Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Christian Music Album

Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Christian Music Album
Awarded for	quality CCM albums
Country	United States
Presented by	National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
Official website	www.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

Year^[I]	Artist	Title	Other nominees	Ref.
2012	Chris Tomlin	And If Our God Is for Us...	Gungor – Ghosts Upon the Earth Brandon Heath – Leaving Eden Leeland – The Great Awakening Mandisa – What If We Were Real Royal Tailor – Black & White	[5]
2013	TobyMac	Eye on It	Casting Crowns – Come to the Well Kari Jobe – Where I Find You Britt Nicole – Gold Matthew West – Into The Light	[6]
2014	Mandisa	Overcomer	Building 429 – We Won't Be Shaken Matt Maher – All the People Said Amen (live) Matt Redman – Your Grace Finds Me (live) Chris Tomlin – Burning Lights
2015	For King & Country	Run Wild. Live Free. Love Strong.	Francesca Battistelli – If We're Honest Natalie Grant – Hurricane MercyMe – Welcome to the New Royal Tailor – Royal Tailor	[7]
2016	TobyMac	This Is Not a Test	Jason Crabb – Whatever the Road Lauren Daigle – How Can It Be Matt Maher – Saints and Sinners Chris Tomlin – Love Ran Red

• ^{^[I]} Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year.

See also

• Grammy Award for Best Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music Performance
• Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Christian Music Song

References

1. "Grammy Awards at a Glance". Los Angeles Times. Tribune Company. Retrieved April 24, 2010.
2. "Overview". National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. 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
7. List of Nominees 2015

External links

• Official site of the Grammy Awards