncé (Renaissance)
Brandi Carlile (In These Silent Days)
Coldplay (Music of the Spheres)
Harry Styles (Harry’s House)
Kendrick Lamar (Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers)
Lizzo (Special)
Mary J. Blige (Good Morning Gorgeous)

Song of the Year

Adele (Easy on Me)
Beyoncé (Break My Soul)
Bonnie Raitt (Just Like That)
DJ Khaled Featuring Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, John Legend & Fridayy (God Did)
Gayle (ABCDEFU)
Harry Styles (As It Was)
Kendrick Lamar (The Heart Part 5)
Lizzo (About Damn Time)
Steve Lacy (Bad Habit)
Taylor Swift (All Too Well (10 Minute Version))

Best New Artist

Anitta
Domi & JD Beck
Latto
Måneskin
Molly Tuttle
Muni Long
Omar Apollo
Samara Joy
Tobe Nwigwe
Wet Leg

Best Pop Solo Performance

Adele (Easy on Me)
Bad Bunny (Moscow Mule)
Doja Cat (Woman)
Harry Styles (As It Was)
Lizzo (About Damn Time)
Steve Lacy (Bad Habit)

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance

ABBA (Don’t Shut Me Down)
Camila Cabello Featuring Ed Sheeran (Bam Bam)
Coldplay & BTS (My Universe)
Post Malone & Doja Cat (I Like You (A Happier Song))
Sam Smith & Kim Petras (Unholy)

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album

Diana Ross (Thank You)
Kelly Clarkson (When Christmas Comes Around…)
Michael Bublé (Higher)
Norah Jones (I Dream of Christmas)
Pentatonix (Evergreen)

Best Pop Vocal Album

ABBA (Voyage)
Adele (30)
Coldplay (Music of the Spheres)
Harry Styles (Harry’s House)
Lizzo (Special)

Best Dance/Electronic Recording

Beyoncé (Break My Soul)
Bonobo (Rosewood
David Guetta & Bebe Rexha (I’m Good (Blue))
Diplo & Miguel (Don’t Forget My Love)
Kaytranada Featuring H.E.R. (Intimidated)
Rüfüs Du Sol (On My Knees)

Best Dance/Electronic Music Album

Beyoncé (Renaissance)
Bonobo (Fragments)
Diplo (Diplo)
Odesza (The Last Goodbye)
Rüfüs Du Sol (Surrender)

Best Contemporary Instrumental Album

Brad Mehldau (Jacob’s Ladder)
Domi & JD Beck (Not Tight)
Grant Geissman (Blooz)
Jeff Coffin (Between Dreaming and Joy)
Snarky Puppy (Empire Central)

Best Rock Performance

Beck (Old Man)
The Black Keys (Wild Child)
Brandi Carlile (Broken Horses)
Bryan Adams (o Happy It Hurts)
Idles (Crawl!)
Ozzy Osbourne Featuring Jeff Beck (Patient Number 9)
Turnstile (Holiday)

Best Metal Performance

Ghost (Call Me Little Sunshine)
Megadeth (We’ll Be Back)
Muse (Kill or Be Killed)
Ozzy Osbourne Featuring Tony Iommi (Degradation Rules)
Turnstile (Blackout)

Best Rock Song

Brandi Carlile (Broken Horses)
Ozzy Osbourne Featuring Jeff Beck (Patient Number 9)
Red Hot Chili Peppers (Black Summer)
Turnstile (Blackout)
The War on Drugs (Harmonia’s Dream)

Best Rock Album

The Black Keys (Dropout Boogie)
Elvis Costello & The Imposters (The Boy Named If)
Idles (Crawler)
Machine Gun Kelly (Mainstream Sellout)
Ozzy Osbourne (Patient Number 9)
Spoon (Lucifer on the Sofa)

Best Alternative Music Performance

Arctic Monkeys (There’d Better Be a Mirrorball)
Big Thief (Certainty)
Florence and the Machine (King)
Wet Leg (Chaise Lounge)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Featuring Perfume Genius (Spitting Off the Edge of the World)

Best Alternative Music Album

Arcade Fire (WE)
Big Thief (Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You)
Björk (Fossora)
Wet Leg (Wet Leg)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Cool It Down)

Best R&B Performance

Beyoncé (Virgo’s Groove))
Jazmine Sullivan (Hurt Me So Good)
Lucky Daye (Over)
Mary J. Blige Featuring Anderson .Paak (Here With Me)
Muni Long (Hrs & Hrs)

Best Traditional R&B Performance

Adam Blackstone Featuring Jazmine Sullivan (’Round Midnight)
Babyface Featuring Ella Mai (Keeps on Fallin’)
Beyoncé (Plastic Off the Sofa)
Mary J. Blige (Good Morning Gorgeous)
Snoh Aalegra (Do 4 Love)

Best R&B Song

Beyoncé (Cuff It)
Jazmine Sullivan (Hurt Me So Good)
Mary J. Blige (Good Morning Gorgeous)
Muni Long (Hrs & Hrs)
PJ Morton (Please Don’t Walk Away)

Best Progressive R&B Album

Cory Henry (Operation Funk)
Moonchild (Starfuit)
Steve Lacy (Gemini Rights)
Tank and the Bangas (Red Balloon)
Terrace Martin (Drones)

Best R&B Album

Chris Brown (Breezy (Deluxe) )
Lucky Daye (Candy Drip)
Mary J. Blige (Good Morning Gorgeous (Deluxe) )
PJ Morton (Watch the Sun)
Robert Glasper (Black Radio III)

Best Rap Performance

DJ Khaled Featuring Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, John Legend & Fridayy (God Did)
Doja Cat (Vegas)
Gunna & Future Featuring Young Thug (Pushin P)
Hitkidd & Glorilla (F.N.F. (Let’s Go) )
Kendrick Lamar (The Heart Part 5)

Best Melodic Rap Performance

DJ Khaled Featuring Future & SZA (Beautiful)
Future Featuring Drake & Tems (Wait for U)
Jack Harlow (First Class)
Kendrick Lamar Featuring Blxst & Amanda Reifer (Die Hard)
Latto (Big Energy (Live))

Best Rap Song

DJ Khaled Featuring Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, John Legend & Fridayy (God Did)
Future Featuring Drake & Tems (Wait for U)
Gunna & Future Featuring Young Thug (Pushin P)
Jack Harlow Featuring Drake (Churchill Downs)
Kendrick Lamar (The Heart Part 5)

Best Rap Album

DJ Khaled (God Did)
Future (I Never Liked You)
Jack Harlow (Come Home the Kids Miss You)
Kendrick Lamar (Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers)
Pusha T (It’s Almost Dry)

Best Country Solo Performance

Kelsea Ballerini (Heartfirst)
Maren Morris (Circles Around This Town)
Miranda Lambert (In His Arms)
Willie Nelson (Live Forever)
Zach Bryan (Something in the Orange)

Best Country Duo/Group Performance

Brothers Osborne (Midnight Rider’s Prayer)
Carly Pearce & Ashley McBryde (Never Wanted to Be That Girl)
Ingrid Andress & Sam Hunt (Wishful Drinking)
Luke Combs & Miranda Lambert (Outrunnin’ Your Memory)
Reba McEntire & Dolly Parton (Does He Love You (Revisited) )
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss (Going Where the Lonely Go)

Best Country Song

Cody Johnson (’Til You Can’t)
Luke Combs (Doin’ This)
Maren Morris (Circles Around This Town)
Miranda Lambert (If I Was a Cowboy)
Taylor Swift (I Bet You Think About Me (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault) )
Willie Nelson (I’ll Love You Till the Day I Die)

Best Country Album

Ashley McBryde (Ashley McBryde Presents: Lindeville)
Luke Combs (Growin’ Up)
Maren Morris (Humble Quest)
Miranda Lambert (Palomino)
Willie Nelson (A Beautiful Time)

Best New Age, Ambient, or Chant Album

Cheryl B. Engelhardt (The Passenger)
Madi Das, Dave Stringer & Bhakti Without Borders (Mantra Americana)
Mystic Mirror (White Sun)
Paul Avgerinos (Joy)
Will Ackerman (Positano Songs)

Best Improvised Jazz Solo

Ambrose Akinmusire (Rounds (Live) )
Gerald Albright (Keep Holding On)
John Beasley (Cherokee/Koko)
Marcus Baylor (Call of the Drum)
Melissa Aldana (Falling)
Wayne Shorter & Leo Genovese (Endangered Species)

Best Jazz Vocal Album

The Baylor Project (The Evening : Live At Apparatus)
Carmen Lundy (Fade to Black)
Cécile McLorin Salvant (Ghost Song)
The Manhattan Transfer & The WDR Funkhausorchester (Fifty)
Samara Joy (Linger Awhile)

Best Jazz Instrumental Album

Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride & Brian Blade (LongGone)
Peter Erskine Trio (Live in Italy)
Terri Lyne Carrington, Kris Davis, Linda May Han Oh, Nicholas Payton & Matthew Stevens (New Standards, Vol. 1)
Wayne Shorter, Terri Lyne Carrington, Leo Genovese & Esperanza Spalding (Live at the Detroit Jazz Festival)
Yellowjackets (Parallel Motion)

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album

John Beasley, Magnus Lindgren & SWR Big Band (Bird Lives)
Remy Le Boeuf’s Assembly of Shadows (Architecture of Storms)
Ron Carter & The Jazzaar Festival Big Band Directed by Christian Jacob (Remembering Bob Freedman)
Steve Gadd, Eddie Gomez, Ronnie Cuber & WDR Big Band Conducted by Michael Abene (Center Stage)
Steven Feifke, Bijon Watson & Generation Gap Jazz Orchestra (Generation Gap Jazz Orchestra)

Best Latin Jazz Album

Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra Featuring The Congra Patria Son Jarocho Collective (Fandango at the Wall in New York)
Arturo Sandoval (Rhythm & Soul)
Danilo Pérez Featuring The Global Messengers (Crisálida)
Flora Purim (If You Will)
Miguel Zenón (Música de las Américas)

Best Gospel Performance/Song

Doe (When I Pray)
Erica Campbell (Positive)
Maverick City Music & Kirk Franklin (Kingdom)
PJ Morton Featuring Zacardi Cortez, Gene Moore, Samoht, Tim Rogers & Darrel Walls (The Better Benediction)
Tye Tribbett (Get Up)

Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song

Chris Tomlin (Holy Forever)
Crowder & Dante Bowe Featuring Maverick City Music (God Really Loves Us (Radio Version) )
Doe (So Good)
For King & Country & Hillary Scott (For God Is With Us)
Maverick City Music & Kirk Franklin (Fear Is Not My Future)
Phil Wickham (Hymn of Heaven (Radio Version)

Best Gospel Album

Doe (Clarity)
Maranda Curtis (Die to Live)
Maverick City Music & Kirk Franklin (Kingdom Book One (Deluxe))
Ricky Dillard (Breakthrough: The Exodus (Live))
Tye Tribbett (All Things New)

Best Contemporary Christian Music Album

Anne Wilson (My Jesus)
Chris Tomlin (Always)
Elevation Worship (Lion)
Maverick City Music (Breathe)
TobyMac (Life After Death)

Best Roots Gospel Album

Gaither Vocal Band (Let’s Just Praise the Lord)
Karen Peck & New River (2:22)
Keith & Kristyn Getty (Confessio (Irish American Roots)
Tennessee State University (The Urban Hymnal)
Willie Nelson (The Willie Nelson Family)

Best Latin Pop Album

Camilo (De Adentro Pa Afuera)
Christina Aguilera (Aguilera)
Fonseca (Viajante)
Rubén Blades & Boca Livre (Pasieros)
Sebastián Yatra (Dharma +)

Best Música Urbana Album

Bad Bunny (Un Verano Sin Ti)
Daddy Yankee (Legendaddy)
Farruko (La 167)
Maluma (The Love & Sex Tape)
Rauw Alejandro (Trap Cake, Vol. 2)

Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album

Cimafunk (El Alimento)
Fito Paez (Los Años Salvajes)
Gaby Moreno (Alegoría)
Jorge Drexler (Tinta y Tiempo)
Mon Laferte (1940 Carmen)
Rosalía (Motomami)

Best Regional Mexican Music Album (Including Tejano)

Chiquis (Abeja Reina)
Christian Nodal (EP #1 Forajido)
Marco Antonio Solís (Qué Ganas de Verte)
Natalia Lafourcade (Un Canto por México)
Los Tigres del Norte (La Reunión)

Best Tropical Latin Album

Carlos Vives (Cumbiana II)
Marc Anthony (Pa’lla Voy)
La Santa Cecilia (Quiero Verte Feliz)
Spanish Harlem Orchestra (Imágenes Latinas)
Tito Nieves (Legendario)

Best American Roots Performance

Aaron Neville & The Dirty Dozen Brass Band (Stompin’ Ground)
Aoife O’Donovan & Allison Russell (Prodigal Daughter)
Bill Anderson Featuring Dolly Parton (Someday It’ll All Make Sense)
Fantastic Negrito (Oh Betty)
Madison Cunningham (Life According to Raechel)

Best Americana Performance

Asleep at the Wheel Featuring Lyle Lovett (There You Go Again)
Blind Boys of Alabama Featuring Black Violin (The Message)
Bonnie Raitt (Made Up Mind)
Brandi Carlile Featuring Lucius (You and Me on the Rock)
Eric Alexandrakis (Silver Moon [A Tribute to Michael Nesmith])

Best American Roots Song

Anaïs Mitchell (Bright Star)
Aoife O’Donovan & Allison Russell (Prodigal Daughter)
Bonnie Raitt (Just Like That)
Brandi Carlile Featuring Lucius (You and Me on the Rock)
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss (High and Lonesome)
Sheryl Crow (Forever)

Best Americana Album

Bonnie Raitt (Just Like That… )
Brandi Carlile (In These Silent Days)
Dr. John (Things Happen That Way)
Keb’ Mo’ (Good to Be… )
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss (Raise the Roof)

Best Bluegrass Album

The Del McCoury Band (Almost Proud)
The Infamous Stringdusters (Toward the Fray)
Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway (Crooked Tree)
Peter Rowan (Calling You From My Mountain)
Yonder Mountain String Band (Get Yourself Outside)

Best Traditional Blues Album

Buddy Guy (The Blues Don’t Lie)
Charlie Musselwhite (Mississippi Son)
Gov’t Mule (Heavy Load Blues)
John Mayall (The Sun Is Shining Down)
Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder (Get on Board)

Best Contemporary Blues Album

Ben Harper (Bloodline Maintenance)
Edgar Winter (Brother Johnny)
Eric Gales (Crown)
North Mississippi Allstars (Set Sail)
Shemekia Copeland (Done Come Too Far)

Best Folk Album

Aoife O’Donovan (Age of Apathy)
Janis Ian (The Light at the End of the Line)
Judy Collins (Spellbound)
Madison Cunningham (Revealer)
Punch Brothers (Hell on Church Street)

Best Regional Roots Music Album

Halau Hula Keali’i o Nalani (Halau Hula Keali’i o Nalani (Live at the Getty Center) )
Natalie Ai Kamauu (Natalie Noelani)
Nathan & The Zydeco Cha-Chas (Lucky Man)
Ranky Tanky (Live at the 2022 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival)
Sean Ardoin & Kreole Rock and Soul Featuring The Golden Band From Tigerland (Full Circle)

Best Reggae Album

Kabaka Pyramid (The Kalling)
Koffee (Gifted)
Protoje (Third Time’s the Charm)
Sean Paul (Scorcha)
Shaggy (Com Fly Wid Mi)

Best Global Music Performance

Arooj Aftab & Anoushka Shankar (Udhero Na)
Burna Boy (Last Last)
Matt B & Eddy Kenzo (Gimme Love)
Rocky Dawuni Featuring Blvk H3ro (Neva Bow Down)
Wouter Kellerman, Zakes Bantwini & Nomcebo Zikode (Bayethe)

Best Global Music Album

Angélique Kidjo & Ibrahim Maalouf (Queen of Sheba)
Anoushka Shankar, Metropole Orkest & Jules Buckley Featuring Manu Delago (Between Us.. )
Berklee Indian Ensemble (Shuruaat)
Burna Boy (Love, Damini)
Masa Takumi (Sakura)

Best Children’s Music Album

Alphabet Rockers (The Movement)
Divinity Roxx (Ready Set Go!)
Justin Roberts (Space Cadet)
Lucky Diaz and the Family Jam Band (Los Fabulosos)
Wendy and DB (Into the Little Blue House)

Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording

Jamie Foxx (Act Like You Got Some Sense)
Lin-Manuel Miranda (Aristotle and Dante Dive Into the Waters of the World)
Mel Brooks (All About Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business)
Questlove (Music Is History)
Viola Davis (Finding Me)

Best Spoken Word Poetry Album

Amanda Gorman (Call Us What We Carry: Poems)
Amir Sulaiman (You Will Be Someone’s Ancestor. Act Accordingly. )
Ethelbert Miller (Black Men Are Precious)
J. Ivy (The Poet Who Sat by the Door)
Malcolm-Jamal Warner (Hiding in Plain View)

Best Comedy Album

Dave Chappelle (The Closer)
Jim Gaffigan (Comedy Monster)
Louis C.K. (Sorry)
Patton Oswalt (We All Scream)
Randy Rainbow (A Little Brains, a Little Talent)

Best Musical Theater Album

Original Broadway Cast (A Strange Loop)
New Broadway Cast (Caroline, or Change)
‘Into the Woods’ 2022 Broadway Cast (Into the Woods)
Original Broadway Cast (MJ the Musical)
‘Mr. Saturday Night’ Original Cast (Mr. Saturday Night)
Original Broadway Cast (Six: Live on Opening Night)

Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media

Various Artists (Elvis)
Various Artists (Encanto)
Various Artists (Stranger Things: Soundtrack From the Netflix Series, Season 4)
Lorne Balfe, Harold Faltermeyer, Lady Gaga & Hans Zimmer (Top Gun: Maverick)
Various Artists (West Side Story)

Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media (Includes Film and Television)

Germaine Franco (Encanto)
Hans Zimmer (No Time to Die)
Jonny Greenwood (The Power of the Dog)
Michael Giacchino (The Batman)
Nicholas Britell (Succession: Season 3)

Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media

Austin Wintory (Aliens: Fireteam Elite)
Bear McCreary (Call of Duty®: Vanguard)
Christopher Tin (Old World)
Richard Jacques (Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy)
Stephanie Economou (Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarök)

Best Song Written for Visual Media

Beyoncé (Be Alive)
Carolina Gaitán (La Gaita, Mauro Castillo, Adassa, Rhenzy Feliz, Diane Guerrero, Stephanie Beatriz & Encanto (Cast (We Don’t Talk About Bruno)
Jessy Wilson Featuring Angélique Kidjo (Keep Rising (The Woman King)
Lady Gaga (Hold My Hand)
Taylor Swift (Carolina)
4*Town, Jordan Fisher, Finneas O’Connell, Josh Levi, Topher Ngo & Grayson Villanueva (Nobody Like U)

Best Instrumental Composition

Danilo Pérez Featuring The Global Messengers (Fronteras (Borders) Suite: Al-Musafir Blues)
Geoffrey Keezer (Refuge)
Miguel Zenón, José Antonio Zayas Cabán, Ryan Smith & Casey Rafn (El País Invisible)
Tasha Warren & Dave Eggar (African Tales)
Tasha Warren & Dave Eggar (Snapshots)

Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella

Armand Hutton Featuring Terrell Hunt & Just 6 (As Days Go By (An Arrangement of the Family Matters Theme Song))
Danny Elfman (Main Titles)
Kings Return (How Deep Is Your Love)
Magnus Lindgren, John Beasley & The SWR Big Band Featuring Martin Auer (Scrapple From the Apple)
Remy Le Boeuf (Minnesota, WI)

Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals

Becca Stevens & Attacca Quartet (2 + 2 = 5 (Arr. Nathan Schram))
Cécile McLorin Salvant (Optimistic Voices / No Love Dying)
Christine McVie (Songbird (Orchestral Version))
Jacob Collier Featuring Lizzy McAlpine & John Mayer (Never Gonna Be Alone)
Louis Cole (Let It Happen)

Best Recording Package

Fann (Telos)
Soporus (Divers)
Spiritualized (Everything Was Beautiful)
Tamsui-Kavalan Chinese Orchestra (Beginningless Beginning)
Underoath (Voyeurist)

Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package

Black Pumas (Black Pumas)
Danny Elfman (Big Mess)
The Grateful Dead (In and Out of the Garden: Madison Square Garden ’81, ’82, ’83)
They Might Be Giants (Book)
Various Artists (Artists Inspired by Music: Interscope Reimagined)

Best Album Notes

Andy Irvine & Paul Brady (Andy Irvine / Paul Brady)
Astor Piazzolla (The American Clavé Recordings)
Doc Watson (Life’s Work: A Retrospective)
Harry Partch (Harry Partch, 1942)
Wilco (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (20th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition))

Best Historical Album

Blondie (Against the Odds: 1974 (1982)
Doc Watson (Life’s Work: A Retrospective)
Freestyle Fellowship (To Whom It May Concern…)
Glenn Gould (The Goldberg Variations: The Complete Unreleased 1981 Studio Sessions)
Wilco (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (20th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition))

Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical

Amy Allen
Laura Veltz
Nija Charles
The-Dream
Tobias Jesso Jr.

Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical

Baynk (Adolescence)
Father John Misty (Chloë and the Next 20th Century)
Harry Styles (Harry’s House)
Robert Glasper (Black Radio III)
Wet Leg (Wet Leg)

Producer of the Year, Non-Classical

Boi-1da
Dahi
Dan Auerbach
Dernst “D’Mile” Emile II
Jack Antonoff

Best Remixed Recording

Beyoncé (Break My Soul (Terry Hunter Remix))
Ellie Goulding (Easy Lover (Four Tet Remix))
The Knocks & Dragonette (Slow Song (Paul Woolford Remix))
Lizzo (About Damn Time (Purple Disco Machine Remix))
Wet Leg (Too Late Now (Soulwax Remix))

Best Immersive Audio Album

Anita Brevik, Nidarosdomens Jentekor & Trondheimsolistene (Tuvayhun — Beatitudes for a Wounded World)
The Chainsmokers (Memories…Do Not Open)
Christina Aguilera (Aguilera)
Jane Ira Bloom (Picturing the Invisible: Focus 1)
Stewart Copeland & Ricky Kej (Divine Tides)

Best Engineered Album, Classical

Anita Brevik, Nidarosdomens Jentekor & Trondheimsolistene (Tuvayhun — Beatitudes for a Wounded World)
Anne-Sophie Mutter, Boston Symphony Orchestra & John Williams (Williams: Violin Concerto No. 2 & Selected Film Themes)
Edwin Outwater & Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Mason Bates: Philharmonia Fantastique: The Making of the Orchestra)
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra & Manfred Honeck (Beethoven & Stucky: Orchestral Works)
Third Coast Percussion (Perspectives)

Producer of the Year, Classical

Christoph Franke
Elaine Martone
James Ginsburg
Jonathan Allen
Judith Sherman

Best Orchestral Performance

Berlin Philharmonic & John Williams (John Williams: The Berlin Concert)
Los Angeles Philharmonic & Gustavo Dudamel (Dvořák: Symphonies Nos. 7-9)
New York Youth Symphony (Works by Florence Price, Jessie Montgomery, Valerie Coleman)
Various Artists (Sila: The Breath of the World)
Wild Up & Christopher Rountree (Stay on It)

Best Opera Recording

Boston Modern Orchestra Project & Odyssey Opera Chorus (Anthony Davis: X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X)
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & The Metropolitan Opera Chorus (Blanchard: Fire Shut Up in My Bones)
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & The Metropolitan Opera Chorus (Eurydice)

Best Choral Performance

The Crossing (Born)
English Baroque Soloists & Monteverdi Choir (J.S. Bach: St. John Passion, BWV 245)
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, The Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Ailyn Pérez, Michelle DeYoung, Matthew Polenzani & Eric Owens (Verdi’s Requiem: The Met Remembers 9/11)

Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance

Attacca Quartet (Caroline Shaw: Evergreen)
Dover Quartet (Beethoven: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 2 – The Middle Quartets)
Neave Trio (Musical Remembrances)
Publiquartet (What Is American)
Third Coast Percussion (Perspectives)

Best Classical Instrumental Solo

Daniil Trifonov (Bach: The Art of Life)
Hilary Hahn (Abels: Isolation Variation)
Mak Grgić (A Night in Upper Town (The Music of Zoran Krajacic)
Mitsuko Uchida (Beethoven: Diabelli Variations)
Time for Three, The Philadelphia Orchestra & Xian Zhang (Letters for the Future)

Best Classical Solo Vocal Album

Il Pomo d’Oro (Eden)
Nicholas Phan, Brooklyn Rider, The Knights & Eric Jacobsen (Stranger (Works for Tenor by Nico Muhly)
Renée Fleming & Yannick Nézet-Séguin (Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene)
Sasha Cooke & Kirill Kuzmin (How Do I Find You)
Will Liverman, Paul Sánchez & J’Nai Bridges (Shawn E. Okpebholo: Lord, How Come Me Here?)

Best Classical Compendium

Christopher Tin, Voces8, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Barnaby Smith (The Lost Birds)
Kitt Wakeley (An Adoption Story)
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Yannick Nézet-Séguin (A Concert for Ukraine)
Seunghee Lee, JP Jofre & London Symphony Orchestra (Aspire)

Best Contemporary Classical Composition

Andris Nelsons & Gewandhausorchester (Gubaidulina: The Wrath of God)
Carlos Simon, MK Zulu, Marco Pavé & Hub New Music (Simon: Requiem for the Enslaved)
Ian Rosenbaum & Dover Quartet (Akiho: Ligneous Suite)
Jack Quartet (Bermel: Intonations)
Time for Three, The Philadelphia Orchestra & Xian Zhang (Puts: Contact)

Best Music Video