Olivia Rodrigo, Billie Eilish, BTS and Lil Nas X will carry out on the sixty fourth annual Grammy Awards on April 3, the Recording Academy introduced on Tuesday.
They, together with the singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile and the nation duo Brothers Osborne, are the primary batch of performers introduced for the present, which was delayed 9 weeks by the pandemic and is being held in Las Vegas for the primary time. Trevor Noah of “The Every day Present” is the host.
The present, on the MGM Grand Area, will probably be broadcast by CBS and could be streamed on Paramount+.
Rodrigo and Eilish are every up for seven awards, and can compete towards one another for report, album and music of the 12 months. Rodrigo, whose debut album, “Bitter,” was certainly one of final 12 months’s largest hits, can be up for finest new artist, elevating the chance that she may sweep the highest 4 awards — for the primary time since Eilish did so in 2020.
Lil Nas X, the singer and rapper who rose to fame three years in the past with the meme-ready “Outdated City Highway,” is up for 5 awards, together with album of the 12 months. Carlile was nominated in 4 classes, together with twice for music of the 12 months (for “Proper on Time” and “A Lovely Noise”). Brothers Osborne have two nods, and BTS one. Jon Batiste, the bandleader on “The Late Present With Stephen Colbert,” has probably the most nominations, with 11.
Different high nominees embody Justin Bieber, Doja Cat and H.E.R. The Recording Academy, which presents the Grammys, drew controversy 12 months when it emerged that it had made a last-minute change, unknown to voters, that expanded its poll from eight to 10 nominees for the 4 high classes. Among the many beneficiaries of that change had been Taylor Swift and Kanye West.
This 12 months’s present is the second to be delayed by the pandemic, and whereas final 12 months’s manufacturing was effectively acquired by critics as a recent new tackle the format, its score slipped to a low of 8.8 million, down 53 p.c from the 12 months earlier than. In 2012, when the Grammys had been held the day after Whitney Houston’s loss of life, the present drew practically 40 million viewers.