Best alternative music album: “Shore,” Fleet Foxes “If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power,” Halsey “Jubilee,” Japanese Breakfast “Collapsed In Sunbeams,” Arlo Parks “Daddy’s Home,” St. 1,” Chris Cornell “Medicine at Midnight,” Foo Fighters “McCartney III,” Paul McCartney.
Best rock album: “Power Up,” AC/DC “Capitol Cuts – Live from Studio A,” Black Pumas “No One Sings Like You Anymore Vol. Best dance/electronic album: “Subconsciously,” Black Coffee “Fallen Embers,” Illenium “Music is the Weapon (Reloaded), Major Lazer “Shockwave,” Marshmello “Free Love,” Sylvan Esso “Judgement,” Ten City. Best traditional pop vocal album: “Love for Sale,” Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga “‘Til We Meet Again (Live),” Norah Jones “A Tori Kelly Christmas,” Tori Kelly “Ledisi Sings Nina,” Ledisi “That’s Life,” Willie Nelson “A Holly Dolly Christmas,” Dolly Parton. Best pop vocal album: “Justice (Triple Chucks Deluxe),” Justin Bieber “Planet Her (Deluxe), Doja Cat “Happier Than Ever,” Billie Eilish “Positions,” Ariana Grande “Sour,” Olivia Rodrigo. Best pop duo/group performance: “I Get a Kick Out of You,” Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga “Lonely,” Justin Bieber and benny blanco “Butter,” BTS “Higher Power,” Coldplay “Kiss Me More,” Doja Cat featuring SZA. Best pop solo performance: “Anyone,” Justin Bieber “Right on Time,” Brandi Carlile “Happier Than Ever,” Billie Eilish “Positions,” Ariana Grande “Drivers License,” Olivia Rodrigo. Best new artist: Arooj Aftab Jimmie Allen Baby Keem Finneas Glass Animals Japanese Breakfast The Kid Laroi Arlo Parks Olivia Rodrigo Saweetie. Powell II, Solána Rowe and David Sprecher “Leave The Door Open,” Brandon Anderson, Christopher Brody Brown, Dernst Emile II and Bruno Mars “MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name),” Denzel Baptiste, David Biral, Omer Fedi, Montero Hill and Roy Lenzo “Peaches,” Louis Bell, Justin Bieber, Giveon Dezmann Evans, Bernard Harvey, Felisha “Fury” King, Matthew Sean Leon, Luis Manuel Martinez Jr., Aaron Simmonds, Ashton Simmonds, Andrew Wotman and Keavan Yazdani “Right On Time,” Brandi Carlile, Dave Cobb, Phil Hanseroth and Tim Hanseroth. and Tiara Thomas “Happier Than Ever,” Billie Eilish O’Connell and Finneas O’Connell “Kiss Me More,” Rogét Chahayed, Amala Zandile Dlamini, Lukasz Gottwald, Carter Lang, Gerard A. Song of the year (songwriter’s award): “Bad Habits,” Johnny McDaid and Ed Sheeran “A Beautiful Noise,” Ruby Amanfu, Brandi Carlile, Brandy Clark, Alicia Keys, Hillary Lindsey, Lori McKenna, Linda Perry and Hailey Whitters “Drivers License,” Daniel Nigro and Olivia Rodrigo “Fight For You,” Dernst Emile II, H.E.R. Record of the year: “I Still Have Faith in You,” ABBA “I Get a Kick Out of You,” Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga “Peaches,” Justin Bieber featuring Daniel Caesar and Giveon “Right on Time,” Brandi Carlile “Kiss Me More,” Doja Cat featuring SZA “Happier Than Ever,” Billie Eilish “MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name),” Lil Nas X “Drivers License,” Olivia Rodrigo “Leave the Door Open,” Silk Sonic. “MONTERO,” Lil Nas X “Sour,” Olivia Rodrigo “Evermore,” Taylor Swift “Donda,” Kanye West. Album of the year: “We Are,” Jon Batiste “Love For Sale,” Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga “Justice (Triple Chucks Deluxe),” Justin Bieber “Planet Her (Deluxe Edition),” Doja Cat “Happier Than Ever,” Billie Eilish “Back of My Mind,” H.E.R. “With that in mind, I think they’re voting for things that they are acknowledging as excellence.”
“The voters are truly evaluating music and not getting caught up in the reputations of any other outside noise or any history of artists,” he said. He said voters focused on the “excellence of music” while considering nominees such as Batiste and Kacey Musgraves, whose work also crosses over into different categories. “What I like is the fact that no one is thinking about what happened before, what was the controversy, what was the noise, or where was this artist making music last year,” said Harvey Mason Jr., the Recording Academy’s CEO.