GRAMMY AWARD

3, List of Grammy Award categories

The Grammy Awards are awarded in a series of categories, each of which set
apart a specific contribution to the recording industry. Twenty-eight Grammys
were awarded in the first award ceremony, but the number of awards has grown
when the new categories are added and some older ones removed
Special awards
Special awards which are awarded without nominations, which the standard
awards apply to:

 Grammy Global Impact Award

 Lifetime Achievement Award and Trustees Award is a Special Merit
Award presented to performers or individuals who spend all their
lifetimes, have made creative contributions of significance to the field
of recording.
 Technical Grammy Award is a Special Merit Award presented to
individuals and/or companies who have made contributions of
outstanding technical significance to the recording field.
 Grammy Legend Award is a Special Merit Award is presented to
individuals or groups for ongoing contributions and influence in the
recording field; it was inaugurated in 1990.
 Grammy Hall of Fame Award was established in 1973 to to honor
recordings of lasting qualitative or historical significance that are at
least 25 years old. Winners are selected by a special member
committee of professionals of the recording arts.
 The MusiCares Person of the Year Award was established in 1991 to
recognize a musician who has made an outstanding contribution to
music and in addition has been active in works of charity activities.
 Best Song for Social Change is a Special Merit Award approved by
the Recording Academy Board of Trustees. A song which win this
award must contain lyric content that addresses a timely social issue
and promotes understanding, impact on peacebuilding and empathy.

General Field
The General Field (also known as the 'Big Four') are four standard awards for musical works

 Album of the Year is awarded to the performer, songwriter, and the production team
of a full album.
 Record of the Year is awarded to the performer and the production team of a single
song.
  Song of the Year is awarded to the songwriter of a single song.
 Best New Artist is awarded to an artist without reference to a song or album.

Genre-specific fields
For the 2022 ceremony, there were 86 categories, including the General Field but not including
special awards. This categories include songs with a types like: Pop; Rock; Electronic; R&B;
Rap; Country; Rap;…etc

4, Process of nominess and Final voting

Entry process and selection of nominees
Step 1: Members of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
(NARAS), both media companies and individuals, may nominate recordings for
consideration. When a work is entered, over 150 recording industry experts
from NARAS determine that the work has been entered in the correct category.
Step 2: The resulting lists of eligible entries are gave to voting members, each
who may vote to nominate in the General Fields. The five recordings that earn
the most votes in each category become the nominees
Final voting
After nominees have been determined, final voting ballots are sent to NARAS
voting members.  Vote are charted secretly. The recording with the most votes
in a category wins. Winners are presented with a Grammy Award; those who do
not win receive a medal for their nomination.
In many categories, certificates are presented to those ineligible for a Grammy
award but who did contribute to a winning recording. These certificates are
known as Participation Certificates or Winners Certificates

5, Grammy Award Milestone

 The record for the number of Grammys belongs to Sir Georg Solti, an
Anglo-Hungarian, conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He
won a total of 31 awards out of 74 nominations before his death in 1997.
 The most Grammy-winning male artist is singer Quincy Jones. He won
27 awards. And female artist is Alison Krauss, a country singer and
producer who has won 27 awards.
 The most winning male artist in a year is Michael Jackson, who won
eight awards in 1984 with his album Thriller. In 2000, singer Carlos
Santana also achieved this achievement. The most awarded female artists
in a year are Beyonce, who won 6 Grammy Awards in 2010 and Adele,
who also won 6 Grammy Awards in 2012. 7 female artists who have won
5 Grammy Awards in a year, that is Lauryn Hill in 1999, Alicia Keys in
2002, Norah Jones in 2003, Beyonce in 2004, The Dixie Chicks in 2007,
Amy Winehouse in 2008 and Billie Eilish in 2020.
  In 2020, Billie Eilish won 4 major categories including: Best New Artist,
Album of the Year, Record of the Year and Song of the Year and became
the youngest person in history to win these four awards at the same time.
 In 1997 LeAnn Rimes won the "Best New Artist" award when she was 14
years old, breaking the record set by David L. Cook when he also won the
award at the age of 16.

6, TV broadcasts and ratings

TV boardcasts
 Before the first live Grammys telecast in 1971 on ABC, a series of
filmed annual specials in the 1960s called The Best on Record was
broadcast on NBC. The first Grammy Award telecast took place on
the night of November 29, 1959, as an episode of the NBC anthology
series “NBC Sunday Showcase”, which normally was devoted to
plays, original TV dramas, and variety shows. Until 1971, awards
ceremonies were held in both New York and Los Angeles, with
winners accepting at one of the two venues. Television producer
Pierre Cossette bought the rights to broadcast the ceremony from the
NARAS and organized the first live telecast.
 The Grammys were held on the second Sunday of February, with two
exceptions: if that day was February 14, it was moved to the following
day; if it was a Winter Olympics year, it was held earlier on the last
Sunday of January
Ratings
Impact on record sales
When the televised Grammys came into renown in 1975, a relationship between
Grammy Award winners and subsequent record sales began. However, it was
not until after 1984 that Grammy records showed a substantial increase in sales.
This was largely due to an agreement made by NARAS. Under this agreement
"record labels provided stickers, posters and other point-of-purchase material
emblazoned 'Grammy Nominee' or 'Grammy Award Winner' that retailers could
use to improve marketing effects.