Recording Academy President/CEO Neil Portnow, Chair Emeritus and GRAMMY winner Jimmy Jam, and Vice President of Awards Bill Freimuth fielded questions about the GRAMMY Awards Category Restructuring on April 6 during a live video chat, moderated by Academy Trustee and Billboard Senior Editor Gail Mitchell.

View the chat in its entirety here:
http://www.grammy.org/recording-academy/announcement/chat

Awards Category Restructuring

The Recording Academy Vice President of Awards Bill Freimuth, Chair Emeritus and GRAMMY-winner Jimmy Jam, and President/CEO Neil Portnow discussed GRAMMY Award Category changes at an April 6 press conference at The Academy's headquarters in Santa Monica, Calif.

View the press conference in its entirety here:
http://www.grammy.org/recording-academy/announcement/press-conference-video

News Release

The Recording Academy Continues Evolution of GRAMMY Awards

Restructuring of Categories Across All Genres Brings Total Number of Categories to be Recognized at the 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards in 2012 to 78

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (April 6, 2011) — In an effort to continuously evolve its GRAMMY^® Awards process, The Recording Academy^® announced today that it has restructured the GRAMMY Categories across all genres and Fields, bringing the total number of Categories to be recognized at the 54th GRAMMY Awards in 2012, to 78.

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