Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Christian Music Album

Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Christian Music Album
Awarded forBest CCM albums
CountryUnited States
Presented byNational Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
First awarded2012
Currently held byLecrae – Church Clothes 4 (2024)
Websitewww.grammy.com

The Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Christian Music Album is an honor presented at the Grammy Awards to artists and producers who make the best albums in the contemporary Christian music (CCM) genre from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to help it "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position".[1]

The 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.[2]

The academy made a distinction between CCM and gospel music after determining that there were "two distinct wings to the gospel house" and that the "gospel" tends to conjure the images and sounds of traditional gospel but not CCM. With this in mind, it renamed the categories as Best Gospel Album (for soul and urban contemporary gospel) and Best Contemporary Christian Music Album.[3]

Recipients

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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... [4]
2013 TobyMac Eye on It [5]
2014 Mandisa Overcomer [6]
2015 For King & Country Run Wild. Live Free. Love Strong. [7]
2016 TobyMac This Is Not a Test [8]
2017 Hillary Scott & The Scott Family Love Remains [9]
2018 Zach Williams Chain Breaker
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2019 Lauren Daigle Look Up Child [11]
2020 for KING & COUNTRY Burn the Ships [12]
2021 Kanye West Jesus Is King [13]
2022 Elevation Worship & Maverick City Music Old Church Basement [14]
2023 Maverick City Music Breathe [15]
2024 Lecrae Church Clothes 4
2025 Winner TBA on 2 February 2025 [16]
  • ^[I] Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Overview". National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on January 3, 2011. Retrieved November 11, 2010.
  2. ^ "Category Mapper". GRAMMY.org. Retrieved 2011-12-27.
  3. ^ "Grammy Awards Restructuring". Grammy.org. Archived from the original on 2011-12-03. Retrieved 2011-12-27.
  4. ^ "54th Annual GRAMMY Awards Nominees And Winners: Gospel Field". The Recording Academy. Retrieved December 10, 2011.
  5. ^ List of 2013 nominees Archived 2012-02-01 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ "56th GRAMMY Awards: Full Winners List". Billboard. Retrieved April 26, 2017.
  7. ^ List of Nominees 2015
  8. ^ "58th Grammy Nominees". Grammy. Archived from the original on February 1, 2012. Retrieved April 26, 2017.
  9. ^ "59th Grammy Nominees". Grammy. Archived from the original on February 1, 2012. Retrieved April 26, 2017.
  10. ^ Lynch, Joe (November 28, 2017). "Grammys 2018: See the Complete List of Nominees". Billboard. Retrieved November 29, 2017.
  11. ^ Grammy.com, 7 December 2018
  12. ^ 2020 Grammy Awards nominations list
  13. ^ 2021 Nominations List
  14. ^ "2022 GRAMMYs Awards: Complete Nominations List". GRAMMY.com. 2021-11-23. Retrieved 2021-11-30.
  15. ^ "2023 GRAMMY Nominations: See The Complete Nominees List". www.grammy.com. Retrieved 2022-11-27.
  16. ^ "2025 GRAMMYs: See The OFFICIAL Full Nominations List | GRAMMY.com". grammy.com. Retrieved 2024-12-22.
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