SONG OF THE YEAR
“This Is America,” Donald Glover & Ludwig Goransson, songwriters (Childish Gambino)
Best New Artist:
Dua Lipa
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
“Shallow,” Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
BEST RAP SONG
“God’s Plan,” Aubrey Graham, Daveon Jackson, Brock Korsan, Ron LaTour, Matthew Samuels & Noah Shebib, songwriters (Drake)
BEST COUNTRY ALBUM
“Golden Hour,” Kacey Musgraves
Best Alternative Music Album
“Colors” — Beck
Best Americana Album
“By the Way, I Forgive You” — Brandi Carlile
Best Song Written for Visual Media
“Shallow” — Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt, songwriters (Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper)
Best Comedy Album
“Equanimity & the Bird Revelation” — Dave Chappelle
Best Pop Solo Performance:
“Joanne (Where Do You Think You’re Goin’?)” — Lady Gaga
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album:
“My Way” — Willie Nelson
Best Pop Vocal Album:
“Sweetener” — Ariana Grande
Best Dance Recording:
“Electricity” — Silk City & Dua Lipa Featuring Diplo & Mark Ronson
Best Pop Vocal Album:
“Sweetener” — Ariana Grande
Best Dance/Electronic Album:
“Woman Worldwide” — Justice
Best Contemporary Instrumental Album:
“The Emancipation Procrastination” — Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah “Steve Gadd Band” — Steve Gadd Band
Best Rock Performance:
“When Bad Does Good” — Chris Cornell
Best Metal Performance:
“Electric Messiah” — High On Fire
Best Rock Song:
“Masseduction” — Jack Antonoff & Annie Clark, songwriters (St. Vincent)
Best Rock Album:
“From The Fires” — Greta Van Fleet
Best R&B Performance:
“Best Part” — H.E.R. Featuring Daniel Caesar
Best Traditional R&B Performance:
“Bet Ain’t Worth The Hand” — Leon Bridges,“How Deep Is Your Love” — PJ Morton Featuring Yebba
Best R&B Song:
“Boo’d Up” — Larrance Dopson, Joelle James, Ella Mai & Dijon McFarlane, songwriters (Ella Mai)
Best R&B Album
“H.E.R.” — H.E.R.
Best Urban Contemporary Album:
“Everything Is Love” — The Carters
Best Rap Performance:
“King’s Dead” — Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock, Future & James Blake,“Bubblin” — Anderson .Paak
Best Rap/Sung Performance:
“This Is America” — Childish Gambino
Best Rap Song:
“God’s Plan” — Aubrey Graham, Daveon Jackson, Brock Korsan, Ron LaTour, Matthew Samuels & Noah Shebib, songwriters (Drake)
Best Country Duo/Group Performance:
“Tequila” — Dan + Shay
Best Country Song:
“Space Cowboy” — Luke Laird, Shane McAnally & Kacey Musgraves, songwriters (Kacey Musgraves)
Best New Age Album:
“Opium Moon” — Opium Moon
Best Improvised Jazz Solo:
“Don’t Fence Me In” — John Daversa, soloist
Best Jazz Vocal Album:
“The Window” — Cécile McLorin Salvant
Best Jazz Instrumental Album
“Emanon” — The Wayne Shorter Quartet
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
“American Dreamers: Voices Of Hope, Music Of Freedom” — John Daversa Big Band Featuring DACA Artists'
Best Latin Jazz Album
“Back To The Sunset”— Dafnis Prieto Big Band
Best Gospel Performance/Song
“Never Alone” — Tori Kelly Featuring Kirk Franklin; Kirk Franklin & Victoria Kelly, Songwriters
Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song
“You Say” — Lauren Daigle; Lauren Daigle, Jason Ingram & Paul Mabury, songwriters
Best Gospel Album
“Hiding Place” — Tori Kelly
Best Contemporary Christian Music Album:
“Look Up Child” — Lauren Daigle
Best Roots Gospel Album:
“Unexpected” — Jason Crabb
Best Latin Pop Album
“Sincera” — Claudia Brant
Best Regional Mexican Music Album (Including Tejano)
“¡México Por Siempre!” — Luis Miguel
Best Tropical Latin Album
“Anniversary” — Spanish Harlem Orchestra
Best American Roots Performance
“The Joke” Brandi Carlile
Best American Roots Song
“The Joke” — Brandi Carlile, Dave Cobb, Phil Hanseroth & Tim Hanseroth, songwriters (Brandi Carlile)
Best Americana Album:
“By The Way, I Forgive You” — Brandi Carlile
Best Bluegrass Album
“The Travelin’ McCourys” — The Travelin’ McCourys
Best Traditional Blues Album
“The Blues Is Alive and Well” — Buddy Guy
Best Contemporary Blues Album:
“Please Don’t Be Dead” — Fantastic Negrito
Best Folk Album
“All Ashore” — Punch Brothers
Best Regional Roots Music Album
“No ‘Ane’i” — Kalani Pe’a
Best Reggae Album
“44/876” — Sting & Shaggy
Best World Music Album
“Freedom” — Soweto Gospel Choir
Best Children’s Album:
“All The Sounds” — Lucy Kalantari & The Jazz Cats
Best Musical Theater Album:
“The Band’s
Visit” — Etai Benson, Adam Kantor, Katrina Lenk & Ari’el Stachel,
principal soloists; Dean Sharenow & David Yazbek, producers; David
Yazbek, composer & lyricist (Original Broadway Cast)
Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media
“The Greatest Showman” — (Various Artists)
Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media:
“Black Panther” — Ludwig Göransson, composer
Best Instrumental Composition:
“Blut und Boden (Blood and Soil)” — Terence Blanchard, composer (Terence Blanchard)
Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella
“Stars and Stripes Forever” — John Daversa, arranger (John Daversa Big Band Featuring DACA Artists)
Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals
“Spiderman Theme” — Randy Waldman, arranger (Randy Waldman Featuring Take 6 & Chris Potter)
Best Recording Package
“Masseducation” — Willo Perron, art director (St. Vincent)
Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package
“Squeeze Box: The Complete Works of ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic” —
Meghan Foley, Annie Stoll & Al Yankovic, art directors (“Weird Al”
Yankovic)
Best Album Notes
Voices of Mississippi: Artists and Musicians Documented by WIlliam Ferris” — David Evans, album notes writer (Various Artists)
Best Historical Album
Voices of Mississippi: Artists and Musicians Documented by
WIlliam Ferris” — William Ferris, April Ledbetter & Steven Lance
Ledbetter, compilation producers; Michael Graves, mastering engineer
(Various Artists)
Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
“Colors” — Julian Burg, Serban Ghenea, David “Elevator”
Greenbaum, John Hanes, Beck Hansen, Greg Kurstin, Florian Lagatta, Cole
M.G.N., Alex Pasco, Jesse Shatkin, Darrell Thorp & Cassidy Turbin,
engineers; Chris Bellman, Tom Coyne, Emily Lazar & Randy Merrill,
mastering engineers (Beck)
Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical
Pharrell Williams
Best Remixed Recording
“Walking Away (Mura Masa Remix)” — Alex Crossan, remixer (Haim)
Best Immersive Audio Album:
“Eye in The Sky –
35th Anniversary Edition” — Alan Parsons, surround mix engineer; Dave
Donnelly, PJ Olsson & Alan Parsons, surround mastering engineers;
Alan Parsons, surround producer (The Alan Parsons Project)
Best Engineered Album, Classical
“Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 11” — Shawn Murphy &
Nick Squire, engineers; Tim Martyn, mastering engineer (Andris Nelsons
& Boston Symphony Orchestra)
Producer Of The Year, Classical:
Blanton Alspaugh
Best Orchestral Performance
“Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 11” — Andris Nelsons, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra)
Best Opera Recording
“Bates: The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs” — Michael Christie,
conductor; Sasha Cooke, Jessica E. Jones, Edwards Parks, Garrett
Sorenson & Wei Wu; Elizabeth Ostrow, producer (The Santa Fe Opera
Orchestra)
Best Choral Performance
“McLoskey: Zealot Canticles” — Donald Nally, conductor (Doris
Hall-Gulati, Rebecca Harris, Arlen Hlusko, Lorenzo Raval & Mandy
Wolman; The Crossing)
Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance:
“Anderson, Laurie: Landfall” — Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet
Best Classical Instrumental Solo
“Kernis: Violin Concerto” — James Ehnes; Ludovic Morlot, conductor (Seattle Symphony)
Best Classical Compendium:
“Fuchs: Piano Concerto ‘Spiritualist’; Poems of Life; Glacier; Rush” — JoAnn Falletta, conductor; Tim Handley, producer
Best Contemporary Classical Composition
“Kernis: Violin Concerto” — Aaron Jay Kernis, composer (James Ehnes, Ludovic Morlot & Seattle Symphony)
Best Music Video
“This Is America” — Childish Gambino, Hiro Murai, video director; Ibra Ake, Jason Cole & Fam Rothstein, video producers
Best Music Film
“Quincy” — Quincy Jones Alan Hicks & Rashida Jones, video directors; Paula DuPré Pesmen, video producer
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