Grammys 2018: Boycotts, battles and how to watch

Is Taylor Swift snubbing the ceremony? Can Jay-Z win album of the year? And where's Beyonce? Here's everything you need to know about the 60th annual Grammy Awards, which take place in New York on Sunday.

 

When are the Grammys?

The ceremony takes place on Sunday, 28 January. If you're in the US, you can watch it live on CBS from 7:30pm (ET) / 4:30pm (PT).
In the UK, you have to wait until 4Music screens a highlights show at 7pm on Monday night. However, you can watch red carpet coverage live on E! (151 on Sky, 156 on Virgin, 321 on BT) from 10:30pm on Sunday.
And 411Scope will be bringing you all the action as it happens, throughout the night.

Who's performing?

Who isn't? In alphabetical order we have...

• Alessia Cara, Khalid and Logic
• Brothers Osborne, Maren Morris and Eric Church
• Bruno Mars and Cardi B - going back to the 90s.
• Childish Gambino
• Elton John and Miley Cyrus - duetting on one of Elton's classics.
• Emmylou Harris and Chris Stapleton
• Gary Clark, Jr and Jon Batiste
• Kendrick Lamar
• Kesha
• Lady Gaga - performing as a solo artist after her duet with Metallica last year.
• Little Big Town
• Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee
• Patti LuPone and Ben Platt - billed as a "Broadway Tribute", this will be a medley of songs from Evita and West Side Story.
• Pink - presumably on a trapeze.
• Rihanna, DJ Khaled and Bryson Tiller - who'll play Wild Thoughts, despite losing out on a Grammy nomination.
• Sam Smith
• Sting
• SZA
• U2 - In a sign of the times, U2 are the only rock band in the line-up.

And that's not all... There are usually a few surprises on the night itself.

I heard some stars are boycotting the show...

Gossip site Hits Daily Double recently claimed Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Lorde and Justin Timberlake would SENSATIONALLY boycott the Grammys because they're FURIOUS at being SNUBBED.
In the past, artists like Frank Ocean, Justin Bieber and Kanye West have avoided the ceremony over a perceived racial bias; so a similar movement by white pop artists (some of whom have been accused of appropriating black culture) would be misguided at best.
A more likely explanation is that the story is rubbish.