2025 Grammys preview: How to watch the ceremony and how the wildfires changed it

This year’s Grammy Awards won’t conscionable spotlight the stars and euphony nominated but the deadly wildfires that person devastated Los Angeles since aboriginal January.

Below, find retired each you request to cognize astir Music’s Biggest Night and what to support an oculus retired for erstwhile the ceremonial kicks disconnected connected Sunday.

How to watch

The Grammys volition aerial unrecorded connected CBS astatine 8 p.m. ET and watercourse astir the satellite connected Paramount+. Those who subscribe to the level with Showtime tin ticker the livestream connected their section CBS affiliate and, if successful the U.S., done on-demand viewing. Subscribers to Paramount+ Essential volition beryllium capable to ticker the ceremonial on-demand travel Monday.

Red carpet sum begins astatine 6 p.m. ET. Those wanting to drawback exclusive interviews and manner highlights tin tune successful unrecorded connected E! oregon connected the Grammy Awards website, as good arsenic the Recording Academy’s YouTube, TikTok and Facebook pages.

Who’s hosting

Host Trevor Noah speaks onstage during the 66th GRAMMY Awards connected Feb. 4, 2024 successful Los Angeles. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)

Trevor Noah volition return to Crypto.com Arena to big the Feb. 2 ceremonial for a 5th consecutive year, making him the lone non-musical performer to big the Grammys astatine slightest 5 times. The comedian’s beingness has been a large triumph for CBS successful the past fewer years. Nearly 17 cardinal viewers tuned successful to past year’s ceremony, marking the Grammys’ largest TV assemblage since 2020.

Glitzy awards show-turned-pseudo telethon

Despite different Hollywood events shifting schedules amid the L.A. wildfires, the Grammys are returning arsenic expected, but with a “renewed consciousness of purpose.”

In effect to the deadly blazes, this year’s ceremonial volition enactment a absorption connected “raising further funds to enactment wildfire alleviation efforts and honoring the bravery and dedication of archetypal responders who hazard their lives to support ours,” CBS said successful a statement.

However, the Recording Academy, which governs the Grammys, promised viewers the amusement “will not beryllium a telethon.”

“You’re not going to spot a [chyron with a] moving full crossed the bottommost of the screen; it’s not that benignant of an event,” CEO Harvey Mason Jr. told Variety.

Citing the estimated 6,500 locals employed connected shows similar the Grammys, producers did not heed calls to cancel oregon postpone the ceremony. Rather, they’ll usage the level “to rise wealth and awareness, but it volition inactive person show and awards.”

Executive shaper Ben Winston added that Hollywood has already been upended aggregate times successful caller years, archetypal during the tallness of COVID and past successful 2023 with the simultaneous strikes of the Writers Guild and SAG-AFTRA.

“I deliberation determination is simply a batch of worth successful bringing immoderate joyousness and levity and euphony to the satellite close now,” Winston told Variety, adding that immoderate performers’ sets person changed accordingly but nary person dropped out. “But we’re precise alert of the devastation that’s happened successful L.A. and what’s going connected successful the wider world, and we volition bespeak that.”

As a effect of the existent landscape, the schedule for Grammy Week volition beryllium condensed into conscionable 4 events — MusiCares, the Clive Davis Pre-Grammy Gala, the Special Merit Awards and the ceremonial itself — each of which volition beryllium geared successful immoderate mode toward betterment efforts.

Who’s performing

Chappell Roan, left, Charli XCX, center, and Sabrina Carpenter. (AP)

Shakira, whose deed grounds “Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran” is up for Best Latin Pop Album, is confirmed to instrumentality the signifier Sunday. Album of the Year contenders Billie Eilish, Chappell Roan, Charli XCX and Sabrina Carpenter volition besides perform, arsenic volition Best New Artist nominees Benson Boone, Doechii, RAYE and Teddy Swims. Carpenter and Roan are besides competing for Best New Artist.

What to support an oculus retired for

Beyoncé’s 32 Grammy wins and 99 nods marque her the most-awarded and most-nominated creator of each time, but the apical prize of Album of the Year has continued to elude the “Cowboy Carter” star.

It’s unclear whether Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce volition yet marque their long-awaited reddish carpet debut. The two-time Super Bowl champ is erstwhile again preparing for his changeable astatine glory erstwhile the Kansas City Chiefs look disconnected against the Philadelphia Eagles precisely a week aft the Grammys.

Predicted winners of the Big Four

Beyoncé has revealed the authoritative medium artwork for her caller album, Cowboy Carter.

Beyoncé remains a favourite to instrumentality location astatine slightest 1 statue. She’s starring with 11 nominations, including her first-ever successful the state genre for “Cowboy Carter,” and 3 of the Big Four — Album, Song and Record of the Year.

Album of the Year

Some prognosticators believe “Cowboy Carter” volition travel retired connected top, portion others are acrophobic to erstwhile again get their hopes up by betting connected Bey.

Billboard staffers are divided connected what volition hap travel Sunday, portion Rolling Stone and Pitchfork judge Taylor Swift volition thrust the Eras Tour precocious consecutive into her 5th Album of the Year. Pitchfork and immoderate astatine Billboard alike are rooting for Charli XCX’s culture-dominating “Brat” to yet unafraid her a win.

Record of the Year

This class is simply a spot of a crap shoot.

While Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” took hip-hop (and Drake’s ego) by tempest past year, Pitchfork predicts the Recording Academy volition take an oldie but goodie successful The Beatles’ “Now and Then.”

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Sabrina Carpenter performs during the Governors Ball Music Festival connected Saturday, June 8, 2024, astatine Flushing Meadows Corona Park successful the Queens borough of New York. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP)

USA Today is rooting for Chappell Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!” but suspects Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso” volition instrumentality location the win.

Rolling Stone is meantime putting wealth connected Billie Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather,” but pulling for newcomer Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy).”

Song of the Year

Similarly, Song of the Year is simply a spot of a philharmonic Rorschach Test, adjacent for the critics who unrecorded and respire the industry.

While Rolling Stone predicts Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!” volition get its due, the outlet is rooting for Carpenter’s different summertime earworm, “Please Please Please.” Pitchfork is hoping for a Roan win, but believes Eilish has an borderline with “Birds of a Feather.”

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Chappell Roan performs connected signifier during the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards astatine UBS Arena connected September 11, 2024 successful Elmont, New York. (Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images for MTV)

USA Today wants Lamar’s “Not Like Us” to instrumentality Song of the Year, but yet thinks the Grammy volition spell to Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ undying collab, “Die With a Smile.”

Best New Artist

Between Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan, it’s up for statement whose euphony was much ubiquitous implicit the past year. But some Pitchfork and Rolling Stone hold that not lone should Roan triumph the newcomer title, she successful information will.

While USA Today besides hopes that’s the case, the outlet believes Carpenter — who lone recovered wider fame with her sixth workplace album, pursuing her opening for the Eras Tour — volition beryllium crowned Best New Artist.