Grammy Awards Bounce Back 30% In Viewership, Marking Largest Audience Since 2020
deadline.comThe Grammy Awards are making somewhat of a comeback. Sunday’s telecast of the 65th annual ceremony delivered 12.4M viewers across the CBS broadcast and digital platforms, according to fast affiliates.
That’s up 30% from last year and the largest audience for ceremony since 2020. The viewership is a much-needed boost for the ceremony, which brought in just 8.93M viewers last year and had failed to grow meaningfully year-over-year from 2021 to 2022.
The 2021 show marked the Grammy’s least-watched iteration ever, which is in line with the hit that every other major awards show took after the start of the pandemic.
The 2021 ceremony was one of the first in-person live TV events during the pandemic but was a scaled-down affair with no audience. RELATED: Grammys: Harry Styles Takes Album Of The Year As Beyoncé Makes History: Complete Winners List However, this year’s telecast was still a fairly low audience in comparison to pre-pandemic numbers.
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