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62nd Annual Grammy Awards

The 62nd Annual Grammy Awards ceremony was held on January 26, 2020, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.[4] It recognized the best recordings, compositions, and artists of the eligibility year, running from October 1, 2018, to August 31, 2019.[5][6] Alicia Keys hosted the ceremony, having hosted the previous year's ceremony as well.[7]

62nd Annual Grammy Awards

January 26, 2020 (2020-01-26)
5:00–8:40 p.m. PST

Staples Center
Los Angeles, California

Lizzo (8)

CBS

18.7 million[3]

Lizzo received the most nominations of any artist with eight, followed by Billie Eilish and Lil Nas X with six each.[8] Finneas, Eilish's brother, received the most awards with six, followed by Eilish herself with five.[9][10] Eilish became the second artist to win the four major categories of Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist in the same year after Christopher Cross in 1981.[11]


Ten days prior to the ceremony, Recording Academy president Deborah Dugan was relieved of her duties as president and CEO and placed on administrative leave from the organization. She sparked controversy by claiming that the organization engaged in corruption and favoritism; Champagne Billecart-Salmon responded by pulling their ads from the broadcast, and Megyn Kelly, Gabrielle Union, and others tweeted their support of Dugan.[12] The ceremony was held on the same day as the death of basketball player Kobe Bryant, to whose memory Keys and Boyz II Men dedicated their performance of "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday".

As of the 62nd Grammy Awards, the Recording Academy would accept links to streaming services as opposed to physical copies as submissions. The Academy stated: "For most categories, we would prefer streaming distribution links for online entry submissions, though CD submissions remain optional". As justification for this development, the Academy highlighted the changing music industry and added that submitting links was more convenient and cost effective, especially for smaller and independent labels.

Additionally, there were separate screening committees for Pop and Rock, whereas previously these categories were screened by a Core Committee. This leaves the Core Committee to focus on the more difficult decisions such as determining who is eligible for the category and trying to find the best home for borderline genre entries.

Best New Artist

The definition of the had been expanded to accept "contemporary pop songs performed in traditional pop style – the term "traditional" being a reference to the style of the composition, vocal styling and the instrumental arrangement without regard to the age of the material". The Academy stated that broadening the category was done in an attempt to allow it to "remain robust and inclusive" and enable it to be more competitive as, for example, Tony Bennett has won the award 13 times.

Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album

Spoken word recordings targeted at children had been moved from the category to the Best Spoken Word Album.

Best Children's Album

As of the 62nd Grammy Awards, Spanish-language Latin Gospel and Christian music would be officially welcomed in the , Best Contemporary Christian Music Album, Best Roots Gospel Album, Best Gospel Performance/Song and Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song categories.

Best Gospel Album

– hosted the Grammy Premiere Ceremony, presented Visual Media, World Music, American Roots, Pop and Producer categories

Imogen Heap

– presented Packaging, Notes, Historical, Engineering, Remixer, Surround Sound and Music Video/Film categories

Kimie Miner

– presented New Age, American Roots, Reggae, Children's, Spoken Word, Dance and Contemporary Instrumental categories

Esperanza Spalding

– presented Composing, Arranging, Jazz and Country categories

Luis Fonsi

– presented Gospel, Latin and Rap categories

PJ Morton

Natalia Joachim – presented Classical categories

– presented Musical Theatre, Rock, Alternative and R&B categories

Jimmy Jam

Premiere ceremony


Main ceremony

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Bad Guy

Justin Vernon

Charles Anderson

Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins

Disclosure

YoungKio

Ricky Reed

Louis Bell

Aerosmith

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