The Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song is a category at the annual

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. It was first awarded in

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. It combined two previously separate categories in the Gospel/

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field, Best Contemporary Christian Music Song and

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. The new category recognizes both songwriters and performers (solo/duos/groups/collaborations/etc.) and is open for singles or tracks only. Songwriters are only awarded a Grammy Award if it is a newly written song. Grammy's for cover versions of previously recorded songs are awarded to the performer(s) only. Along with the

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category, these mark the only Grammy categories which honor both performers and songwriters in one category. These changes were made in June 2014 by the

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"in the interest of clarifying the criteria, representing the current culture and creative DNA of the gospel and Contemporary Christian Music communities, and better reflecting the diversity and authenticity of today's gospel music industry."Grammy.com, 12 June 2014
/ref> According to the Grammy committee, the move recognizes "the critical contribution of both songwriters and performers by combining songwriters and artists into the Best Gospel Performance/Song and Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song categories." Gospel performances, which were previously recognized in the Best Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music Performance category, are included in the

category.

Recipients

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The official nominations list did not list the songwriters. This information is taken from the credits notice on Spotify.

References

General * Note: User must select the "Gospel" category as the genre under the search feature. ;Specific

External links

Official site
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Songwriting awards

Recipients

See also

References

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