The 64th annual awards ceremony, the second in a row to be delayed by the pandemic, will be held in Las Vegas on April 3.

They, along with the singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile and the country duo Brothers Osborne, are the first batch of performers announced for the show, which wasย delayed nine weeks by the pandemicย and is being held in Las Vegas for the first time. Trevor Noah of โThe Daily Showโ is the host.
The show, at the MGM Grand Arena, will be broadcast by CBS and can be streamed on Paramount+.
Rodrigo and Eilish are each up for seven awards, and will compete against each other for record, album and song of the year.ย Rodrigo, whose debut album, โSour,โ was one of last yearโs biggest hits, is also up for best new artist, raising the possibility that she could sweep the top four awards โ for the first time sinceย Eilish did so in 2020.

Lil Nas X, the singer and rapper who rose to fame three years ago with the meme-ready โOld Town Road,โ is up for five awards, including album of the year. Carlile was nominated in four categories, including twice for song of the year (for โRight on Timeโ and โA Beautiful Noiseโ). Brothers Osborne have two nods, and BTS one. Jon Batiste, the bandleader on โThe Late Show With Stephen Colbert,โย has the most nominations, with 11.
Other top nominees include Justin Bieber, Doja Cat and H.E.R. The Recording Academy, which presents the Grammys, drew controversy last year when it emerged that it had made aย last-minute change, unknown to voters, that expanded its ballot from eight to 10 nominees for the four top categories. Among the beneficiaries of that change were Taylor Swift and Kanye West.
This yearโs show is the second to be delayed by the pandemic, and while last yearโs production was well received by critics as a fresh new take on the format, its rating slipped to aย low of 8.8 million, down 53 percent from the year before. In 2012, when the Grammys were held the day after Whitney Houstonโs death, the show drewย nearly 40 millionย viewers.
Ben Sisario covers the music industry. He has been writing for The Times since 1998.ย @sisarioA version of this article appears in print onย March 16, 2022, Sectionย C, Pageย 4ย of the New York editionย with the headline:ย Performers Announced For Grammys.ย Order Reprintsย |ย Todayโs Paperย |ย Subscribe