The Grammy Award

Grammy Award

A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...

 for Best Contemporary Christian Music Album is a new category in the annual Grammy Awards ceremony from 2012.

Previously, the Recording Academy did not make a distinction between Contemporary Christian Music

Contemporary Christian music

Contemporary Christian music is a genre of modern popular music which is lyrically focused on matters concerned with the Christian faith...

 (CCM) and Gospel music, but in its drastic overhaul of Grammy Awards categories from 2012, announced on 6 April 2011, it said that "it was determined that there are two distinct wings to the gospel house: Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) and Urban or Soul Gospel, and these two groups share in their overall mission".

It continued: "Additionally, it has determined that the word "Gospel" tends to conjure up the images and sounds of traditional soul gospel and not CCM. With this in mind, it was decided not only to rename each of the categories, but also the entire [genre] field. [It] was determined that album and songwriting categories are of highest importance; Gospel and CCM each now have one category for each".

As a result, the five previous gospel album categories were combined into the Best Gospel Album (for "old-style" gospel music) and Best Contemporary Christian Music Album categories.

The five now discontinued gospel album categories were Best Rock or Rap Gospel Album

Grammy Award for Best Rock Gospel Album

The Grammy Award for Best Rock Gospel Album was awarded from 1991 to 2011. From 1991 to 1993 it was awarded as Best Rock/Contemporary Gospel Album. In 2011 the category was known as Best Rock or Rap Gospel Album....

, Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album

Grammy Award for Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album

The Grammy Award for Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album was awarded from 1991 to 2011. From 1991 to 1993 it was awarded as Best Pop Gospel Album.The award will be discontinued from 2012 in a major overhaul of Grammy categories...

, Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album, Best Traditional Gospel Album and Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album

Grammy Award for Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album

The Grammy Award for Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album was an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality gospel albums incorporating contemporary R&B music...

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2010s

• Grammy Awards of 2012

Nominees

• Gungor for Ghosts Upon the Earth
  Ghosts Upon the Earth
  -Track listing:# "Let There Be"# "Brother Moon"# "Crags and Clay"# "The Fall"# "When Death Dies"# "Church Bells"# "Wake Up Sleeper"# "Ezekiel"# "Vous Êtes Mon Cœur "# "This Is Not the End"# "You are the Beauty"# "Every Breath"...
  
  
• Brandon Heath
  Brandon Heath
  Brandon Heath is a contemporary Christian musician from Nashville, Tennessee. He has released three studio albums: Don't Get Comfortable , What If We and "Leaving Eden" . He is best known for the No. 1 "I'm Not Who I Was" and "Give Me Your Eyes". He was nominated four times at the Dove Awards of...
  
   for Leaving Eden
  Leaving Eden (Brandon Heath album)
  Leaving Eden is the third studio album by contemporary Christian musician Brandon Heath. It was released on January 18, 2011 through Reunion Records. During the week of January 21, 2011, the album's first single "Your Love" was number 1 on Christian Songs chart, which it spent 27 weeks on the chart...
  
  
• Leeland
  Leeland
  Leeland is a Christian rock band from Baytown, Texas. The band was formed in 2004, although lead singer Leeland Mooring had been writing songs beforehand. Leeland is composed of Leeland Mooring , Jack Mooring , Casey Moore , Shelly Mooring and Mike Smith...
  
   for The Great Awakening
  The Great Awakening
  The Great Awakening is the fourth studio album from the Christian band Leeland, released on September 20, 2011. The Great Awakening received a nomination to the 54th Grammy Awards for Best Contemporary Christian Music Album.-Track listing:...
  
  
• Mandisa
  Mandisa
  Mandisa Hundley is an American gospel singer, who was the ninth-place finalist in the fifth season of American Idol.-Early life:...
  
   for What If We Were Real
  What If We Were Real
  What If We Were Real is the third studio album by CCM singer Mandisa. The album was released on April 5, 2011 on the Sparrow Record Label.-Background:Mandisa began work on the album in July 2010. She also co-wrote three songs on the album...
  
  
• Royal Tailor
  Royal Tailor
  Royal Tailor is a Christian pop/rock bandRoyal Tailor was formed after the members met while attending Bible College in Indianapolis, Indiana...
  
   for Black and White
• Chris Tomlin
  Chris Tomlin
  Christopher Dwayne "Chris" Tomlin is an American Christian Contemporary Music artist, worship leader, and songwriter from Grand Saline, Texas, United States. He is a former staff member at Austin Stone Community Church and is signed to EMI's sixstepsrecords. Tomlin also leads worship at many...
  
   for And If Our God Is for Us...
  And If Our God Is For Us...
  And If Our God Is For Us... is the seventh studio album by Chris Tomlin. It was released on November 16, 2010. It is also available as a CD/DVD Limited Edition featuring four acoustic tracks and a Behind the Scenes video.- Track listing :...