Announced the nominees of the jubilee, the 60th, "Grammy". There are among them several Russians. Promoted to the award opera singer Dmitry Hvorostovsky. He and conductor Konstantin Orbelian became the contenders for the award in the nomination "The Best Classical Vocal Solo Album" for the CD "Sviridov: Otchalivshaya Rus", recorded on Sergey Yesenin's poetry. In addition to them, the American National Academy of Sound Recording can be noted conductor Valery Gergiev with the soloists of the Mariinsky Theater Aida Garifullina, Andrei Serov and Vladimir Feliuer, as well as producer Ilya Petrov. They claim the award in the category "Best record of the opera" for the performance of the "Golden Cockerel" by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. In the main category - "Record of the Year" - among the nominees included American rapper Kendrick Lamar with the song "Humble" and singer Bruno Mars with the song "24k Magic". The Puerto Rican singers Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee Single will be eligible for the same prize for the hit Despacito recorded with the participation of the Canadian star Justin Bieber.

The prize can also be given to American rapper Jay-Z "Jay-Z" for the song The Story of O. and Childish Gambino for his single Redbone. By the way, the first has more than the others - eight - opportunities to win the award, among which - in the nominations "Album of the Year" ("4:44") and "Record of the Year" (for "The Story of O. "). A little - one position - behind him Kendrick Lamar, who also has a chance to win the award for the best album ("DAMN"). The nominees for the award in this category also became singer Lord from New Zealand for the album "Melodrama and rap singer Childish Gambino (" Awaken, My Love! "). This year, the rules of "Grammy" changed a little. Additional requirements have been added to the qualification requirements of the technical award, and procedural updates to the Nominations Committee. For the first time in the history of the existence of the prize, participants - over 13,000 - will vote for online nominees, not a paper bulletin. This will provide greater flexibility for touring performers, eliminate the possibility of invalid ballots and protect against fraudulent voting.

All songwriters, producers, sound engineers, mixers, mastering engineers, major singers who are credited with at least 33% or more of the playing time on the winning album will now be able to receive a Grammy in the Album of the Year category. Such a history of the award has not yet been.

Since this year, in the Rap, Contemporary Instrumental and New Age categories, the Nomination Review Committees.

To be eligible for the award, the album must contain a minimum total playing time of 15 minutes with at least five separate tracks or a minimum total playing time of 30 minutes without a minimum track requirement. Prior to this revised definition of the album, the only distinction was 15 minutes and five tracks.

Usually only one version of the track was allowed to enter the nomination process on the "Grammy". Now an exception will be made in the category "The best song written for visual media", which will allow to enter the film version of the track into this category, even if another version of this track is presented in other categories.

Amendments to the selection rules in the category Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media. From now on, it is necessary that the albums of soundtracks of documentary or biographical content include 51% or more of new recorded music. The Grammy has almost 80 different categories in which awards are awarded, recalls "The newspaper. RU". Winners of 2017. will be announced on January 28, 2018. The awards ceremony will be held in New York, in Madison Square Garden. It will feature the best entries, compositions and performers of the last contingent year, which is calculated from October 1, 2016 to September 30, 2017. For the first time since 2003. The ceremony will take place outside of Los Angeles (from 2004 to 2017. it was held in the Staples Center). As the presenter, as in the last ceremony, the British actor James Corden is again scheduled [2]. Broadcasting as before (since 1973) will be channeled by CBS (under a new contract until 2026.