The 59th Annual Grammy Awards will take place this at the Staples Center in Downtown Los Angeles this Sunday (February 12), and will hand out gilded gramophones to recognize outstanding achievements in the music industry.
Beyonce leads the pack with nine nominations including album of the year for Lemonade, and Drake, Rihanna, and Kanye West are right behind her with eight nods apiece. The ceremony, hosted by The Late Late Show's James Corden, will also see performances by Katy Perry, who is expected to perform her new single "Chained to the Rhythm," Beyonce, Lady Gaga, The Weeknd, Daft Punk, Adele, John Legend, Metallica, Carrie Underwood, Bruno Mars, Keith Urban, Anderson .Paak, A Tribe Called Quest, and others.
On Thursday morning, Corden dialed in On Air with Ryan Seacrest and revealed rehearsals are currently off-site, and the opening sequence is still being pieced together.
"We've been rehearsing -- they call it off-site -- which just basically means another room, and we've been rehearsing here on how we're going to kick the show off and stuff like that," he said. "The writing is all still kind of changing because of logistics of, 'Oh that person has this many musicians and this person has this many dancers."
Also during the call, Corden praised Lady Gaga's Super Bowl halftime performance and joked that he originally planned an trapeze-style opening.
"It sort of ruins stuff for us because we were going to open the show with me on the top of the Staples Center singing 'God Bless America' and then I was going to come in on wires," he joked. "It has meant that we've had to make some quite big changes to our show for the Grammys. I wish she would've ran it by us."
The 58th Grammy Awards will broadcast live from the Los Angeles Staples Center at 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET Monday, Feb. 15 on CBS.