The Recording Academy And CBS Announce Date For The 2022 GRAMMY Awards Show! With just over two weeks after the 2021 GRAMMY Awards show broadcast, The Recording Academy and CBS have announced the 2022 GRAMMY Awards show run date.
The 64th Annual GRAMMY Awards show will be broadcast live from the STAPLES Center in Los Angeles on January 31, 2022, from 8–11:30 p.m. ET/5–8:30 p.m. PT. The show will be viewable live on the CBS Television Network and also available to stream live and on-demand on Paramount+.
More details regarding the GRAMMY nominations will be available on GRAMMY.com in the coming months.
Mark your calendars! ? The 64th Annual #GRAMMYs will broadcast live from the @STAPLESCenter on @CBS and @paramountplus on Monday, January 31, 2022. ✨ https://t.co/r9akw5P9OP
— Recording Academy / GRAMMYs (@RecordingAcad) March 31, 2021
This year’s Grammys Premiere Ceremony kicked off Sunday, 14 March at 3 p.m. Eastern, while the televised presentation of the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards, hosted by Trevor Noah of The Daily Show, went down starting 8 p.m. Eastern on CBS. Beyonce led the pack with nine nominations. Taylor Swift, Roddy Ricch, and Dua Lipa all with 6 nominations each, closely followed Beyonce’s lead. The premiere ceremony boasted eight special performances and the announcement of more than 70 award winners. Jhené Aiko hosted this year’s premiere of the 2021 Grammys experience. Performers included Lido Igor Levit, Jimmy “Duck” Holmes, Pimienta, Terri Lyne Carrington and Social Science, Rufus Wainwright, Poppy, and Burna Boy.
The Grammy Awards Show took place amid boycotts and criticism from key artists. The Weeknd announced he will boycott the Awards Show going forward. This follows a snub by the recording Academy where despite having submitted his songs in numerous categories, the Canadian hitmaker ended up being nominated in none. The ground-breaking Toronto-based artist initially expressed his disappointment toward the Recording Academy on twitter, “The Grammys remain corrupt.” He tweeted. In his second Twitter follow-up tweet, The weeknd wrote how he went from planning a Grammys performance to eventually being “not invited.”
“Because of the secret committees, I will no longer allow my label to submit my music to the Grammys,” the three-time Grammy award winner revealed in statement to The New York Times ahead of this Sunday’s (March 14,) awards show.
The artist’s peers and friends shared their frustration with Recording Academy too, with Drake and Kid Cudi among artists who spoke out about The Weeknd’s snub. The “Blinding Lights” star now stands to join the ranks of fellow superstars, 22-time Grammy winner Jay-Z, 21-time Grammy winner Kanye West and two-time Grammy winner Frank Ocean who have publicly boycotted Music’s Biggest Night.
Justin Bieber on the other hand, boycotted a performance at the Awards show. To be exact, Bieber was not too pleased with the Recording Academy when his album Changes was nominated under the pop category rather than the R&B category that the album was classified to be.
