Grammy Awards: Video game music will take center stage in 2023

Video games will now take their place at the Grammy Awards.

For years, video games and other interactive media have competed with movie, program or television soundtracks in the Best Visual Media Soundtrack category at the Grammy Awards, but no video game soundtrack has ever been nominated in this category. The main reason is that the ratings of films and series that dominated this category for a long time were too high. To recognize the artistic dimension of video games, the category “Best Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media”was specifically created.

A new addition to the 65th #GRAMMY Awards for Best Score for Video Games and Other Interactive Media honors composers who champion musical innovation in games.
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— Recording Academy/GRAMMY (@RecordingAcad) June 9, 2022

Harvey Mason Jr., CEO of The Recording Academy said:

This is a huge opportunity because so much music is created and used in games. I think there is as much music in video games as there is in movies and TV – or even combined. So this is an opportunity to connect with an underserved and underrepresented group of music makers that we haven’t noticed until now. The numbers are huge and there are so many really creative and talented people working in this field that we thought it was very important to make sure we honor their work.

The Grammy Awards will focus on video games

The 2023 Grammy Awards, the 65th edition hosted by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, will recognize the best soundtrack albums composed primarily of original scores and created specifically for video games in the new Best Score for Video Games and Other Interactive Media category. or other interactive media or as an accompaniment to them. The 2023 Grammy Awards, officially known as the 65th Grammy Awards, will air on February 5, 2023 live on CBS and stream on Paramount+ from the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. Nominations in all categories will be announced on November 15th.

Over 70 original compositions have been shortlisted for the Grammy Awards.

• Elden Ring (Yuka Kitamura, Yoshimi Kudo, Shoi Miyazawa, Tsukasa Saito and Tai Tomisawa)
• Tunic (Janice Kwan and Terence Lee)
• Horizon Forbidden West (Joris De Man, Niels van der List, Oleksa Lozovchuk, “Flight”)
• Quarry (Ian Livingston)
• Aliens Fireteam Elite (Austin Wintory)
• MultiVersus (Steven Barton and Gordy Haab)
• Moss Book II (Jason Graves)
• Syberia The World Before (Inon Zur)
• Return (Bobby Krlick, Joe Thwaites and Harry Krueger)
• Halo Infinite (Gareth Cocker, Joel Korelitz and Curtis Schweitzer)
• Far Cry 6 (Pedro Bronfman, Will Bates, Steven Lukacs)
• Deathloop (Tom Salta)
• Psychonauts 2 (Peter McConnell)
• Kena Spirit Bridge (Jason Alexander Gallat)
• Outer Wilds Echoes of the Eye (Andrew Pralow)
• Guardians of the Marvel Galaxy (Richard Jacques)
• Call of Duty Vanguard (Bear McCreery
• Immortality (Ninita Desai)
• Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Dawn of Ragnarok (Stephanie Economy)
• And much more…