A Playlist of Perspectives: GRAMMY Awards Nominations

It has been an exciting year for creative music making. At Music Press Asia, we started the year with an intense review of music and its production made over 2021 and 2022 specially selected for the GRAMMY Awards nomination. Our selections are fantastic indicators of where we’d put our faith creatively for the music scene for 2023, if not more.

Enjoy them!

Record Of The Year
You And Me On The Rock
Brandi Carlile Featuring Lucius
Dave Cobb & Shooter Jennings, producers; Brandon Bell, Tom Elmhirst & Michael Harris, engineers/mixers; Pete Lyman, mastering engineer

POP

Song Of The Year
Just Like That
Bonnie Raitt, songwriter (Bonnie Raitt). Listen here

Best Pop Vocal Album
Voyage
ABBA

DANCE/ELECTRONIC MUSIC

Best Dance/Electronic Music Album
Fragments
Bonobo. Listen here.

ALTERNATIVE

Best Alternative Music Album
Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
Big Thief. Listen here.

R&B

Best Progressive R&B Album
Starfruit
Moonchild

RAP

Best Rap Performance
GOD DID
DJ Khaled Featuring Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, John Legend & Fridayy

COUNTRY

Best Country Duo/Group Performance
Midnight Rider’s Prayer
Brothers Osborne. Listen here.

JAZZ

Best Jazz Instrumental Album
Live In Italy
Peter Erskine Trio

GOSPEL/CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN MUSIC

Best Roots Gospel Album
The Willie Nelson Family
Willie Nelson. Listen here.

LATIN

Best Regional Mexican Music Album (Including Tejano)
Qué Ganas de Verte (Deluxe)
Marco Antonio Solís. Listen here.

AMERICAN ROOTS MUSIC

Best Regional Roots Music Album
Live At The 2022 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
Ranky Tanky

GLOBAL MUSIC

Best Global Music Performance
Udhero Na
Arooj Aftab & Anoushka Shankar

Best Global Music Album
Sakura
Masa Takumi. Listen here.

Between Us… (Live)
Anoushka Shankar, Metropole Orkest & Jules Buckley Featuring Manu Delago. Listen here.

MUSIC for VISUAL MEDIA

Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media
Top Gun: Maverick
Harold Faltermeyer, Lady Gaga, Hans Zimmer & Lorne Balfe. Listen here.

Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media (Includes Film And Television)
Succession: Season 3
Nicholas Britell, composer

Best Song Written For Visual Media
We Don’t Talk About Bruno [From Encanto]
Lin-Manuel Miranda, songwriter (Carolina Gaitán – La Gaita, Mauro Castillo, Adassa, Rhenzy Feliz, Diane Guerrero, Stephanie Beatriz & Encanto – Cast)

COMPOSING/ARRANGING

Best Instrumental Composition
Fronteras (Borders) Suite: Al-Musafir Blues
Danilo Pérez, composer (Danilo Pérez Featuring The Global Messengers). Listen here.

PRODUCTION

Best Music Film
A Band A Brotherhood A Barn
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Dhlovelife, video director; Gary Ward, video producer. Watch the film here.

Best Music Video
Yet To Come
BTS
Yong Seok Choi, video director; Tiffany Suh, video producer. Watch the music video here.

Best Contemporary Classical Composition
Akiho: Ligneous Suite
Andy Akiho, composer (Ian Rosenbaum & Dover Quartet). Watch & listen here.

Best Classical Compendium
The Lost Birds
Voces8; Barnaby Smith & Christopher Tin, conductors; Sean Patrick Flahaven & Christopher Tin, producers

Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
Voice Of Nature – The Anthropocene
Renée Fleming, soloist; Yannick Nézet-Séguin, pianist

Best Classical Instrumental Solo
Beethoven: Diabelli Variations
Mitsuko Uchida

Best Orchestral Performance
John Williams – The Berlin Concert
John Williams, conductor (Berliner Philharmoniker)

Best Immersive Audio Album
Tuvayhun — Beatitudes For A Wounded World
Morten Lindberg, immersive mix engineer; Morten Lindberg, immersive mastering engineer; Morten Lindberg, immersive producer (Nidarosdomens Jentekor & Trondheimsolistene). Listen to excerpts here.

Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
Wet Leg
Jon McMullen, Joshua Mobaraki, Alan Moulder & Alexis Smith, engineers; Matt Colton, mastering engineer (Wet Leg)

2023 GRAMMY Nominations: See The Complete Nominees List HERE.

The 2023 GRAMMYs, officially known as the 65th GRAMMY Awards, will air live on Sunday, Feb. 5, from Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Arena, and it will broadcast live on the CBS Television Network and stream live and on-demand on Paramount+ at 8-11:30 p.m. ET / 5-8:30 p.m. PT.

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