The televised concert to announce nominees for the Grammy Awards will be held in Nashville this year, in a nod to the power of country music within the music industry, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences announced on Tuesday.
The show, entitled “The Grammy Nominations Concert Live!!!,†will be broadcast from the Bridgestone Arena on CBS on Dec. 5 at 10 p.m.
The academy has been presenting lavish nomination shows for the last four years, featuring performances by past Grammy winners and current nominees, to bolster ratings for the annual awards ceremony, which is held each year in February. The previous nomination shows had all been produced in Los Angeles, where the a cademy is located and where the awards ceremony is held.
Nashville has one of the academy's largest and most successful chapters and the city's music executives wield significant power within the organization.  â€There's probably no city more renowned as a music center in America and probably the world than Nashville, Tenn.,†said Neil Portnow, the president of the academy, told the Associated Press.
Mr. Portnow said his staff periodically reviews how the two Grammy shows are presented and makes changes. Moving the nominations special to Nashville is the next logical step, he said, after the decision to take what had been a low-key announcement in a hotel ballroom and make it into an hourlong televised special. “It made sense to me that we also review the location and the venues and just the whole flavor of it,†he said.
The 55th annual Grammy Awards will be broadcast live on Feb. 10 from the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
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