![](https://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:eWO_ymc8gSEJ:www.spottedeagle.com/images/gramairb.jpg) LOS ANGELES (The Recording Academy) - The National Acaemy of Recording Arts & Sciences is announcing today the Nominations date for the 47th Annual Grammy Awards: Wednesday, December 8, 2004. Dec. 8, the announcement of nominations for the 47th Annual GRAMMY Awards, including the addition of four new categories (the number of categories increases to 107). What's new? An entirely new GRAMMY Award field titled Production, Surround Sound has been added, along with its first category Best Surround Sound Album. New categories also were added in existing fields: in the Dance field for Best Electronic/Dance Album; in Gospel for Best Gospel Performance (for singles or tracks with Gospel lyrics); and in Folk, for Best Hawaiian Music Album. This brings the total number of GRAMMY categories for the 47th Annual GRAMMY Awards in February 2005 to 107.
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