{"id":1191938,"date":"2022-01-05T19:34:57","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T00:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1191938"},"modified":"2022-01-05T19:35:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T00:35:01","slug":"grammy-awards-2022-postponed-due-to-omicron-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/grammy-awards-2022-postponed-due-to-omicron-variant\/","title":{"rendered":"Grammy Awards 2022 Postponed due to Omicron Variant"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgrammy-awards-2022-postponed-due-to-omicron-variant%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1191938&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Grammysratings1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The Grammy Awards 2022 has been postponed due to the Omicron variant of the Chinese coronavirus, making it the second year in a row that the Grammys have been postponed over the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter careful consideration and analysis with city and state officials, health and safety experts, the artist community and our many partners, the Recording Academy and CBS have postponed the 64th Annual Grammy Awards show,\u201d CBS and the Recording Academy said in a joint statement.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe health and safety of those in our music community, the live audience, and the hundreds of people who work tirelessly to produce our show remains our top priority,\u201d they continued. \u201cGiven the uncertainty surrounding the Omicron variant, holding the show on January 31 simply contains too many risks.&nbsp;We look forward to celebrating \u2018Music\u2019s Biggest Night\u2019 on a future date, which will be announced soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CYXQ26mvb93\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The 64th annual Grammy Awards was&nbsp;originally set for January 31 at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Last year\u2019s show was originally set for January 31, 2021, but was later delayed to March 14 over a spike in coronavirus cases in Los Angeles. Comedy Central\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Daily Show<\/em>&nbsp;host&nbsp;Trevor Noah hosted last year\u2019s Grammys and will host this year\u2019s show as well.<\/p>\n<p>In August, three months after the woke, Trevor Noah-hosted Grammys telecast produced the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/03\/16\/trevor-noah-hosted-grammy-ratings-worst-ever-by-a-mile\/\">worst<\/a> ratings on record, organizers of the Grammys doubled down on their wokeism,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/08\/05\/grammys-requiring-diversity-hires-for-2022-show\/\">announcing<\/a> that they\u2019ll require producers to recruit and hire more \u201cdiverse\u201d candidates backstage and in front of the camera ahead of the 2022 show.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, four-time Grammy winner Drake and his management <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/12\/07\/drake-pulls-his-grammy-nominations-years-after-bashing-recording-academy\/\">asked<\/a> the Recording Academy to withdraw his two nominations from the final-round ballot. Drake\u2019s request was reportedly honored by the academy.<\/p>\n<p>The rapper has called out the Grammys in previous years, and has shown his displeasure for not being nominated outside the rap category. He also&nbsp;took aim at the importance of the Grammy Awards during his acceptance speech after his song, \u201cGod\u2019s Plan\u201d won best rap song in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><em>You can follow Alana&nbsp;Mastrangelo on&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ARmastrangelo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Facebook<\/a>&nbsp;and Twitter at&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ARmastrangelo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@ARmastrangelo<\/a>, and on&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alanamastrangelo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Grammy Awards 2022 has been postponed due to the Omicron variant of the Chinese coronavirus, making it the second year in a row that the Grammys have been postponed &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1191938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1191938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1191938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1191938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1191938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}