Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Christian Music Album

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Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Christian Music Album
Awarded for	Best CCM albums
Country	United States
Presented by	National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
First awarded	2012
Currently held by	Lecrae – Church Clothes 4 (2024)
Website	www.grammy.com

The Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Christian Music Album is an honor presented at the Grammy Awards to artists and producers who make the best albums in the contemporary Christian music (CCM) genre from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to help it "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position".^[1]

The Best Contemporary Christian Music Album award was one of the new categories created after a major overhaul of the Grammy Awards categories for 2012. This award combines recordings that were previously submitted for the Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album, Best Rock or Rap Gospel Album and Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album.^[2]

The academy made a distinction between CCM and gospel music after determining that there were "two distinct wings to the gospel house" and that the "gospel" tends to conjure the images and sounds of traditional gospel but not CCM. With this in mind, it renamed the categories as Best Gospel Album (for soul and urban contemporary gospel) and Best Contemporary Christian Music Album.^[3]

Recipients

Year^[I]	Performing artist(s)	Work	Nominees	Ref.
2012	Chris Tomlin	And If Our God Is for Us...	Gungor – Ghosts Upon the Earth Brandon Heath – Leaving Eden Leeland – The Great Awakening Mandisa – What If We Were Real Royal Tailor – Black & White	^[4]
2013	TobyMac	Eye on It	Casting Crowns – Come to the Well Kari Jobe – Where I Find You Britt Nicole – Gold Matthew West – Into The Light	^[5]
2014	Mandisa	Overcomer	Building 429 – We Won't Be Shaken Matt Maher – All the People Said Amen (live) Matt Redman – Your Grace Finds Me (live) Chris Tomlin – Burning Lights	^[6]
2015	For King & Country	Run Wild. Live Free. Love Strong.	Francesca Battistelli – If We're Honest Natalie Grant – Hurricane MercyMe – Welcome to the New Royal Tailor – Royal Tailor	^[7]
2016	TobyMac	This Is Not a Test	Jason Crabb – Whatever the Road Lauren Daigle – How Can It Be Matt Maher – Saints and Sinners Chris Tomlin – Love Ran Red	^[8]
2017	Hillary Scott & The Scott Family	Love Remains	All Sons & Daughters – Poets & Saints Crowder – American Prodigal Natalie Grant – Be One Hillsong Young & Free – Youth Revival (live)	^[9]
2018	Zach Williams	Chain Breaker	Danny Gokey – Rise Matt Maher – Echoes (Deluxe Edition) MercyMe – Lifer Tauren Wells – Hills and Valleys	^[10]
2019	Lauren Daigle	Look Up Child	Elevation Worship - Hallelujah Here Below Jesus Culture - Living With A Fire Michael W. Smith - Surrounded Zach Williams - Survivor: Live From Harding Prison	^[11]
2020	for KING & COUNTRY	Burn the Ships	Crowder - I Know a Ghost Danny Gokey - Haven't Seen it Yet TobyMac - The Elements Chris Tomlin - Holy Roar	^[12]
2021	Kanye West	Jesus Is King	Cody Carnes - Run to the Father Hillsong Young & Free - All Of My Best Friends We The Kingdom - Holy Water Tauren Wells - Citizen of Heaven	^[13]
2022	Elevation Worship & Maverick City Music	Old Church Basement	Natalie Grant - No Stranger Israel & New Breed - Feels Like Home Vol. 2 Kari Jobe - The Blessing (Live) Tauren Wells - Citizen of Heaven (Live)	^[14]
2023	Maverick City Music	Breathe	Elevation Worship - Lion TobyMac - Life After Death Chris Tomlin - Always Anne Wilson - My Jesus	^[15]
2024	Lecrae	Church Clothes 4	Blessing Offor - My Tribe Da'T.R.U.T.H. - Emanuel Lauren Daigle - Lauren Daigle Phil Wickham - I Believe

^{^[I]} Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year.

References

^ "Overview". National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on January 3, 2011. Retrieved November 11, 2010.
^ "Category Mapper". GRAMMY.org. Retrieved 2011-12-27.
^ "Grammy Awards Restructuring". Grammy.org. Archived from the original on 2011-12-03. Retrieved 2011-12-27.
^ "54th Annual GRAMMY Awards Nominees And Winners: Gospel Field". The Recording Academy. Retrieved December 10, 2011.
^ List of 2013 nominees Archived 2012-02-01 at the Wayback Machine
^ "56th GRAMMY Awards: Full Winners List". Billboard. Retrieved April 26, 2017.
^ List of Nominees 2015
^ "58th Grammy Nominees". Grammy. Archived from the original on February 1, 2012. Retrieved April 26, 2017.
^ "59th Grammy Nominees". Grammy. Archived from the original on February 1, 2012. Retrieved April 26, 2017.
^ Lynch, Joe (November 28, 2017). "Grammys 2018: See the Complete List of Nominees". Billboard. Retrieved November 29, 2017.
^ Grammy.com, 7 December 2018
^ 2020 Grammy Awards nominations list
^ 2021 Nominations List
^ "2022 GRAMMYs Awards: Complete Nominations List". GRAMMY.com. 2021-11-23. Retrieved 2021-11-30.
^ "2023 GRAMMY Nominations: See The Complete Nominees List". www.grammy.com. Retrieved 2022-11-27.

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R&B, Rap and Spoken Word Poetry	Best R&B Album Best Progressive R&B Album Best Rap Album Best Spoken Word Poetry Album Best R&B Performance Best Traditional R&B Performance Best Rap Performance Best Melodic Rap Performance Best R&B Song Best Rap Song
Rock, Metal & Alternative	Best Rock Album Best Rock Song Best Rock Performance Best Metal Performance Best Alternative Music Album Best Alternative Music Performance
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