Downtown Clients Snag More Than 30 Grammy Nods

November 25, 2020

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Yesterday, nominations for the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards were announced by The Recording Academy — and Downtown-represented writers and producers contributed to projects up for 35 awards in 29 different categories.

We are honored and privileged to work with such an amazing roster of clients, and would like to congratulate all the nominees on behalf of Downtown.

The following clients contributed to the 2021 GRAMMY-nominated works listed below (recording artists appear in parenthesis if different from our clients or their writers).

Andrew DeRoberts

Best Country Duo/Group Performance: "All Night" (Brothers Osborne)

Béla Fleck

Best Historical Album: Throw Down Your Heart: The Complete Africa Sessions

Bert Berns

Album Of The Year: Everyday Life (Coldplay)
Best Recording Package: Everyday Life (Coldplay)

Big Yellow Dog
  • Abe Stoklasa
    Best Country Duo/Group Performance: "Ocean" (Lady A)

  • Daniel Tashian
    Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album: Blue Umbrella (Burt Bacharach & Daniel Tashian)
    Best Country Album: Nightfall (Little Big Town)

  • Maren Morris
    Best Country Song: "The Bones"

Budde Music
  • Nathan Ward II
    Best Rap Performance: WHATS POPPIN (Jack Harlow)

Cautious Clay

Best R&B Album: Bigger Love (John Legend)

Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah

Best Contemporary Instrumental Album: Axiom
Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media: Bill & Ted Face The Music (Various Artists)
Best Improvised Jazz Solo: "Guinnevere"

Cold War Kids

Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media: Bill & Ted Face The Music (Various Artists)

deadmau5

Best Remixed Recording: "Imaginary Friends" (Morgan Page Remix)

Don Bryant

Best Traditional Blues Album: You Make Me Feel

DuBose & Dorothy Heyward

Best Opera Recording: Gershwin: Porgy and Bess (The Metropolitan Opera)
Best Engineered Album, Classical: Gershwin: Porgy and Bess (The Metropolitan Opera)

Emily King

Best R&B Performance: "See Me"

Fancy Hagood

Best Country Album: Nightfall (Little Big Town)

Fiona Apple

Best Alternative Music Album: Fetch The Bolt Cutters
Best Rock Performance: "Shameika"
Best Rock Song: "Shameika"

George Gershwin

Best Opera Recording: Gershwin: Porgy and Bess (The Metropolitan Opera)
Best Engineered Album, Classical: Gershwin: Porgy and Bess (The Metropolitan Opera)

The Invisible Men
  • Dylan Cooper
    Album Of The Year: Hollywood's Bleeding (Post Malone)

Jimmy Napes

Best Dance/Electronic Album: ENERGY (Disclosure)

John Leventhal

Best Americana Album: World On The Ground (Sarah Jarosz)

John Prine

Best American Roots Performance: "I Remember Everything"
Best American Roots Song: "I Remember Everything"

Manners McDade
  • John Metcalfe
    Album Of The Year: Everyday Life (Coldplay)
    Best Recording Package: Everyday Life (Coldplay)

Marc Beeson

Best Country Album: Nightfall (Little Big Town)

Miles Davis

Best Jazz Instrumental Album: Trilogy 2 (Chick Corea, Christian McBride & Brian Blade)
Best Improvised Jazz Solo: "All Blues" (Chick Corea)

Picadilly Music
  • Toots Hibbert
    Best Reggae Album: Got To Be Tough (Toots & The Maytals)

Position Music
  • Fantastic Negrito
    Best Contemporary Blues Album: Have You Lost Your Mind yet?

RAC

Best Remixed Recording: "Do You Ever? (RAC Mix)" (Phil Good)

Ryan Tedder

Best Pop Vocal Album: Chromatica (Lady Gaga)
Best R&B Album: Bigger Love (John Legend)

Sara Haze

Best Country Album: Nightfall (Little Big Town)

Scott Bomar

Best Traditional Blues Album: You Make Me Feel (Don Bryant)

Shaggy

Best Reggae Album: It All Comes Back To Love (Maxi Priest)

Sheer Music*
  • Anatii
    Best Music Video: "BROWN SKIN GIRL" (Beyoncé)

Wardlaw Music
  • Maxi Priest
    Best Reggae Album: It All Comes Back To Love

William Larsen

Best Reggae Album: Higher Place (Skip Marley)

Zach Skelton

Best R&B Album: Bigger Love (John Legend)

*Downtown Music Holdings announced the acquisition of Sheer Music Publishing in 2020