The Recording Academy has announced the nominees for its 65th Grammy Awards. The best and brightest in R&B were highlighted across the 91 categories.
Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical is one of five new Grammy Awards categories. It is the first-ever songwriting category that acknowledges songsmiths beyond the genre-specific fields. It recognizes the “most prolific non-performing and non-producing songwriters for their body of new work released during an eligibility year.”
The recordings had to be released between Oct. 1, 2021, and Sept. 30, 2022, in order to be considered for a Grammy nomination.
Ahead of the Grammy nominations announcement, Rated R&B teamed with The Recording Academy to host a Twitter Spaces conversation encouraging voting members to participate in the first round of voting.
Rated R&B’s Antwane Folk chatted with Len Brown, manager of R&B, rap and reggae at the Recording Academy, about the Academy’s goal to increase voter turnout, clear up misconceptions about round one voting and more.
“I feel like some people feel like if they miss the first round of voting, they can vote in the final round, which is true, they can, but the first round of voting is what determines the nominees and final round determines the winners,” Brown noted of one misconception about the Grammys.
He also talked about resources the Recording Academy provides for members to help increase voter turnout. “We have a Grammy voting guide that we’ve put on grammy.com. That tells members everything they need to know about the first round of voting, including key dates, new categories, how the ballots [have] been upgraded. [We have a] voting support hotline, if anybody’s having any issues logging onto their account or whatever the case is,” Brown said.
The 65th Grammy Awards will air live Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023, at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT on CBS and stream live and be on demand on Paramount+.
View the partial list of nominations below.
Best Pop Solo Performance
For new vocal or instrumental pop recordings. Singles or Tracks only.
Adele, “Easy On Me”
Bad Bunny, “Moscow Mule”
Doja Cat, “Woman”
Steve Lacy, “Bad Habit”
Lizzo, “About Damn Time”
Harry Styles, “As It Was”
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
For albums containing at least 51% playing time of new traditional pop recordings.
Michael Bublé, Higher
Kelly Clarkson, When Christmas Comes Around …
Norah Jones, I Dream of Christmas (Deluxe)
Pentatonix, Evergreen
Diana Ross, Thank You
Best Dance/Electronic Recording
For solo, duo, group or collaborative performances. Vocal or Instrumental. Singles or tracks only.
Beyoncé, “Break My Soul”
Bonobo, “Rosewood”
Diplo and Miguel, “Don’t Forget My Love”
David Guetta and Bebe Rexha, “I’m Good”
Kaytranada and H.E.R., “Intimated”
Best Dance/Electronic Music Album
For vocal or instrumental albums. Albums only.
Beyoncé, Renaissance
Bonobo, Fragments
Diplo, Diplo
ODESZA, The Last Goodbye
Rüfüs Du Sol, Surrender
Best R&B Performance
For new vocal or instrumental R&B recordings.
Beyoncé, “Virgo’s Groove”
Lucky Daye, “Over”
Jazmine Sullivan, “Hurt Me So Good”
Mary J. Blige, “Here With Me” featuring Anderson .Paak
Muni Long, “Hrs and Hrs”
Best Traditional R&B Performance
For new vocal or instrumental traditional R&B recordings.
Snoh Aalegra, “Do 4 Love”
Beyoncé, “Plastic Off the Sofa”
Mary J. Blige, “Good Morning Gorgeous”
Babyface, “Keeps On Fallin’” featuring Ella Mai
Adam Blackstone, “‘Round Midnight” featuring Jazmine Sullivan
Best R&B Song
A Songwriter(s) Award. A song is eligible if it was first released or if it first achieved prominence during the Eligibility Year. (Artist names appear in parentheses.) Singles or Tracks only.
“Cuff It” (Beyoncé)
“Good Morning Gorgeous” (Mary J. Blige)
“Hrs and Hrs” (Muni Long)
“Hurt Me So Good” (Jazmine Sullivan)
“Please Don’t Walk Away” (PJ Morton)
Best R&B Album
For albums containing at least 51% playing time of new R&B recordings.
PJ Morton, Watch The Sun
Robert Glasper, Black Radio III
Mary J. Blige, Good Morning Gorgeous (Deluxe)
Chris Brown, Breezy (Deluxe)
Lucky Daye, Candydrip
Best Progressive R&B Album
For albums containing at least 51% playing time of newly recorded progressive vocal tracks derivative of R&B.
Cory Henry, Operation Funk
Terrace Martin, Drones
Tank and The Bangas, Red Balloon
Steve Lacy, Gemini Rights
Starfruit, Moonchild
Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical
A Songwriter’s Award. (Artist’s names appear in parentheses.)
Amy Allen
Nija Charles
Tobias Jesso Jr.
The-Dream
Laura Veltz