Grammy Awards announce dates for 2024 ceremony and nominations reveal
LA TimesThe 66th Grammy Awards will take place Feb. 4 in a ceremony at Crypto.com Arena in downtown Los Angeles, organizers said Thursday. After two years in which 10 nominees were allowed into each of the show’s top categories — album, record and song of the year, as well as best new artist — the 66th Grammys will reduce the number of nominees for each prize to eight. Among the presumptive front-runners for album of the year are Taylor Swift’s “Midnights” and SZA’s “SOS,” both critical successes and commercial blockbusters; other LPs in the early running include “The Record” by Boygenius and Foo Fighters’ “But Here We Are,” which addresses the 2022 death of that band’s longtime drummer, Taylor Hawkins. Miley Cyrus’ chart-topping “Flowers” is likely to earn nods for record and song of the year, while Peso Pluma may ride the explosion of regional Mexican music to a best new artist nomination. Big winners at the most recent Grammys, which took place in February, included Harry Styles, who took album of the year with “Harry’s House”; Lizzo’s “About Damn Time,” which was named record of the year; Bonnie Raitt, whose “Just Like That” won song of the year; and jazz singer Samara Joy, named best new artist.