The Recording Academy has added three new categories for the 66th Annual Grammy Awards, it announced .

• The three newly added categories are - Best African Music Performance, Best Alternative Jazz Album, and Best Pop Dance Recording.
• Last year’s new additions included songwriter of the year and song for social change.
• Additionally, the existing categories of producer of the year, non-classical and songwriter of the year, non-classical will be moved to the general field — meaning that all Grammy voters will be allowed to vote in those categories, which previously were “craft” or specialized categories, along with engineering, packaging and the like, for which only members working in those areas voted.