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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 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 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”

 

Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical

Amy Allen

Laura Veltz

Nija Charles

The-Dream

Tobias Jesso Jr.

 

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 (Deluxe)

Natalia Lafourcade – Un Canto por México – El Musical

Los Tigres del Norte – La Reunión (Deluxe)

 

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 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

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 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

 

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 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 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 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 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 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 (Collector’s Edition Box Set)

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)

 

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 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… (Live)

Berklee Indian Ensemble – Shuruaat

Burna Boy – Love, Damini

Masa Takumi – Sakura

 

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 (Bluegrass Version)”

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 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 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 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 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 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 Musical Theater Album

Original Broadway Cast – A Strange Loop

New Broadway Cast – Caroline, or Change

‘Into the Woods’ 2022 Broadway Cast – Into the Woods (2022 Broadway Cast Recording)

Original Broadway Cast – MJ the Musical

‘Mr. Saturday Night’ Original Cast – Mr. Saturday Night

Original Broadway Cast – Six: Live on Opening Night

 

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