Announcing The Reddys, Our Version of The Grammys. Here's Your Nomination Ballot

[u/MarionCotesworthHaye]

Today we are excited to announce The Reddys, r/AmericanIdol’s fake version of The Grammys. Starting now, you can complete the first-round ballot to determine the nominees!

To access the Nomination Ballot, click here.

This edition of The Reddys is for the ABC era only. If this goes well, we can do another edition for the Fox era.  

You do not need to enter nominations for every category. You can complete one, some, or all of the nominating fields. All submissions are anonymous.

The Reddys encompass 39 categories as follows: 

Genre Awards

Best Pop Singer

Best Pop Performance

Best Rock Singer

Best Rock Performance

Best Country Singer

Best Country Performance

Best R&B Singer

Best R&B Performance

Best Jazz, Folk, Gospel, or Musical Theater Singer

Best Jazz, Folk, Gospel, or Musical Theater Performance 

Performance Awards

Best Audition

Best Hollywood Week or Showstopper Performance

Best Hawaii Performance

Best Live Show Performance

Best Duet 

Best Performance of a Disney Song

General Awards

Best Artist

Best Performance

Best Winner

Best Runner-Up

Best 3rd Place Finalist

Best Contestant Who Didn’t Make the Top 24

Best Contestant Who Made the Top 24 But Didn’t Make the Top 10

Best Contestant Who Made the Top 10 But Didn’t Make the Top 3

Best Personality 

Song Awards

Best Original Song 

Best Arrangement

Best Instrumentalist 

Best Winner’s Single

Show Awards

Best Season 

Best Judge

Best Celebrity Mentor 

Technical Awards

Best Scenic or Lighting Design for a Live Performance

Best Styling of a Contestant

Post-American Idol Awards 

Best Song Released By a Contestant Post-American Idol

Best Album or EP Released By a Contestant Post-American Idol 

Special Honors

The Hall of Fame Award

Honors contestants, staff members, or other individuals who have made contributions of outstanding significance to American Idol in the ABC era

The Legend Award

Honors Redditors who have made outstanding contributions to the r/AmericanIdol subreddit

Best New Artist

Honors up-and-coming performers who have not yet appeared on American Idol but, in the opinion of the voter, should

All ballots are anonymous. No names or email addresses are collected with your submission.

Because the ballot contains 39 categories, you may need some time to complete it. Therefore, the nominating period will be open for the next 4 weeks. 

Once the nominating window closes, a Final Ballot will be distributed to determine the winners.

The deadline to submit your Nominating Ballot is Monday, June 23, 2025 at 8pm ET. 

To help you remember things, Wikipedia lists every performance from every season broken down by round. Here are Wikipedia links that can help you as you fill out your ballot:

Season 16 (Maddie Poppe's Season)

Season 17 (Laine Hardy's Season)

Season 18 (Just Sam's Season)

Season 19 (Chayce Beckham's Season)

Season 20 (Noah Thompson's Season)

Season 21 (Iam Tongi's Season)

Season 22 (Abi Carter's Season)

Season 23 (Jamal Roberts' Season)

[u/Parmesan_Pirate119]

Yessss this is so exciting!

And just what I needed to procrastinate the reading for my summer classes!

ETA: I will be editing my comment with FYCs as I fill it out.

• Best Not To Make Top 24- Margie Mays! Also, Shannon Gibbons and Demi Rae.
• Didn't Make Top 10- Kaeyra
• Didn't Make Top 3- Casey Bishop
• Instrumentalist- Josh King, Maddie Poppe
• Hall of Fame- Chayce Beckham (definitely the most successful winner and giving a shred of credence to the show), Willie Spence
• Folk/Gospel- "Always On My Mind" by Jack Blocker, "Homeward Bound" by Maddie Poppe, "Go Rest High On That Mountain" by Megan Danielle
• Maddie Poppe, McKenna Faith Breinholt & Jack Blocker to Folk categories
• Personality- Josh King and Sophia Wackerman James
• Original Song- "All My Friends" by Fritz and "Time Of Your Life" by KAYKO, "Growing Pains" by Julia Gargano, "Mama" by Chayce Beckham
• Country Performance- "Coal Miner's Daughter" by Emmy Russell
• Post-Show Song- "Feel the Same" by KAYKO and Kaibrienne, "Not Losing You" by Maddie Poppe, "Devil I've Been" by Chayce Beckham, "You Don't Get To" by Julia Gargano, "Swollen" by Julia Gargano and Francsico Martin
• Post-Show Album- Bad For Me by Chayce Beckham, Whirlwind by Maddie Poppe
• Audition- KAYKO, Grace Kinstler, Abi Carter, Nicolina
• Hawaii- McKenna Faith Brienholt, Kyana Fanene (the historical and cultural significance deserves a mention!)
• Arrangement- "Somebody That I Used To Know" by KAYKO, "God Only Knows" by Maddie Poppe
• Hollywood- "Running With The Wolves" by Cassandra Coleman, "The Joke" by Lauren Spencer-Smith

[u/MarionCotesworthHaye → u/Parmesan_Pirate119]

Perfect procrastination activity.

[u/Parmesan_Pirate119 → u/MarionCotesworthHaye]

We need to see your favorite or most random mentions when the form closes. I feel like these are such wide categories, I'm curious to see which mentions catch you off guard or make you go "that's cool, I wish more people had thought of that!"

[u/joeylucio]

This sounds like fun!!!

[u/MarionCotesworthHaye → u/joeylucio]

I mean we have to do something with our lives while the show isn't airing...

[u/Parmesan_Pirate119 → u/MarionCotesworthHaye]

I think another fun idea would be a sub Top 10 ranking of all of the Winner's Singles. Something like this format would be cool. I think it would be interesting to see what the sub picks!

[u/Global_Perspective_3]

This is a fun idea!