On November 23, the Recording Academy announced the nominees for its 64th annual Grammy Awards, which will air live on January 31, 2022, over CBS. The Cole Porter tribute album Love for Sale, the second and final collaboration of Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga, received three major nominations: Album of the Year, Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album, and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. The album’s lead single, “I Get a Kick Out of You,” written for the 1934 musical Anything Goes, received two major nominations: Record of the Year and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance.
The Best Musical Theater Album nominees include the original Broadway cast of Girl from the North Country (Simon Hale, Conor McPherson, Dean Sharenow), original cast of Cinderella (Andrew Lloyd Webber, Nick Lloyd Webber, Greg Wells, David Zippel), world premiere cast of Some Lovers (Burt Bacharach, Michael Croiter, Ben Hartman, Steven Sater), 2020 stage concert cast of Les Misérables (Cameron Mackintosh, Lee McCutcheon, Stephen Metcalfe), world premiere cast of Snapshots (Daniel C. Levine, Michael J. Moritz Jr., Bryan Perri, Stephen Schwartz), and The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical (Abigail Barlow, Emily Bear).
Up for Best Song Written for Visual Media are “Agatha All Along” from Wandavision (Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez), “All Eyes on Me” from Inside (Bo Burnham), “All I Know So Far” from Pink’s All I Know So Far (Alecia Moore, Benj Pasek, Justin Paul), “Fight for You” from Judas and the Black Messiah (Dernst Emile II, H.E.R., Tiara Thomas), “Here I Am” from Respect (Jamie Hartman, Jennifer Hudson, Carole King), and “Speak Now” from One Night in Miami (Sam Ashworth, Leslie Odom Jr.).
Among the film music awards, nominees for Best Compilation Soundtrack include Cruella, Dear Evan Hansen, In the Heights, One Night in Miami, Respect, Schmigadoon!, and The United States vs. Billie Holiday, while nominees for Best Score Soundtrack include Bridgerton (Kris Bowers), Dune (Hans Zimmer), The Mandalorian (Ludwig Göransson), The Queen’s Gambit (Carlos Rafael Rivera), and Soul (Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross).
Finally, the releases vying for Best Music Film include Inside (Bo Burnham, Josh Senior), American Utopia (Spike Lee, David Byrne), Billie Eilish’s Happier Than Ever (Patrick Osborne, Robert Rodriguez), Jimi Hendrix’s Music, Money, Madness (Janie Hendrix, John McDermott, George Scott), and Summer of Soul (Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, David Dinerstein, Robert Fyvolent, Joseph Patel).