Wohoo..Ini Daftar Nominasi Grammy Awards 2021, BTS Tuai Sorotan

Bagi Mampaps penggemar musik pasti sudah tidak asing dengan Grammy Awards yang diadakan setiap tahunnya. Grammy Award merupakan penghargaan untuk mereka yang berprestasi di industri musik. Memiliki cakupan dunia, acara penghargaan tersebut diselenggarakan oleh National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) di Amerika Serikat. Tidak heran acara megah ini dihadirkan oleh banyak musisi kelas dunia, salah satunya adalah BTS dan tahun ini, kira-kira mereka masuk dalam nominasi Grammy Awards 2021 ini gak ya?

Di Grammy Awards 2020, BTS merupakan musisi Korea Selatan pertama yang berhasil tampil di panggung megah Grammy Awards. Mereka berkolaborasi dengan rapper Lil Nas X dengan lagu “Old Town Road”. Meskipun demikian, BTS belum masuk ke dalam daftar nominasi Grammy Awards tahun sebelumnya, namun mereka memiliki target untuk masuk ke dalam nominasi Grammy Awards di tahun 2021.

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Menariknya, harapan mereka tersebut benar-benar terwujud, yakni menjadi salah satu nominator di acara bergengsi tersebut. Seperti apa sih keseruannya Ketika mereka mengetahui bahwa nama Boy groupnya ada di deretan nominator?

Grammy Awards 2021

Grammy Awards kabarnya akan diselenggarakan pada tanggal 31 Januari 2021 di Los Angeles malam hari waktu setempat. Sebanyak 23.000 karya dari 84 kategori telah diterima oleh pihak Recording Academy untuk disaring dan dijadikan nominasi. Beberapa musisi mendapatkan lebih dari satu nominasi, antara lain Beyonce, Dua Lipa, Taylor Swift, Harry Styles, Justin Bieber serta Meghan Thee Stallion. Ada yang menarik yakni munculnya nama boy group BTS sebagai musisi Korea Selatan pertama yang berhasil mendapat nominasi Grammy Awards 2021 di kategori Best Pop Duo/Group Performance.

Daftar Nominasi Grammy Awards 2021

Record of the Year

• Black Parade – Beyonce
• Colors – Black Pumas
• Rockstar – DaBaby featuring Roddy Ricch
• Say So – Doja Cat
• Everything I Wanted – Billie Eilish
• Don’t Start Now – Dua Lipa
• Circles – Post Malone
• Savage – Megan Thee Stallion featuring Beyonce

Album of the Year

• Chilombo- Jhene Aiko
• Black Pumas (Deluxe Edition) – Black Pumas
• Everyday Life – Coldplay
• Djesse Vol 3 – Jacob Collier
• Women in Music Pt III – HAIM
• Future Nostalgia – Dua Lipa
• Hollywood’s Bleeding – Post Malone
• Folklore – Taylor Swift

Song of the Year

• Black Parade – Beyonce
• The Box – Roddy Ricch
• Cardigan – Taylor Swift
• Circles – Post Malone
• Don’t Start Now – Dua Lipa
• Everything I Wanted – Billie Eilish
• I Can’t Breath – H.E.R
• If the World Was Ending – JP Saxe Featuring Julia Michaels

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Best New Artist

• Ingrid Andress
• Phoebe Bridgers
• Chika
• Noah Cyrus
• D Smoke
• Doja Cat
• Kaytranada
• Megan Thee Stallion

Best Pop Solo Performance

• Yummy – Justin Bieber
• Say So – Doja Cat
• Everything I Wanted – Billie Eilish
• Don’t Start Now – Dua Lipa
• Watermelon Sugar – Harry Styles
• Cardigan – Taylor Swift

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance

Nah, nominasi Grammy Awards 2021 di kategori ini yang banyak menuai sorotan, dikarenakan BTS masuk sebagai nominator di kategori ini.

• Un Dia (One Day) – J Balvin, Dua Lipa, Bad Bunny & Tainy
• Intentions – Justin Bieber Featuring Quavo
• Dynamite – BTS
• Rain on Me – Lady Gaga With Ariana Grande
• Exile – Taylor Swift Featuring Bon Iver

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album

• Blue Umbrella – Burt Bacharach & Daniel Tashian
• True Love: A Celebration of Cole Porter – Harry Connick, Jr.
• American Standard – James Taylor
• Unfollow the Rules – Rufus Wainwright
• Judy – Renée Zellweger

Best Pop Vocal Album

• Changes – Justin Bieber
• Chromatica – Lady Gaga
• Future Nostalgia – Dua Lipa
• Fine Line – Harry Styles
• Folklore – Taylor Swift

Best Dance Recording

• On My Mind – Diplo & Sidepiece
• My High – Disclosure Featuring Aminé & Slowthai
• The Difference – Flume Featuring Toro Y Moi
• Both of Us – Jayda G
• 10% – Kaytranada Featuring Kali Uchis

Best Dance/Electronic Album

• Kick I – Arca
• Planet’s Mad – Baauer
• Energy – Disclosure
• Bubba – Kaytranada
• Good Faith – Madeon

Best Contemporary Instrumental Album

• Axiom – Christian Scott Atunde Adjuah
• Chronology of a Dream: Live At The Village Vanguard – Jon Batiste
• Take the Stairs – Black Violin
• Americana – Grégoire Maret, Romain Collin & Bill Frisell
• Live at the Royal Albert Hall – Snarky Puppy

Best Rock Performance

• Shameika – Fiona Apple
• Not – Big Thief
• Kyoto – Phoebe Bridgers
• The Steps – HAIM
• Stay High – Brittany Howard
• Daylight – Grace Potter

Best Metal Performance

• Bum-Rush – Body Count
• Underneath – Code Orange
• The In-Between – In This Moment
• Bloodmoney – Poppy
• Executioner’s Tax (Swing Of The Axe) – Live – Power Trip

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Best Rock Song

• Kyoto – Phoebe Bridgers
• Lost in Yesterday – Tame Impala
• Not – Big Thief
• Shameika – Fiona Apple
• Stay High – Brittany Howard

Best Rock Album

• A Hero’s Death – Fontaines D.C.
• Kiwanuka – Michael Kiwanuka
• Daylight – Grace Potter
• Sound & Fury – Sturgill Simpson
• The New Abnormal – The Strokes

Best Alternative Music Album

• Fetch the Bolt Cutters – Fiona Apple
• Hyperspace – Beck
• Punisher – Phoebe Bridgers
• Jaime – Brittany Howard
• The Slow Rush – Tame Impala

Best R&B Performance

• Lightning & Thunder – Jhené Aiko Featuring John Legend
• Black Parade – Beyoncé
• All I Need – Jacob Collier Featuring Mahalia & Ty Dolla $Ign
• Goat Head – Brittany Howard
• See Me – Emily King

Best Traditional R&B Performance

• Sit On Down – The Baylor Project Featuring Jean Baylor & Marcus Baylor
• Wonder What She Thinks of Me – Chloe X Halle
• Let Me Go – Mykal Kilgore
• Anything for You – Ledisi
• Distance – Yebba

Best R&B Song

• Better Than I Imagine – Robert Glasper Featuring H.E.R. & Meshell Ndegeocello
• Black Parade – Beyoncé
• Collide – Tiana Major9 & Earthgang
• Do It – Chloe X Halle
• Slow Down – Skip Marley & H.E.R.

Best Progressive R&B Album

• Chilombo – Jhené Aiko
• Ungodly Hour – Chloe X Halle
• Free Nationals – Free Nationals
• F*** Yo Feelings – Robert Glasper
• It Is What It Is – Thundercat

Best R&B Album

• Happy 2 Be Here – Ant Clemons
• Take Time – Giveon
• To Feel Love/D – Luke James
• Bigger Love – John Legend
• All Rise – Gregory Porter

Best Rap Performance

• Deep Reverence – Big Sean Featuring Nipsey Hussle
• Bop – Dababy
• What’s Poppin – Jack Harlow
• The Bigger Picture – Lil Baby
• Savage – Megan Thee Stallion Featuring Beyoncé
• Dior – Pop Smoke

Best Melodic Rap Performance

• Rockstar – DaBaby Featuring Roddy Ricch
• Laugh Now, Cry Later – Drake Featuring Lil Durk
• Lockdown – Anderson .Paak
• The Box – Roddy Ricch
• Highest in the Room – Travis Scott

Best Rap Song

• The Bigger Picture – Lil Baby
• The Box – Roddy Ricch
• Laugh Now, Cry Later – Drake featuring Lil Durk
• Rockstar – DaBaby featuring Roddy Ricch
• Savage – Megan Thee Stallion featuring Beyoncé

Best Rap Album

• Black Habits – D Smoke
• Alfredo – Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist
• A Written Testimony – Jay Electronica
• King’s Disease – Nas
• The Allegory Royce – Da 5’9″

Best Country Solo Performance

• Stick That In Your Country Song – Eric Church
• Who You Thought I Was – Brandy Clark
• When My Amy Prays – Vince Gill
• Black Like Me – Mickey Guyton
• Bluebird – Miranda Lambert

Best Country Duo/Group Performance

• All Night – Brothers Osborne
• 10,000 Hours – Dan + Shay & Justin Bieber
• Ocean – Lady A
• Sugar Coat – Little Big Town
• Some People Do – Old Dominion

Best Country Song

• Bluebird – Miranda Lambert
• The Bones – Maren Morris
• Crowded Table – The Highwomen
• More Hearts Than Mine – Ingrid Andress
• Some People Do – Old Dominion

Best Country Album

• Lady Like – Ingrid Andress
• Your Life Is a Record – Brandy Clark
• Wildcard – Miranda Lambert
• Nightfall – Little Big Town
• Never Will – Ashley McBryde

Best New Age Album

• Songs From the Bardo – Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal & Jesse Paris Smith
• Periphery – Priya Darshini
• Form//Less – Superposition
• More Guitar Stories – Jim “Kimo” West
• Meditations – Cory Wong & Jon Batiste

Nominasi Grammy Awards 2021 Kategori Jazz

Best Improvised Jazz Solo

• Guinevere – Axiom
• Pachamama – Thana Alexa
• Celia – Gerald Clayton
• All Blues – Chick Corea, Christian Mcbride & Brian Blade
• Moe Honk – Redman Mehldau McBride Blade

Best Jazz Vocal Album

• Ona – Thana Alexa
• Secrets Are the Best Stories – Kurt Elling Featuring Danilo Pérez
• Modern Ancestors – Carmen Lundy
• Holy Room: Live at Alte Oper – Somi With Frankfurt Radio Big Band

Best Jazz Instrumental Album

• On The Tender Spot Of Every Calloused Moment – Ambrose Akinmusire
• Waiting Game – Terri Lyne Carrington and Social Science
• Happening: Live at the Village Vanguard – Gerald Clayton
• Trilogy 2 – Chick Corea, Christian McBride & Brian Blade
• Roundagain – Redman Mehldau McBride Blade

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album

• Dialogues on Race – Gregg August
• Monk’estra Plays John Beasley – John Beasley
• The Intangible Between – Orrin Evans and the Captain Black Big Band
• Songs You Like a Lot – John Hollenbeck with Theo Bleckmann, Kate McGarry, Gary Versace and the Frankfurt Radio Big Band
• Data Lords – Maria Schneider Orchestra

Best Latin Jazz Album

• Tradiciones – Afro-Peruvian Jazz Orchestra
• Four Questions – Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra
• City of Dreams – Chico Pinheiro
• Viento Y Tiempo – Live at Blue Note Tokyo – Gonzalo Rubalcaba & Aymée Nuviola
• Trane’s Delight – Poncho Sanchez

Best Gospel Performance/Song

• Wonderful Is Your Name – Melvin Crispell III
• Release (Live) – Ricky Dillard Featuring Tiff Joy
• Won’t Let Go – Travis Greene
• Movin’ On – Jonathan McReynolds & Mali Music

Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song

• The Blessing (Live) – Kari Jobe, Cody Carnes & Elevation Worship
• Sunday Morning – Lecrae Featuring Kirk Franklin
• Famous For (I Believe) – Tauren Wells Featuring Jenn Johnson
• There Was Jesus – Zach Williams & Dolly Parton

Best Gospel Album

• 2econd Wind: Ready – Anthony Brown & Group Therapy
• My Tribute – Myron Butler
• Choirmaster – Ricky Dillard
• Gospel According to PJ – PJ Morton
• Kierra – Kierra Sheard

Best Contemporary Christian Music Album

• Run to the Father – Cody Carnes
• All of My Best Friends – Hillsong Young & Free
• Holy Water – We the Kingdom
• Citizen of Heaven – Tauren Wells
• Jesus Is King – Kanye West

Best Roots Gospel Album

• Beautiful Day – Mark Bishop
• 20/20 – The Crabb Family
• What Christmas Really Means – The Erwins
• Celebrating Fisk! (The 150th Anniversary Album) – Fisk Jubilee Singers
• Something Beautiful – Ernie Haase & Signature Sound

Best Latin Pop or Urban Album

• YHLQMDLG – Bad Bunny
• Por Primera Vez – Camilo
• Mesa Para Dos – Kany García
• Pausa – Ricky Martin
• 3:33 – Debi Nova

Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album

• Aura – Bajofondo
• Monstruo – Cami
• Sobrevolando – Cultura Profética
• La Conquista Del Espacio – Fito Paez
• Miss Colombia – Lido Pimienta

Best Regional Mexican Album (Including Tejano)

• Hecho En México – Alejandro Fernández
• La Serenata – Lupita Infante
• Un Canto Por México, Vol. 1 – Natalia Lafourcade
• Bailando Sones Y Huapangos Con Mariachi Sol De Mexico De Jose Hernandez – Mariachi Sol De Mexico De Jose Hernandez
• Ayayay! – Christian Nodal

Best Tropical Latin Album

• Mi Tumbao – José Alberto “El Ruiseñor”
• Infinito – Edwin Bonilla
• Sigo Cantando Al Amor (Deluxe) – Jorge Celedon & Sergio Luis
• 40 – Grupo Niche
• Memorias De Navidad – Víctor Manuelle

Best American Roots Performance

• Colors – Black Pumas
• Deep in Love – Bonny Light Horseman
• Short and Sweet – Brittany Howard
• I’ll Be Gone – Norah Jones & Mavis Staples
• I Remember Everything – John Prine

Best American Roots Song

• Cabin – The Secret Sisters
• Ceiling to the Floor – Sierra Hull
• Hometown – Sarah Jarosz
• I Remember Everything – John Prine
• Man Without a Soul – Lucinda Williams

Best Americana Album

• Old Flowers – Courtney Marie Andrews
• Terms of Surrender – Hiss Golden Messenger
• World on the Ground – Sarah Jarosz
• El Dorado – Marcus King
• Good Souls Better Angels – Lucinda Williams

Best Bluegrass Album

• Man On Fire – Danny Barnes
• To Live in Two Worlds, Vol. 1 – Thomm Jutz
• North Carolina Songbook – Steep Canyon Rangers
• Home – Billy Strings
• The John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project, Vol. 1

Nominasi Grammy Awards Kategori Blues Album

Best Traditional Blues Album

• All My Dues Are Paid – Frank Bey
• You Make Me Feel – Don Bryant
• That’s What I Heard – Robert Cray Band
• Cypress Grove – Jimmy “Duck” Holmes
• Rawer Than Raw – Bobby Rush

Best Contemporary Blues Album

• Have You Lost Your Mind Yet? – Fantastic Negrito
• Live at the Paramount – Ruthie Foster Big Band
• The Juice – G. Love
• Blackbirds – Bettye LaVette
• Up and Rolling – North Mississippi Allstars

Best Folk Album

• Bonny Light Horseman – Bonny Light Horseman
• Thanks for the Dance – Leonard Cohen
• Song for Our Daughter – Laura Marling
• Saturn Return – The Secret Sisters
• All the Good Times – Gillian Welch & David Rawlings

Best Regional Roots Music Album

• My Relatives – “Nikso Kowaiks” Black Lodge Singers
• Cameron Dupuy and the Cajun Troubadours – Cameron Dupuy and the Cajun Troubadours
• Lovely Sunrise – Nā Wai ʽehā
• Atmosphere – New Orleans Nightcrawlers
• A Tribute to Al Berard – Sweet Cecilia

Best Reggae Album

• Upside Down 2020 – Buju Banton
• Higher Place – Skip Marley
• It All Comes Back to Love – Maxi Priest
• Got to Be Tough – Toots & the Maytals
• One World – The Wailers

Best Global Music Album

• Fu Chronicles – Antibalas
• Twice As Tall – Burna Boy
• Agora – Bebel Gilberto
• Love Letters – Anoushka Shankar
• Amadjar – Tinariwen

Best Children’s Music Album

• All the Ladies – Joanie Leeds
• Be a Pain: An Album for Young (and Old) Leaders – Alastair Moock And Friends
• I’m An Optimist – Dog On Fleas
• Songs for Singin’ – The Okee Dokee Brothers
• Wild Life – Justin Roberts

Best Spoken Word Album

• Acid for the Children: A Memoir – Flea
• Alex Trebek – The Answer Is… – Ken Jennings
• Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth – Rachel Maddow
• Catch and Kill – Ronan Farrow
• Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White) – Meryl Streep (& Full cast)

Best Comedy Album

• Black Mitzvah – Tiffany Haddish
• I Love Everything – Patton Oswalt
• The Pale Tourist – Jim Gaffigan
• Paper Tiger – Bill Burr
• 23 Hours to Kill – Jerry Seinfeld

Best Musical Theater Album

• Amélie
• American Utopia on Broadway
• Jagged Little Pill
• Little Shop of Horrors
• The Prince of Egypt
• Soft Power

Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media

• A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
• Bill & Ted Face the Music
• Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
• Frozen 2
• Jojo Rabbit

Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media

• Ad Astra
• Becoming
• Joker
• 1917
• Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Best Song Written for Visual Media

• Beautiful Ghosts [Cats] – Andrew Lloyd Webber & Taylor Swift
• Carried Me With You [Onward] – Brandi Carlile, Phil Hanseroth & Tim Hanseroth
• Into the Unknown [Frozen 2] – Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez
• No Time to Die [No Time To Die] – Billie Eilish O’Connell & Finneas Baird O’Connell
• Stand Up [Harriet] – Joshuah Brian Campbell & Cynthia Erivo

Best Instrumental Composition

• Baby Jack – Arturo O’Farrill
• Be Water II – Christian Sands
• Plumfield – Alexandre Desplat
• Sputnik – Maria Schneider
• Strata – Remy Le Boeuf

Best Arrangement, Instrumental or a Cappella

• Bathroom Dance – Hildur Guðnadóttir
• Donna Lee – John Beasley
• Honeymooners – Remy Le Boeuf’s Assembly of Shadows
• Lift Every Voice and Sing – Jarrett Johnson Featuring Alvin Chea
• Uranus: The Magician – Jeremy Levy Jazz Orchestra

Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals

• Asas Fechadas – Maria Mendes Featuring John Beasley & Orkest Metropole
• Desert Song – Säje
• From This Place – Pat Metheny Featuring Meshell Ndegeocello
• He Won’t Hold You – Jacob Collier Featuring Rapsody
• Slow Burn – Becca Stevens Featuring Jacob Collier, Mark Lettieri, Justin Stanton, Jordan Perlson, Nic Hard, Keita Ogawa, Marcelo Woloski & Nate Werth

Best Recording Package

• Everyday Life – Coldplay
• Funeral – Lil Wayne
• Healer – Grouplove
• On Circles – Caspian
• Vols. 11 & 12 – Desert Sessions

Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package

• Flaming Pie (Collector’s Edition) – Paul McCartney
• Giants Stadium 1987, 1989, 1991 – Grateful Dead
• Mode – Depeche Mode
• Ode to Joy – Wilco
• The Story of Ghostly International

Best Album Notes

• At the Minstrel Show: Minstrel Routines From the Studio, 1894-1926
• The Bakersfield Sound: Country Music Capital of the West, 1940-1974
• Dead Man’s Pop
• The Missing Link: How Gus Haenschen Got Us From Joplin to Jazz and Shaped the Music Business
• Out of a Clear Blue Sky

Best Historical Album

• Celebrated, 1895-1896
• Hittin’ the Ramp: The Early Years (1936 – 1943)
• It’s Such a Good Feeling: The Best of Mister Rogers
• 1999 Super Deluxe Edition
• Souvenir
• Throw Down Your Heart: The Complete Africa Sessions

Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical

• Black Hole Rainbow
• Expectations
• Hyperspace
• Jaime
• 25 Trips

Producer of the Year, Non-Classical

• Jack Antonoff
• Dan Auerbach
• Dave Cobb
• Flying Lotus
• Andrew Watt

Best Remixed Recording

• Do You Ever (Rac Mix) – Phil Good
• Imaginary Friends (Morgan Page Remix) – Deadmau5
• Praying for You (Louie Vega Main Remix) – Jasper Street Co.
• Roses (Imanbek Remix) – Saint Jhn
• Young & Alive (Bazzi Vs. Haywyre Remix) – Bazzi

Best Engineered Album, Classical

• Danielpour: The Passion Of Yeshua
• Gershwin: Porgy And Bess
• Hynes: Fields
• Ives: Complete Symphonies
• Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13, ‘Babi Yar'”

Producer of the Year, Classical

• Blanton Alspaugh
• David Frost
• Jesse Lewis
• Dmitriy Lipay
• Elaine Martone

Best Orchestral Performance

• Aspects Of America – Pulitzer Edition” – Carlos Kalmar (Oregon Symphony)
• Concurrence – Daníel Bjarnason (Iceland Symphony Orchestra)
• Copland: Symphony No. 3 – Michael Tilson Thomas (San Francisco Symphony)
• Ives: Complete Symphonies – Gustavo Dudamel (Los Angeles Philharmonic)
• Lutosławski: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3 – Hannu Lintu (Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra)

Best Opera Recording

• Dello Joio: The Trial At Rouen -Boston Modern Orchestra Project; Odyssey Opera Chorus
• Floyd, C.: Prince Of Players – Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra; Florentine Opera Chorus
• Gershwin: Porgy And Bess – The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus
• Handel: Agrippina – Il Pomo D’Oro
• Zemlinsky: Der Zwerg – Orchestra Of The Deutsche Oper Berlin; Chorus Of The Deutsche Oper Berlin

Best Choral Performance

• Carthage – The Crossing
• Danielpour: The Passion Of Yeshua – James K. Bass, J’Nai Bridges, Timothy Fallon, Kenneth Overton, Hila Plitmann & Matthew Worth; Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra; Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus & UCLA Chamber Singers
• Kastalsky: Requiem – Joseph Charles Beutel & Anna Dennis; Orchestra Of St. Luke’s; Cathedral Choral Society, The Clarion Choir, Kansas City Chorale & The Saint Tikhon Choir
• Moravec: Sanctuary Road – Joshua Blue, Raehann Bryce-Davis, Dashon Burton, Malcolm J. Merriweather & Laquita Mitchell; Oratorio Society Of New York Orchestra; Oratorio Society Of New York Chorus
• Once Upon A Time – Sarah Walker; Skylark Vocal Ensemble

Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance

• Contemporary Voices – Pacifica Quartet
• Healing Modes – Brooklyn Rider
• Hearne, T.: Place – Ted Hearne, Steven Bradshaw, Sophia Byrd, Josephine Lee, Isaiah Robinson, Sol Ruiz, Ayanna Woods & Place Orchestra
• Hynes: Fields – Devonté Hynes & Third Coast Percussion
• The Schumann Quartets – Dover Quartet

Best Classical Instrumental Solo

• Adès: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra – Boston Symphony Orchestra
• Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas – Igor Levit
• Bohemian Tales – Charles Owen; Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks
• Destination Rachmaninov – Arrival – The Philadelphia Orchestra
• Theofanidis: Concerto for Viola and Chamber Orchestra – Albany Symphony

Best Classical Solo Vocal Album

• American Composers At Play – William Bolcom, Ricky Ian Gordon, Lori Laitman, John Musto Stephen Powell
• Clairières – Songs By Lili & Nadia Boulanger – Nicholas Phan; Myra Huang
• Farinelli – Cecilia Bartoli; Giovanni Antonini
• A Lad’s Love – Brian Giebler; Steven McGhee
• Smyth: The Prison – Sarah Brailey & Dashon Burton; James Blachly

Best Classical Compendium

• Adès Conducts Adès – Mark Stone & Christianne Stotijn; Thomas Adès
• Saariaho: Graal Théâtre; Circle Map; Neiges; Vers Toi Qui Es Si Loin – Clément Mao-Takacs
• Serebrier: Symphonic Bach Variations; Laments And Hallelujahs; Flute Concerto – José Serebrier
• Thomas, M.T.: From The Diary Of Anne Frank & Meditations On Rilke – Isabel Leonard; Michael Tilson Thomas
• Woolf, L.P.: Fire And Flood – Matt Haimovitz; Julian Wachner

Best Contemporary Classical Composition

• Adès: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra – Thomas Adès
• Danielpour: The Passion Of Yeshua – Richard Danielpour
• Floyd, C.: Prince Of Players – Carlisle Floyd
• Hearne, T.: Place – Ted Hearne
• Rouse: Symphony No. 5 – Christopher Rouse

Best Music Video

• Brown Skin Girl – Beyoncé
• Life Is Good – Future featuring Drake
• Lockdown – Anderson .Paak
• Adore You – Harry Styles
• Goliath – Woodkid

Best Music Film

• Beastie Boys Story
• Black Is King
• We Are Freestyle Love Supreme
• Linda Ronstadt: The Sound Of My Voice
• That Little Ol’ Band From Texas

BTS Tuai Sorotan di Grammy Awards 2021

BTS untuk pertama kalinya masuk nominasi Grammy Awards 2021 kategori Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. Mereka harus bersiap karena lawannya merupakan musisi-musisi yang sudah lama berjaya di industri musik, seperti Justin BIeber, Dua Lipa, Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga dan Ariana Grande. Beberapa waktu yang lalu, akun twitter resmi dari BTS yakni @BTS_Twt mengunggah ekspresi dari anggota BTS saat mendengar grupnya masuk dalam nominasi Grammy Awards.

Merasa sangat gembira, Jungkook, RM, dan Jimin langsung melompat dari kursi saat lagu “Dynamite” disebut dalam nominasi. Tidak tanggung-tanggung, RM sampai melempar ponsel yang sedang digenggamnya dalam suasana tegang yang berbuah senyuman tersebut.

Video tersebut mendapat banyak tanggapan dari netizen, ada yang menyoroti tentang ekspresi V yang cukup lama dalam mencerna informasi saat pembacaan nominasi. Hal tersebut membuat para fans semakin gemas dengan sikap stay cool dari V.

Dengan masuknya BTS ke dalam nominasi Grammy Awards 2021 tersebut, pihaknya tidak lupa untuk mengucapkan terima kasih kepada fans yang biasa disebut ARMY tersebut.

“Terima kasih untuk semua yang mendengarkan dan merasa terhubung dengan musik kami di masa sulit. Di atas semuanya, ARMY lah yang telah memberikan keajaiban ini kepada kami, sehingga kami bisa memperoleh nominasi Grammy tersebut. Kami juga selalu bersyukur dan mencintai kalian. Terima kasih pula untuk Recording Academy atas nominasi tersebut.”

Selamat BTS atas pencapaiannya hingga berhasil menjadi salah satu nominator di Grammy Awards 2021!