Grammy Premiere Ceremony Moves to Disney+ for 2027
The Grammy Premiere Ceremony will stream live exclusively on Disney+ for the first time, the Recording Academy announced on 13 November 2026. The show is set for Sunday, 7 February 2027, at 2:30 p.m. ET (11:30 a.m. PT).
The Premiere Ceremony is the earlier event that comes before the main Grammy telecast. It hands out awards in roughly 90 of the 100 categories that are not shown on the television broadcast, so many of the winners in those categories receive their trophies there. Until now, the show has also streamed on the Grammys website in recent years.
This year brings two changes. The Premiere Ceremony will be produced by Fulwell Entertainment, the company that has produced the live Grammy telecast every year since 2021. Previously, the Premiere Ceremony was produced in-house by Recording Academy executives. Ben Winston, Eric Pankowski and Greg V. Fera will serve as executive producers, and the event will take place at the Peacock Theater at L.A. Live in Los Angeles, according to the Recording Academy's announcement.
The main show is also changing its home. After airing on CBS every year from 1973 to 2026, the Grammy telecast will air live across ABC, Disney+ and Hulu at 7 p.m. ET (4 p.m. PT). Disney+ therefore carries both events, with the Premiere Ceremony exclusive to the streaming service.
For viewers, the practical point is simple. Anyone who wants the early awards will need a Disney+ subscription to watch them live. A subscription is a paid monthly or yearly plan that unlocks the service's programming, and it is not required to watch the main telecast on ABC.
For the artists and crews involved, the Premiere Ceremony is a working event with its own schedule, staging and production team. Changing who produces it means a new group of people is responsible for getting those winners on stage in the right order, on time. Billboard first reported the details of the Disney+ stream, which the Recording Academy has now confirmed.
The Recording Academy runs the Grammys, and it set the 2027 dates on its own announcement. Further details on performers, presenters and nominees have not been released in the announcement, and the awards themselves will follow the usual process of nominations and voting before the ceremony.
