Grammy Award for Best Recording Package
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The Grammy Award for Best Recording Package is one of a series of Grammy Awards presented for the visual look of an album. It is presented to the art director of the winning album, not to the performer(s), unless the performer is also the art director.
Awarded forQuality visual look of an album
CountryUnited States
Presented byNational Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
First award1959
| Grammy Award for Best Recording Package | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Quality visual look of an album |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences |
| First award | 1959 |
| Currently held by | Meghan Foley, Michelle Holme – Tracks II: The Lost Albums (2026) |
| Website | grammy.com |
The category dates back to 1974, when the name of the award was Best Album Package. It evolved from the Best Album Cover category, which was retired in 1973 and not revived until 2026. The Best Album Package category was renamed again in 1994 to Best Recording Package.
In 1995, boxed sets were no longer eligible, as they were split off into a separate award, currently known as the Grammy Award for Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package.
Winners and nominees
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2020s
| Year[I] | Work | Art Director(s) | Performing artist(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 [47] | |||
| Chris Cornell | Barry Ament, Jeff Ament and Joe Spix | Chris Cornell | |
| Anónimas & Resilientes | Luisa María Arango, Carlos Dussan, Manuel García-Orozco and Juliana Jaramillo-Buenaventura | Voces del Bullerengue | |
| Hold That Tiger | Andrew Wong and Fongming Yang | The Muddy Basin Ramblers | |
| I,I | Aaron Anderson and Eric Timothy Carlson | Bon Iver | |
| Intellexual | Irwan Awalludin | Intellexual | |
| 2021 [48] | |||
| Vols. 11 & 12 | Doug Cunningham and Jason Noto | The Desert Sessions | |
| Everyday Life | Pilar Zeta | Coldplay | |
| Funeral | Kyle Goen and Alex Kalatschinow | Lil Wayne | |
| Healer | Julian Gross and Hannah Hooper | Grouplove | |
| On Circles | Jordan Butcher | Caspian | |
| 2022 [49] | |||
| Pakelang | Li Jheng Han and Yu Wei | 2nd Generation Falangao Singing Group and The Chairman Crossover Big Band | |
| American Jackpot / American Girls | Sarah Dodds and Shauna Dodds | Reckless Kelly | |
| Carnage | Nick Cave and Tom Hingston | Nick Cave and Warren Ellis | |
| Serpentine Prison | Dale Doyle | Matt Berninger | |
| Zeta | Xiao Qing Yang | Soul of Ears | |
| 2023 [50] | |||
| Beginningless Beginning | Chun-Tien Hsiao and Qing-Yang Xiao | Tamsu-Kavalan Chinese Orchestra | |
| Divers | William Stichter | Soporus | |
| Everything Was Beautiful | Mark Farrow and Jason Pierce | Spiritualized | |
| Telos | Ming Liu | Fann | |
| Voyeurist | Joel Cook, Brandon Rike and Nate Utesch | Underoath | |
| 2024 [51] | |||
| Stumpwork | Annie Collinge and Rottingdean Bazaar | Dry Cleaning | |
| The Art of Forgetting | Caroline Rose | Caroline Rose | |
| Cadenza 21' | Hsing-Hui Cheng | Ensemble Cadenza 21' | |
| Electrophonic Chronic | Perry Shall | The Arcs | |
| Gravity Falls | iam8bit | Brad Breeck | |
| Migration | Chang Yu Chung, Li Jheng Han and Yu Wei | Leaf Yeh | |
| 2025 [52] | |||
| Brat | Charli XCX, Brent David Freaney and Imogene Strauss | Charli XCX | |
| The Avett Brothers | Scott Avett, Jonny Black and Giorgia Sage | The Avett Brothers | |
| Baker Hotel | Sarah Dodds and Shauna Dodds | William Clark Green | |
| F-1 Trillion | Archie Lee Coates IV, Jeffrey Franklin, Bobby Greenleaf, Blossom Liu, Kylie McMahon, Ana Cecilia Thompson Motta and Austin Post | Post Malone | |
| Hounds of Love: The Baskerville Edition | Kate Bush and Albert McIntosh | Kate Bush | |
| Jug Band Millionaire | Andrew Wong and Julie Yeh | The Muddy Basin Ramblers | |
| Pregnancy, Breakdown and Disease | Lee Pei-Tzu | WhoiWhoo | |
| 2026 [53] | |||
| Tracks II: The Lost Albums | Meghan Foley and Michelle Holme | Bruce Springsteen | |
| And the Adjacent Possible | Hà Trịnh Quốc Bảo, Damian Kulash Jr., Claudio Ripol, Wombi Rose and Yuri Suzuki | OK Go | |
| Balloonerism | Bráulio Amado and Alim Smith | Mac Miller | |
| Danse Macabre: De Luxe | Rory McCartney | Duran Duran | |
| Loud Is As | Farbod Kokabi and Emily Sneddon | Tsunami | |
| Sequoia | Tim Breen and Ken Shipley | Various Artists | |
| The Spins (Picture Disc Vinyl) | Miller McCormick and Darby Kaighin-Shields | Mac Miller | |
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