The Recording Academy will announce the 2027 Grammy nominations live from Times Square for the first time on Nov. 16 and start the February awards ceremony an hour earlier than last year, organizers said Friday. The changes set the schedule for the first Grammys under a new broadcast agreement with Disney after more than five decades on CBS.

The Nov. 6 announcement also named the presenters for the nominations, including Olivia Dean, Kehlani, Herbie Hancock, Juanes, Pharrell Williams and Renée Fleming. The lineup brings together performers and writers from several parts of the recording industry as the academy prepares to name nominees in 100 categories, five of them new this year. Presenting a category does not mean an artist has been nominated.

Two broadcasts, on different coasts

The nominations presentation is scheduled to begin at about 7:45 a.m. Eastern, or 4:45 a.m. Pacific, on Monday, Nov. 16. It will originate from The Square in New York and stream on Grammy.com and the Grammys’ YouTube channel. ABC’s Good Morning America will carry live coverage. The academy expects to post the complete list at about 9 a.m. Eastern, when a separate wrap-up show is scheduled to start.

The academy had already set the Nov. 16 nominations date. Friday’s announcement adds the Times Square location, the presenters and the details of how viewers can follow the reveal. For listeners looking for a particular artist or a credit in one of the genre or craft categories, the posted list will be the more direct way to check than following each announcement in sequence.

The awards ceremony itself remains in Los Angeles, at Crypto.com Arena, on Sunday, Feb. 7. It will begin at 7 p.m. Eastern and 4 p.m. Pacific. Billboard reported that the one-hour shift follows a similar move by the Oscars and brings the later portions of the program forward for East Coast viewers. The start time does not establish when the telecast will end or which awards will appear on air.

The first ceremony under Disney’s deal

The ceremony returns to ABC for the first time since 1972. The network will carry it live while Disney+ and Hulu stream it at the same time. The February awards and the November nominations have different distribution plans: viewers can watch the complete nominations presentation on the academy’s own online channels, while Disney holds the rights to the ceremony.

The rights agreement, announced in 2024, runs through 2036 and also calls for Grammy-branded specials and other music programming across Disney’s services. The ceremony joins a slate that includes the Oscars and the Country Music Association Awards. The agreement gives Disney a recurring live music event it can carry on broadcast television and streaming together, rather than assigning one audience to the live show and another to a later release.

Five categories to watch when the list arrives

The November reveal will be the first look at the nominees under rules adopted in June. The new categories cover Asian pop performance, R&B collaborations and groups, traditional pop vocal performance, traditional folk albums and Latin songwriting. The distinctions affect who gets recognized: the Asian pop award goes to the performers, while the new Latin song award honors the writers of new songs whose lyrics are predominantly in Spanish.

The new R&B category separates collaborations and group performances from solo work, which now has its own renamed award. Traditional folk albums likewise get a separate category alongside contemporary folk. That gives group and solo R&B recordings separate places on the ballot and makes the distinction between contemporary and traditional folk explicit.

As the Associated Press reported, the academy also increased the maximum number of submissions for best new artist from three to four. That gives some previously submitted acts another chance to be considered, although the award still depends on the academy’s eligibility review and how much impact the artist had during the qualifying period. For albums, the academy lowered the required share of new recordings from 75 percent to 66 percent, which can make an album eligible even if more of its material was previously available.

The rules also expand recognition for songwriters and composers whose new material appears on winning albums in most genre album categories. For those contributors, the change concerns who receives a statuette or certificate when an album wins. It is separate from the addition of a dedicated songwriting award for a Latin song.

What happens after nominations

For this awards cycle, eligible works had to be released from Aug. 31, 2025, through Aug. 28, 2026. The first round of voting took place in October. The academy says nearly 16,000 voting members, including performers, songwriters, producers and engineers, are eligible to vote. The final round runs from Dec. 10 through Jan. 7. The November broadcast therefore reveals which recordings and creators advanced from the first ballot, with the winners decided in a separate vote.

Nov. 16 will provide the first evidence of how voters used the new categories and eligibility rules. The February show will answer a different question: whether the Grammys reach a different audience with an earlier start and simultaneous availability on broadcast and streaming. Neither the new ballot nor the new distribution plan has produced results yet.