Grammy Nominations Are Read Out Monday, November 16, at 7:45 A.M. ET — Here's How the Morning Works
One hundred categories, one livestream, and a list that posts the moment the reading ends. The Recording Academy's official guide is the source for everything below — including the one thing it doesn't say yet: who's doing the reading.
Ten days from now, the 2027 Grammy race stops being a forecast. The Recording Academy announces the nominations for the 69th Grammy Awards on Monday, November 16, starting at 4:45 a.m. PT / 7:45 a.m. ET, streamed on Grammy.com and the official Grammys YouTube channel. Our race-by-race preview, linked below, compared the trades' predicted fields; this piece is the companion for the morning itself — the mechanics, from the Academy's own published guide, with nothing added that the Academy hasn't published.
How the nominations are announced on Monday morning
The announcement covers all 100 Grammy categories — not just the televised general field. When the reading ends, the full nominations list posts on Grammy.com immediately, which is the moment the forecasts in our preview piece get graded. Immediately after that, the Academy runs its Wrap-Up Show on Grammy.com and across the Grammys' YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitch and X channels — the official reaction programme, and the fastest legitimate route to the morning's surprises in the Academy's own framing.
One honest gap, stated the way the Academy states it: the artists who will help read the nominations haven't been named yet. The Academy's guide says "a cast of music all-stars, including past Grammy winners and Grammy nominees" will take part and that participating artists "will be announced soon"; the page was last updated October 29, and no presenter announcement had been published on Grammy.com as of this filing. Likewise, the Academy hasn't published a category-by-category running order for the reading. When either appears, this piece updates; until then, any site listing presenters or a rollout order is guessing, and this one won't join in.
What's new in the Grammy machinery this year
Five categories debut at the 2027 Grammys, per the Academy: 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. The Academy has also introduced an opt-in "Ballot Plus" voting alternative, letting members vote in up to 15 peer-related categories regardless of Field, alongside changes to the Best New Artist guidelines and a lower threshold of new recordings required on an eligible album. The eligibility frame for Monday's list is recordings released August 31, 2025 through August 28, 2026; entries closed August 21, and first-round voting ran October 12–22. Final-round voting — the round that picks the winners — runs December 10, 2026 through January 7, 2027, ahead of the ceremony itself: Sunday, February 7, 2027, at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, live across ABC, Disney+ and Hulu — the Grammys' first ceremony on ABC since 1972, as our preview noted.
Monday's plan, then, is simple: the stream at 7:45 a.m. ET, the full list the moment it posts, and our forecast-versus-actual comparison — the piece our race preview was built to set up — filed the same morning, graded against the trades' predicted fields rather than our memory of them.
Sources
- Recording Academy / Grammy.com, "How To Watch The 69th Grammy Awards Nominations" (published Oct. 16, 2026; updated Oct. 29, 2026) — start time (4:45 a.m. PT / 7:45 a.m. ET), Grammy.com + YouTube streaming, 100 categories, full list posted immediately after, Wrap-Up Show platforms, presenters "announced soon," the five new categories, Ballot Plus and the year's other rule changes. https://www.grammy.com/news/how-to-watch-2027-grammys-nominations/ — opened in full in run-3 research.
- Recording Academy / Grammy.com, Awards FAQ — eligibility window (Aug. 31, 2025–Aug. 28, 2026), entry period, first-round voting Oct. 12–22, nominations Nov. 16, final-round voting Dec. 10, 2026–Jan. 7, 2027, ceremony Feb. 7, 2027. https://www.grammy.com/awards/faq/ — opened in full in run-3 research.
- Note: presenter names and any category rollout order are NOT published on either official page and are reported above as unpublished — deliberately.
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