2009 Grammy Awards

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51st Grammy Awards

Date
February 8, 2009
Venue
Staples Center, Los Angeles, California
Host
none
Network:Global TV← 2008 2010 →
The 51st Annual Grammy Awards will take place on February 8, 2009. It will be broadcasted on Global and will air at 8PM EST. Nominations are to be announced on December 3, 2008. The nominations will be announced on a special concert airing on Global. For the sixth year in a row, the ceremony will be held in the Staples Center.

To be eligible for an award a recording must have been commercially released between October 1, 2007 and September 30, 2008. This is for all recordings released in the 2008 recording year. After the nominees are announced on December 4, 2008 final voting ballots will be sent to the academy members. This is when they will vote for one of the nominees to win the award. Each category has five nominees. More than five is the result of a tie in the nominating process.

Members are allowed to vote in the General field and up to nine other fields on their final voting ballots. All ballots are tabulated by the independent accounting firm Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. There are about 7,000 people who vote in the nominating and final voting process. These people are artists, producers, engineers, mixers and mastering engineers. Academy members are to vote based upon quality alone. They are not to be influenced by mass sales or personal friendships. The acceptance of gifts is prohibited and can result in termination of membership.

After the nominations are announced the recipients of all special awards such as lifetime achievement awards will be announced. In addition performers and presenters will be announced. Neil Diamond will be the recipient of the MusiCares Person of the Year award.
The nominees were announced on a live 1-hour TV special on December 12th, 2008, and were posted on the official website afterwards.[1]