The ceremony will be the first since the awards made a major change to its nominating process: In late April, the board of the Recording Academy, the governing body of the Grammys, voted to eliminate the use of anonymous expert committees to whittle down the final ballot in dozens of categories, a practice that had been in place since 1989.
How the change might affect this year’s nominees is an open question.
Another of this year’s biggest artists, the country musician Morgan Wallen, was rebuked by the industry in February after a video surfaced of him using a racial slur.