Grammys 2022 date announced as Recording Academy returns to pre-pandemic schedule

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Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIn an optimistic move toward normalcy, the Recording Academy has announced that the 64 th annual Grammy Awards will take place at the show’s traditional home of the Staples Center on Jan. 31, 2022 — exactly a year after the originally scheduled date of the 2021 awards, which were moved to March 14 due to a spike in coronavirus cases in Southern California.As usual, the show will broadcast live on the CBS television network from 8 – 11:30 p.m.

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Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorWhile it was announced during the Grammy Awards on Sunday, the formation of the Recording Academy’s Songwriters and Composers Wing was not done in secret, and the Songwriters of North America, the Black Music Action Coalition, the Music Artists Coalition and the 100 Percenters responded quickly with an open letter to the new organization calling on it to eliminate the Minimum Delivery and Release Commitment (MDRC) requirement in music-publishing deals.

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Trevor Noah introduced a very differentGrammy Awardsshow on Sunday. "Tonight is going to be the biggest outdoor event this year besides the storming of the Capitol," said Noah, taking an outdoor stage in front of the Stapes Center in downtown Los Angeles to a small, socially distanced crowd of the star-studded nominees.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorSongwriters and composers have long felt under-recognized by the Grammy Awards — and many have advocated for a Songwriter of the Year award — and today the Recording Academy has made a step toward addressing that by announcing the creation of its Songwriters & Composers Wing, an Academy membership division representing the diverse community of music creators who provide the world with the gift of song.

Grammys 2021.Taylor Swift opened her refreshingly low-key awards show medley with “Cardigan,” from her surprise 2020 release, the offbeat “folklore” — a collaboration with writer-producers Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner.Swift, 31, quickly morphed into an amber-lighted singer-songwriter diva with “August,” followed by an equally naturalistic “Willow.”The general social media consensus was that her less-flashy-than-usual performance was positively “dreamy.”It’s been 13 years since Swift earned