Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song

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Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song
Awarded forquality vocal or instrumental contemporary Christian music recordings and songwriting
CountryUnited States
Presented by National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
First awarded2015
Currently held by Lecrae & Tasha Cobbs Leonard "Your Power" (2024)
Website grammy.com

The Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song is a category at the annual Grammy Awards. It was first awarded in 2015. It combined two previously separate categories in the Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music field, Best Contemporary Christian Music Song and Best Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music Performance. The new category recognizes both songwriters and performers (solo/duos/groups/collaborations/etc.) and is open for singles or tracks only. Songwriters are only awarded a Grammy Award if it is a newly written song. Grammy's for cover versions of previously recorded songs are awarded to the performer(s) only.

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Along with the Best Gospel Performance/Song category, these mark the only Grammy categories which honor both performers and songwriters in one category.

These changes were made in June 2014 by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences "in the interest of clarifying the criteria, representing the current culture and creative DNA of the gospel and Contemporary Christian Music communities, and better reflecting the diversity and authenticity of today's gospel music industry." [1]

According to the Grammy committee, the move recognizes "the critical contribution of both songwriters and performers by combining songwriters and artists into the Best Gospel Performance/Song and Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song categories."

Gospel performances, which were previously recognized in the Best Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music Performance category, are included in the Best Gospel Performance/Song category.

Recipients

2015 winner Lecrae. Lecrae sitting in a recording studio.jpg
2015 winner Lecrae.
Two-time winners for KING & COUNTRY. For KING AND COUNTRY 2018.jpg
Two-time winners for KING & COUNTRY.
2019 winner Lauren Daigle. Lauren Daigle Joy Eslava Madrid.jpg
2019 winner Lauren Daigle.
Two-time winner Dolly Parton. Dolly Parton at 'Blue Smoke World Tour' in Knoxville.jpg
Two-time winner Dolly Parton.
Year [I] Performing artist(s)WorkSongwriter(s)Nominees
Songwriter(s) mentioned first (if eligible), followed by title and performing artist(s) (Songwriters who are not eligible for an award, are in parenthesis)		Ref.
2015 Lecrae featuring For King & Country "Messengers" Torrance Esmond, Ran Jackson, Ricky Jackson, Kenneth Chris Mackey, Lecrae Moore, Joseph Prielozny, Joel Smallbone and Luke Smallbone
 [2]
2016 Francesca Battistelli "Holy Spirit"Song was written (and previously recorded) by Bryan & Katie Torwalt but as this category only awards newly written songs, the songwriters' Grammy was not awarded.
 [3]
2017 Hillary Scott & The Scott Family"Thy Will" Hillary Scott, Bernie Herms & Emily Weisband
 [4]
2018 Hillsong Worship "What a Beautiful Name"Ben Fielding & Brooke Ligertwood
[5]
2019 Lauren Daigle "You Say" Lauren Daigle, Jason Ingram & Paul Mabury
 [6]
2020 for KING & COUNTRY & Dolly Parton "God Only Knows"Josh Kerr, Jordan Reynolds, Joel Smallbone, Luke Smallbone & Tedd Tjornhom
[7]
2021 Zach Williams and Dolly Parton "There Was Jesus" Casey Beathard, Jonathan Smith, Zach Williams and Dolly Parton
 [8]
2022 Cece Winans "Believe for It"Dwan Hill, Kyle Lee, CeCe Winans & Mitch Wong
 [9]
2023 Maverick City Music and Kirk Franklin "Fear Is Not My Future"Kirk Franklin, Nicole Hannel, Jonathan Jay, Brandon Lake & Hannah Shackelford
 [10]
2024 Lecrae & Tasha Cobbs Leonard "Your Power"Alexandria Dollar, Jordan Dollar, Antonio Gardener, Micheal Girgenti, Lasanna “Ace” Harris, David Hein, Deandre Hunter, Dylan Hyde, Christian Louisana, Patrick Darius Mix Jr., Lecrae Moore, Justin Pelham, Jeffrey Lawrence Shannon, Allen Swoope
2025 Winner TBA on 2 February 2025 [11]

^[I] The official nominations list did not list the songwriters. This information is taken from the credits notice on Spotify.

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