The Recording Academy has revealed the important thing dates for this 12 months’s Grammy season, because the awards ceremony itself will happen on Feb. 1, 2026, at Crypto.com Area in Los Angeles, whereas the nominations will go reside Nov. 7, 2025.
The Grammys additionally introduced a number of updates to its guidelines and classes for this 12 months’s awards, with the complete checklist of updates out there within the Recording Academy’s rulebook. Within the nation class, there can be a brand new award for finest conventional nation album, and the present finest nation album class can be renamed to finest up to date nation album.
Within the basic subject, the Academy has modified a rule for one of the best new artist class in order that artists who had been beforehand featured on a document nominated for album of the 12 months can nonetheless be nominated for finest new artist if their contributions on the album had been 20 p.c or much less.
Within the packaging subject, the Academy is introducing a brand new class for finest album cowl, whereas finest recording bundle and finest boxed or particular restricted version bundle are being consolidated into one class. And within the classical class, the Academy mentioned “composers and lyricists/librettists at the moment are eligible for GRAMMY recognition alongside all different key inventive personnel together with artists, producers, and engineers on profitable albums.”
Music launched between Aug. 31, 2024 and Aug. 30, 2025 can be eligible for Grammy consideration for the 68th Grammy Awards. The net entry interval will run from July 16 to Aug. 29, The Academy mentioned. The primary spherical of voting will run from Oct. 3 by means of Oct. 15, with nominations introduced Nov. 7, and the ultimate spherical of Grammy voting runs from Dec. 12 to Jan. 5, 2026.
“The Academy’s prime precedence is to symbolize the music those that we serve every year,” Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. mentioned in a press release. “That entails listening rigorously to our members to ensure our guidelines and tips mirror in the present day’s music and permit us to precisely acknowledge as many deserving creators as potential. As we kick off one other thrilling Grammy Season, we stay up for celebrating the wonderful energy of music and its potential to carry so many individuals collectively.”
