The Grammys are headed to Sin Metropolis. On Tuesday, the Recording Academy launched that the awards negate, at the start scheduled for unhurried January in Los Angeles, will happen at Las Vegas’ MGM Immense Backyard Arena on Sunday, April 3.

“We are mad to use the Grammys to Las Vegas for the very first time, and to placed on a world-class negate,” read a letter from Harvey Mason, Jr. “From the second we launched the postponement of the contemporary negate date, we have got got been inundated with heartfelt messages of relief and cohesion from the artist community.”

The awards negate will air live from 8 to 11: 30 pm ET on CBS and Paramount+ with Trevor Noah returning as the negate’s host.

In early January, the Academy postponed the negate, citing the surge in Covid-19 cases as a end result of the Omicron variant. “Given the uncertainty surrounding the Omicron variant, preserving the negate on Jan. 31 simply contains too many dangers,” the Academy’s observation read at the time.

Here’s the second year in a row that the awards negate is postponed. Closing year, the Grammys took self-discipline on March 14 with a little, masked crowd of nominees and featured each and every live and pre-recorded performances.

This year’s nominations are led by Jon Batiste, who’s up for 11 awards. Justin Bieber, Doja Cat, and H.E.R. practice closely within the again of with eight nominations.

The news of the negate’s unique venue comes weeks after Billboard reported that Recording Academy executives had been brooding about unique venues for the awards negate. MGM Immense Backyard became once a “frontrunner” for the Grammys as a end result of the shortcoming of out there venues in Los Angeles, per Billboard.

While here is the first time the Grammys are held in Las Vegas, the Latin Grammys like been held within the metropolis six times since 2014.