The Recording Academy has added three new Categories: Best Alternative Jazz Album, Best Pop Dance Recording and Best African Music Performance, . These new categories will be introduced at the 2024 GRAMMYs, officially known as the 66th GRAMMY Awards:

Best African Music Performance is a track and singles Category that recognizes recordings that utilize unique local expressions from across the African continent. Highlighting regional melodic, harmonic and rhythmic musical traditions, the Category includes but is not limited to the Afrobeat, Afro-fusion, Afro Pop, Afrobeats, Alte, Amapiano, Bongo Flava, Genge, Kizomba, Chimurenga, High Life, Fuji, Kwassa, Ndombolo, Mapouka, Ghanaian Drill, Afro-House, South African Hip-Hop, and Ethio Jazz genres