What to expect from the 2026 Grammy Awards

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A few weeks ago, Ben Winston and the rest of the team behind the annual Grammy Awards telecast were going over plans for this year’s show when suddenly Winston recalled sitting in the same room with the same people almost exactly 12 months earlier as the Palisades and Eaton wildfires were ravaging large swaths of Los Angeles.“We were looking at the fire over the road from my office — you could see it,” the Emmy-winning television producer recalls.“I remember we were like, ‘Is there even going to be a show?’”The Recording Academy ended up going ahead with the 67th Grammys albeit with significant changes to the program, including a new opening number that had the band Dawes (whose drummer Griffin Goldsmith lost his home in Altadena) performing Randy Newman’s “I Love L.A.” with help from Sheryl Crow and John Legend, among others.“We basically put on a Grammy show in two weeks,” Winston says now of last year’s ceremony, which the academy retooled as a fundraiser that brought in more than $9 million for fire relief through its MusiCares foundation.

“I look back on it as one of the most insane things we ever did.” Music The 68th Grammy Awards go down Sunday night in L.A.Here’s who we think will take home the big prizes.Preparation for the 68th Grammys — set to air live on CBS and Paramount+ on Sunday night from Crypto.com Arena — is going much more smoothly, Winston reports with a look of relief.

Yet the show, which he’s overseeing alongside Raj Kapoor and Jesse Collins, will still be a feat to pull off, with about 10 televised award presentations and more than two dozen performers, among them Sabrina Carpenter, Pharrell Williams, Addison Rae, Clipse and Alex Warren.After three years of climbing ratings, TV viewership for the 2025 Grammys fell 9% to 15.4 million, according to data from Nielsen.So the pressure is on to bring an audience to Sund...