Today (NOV 16, 2022) the Recording Academy announced the final nominees for the 65th GRAMMY® Awards. A2IM is proud to extend a very excited congratulations to the 41 member companies who received a nomination this year! You can see the full list of nominees for the event here.
With 6 nominated artists each, Nice Life Recording and Domino Recording Co lead the pack, with a number more receiving over 3 nominations including Mack Avenue Music Group, Redwing Records, and Rounder Records.
Our members proved to be the most alternative, sweeping up 4 of the 5 nominations for Best Alternative Music Performance, and 3 of the 5 nominations for Best Alternative Music Album.
We also dominated in Best Americana Album and Best Contemporary Blues Album earning 4 of the 5 nominations, as well as Best Dance/Electronic Music Album, Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Best Americana Performance, Best American Roots Song, and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical with 3 of the 5 nominations.
Congratulations to the A2IM community on your Grammy® Award nominations!
| “Just Like That,” Bonnie Raitt, songwriter (Bonnie Raitt) | Redwing Records | Song of the Year |
| Wet Leg | Domino Recording Co. | Best New Artist |
| “Rosewood,” Bonobo | Ninja Tune | Best Dance/Electronic Recording |
| “Don’t Forget My Love,” Diplo and Miguel | Higher Ground (Mad Decent) | Best Dance/Electronic Recording |
| “Fragments,” Bonobo | Ninja Tune | Best Dance/Electronic Music Album |
| “Diplo,” Diplo | Higher Ground (Mad Decent) | Best Dance/Electronic Music Album |
| “The Last Goodbye,” Odesza | FFC (Ninja Tune | Best Dance/Electronic Music Album |
| “Crawl!,” Idles | Partisan Records | Best Rock Performance |
| “Call Me Little Sunshine,” Ghost | Loma Vista (Concord) | Best Metal Performance |
| “Crawler,” Idles | Partisan Records | Best Rock Album |
| “Lucifer on the Sofa,” Spoon | Matador Records | Best Rock Album |
| “There’d Better Be a Mirrorball,” Arctic Monkeys | Domino Recording Co. | Best Alternative Music Performance |
| “Certainty,” Big Thief | 4AD | Best Alternative Music Performance |
| “Chaise Longue,” Wet Leg | Domino Recording Co. | Best Alternative Music Performance |
| “Spitting Off the Edge of the World,” Yeah Yeah Yeahs featuring Perfume Genius | Secretly Canadian | Best Alternative Music Performance |
| “Please Don’t Walk Away,” PJ Morton, songwriter (PJ Morton) | EMPIRE | Best R&B Song |
| “Black Radio III,” Robert Glasper | Loma Vista (Concord) | Best R&B Album |
| “Watch the Sun,” PJ Morton | EMPIRE | Best R&B Album |
| “Live Forever,” Willie Nelson | New West Records | Best Country Solo Performance |
| “Going Where the Lonely Go,” Robert Plant and Alison Krauss | Rounder Records (Concord) | Best Country Duo/Group Performance |
| “Rounds (Live),” Ambrose Akinmusire, soloist | Candid Records (Exceleration Music) | Best Improvised Jazz Solo |
| “Fifty,” The Manhattan Transfer with the WDR Funkhausorchester | Craft Recordings / Concord | Best Jazz Vocal Album |
| “New Standards Vol. 1,” Terri Lyne Carrington, Kris Davis, Linda May Han Oh, Nicholas Payton and Matthew Stevens | Candid Records (Exceleration Music) | Best Jazz Instrumental Album |
| “Live at the Detroit Jazz Festival,” Wayne Shorter, Terri Lyne Carrington, Leo Genovese and Esperanza Spalding | Candid Records (Exceleration Music) | Best Jazz Instrumental Album |
| “Parallel Motion,” Yellowjackets | Mack Avenue Music Group | Best Jazz Instrumental Album |
| “Crisálida,” Danilo Pérez featuring the Global Messengers | Mack Avenue Music Group | Best Latin Jazz Album |
| “If You Will,” Flora Purim | Strut Records / K7 Music GmbH | Best Latin Jazz Album |
| “The Better Benediction,” PJ Morton featuring Zacardi Cortez, Gene Moore, Samoht, Tim Rogers and Darrel Walls; PJ Morton, songwriter | EMPIRE | Best Gospel Performance/Song |
| “For God Is With Us,” For King & Country and Hillary Scott; Josh Kerr, Jordan Reynolds, Joel Smallbone and Luke Smallbone, songwriters | Curb | Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song |
| “2:22,” Karen Peck and New River | Daywind | Best Roots Gospel Album |
| “El Alimento,” Cimafunk | Terapia Productions/Thirty Tigers | Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album |
| “Prodigal Daughter,” Aoife O’Donovan and Allison Russell | Yep Roc Records | Best American Roots Performance |
| “There You Go Again,” Asleep at the Wheel featuring Lyle Lovett | Home Records/Thirty Tigers | Best Americana Performance |
| “The Message,” Blind Boys of Alabama featuring Black Violin | Single Lock Records | Best Americana Performance |
| “Made Up Mind,” Bonnie Raitt | Redwing Records | Best Americana Performance |
| “High and Lonesome,” T Bone Burnett and Robert Plant, songwriters (Robert Plant and Alison Krauss) | Rounder distro Concord | Best American Roots Song |
| “Just Like That,” Bonnie Raitt, songwriter (Bonnie Raitt) | Redwing Records | Best American Roots Song |
| “Prodigal Daughter,” Tim O’Brien and Aoife O’Donovan, songwriters (Aoife O’Donovan and Allison Russell) | Yep Roc Records | Best American Roots Song |
| “Things Happen That Way,” Dr. John | Rounder/Concord | Best Americana Album |
| “Good to Be … ,” Keb’ Mo’ | Rounder/Concord | Best Americana Album |
| “Raise the Roof,” Robert Plant and Alison Krauss | Rounder/Concord | Best Americana Album |
| “Just Like That…,” Bonnie Raitt | Redwing Records | Best Americana Album |
| “Get Yourself Outside,” Yonder Mountain String Band | Frog Pag/Thirty Tigers | Best Bluegrass Album |
| “Heavy Load Blues,” Gov’t Mule | Fantasy/Concord | Best Traditional Blues Album |
| “Mississippi Son,” Charlie Musselwhite | Alligator Records | Best Traditional Blues Album |
| “Done Come Too Far,” Shemekia Copeland | Alligator Records | Best Contemporary Blues Album |
| “Crown,” Eric Gales | Mascot/Provogue | Best Contemporary Blues Album |
| “Bloodline Maintenance,” Ben Harper | Chrysalis | Best Contemporary Blues Album |
| “Set Sail,” North Mississippi Allstars | New West Records | Best Contemporary Blues Album |
| “Age of Apathy,” Aoife O’Donovan | Yep Roc Records | Best Folk Album |
| “Gimme Love,” Matt B and Eddy Kenzo | Vitae Records | Best Global Music Performance |
| “Into the Woods (2022 Broadway Cast Recording),” Sara Bareilles, Brian d’Arcy James, Patina Miller and Phillipa Soo, principal vocalists; Rob Berman and Sean Patrick Flahaven, producers (Stephen Sondheim, composer and lyricist) (2022 Broadway Cast) | Craft Records, distro Concord | Best Musical Theater Album |
| “Mr. Saturday Night,” Shoshana Bean, Billy Crystal, Randy Graff and David Paymer, principal vocalists; Jason Robert Brown, Sean Patrick Flahaven and Jeffrey Lesser, producers; Jason Robert Brown, composer; Amanda Green, lyricist (Original Broadway Cast) | Craft Records, distro Concord | Best Musical Theater Album |
| “Fronteras (Borders) Suite: Al-Musafir Blues,” Danilo Pérez, composer (Danilo Pérez featuring the Global Messengers) | Mack Avenue | Best Instrumental Composition |
| “Refuge,” Geoffrey Keezer, composer (Geoffrey Keezer) | Mack Avenue | Best Instrumental Composition |
| “Let It Happen,” Louis Cole, arranger (Louis Cole) | Brainfeeder (Ninja Tune) | Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals |
| “Everything Was Beautiful,” Mark Farrow, art director (Spiritualized) | Fat Possum | Best Recording Package |
| “Voyeurist,” Tnsn Dvsn, art director (Underoath) | Fearless Records (Concord) | Best Recording Package |
| “Big Mess,” Berit Gwendolyn Gilma, art director (Danny Elfman) | ANTI- | Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package |
| “Black Pumas (Collector’s Edition Box Set),” Jenna Krackenberger, Anna McCaleb and Preacher, art directors (Black Pumas) | ATO Records | Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package |
| “Andy Irvine and Paul Brady,” Gareth Murphy, album notes writer (Andy Irvine and Paul Brady) | Compass | Best Album Notes |
| “Life’s Work: A Retrospective,” Ted Olson, album notes writer (Doc Watson) | Craft/Concord | Best Album Notes |
| “Against the Odds: 1974-1982,” Tommy Manzi, Steve Rosenthal and Ken Shipley, compilation producers; Michael Graves, mastering engineer; Tom Camuso, restoration engineer (Blondie) | Numero Group / Capitol | Best Historical Album |
| “Life’s Work: A Retrospective,” Scott Billington, Ted Olson and Mason Williams, compilation producers; Paul Blakemore, mastering engineer (Doc Watson) | Craft Recordings (Concord) | Best Historical Album |
| Tobias Jesso Jr. | True Panther | Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical |
| “Black Radio III,” Daniel Farris, Tiffany Gouché, Keith Lewis, Musiq Soulchild, Reginald Nicholas, Q-Tip, Amir Sulaiman, Michael Law Thomas and Jon Zacks, engineers; Chris Athens, mastering engineer (Robert Glasper) | Loma Vista Recordings | Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical |
| “Chloë and the Next 20th Century,” Dave Cerminara and Jonathan Wilson, engineers; Adam Ayan, mastering engineer (Father John Misty) | Sub Pop Records | Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical |
| “Wet Leg,” Jon McMullen, Joshua Mobaraki, Alan Moulder and Alexis Smith, engineers; Matt Colton, mastering engineer (Wet Leg) | Domino Recording Co | Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical |
| “Too Late Now (Soulwax Remix),” Soulwax, remixers (Wet Leg) | Domino Recording Co | Best Remixed Recording |
| “How Do I Find You,” Sasha Cooke, soloist; Kirill Kuzmin, pianist | Pentatone | Best Classical Solo Vocal Album |
| “Bermel: Intonations,” Derek Bermel, composer (Jack Quartet) | Naxos | Best Contemporary Classical Composition |