With a confirmed date for the 2021 ceremony, the Recording Academy is now focused on pandemic-proofing the Grammys.
The show will go on. That’s the word from Recording Academy chair and interim president/CEO Harvey Mason Jr. about the 63rd annual Grammy Awards, slated to take place Jan. 31, 2021. Less certain, in the age of the coronavirus, are all of the other particulars, including whether the ceremony will air live from Los Angeles’ Staples Center as planned.
“Our current plan is to hold [Jan. 31] as our date for the show,” says Mason. “We’ll make a determination as we get closer as to what type of show we’ll have, whether it’s a traditional live show with an audience or minus an audience, or maybe there’s a third or fourth option. We are developing all of them simultaneously so that when we have to make a decision, we are not behind in our planning.” Mason says a final decision must be made in October to allow for time for designing the show.
Mason says that when unconfirmed reports surfaced that the Academy Awards may be postponed, it gave him pause. “It gave me a second to think, ‘Is a [delay] something that we should be doing?’ But I realized it’s a different situation,” he says. “I had also already spent a lot of time talking to heads of labels, managers, artists, attorneys and the streaming companies, and there was definitely more music being released because artists aren’t touring and they want to put product out.
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