Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Christian Music Album
Awarded forquality CCM albums
CountryUnited States
Presented byNational Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
First awarded2012
Currently held byMaverick City Music – Breathe (2023)
Websitewww.grammy.com

The Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Christian Music Album is an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards,[1] to recording artists for quality albums in the Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) genre. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position".[2]

The Best Best Contemporary Christian Music Album award was one of the new categories created after a major overhaul of the Grammy Awards categories for 2012. This award combines recordings that were previously submitted for the Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album, Best Rock or Rap Gospel Album and Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album.[3]

The Recording Academy decided to make a distinction between Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) and Gospel music after determining that there were "two distinct wings to the gospel house: Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) and Urban or Soul Gospel. Additionally, it was determined that the word "Gospel" tends to conjure up the images and sounds of traditional soul gospel and not CCM. With this in mind, it was decided not only to rename each of the categories but also the entire [genre] field. [It] was determined that album and songwriting categories are of highest importance; Gospel and CCM each now have one category for each".[4] As a result, the previous gospel album categories were combined into the Best Gospel Album (for soul and urban contemporary gospel music) and Best Contemporary Christian Music Album categories.

Recipients

Chris Tomlin was the first recipient of the award in 2012.
2014 winner Mandisa.
Two-time winners for KING & COUNTRY.
Two-time winner TobyMac.
Year[I] Performing artist(s) Work Nominees Ref.
2012 Chris Tomlin And If Our God Is for Us... [5]
2013 TobyMac Eye on It [6]
2014 Mandisa Overcomer [7]
2015 For King & Country Run Wild. Live Free. Love Strong. [8]
2016 TobyMac This Is Not a Test [9]
2017 Hillary Scott & The Scott Family Love Remains [10]
2018 Zach Williams Chain Breaker
[11]
2019 Lauren Daigle Look Up Child [12]
2020 for KING & COUNTRY Burn the Ships [13]
2021 Kanye West Jesus Is King [14]
2022 Elevation Worship & Maverick City Music Old Church Basement [15]
2023 Maverick City Music Breathe [16]
2024 Winner TBA on 4 February 2024
  • ^[I] Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Grammy Awards at a Glance". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 24, 2010.
  2. ↑ "Overview". National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on January 3, 2011. Retrieved November 11, 2010.
  3. ↑ "Category Mapper". GRAMMY.org. Retrieved 2011-12-27.
  4. ↑ "Grammy Awards Restructuring". Grammy.org. Retrieved 2011-12-27.
  5. ↑ "54th Annual GRAMMY Awards Nominees And Winners: Gospel Field". The Recording Academy. Retrieved December 10, 2011.
  6. ↑ List of 2013 nominees Archived 2012-02-01 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ↑ "56th GRAMMY Awards: Full Winners List". Billboard. Retrieved April 26, 2017.
  8. ↑ List of Nominees 2015
  9. ↑ "58th Grammy Nominees". Grammy. Archived from the original on February 1, 2012. Retrieved April 26, 2017.
  10. ↑ "59th Grammy Nominees". Grammy. Archived from the original on February 1, 2012. Retrieved April 26, 2017.
  11. ↑ Lynch, Joe (November 28, 2017). "Grammys 2018: See the Complete List of Nominees". Billboard. Retrieved November 29, 2017.
  12. ↑ Grammy.com, 7 December 2018
  13. ↑ 2020 Grammy Awards nominations list
  14. ↑ 2021 Nominations List
  15. ↑ "2022 GRAMMYs Awards: Complete Nominations List". GRAMMY.com. 2021-11-23. Retrieved 2021-11-30.
  16. ↑ "2023 GRAMMY Nominations: See The Complete Nominees List". www.grammy.com. Retrieved 2022-11-27.
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