The 69th Annual Grammy Awards take place on Sunday, February 7, 2027, at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. The ceremony will air live on ABC and stream on Disney+ and Hulu, the first time the Grammys have aired on ABC since 1972. Nominations will be announced on Monday, November 16, 2026, just six days after this article’s publication date, so the short window between now and nominations morning is the moment to understand how the whole process works.
The Grammys are not decided by a small panel, a jury, or a public vote. They are decided by the Recording Academy’s Voting Members: working music creators, including artists, producers, songwriters and engineers. That peer-vote system is what makes the Grammys different from fan-voted shows, and it is also what makes the nominations process worth understanding before the names are read out.
The key dates for the 2027 Grammys
The Recording Academy publishes a full season calendar, and the 2027 dates are as follows. The eligibility period for recordings runs from Sunday, August 31, 2025, through Friday, August 28, 2026. Only music released in that window can be considered for the 2027 awards.
The Online Entry Process, the window in which eligible recordings are submitted for consideration, opened on Tuesday, July 7, 2026, at 9 a.m. PT and closed on Friday, August 21, 2026, at 6 p.m. PT. Only Recording Academy members and registered media companies can submit entries, and the Academy says it can receive more than 20,000 eligible entries in a single Grammy season. If a recording is not formally submitted, it cannot be considered for a Grammy Award or a nomination and will not appear on a voting ballot.
First Round Voting, which determines the nominees, ran from October 12 to October 22, 2026, closing at 6 p.m. PT on October 22. Nominations will be announced on Monday, November 16, 2026, starting at 7:45 a.m. ET and 4:45 a.m. PT, in a livestream on Grammy.com and the official Grammys YouTube channel, with the full list posted on Grammy.com immediately afterward. Final Round Voting, which determines the winners, runs from December 10, 2026, through January 7, 2027. The ceremony follows on February 7, 2027, with the Pre-Grammy Gala the evening before, on Saturday, February 6, 2027, at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles.
How nominations are decided
The process has two voting rounds, and they do different jobs. In First Round Voting, Voting Members vote on the submitted entries to decide the nominees in each category. In Final Round Voting, the same Voting Members vote on the nominees to decide the winners. Only Recording Academy Voting Members can vote in either round. Registered media companies, Professional Members and Grammy U Members cannot vote.
That distinction matters. The people choosing the winners are the people who make the music, not executives, not journalists and not fans. It is also why the Grammys sometimes reward craft and longevity over chart success: the electorate is a professional peer group, and peer groups vote like peer groups, rewarding work they respect and careers they admire.
Ballots are collected and tabulated by Deloitte, an independent accounting firm. The Academy also publishes a full rulebook for the 69th Grammys, which sets out category definitions, eligibility rules and voting procedures in detail. The rulebook is the authoritative source for any question about who can enter what, and where.
What is new for 2027: 100 categories and five new awards
The 2027 Grammys will feature 100 categories, after the Recording Academy announced five new categories and rule updates on June 16, 2026. The new categories are Best Asian Pop Music Performance, Best R&B Collaboration or Duo/Group Performance, Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance, Best Traditional Folk Album and Best Latin Song.
Best Asian Pop Music Performance recognizes Asian pop performances originating from or widely recognized within Asian markets, including K-pop, J-pop and C-pop, with meaningful use of one or more Asian languages. Best Latin Song recognizes newly written Spanish-language songs and is awarded to the songwriters rather than the performing artists. Best R&B Collaboration or Duo/Group Performance honors contemporary R&B works by duos, groups and collaborations. Two existing categories were renamed at the same time: Best R&B Performance became Best R&B Solo Performance, and Best Folk Album became Best Contemporary Folk Album.
The Academy also changed Best New Artist eligibility. Artists can now be submitted in the category up to four times, an increase from the previous limit of three. Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. said the changes reflect “the breadth of today’s music industry,” and the expansion is a deliberate push toward broader representation of the global music landscape, with categories that speak directly to audiences in Asia, Latin America and beyond.
How winners are chosen, and why it takes so long
The gap between the nominations announcement on November 16 and the ceremony on February 7 is nearly three months, and it is not dead time. Final Round Voting runs from December 10 to January 7, and the long voting window exists because the electorate is large and working: Voting Members are touring, recording and producing, and the Academy gives them time to listen to the nominated work.
There is no public vote and no fan campaign that can change the result. The winners are decided by the final-round ballots, tabulated by Deloitte, and kept confidential until the envelopes are opened on stage. That secrecy is part of the ceremony’s drama, but it is also a structural feature: the Grammys are an industry award, and the industry decides.
For readers, the practical consequence is simple: predictions based on streaming numbers or chart positions guess what the public likes, not what Voting Members will choose. The two often overlap, but the years they diverge produce the most argued-about results.
The move to ABC, Disney+ and Hulu
The 2027 ceremony is the first under a new ten-year agreement between the Recording Academy and the Walt Disney Company, announced on October 30, 2024. The show moves to ABC for the live broadcast, with streaming on Disney+ and Hulu. It is the first Grammy Awards broadcast on ABC since the 14th ceremony in 1972.
For viewers in the United States, that means the show is available on broadcast television and on two major streaming services. For viewers in the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada, the Academy has not published international broadcast details in the materials checked for this article, so check local listings and Disney+ availability closer to February 7, 2027. The nominations announcement on November 16 is available worldwide on Grammy.com and YouTube.
No host had been announced as of November 10, 2026; the host announcement typically comes later in the season.
How to follow nominations morning
The nominations announcement begins at 7:45 a.m. ET and 4:45 a.m. PT on Monday, November 16, 2026. The livestream runs on Grammy.com and the official Grammys YouTube channel, and the full nominees list in all 100 categories is posted on Grammy.com right after the announcement.
From the United Kingdom, that is 12:45 p.m. GMT; from Australia’s east coast, 11:45 p.m. AEDT on Monday evening. The most reliable way to check the list is the Academy’s own site, not social media summaries, which routinely garble category names and miss the new categories.
For a deeper explanation of how awards voting works across the Grammys, the Oscars and the Emmys, see our guide to how awards voting works (how awards voting works). And if you are new to live awards shows, our guide to a first time on Broadway (a first time on Broadway) explains how the live performance world, which supplies so much Grammy-nominated music, actually works on the night.
Frequently asked questions
When are the 2027 Grammy Awards?
Sunday, February 7, 2027, at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, airing live on ABC and streaming on Disney+ and Hulu.
When are the 2027 Grammy nominations announced?
Monday, November 16, 2026, starting at 7:45 a.m. ET and 4:45 a.m. PT, livestreamed on Grammy.com and the official Grammys YouTube channel.
What music is eligible for the 2027 Grammys?
Recordings released between August 31, 2025, and August 28, 2026. Entries had to be submitted through the Online Entry Process between July 7 and August 21, 2026.
Who votes for the Grammys?
Only Recording Academy Voting Members, who are working music creators such as artists, producers, songwriters and engineers. Media companies, Professional Members and Grammy U Members cannot vote. Ballots are tabulated by Deloitte.
How many categories are there in 2027, and what is new?
There are 100 categories, including five new ones: Best Asian Pop Music Performance, Best R&B Collaboration or Duo/Group Performance, Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance, Best Traditional Folk Album and Best Latin Song. Best New Artist candidates can now be submitted up to four times.
Has a host been announced for the 2027 Grammys?
No host had been announced as of November 10, 2026.
Sources
- Recording Academy, “How to Submit Your Music for the 2027 Grammys: Deadlines, Grammy Nominations, Grammy Voting Process & More”: Grammy.com
- Recording Academy, “Five New Categories and Rule Updates Take Effect for 2027 Grammys”: Grammy.com
- Music Times, “When Are the 2027 Grammy Nominations? Time, Livestream and the ABC Change Explained”: Music Times
- Brush Music, “2027 Grammy Nominations Will Be Announced Nov. 16: How to Watch and Key Dates Ahead”: Brush Music
- Wikipedia, “69th Annual Grammy Awards”: Wikipedia
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