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".
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. The category includes pop, rap/hip hop, Latin, or rock recordings.
The academy made a distinction between CCM and gospel music after determining that there were "two distinct wings to the gospel house" and that "gospel [tends] to conjure the images and sounds of traditional gospel but not CCM." With this in mind, it named the categories Best Gospel Album (for soul and urban contemporary gospel) and Best Contemporary Christian Music Album.
Recipients
2010s Year Work Artist 2012 And If Our God Is for Us... Chris Tomlin Black & White Royal Tailor Ghosts Upon the Earth Gungor The Great Awakening Leeland Leaving Eden Brandon Heath What If We Were Real Mandisa 2013List of 2013 nominees Eye on It TobyMac Come to the Well Casting Crowns Gold Britt Nicole Into the Light Matthew West Where I Find You Kari Jobe 2014 Overcomer Mandisa All the People Said Amen (Live) Matt Maher Burning Lights Chris Tomlin We Won't Be Shaken Building 429 Your Grace Finds Me (Live) Matt Redman 2015List of Nominees 2015 Run Wild. Live Free. Love Strong. For King & Country Hurricane Natalie Grant If We're Honest Francesca Battistelli Royal Tailor Royal Tailor Welcome to the New MercyMe 2016 This Is Not a Test TobyMac How Can It Be Lauren Daigle Love Ran Red Chris Tomlin Saints and Sinners Matt Maher Whatever the Road Jason Crabb 2017 Love Remains Hillary Scott & the Scott Family American Prodigal Crowder Be One Natalie Grant Poets & Saints All Sons & Daughters Youth Revival (Live) Hillsong Young & Free 2018 Chain Breaker Zach Williams Echoes (Deluxe Edition) Matt Maher Hills and Valleys Tauren Wells Lifer MercyMe Rise Danny Gokey 2019Grammy.com, 7 December 2018 Look Up Child Lauren Daigle Hallelujah Here Below Elevation Worship Living with a Fire Jesus Culture Surrounded Michael W. Smith Survivor: Live from Harding Prison Zach Williams
2020s Year Work Artist 20202020 Grammy Awards nominations list Burn the Ships For King & Country The Elements TobyMac Haven't Seen It Yet Danny Gokey Holy Roar Chris Tomlin I Know a Ghost Crowder 20212021 Nominations List Jesus Is King Kanye West All of My Best Friends Hillsong Young & Free Citizen of Heaven Tauren Wells Holy Water We the Kingdom Run to the Father Cody Carnes 2022 Old Church Basement Elevation Worship and Maverick City Music The Blessing (Live) Kari Jobe Citizen of Heaven (Live) Tauren Wells Feels Like Home, Vol. 2 Israel & New Breed No Stranger Natalie Grant 2023 Breathe Maverick City Music Always Chris Tomlin Life After Death TobyMac Lion Elevation Worship My Jesus Anne Wilson 2024 Church Clothes 4 Lecrae Emanuel Da' T.R.U.T.H. I Believe Phil Wickham Lauren Daigle Lauren Daigle My Tribe Blessing Offor 2025 Heart of a Human DOE Child of God Forrest Frank Coat of Many Colors Brandon Lake The Maverick Way Complete Maverick City Music, Naomi Raine and Chandler Moore When Wind Meets Fire Elevation Worship 2026 Coritos Vol. 1 Israel & New Breed Child of God II Forrest Frank King of Hearts Brandon Lake Let the Church Sing Tauren Wells Reconstruction Lecrae Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year.
Multiple wins 2 wins TobyMac For King & Country Maverick City Music
Multiple nominations
5 nominations Chris Tomlin
4 nominations Elevation Worship Tauren Wells
3 nominations Lauren Daigle Natalie Grant Matt Maher Maverick City Music
2 nominations Crowder Forrest Frank Danny Gokey Hillsong Young & Free Israel & New Breed Kari Jobe Brandon Lake Lecrae Mandisa MercyMe Royal Tailor Zach Williams
See also Grammy Award for Best Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music Performance Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Christian Music Song Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song
References
External links Official site of the Grammy Awards