The ratings are in for the 2022 Grammy Awards!
04.04.2022 - 21:17 / variety.com
Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterSunday’s in-person Grammy Awards on CBS saw just a 1.4% increase in audience size from last year’s partly virtual ceremony, which was a record-low for music’s biggest night.Hosted by Trevor Noah from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, the two-month-delayed 64th Annual Grammy Awards drew 8.93 million total viewers across multiple platforms, according to time-zone adjusted fast national data from Nielsen. The in-person show, which kicked off with Noah making a reference to Will Smith’s infamous slap of Chris Rock at last weekend’s Oscars, aired live coast to coast on CBS from 8-11:30 p.m.
ET, and streamed on Paramount Plus.Last year’s Grammy Awards, which were mostly virtual due to the pandemic, managed a record low 8.8 million viewers in the comparable preliminary time-zone adjusted data, airing Sunday, March 14. While that total adjusted up to 9.4 million viewers in Nielsen’s Live + Same Day, which includes out-of-home viewing, it was still a record low for the awards show and down 50% from the 18.8 million that tuned in the year prior for the January 2020 telecast.
CBS estimates that Sunday’s telecast will adjust up to 9.6 million total viewers when Live + Same Day data comes in Tuesday. If that rings true, it will mark a 2.1% increase from last year in the final numbers.In terms of the key demo, the 2021 show had an initial 2.1 rating among adults 18-49, according to Nielsen, also a record low for the Grammys.Before that major mid-pandemic decline, the Grammys had been experiencing a much more gradual pattern of year-over-year audience drop-off.
The ratings are in for the 2022 Grammy Awards!
The 64th annual Grammy Awards brought together the buzziest talent in the music biz, including BTS, Doja Cat and Questlove, on Sunday for a star-studded live and in-person ceremony in Las Vegas. However, unlike other awards ceremonies that have seen ratings rebound this year, the Grammys matched 2021’s all-time lows.
Grammys host Trevor Noah made a joke about Will Smith's controversial Oscars slap as he opened the ceremony on Sunday. At the Academy Awards on 27 March, the King Richard actor slapped presenter Chris Rock on stage after he made a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith, and once he returned to his seat, he yelled at Chris to keep his wife's name out of his mouth. A week later, talk show host Trevor took to the stage at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas to host the Grammys and made sure to reference the moment that had been dominating the headlines.
Trevor Noah poked fun at Will Smith's Oscars altercation with Chris Rock during his opening monologue at the Grammy Awards on Sunday (03. 04. 22).
The Grammys are receiving backlash after disgraced comedian Louis C.K. won the award for Best Comedy Album at tonight’s event (April 3).The comedian won the trophy for his 2020 special ‘Sincerely Louis C.K.’, in which he addressed allegations of sexual misconduct made against him in 2017.Multiple women claimed that C.K. had masturbated in front of them, which he admitted to in a statement, saying: “These stories are true.”He did not attend the ceremony in Las Vegas to collect the award, for which he was nominated alongside Lavell Crawford, Chelsea Handler, Lewis Black and Kevin Hart.
One of music's biggest nights took place last night – Sunday 3 April – with the likes of Olivia Rodrigo, Kanye West and Foo Fighters taking home more than one Grammy each. Musicians from far and wide flocked to the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, donning their best attire for the star-studded evening.
Grammys have revealed the third slate of performers for its Las Vegas ceremony on 3 April. This year’s 64th annual show, hosted by Trevor Noah, has tapped Silk Sonic duo – Bruno Mars and Anderson Paak – to open the ceremony, followed by newly added artists including Carrie Underwood, John Legend, and J Balvin with Maria Becerra. Maverick City Music, Aymée Nuviola, and Billy Strings will perform in special segments “that showcase Las Vegas and spotlight genres not historically represented on the Grammy Awards telecast”.
Grammys 2022 memorialised Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins with a special tribute at the Las Vegas ceremony tonight (April 3).The iconic drummer died on March 25 at the age of 50. He was found in his hotel room in Bogotá, Colombia, hours before the band were were set to headline a festival in the city as part of a South American tour.“This was the moment in the show when I was supposed to be introducing the Foo Fighters,” host Trevor Noah explained during the ceremony.
Grammys 2002 telecast, where the man himself introduced — via video call — Lady Gaga’s solo performance of their duet “Love for Sale.”He’s also up for five more gramophones at the 64th annual awards taking place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas (airing at 8 p.m. ET on CBS with host Trevor Noah).
Will Smith jokes have begun at the 2022 Grammys. The 64th Annual Award show is being held in Las Vegas and during the pre-ceremony, LeVar Burton, introduced one of this year's presenters, Nate Bargazte, with a jab towards Smith. ‘KEEP YOUR HANDS TO YOURSELVES’ "I want to warn you all that our next presenter is a comedian. If you know what I mean," Burton began his introduction. LeVar Burton makes a Will Smith joke on stage during the 64th Annual Grammy Awards.
Trevor Noah returned to the GRAMMYs this year and kicked things off in style!The host and celebrated stand-up comic delivered his opening monologue, and didn't hold back when it came to poking fun at some of the A-list music stars in the room at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas — and some celebs who weren't actually there as well.After a lively opening performance by Silk Sonic, Noah came out and made some fun, playful jokes about the night's nominees — including calling Justin Bieber «the best thing to happen to peaches since that Timothée Chalamet movie» — and joked that there was so much star power, it felt like «a musical Madame Tussauds in here!»«It will be such a beautiful evening. Don't even think of this as an award show, consider it a concert where we are giving out awards,» Noah said.
in “gross ass town” Las Vegas after a months-long delay due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The Foo Fighters — who had planned to perform but canceled their appearance following the recent death of their longtime drummer, Taylor Hawkins — nabbed the three early Grammys for Best Rock Album, Best Rock Song and Best Rock Performance.
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The Recording Academy is handing out its 64th annual Grammy Awards today and tonight in Las Vegas, starting with the Premiere Ceremony preshow at 12:30 p.m. PT. The televised portion starts at 5 p.m. PT.
Olivia Rodrigo’s “Good 4 U” and sobbing to Taylor Swift’s 10-minute version of “All Too Well,” the competition for this year’s awards is tight. The show will be held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas — the first time the event will take place in Sin City. Sunday night also will be the first time the Grammys return to a full-swing, in-person ceremony since the coronavirus pandemic began.