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Nominations for the 2022 Grammy Awards will be announced on Tuesday (Nov. 23), and you can find out who will be up for prizes at the very same time your favorite artists do by watching the Recording Academy’s livestream.
The Recording Academy will broadcast the nominations live at noon ET/9 a.m. PT on Grammy.com, as well as across their YouTube, Twitter, TikTok and Facebook pages. Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason jr. and Board of Trustees chair Tammy Hurt will be joined by musicians BTS, H.E.R., Maneskin. Jon Batiste, Carly Pearce and Tayla Parx to reveal the nominations. CBS Mornings anchor Gayle King and comedian Nate Bargatze will also be part of the livestream.
Last year at the Grammys, women stole the show, with Beyoncé breaking the record for most wins for a female artist when her career total pushed to 28, surpassing Alison Krauss’ 27. Taylor Swift became only the fourth artist and first woman to win album of the year for a third time. H.E.R won song of the year for “I Can’t Breathe,” Billie Eilish won record of the year for “Everything I Wanted” and Megan Thee Stallion became the first woman rapper to win best new artist this century.
So who will shatter records at the 64th annual Grammy Awards? Tune in to the nominations livestream to find out who has a shot at noon ET on Tuesday below:
Adele’s new album 30 is the year’s top-selling album in the U.S. after only three days of release.
According to initial reports to MRC Data, the album, which was released Nov. 19, has sold more than 500,000 copies in the U.S. through Nov. 21. That makes it 2021’s top-selling album, surpassing sales of any album over the past 11 months combined. It beats the year’s previous top-seller: Taylor Swift’s Evermore, with 462,000 copies sold through the week ending Nov. 18. (Evermore was released in December 2020 but has continued to sell well in 2021.)
30 also easily claims 2021’s biggest individual sales week – surpassing the mark just set by the arrival of Swift’s Red (Taylor’s Version), which sold 369,000 copies in the U.S. in the week ending Nov. 18.
In terms of U.S. equivalent album units earned – a number that comprises traditional album sales, streaming equivalent album (SEA) units and track equivalent album (TEA) units – 30’s total stands at over 575,000, according to initial reports.
The current tracking week ends at the close of business on Nov. 25. Billboard is scheduled to announce the album’s official final first-week numbers on Sunday, Nov. 28, after MRC Data has completed processing the week’s data.
If 30 debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart dated Dec. 4 (which reflects the tracking week ending Nov. 25), it will mark Adele’s third No. 1. She previously topped the list with her last two studio albums, 25 (10 weeks in 2015-16) and 21 (24 weeks in 2011-12).
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Albums released by Universal Music Group and its family of labels have occupied the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 for 38 weeks so far this year, setting a new chart record. According to UMG’s internal research, the company has surpassed the previous record of 36 weeks spent by a single music company at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in a calendar year — a mark UMG itself set in 2020. UMG claims to be the first music company to achieve this level of dominance on the chart since MRC Data, formerly known as Nielsen Soundscan, began tracking weekly album sales in 1991.
The longest-running UMG album at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 this year — representing more than a quarter of the 38-week total — was Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album (Big Loud/Republic), which spent 10 weeks at the top. That was followed by Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour (Interscope) and Drake’s Certified Lover Boy (Republic), both of which spent five weeks at No. 1.
Taylor Swift scored no fewer than three No. 1 albums for UMG this year for a total of six weeks at the peak, with Republic’s Evermore, Fearless (Taylor’s Version) and Red (Taylor’s Version) all spending time at the top. The latter album led the most recent Billboard 200 after selling 605,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Nov. 18, according to MRC Data.
Other UMG releases which spent multiple weeks atop the Billboard 200 this year were Billie Eilish’s Happier Than Ever (Darkroom/Interscope), which spent three weeks at No. 1, while Justin Bieber’s Justice (Def Jam) and Moneybagg Yo’s A Gangsta’s Pain (Interscope) each occupied the top spot for two weeks.
The remainder of UMG albums to spend time at No. 1 this year were there for a single week. They are: Rod Wave’s Soulfly (Interscope), J Cole’s The Off Season (Roc Nation), Lil Baby and Lil Durk’s The Voice of Heroes (Quality Control/Motown), Pop Smoke’s Faith (Republic), Kanye West’s Donda (Def Jam) and Summer Walker’s Still Over It (Interscope).
This isn’t the first time UMG has scored a feat on the Billboard 200 this year. In June, albums released by the company occupied nine of the top 10 on the chart, a phenomenon achieved only five other times in the Billboard 200’s 64-year history — according to UMG’s internal research — all of which were also by UMG.
Fresh off earning the No. 1 spot on Billboard‘s Greatest of All Time Holiday 100 Songs retrospective, Mariah Carey‘s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” adds a new chapter to its chart history.
The carol dashes back onto the Billboard Hot 100 (dated Nov. 27) at No. 36 with 11.2 million U.S. streams (up 29%), 8.2 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 133%) and 2,700 sold (up 30%) in the Nov. 12-18 tracking week, according to MRC Data.
The song, originally released in 1994, hit the Hot 100’s top 10 for the first time in December 2017. In December 2019, it ascended to the summit at last, becoming the second holiday hit ever to reign, after “The Chipmunk Song,” by The Chipmunks with David Seville, spent four weeks at No. 1 beginning in December 1958. “Christmas” led again last holiday season, upping its total to five weeks at No. 1, thus, a new record among Yuletide songs.
“When I wrote [it], I had absolutely no idea the impact the song would eventually have worldwide,” Carey marvels of “Christmas.” “I’m so full of gratitude that so many people enjoy it with me every year.”
With its 2019 coronation, Carey claimed her 19th Hot 100 No. 1, extending her mark for the most among soloists and moving to within one of The Beatles’ overall record 20.
Plus, as “Christmas” dominated through the chart dated Jan. 4, 2020, Carey became the first artist to have ranked at No. 1 on the Hot 100 in four distinct decades (the 1990s, 2000s, ’10s and ’20s).
In addition to “Christmas,” a flurry of other holiday classics are on track to make their annual resurgences on the Hot 100, including Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” Bobby Helms’ “Jingle Bell Rock” and Burl Ives’ “A Holly Jolly Christmas.” On the Jan. 2, 2021, chart, a new one-week record 39 seasonal songs stormed the survey.
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