As of 2023, the category will be known as Best New Age, Ambient or Chant Album. Beginning in 2001, award recipients included the producers, engineers, and/or mixers associated with the nominated work in addition to the recording artists. Since 1992 the award has been presented as Best New Age Album. From 1988 to 1991 the category was known as Best New Age Performance. The record label was founded by William Ackerman, later an award nominee and 2005 winner for the album Returning. Two compilation albums featuring Windham Hill Records artists were nominated that same year. Originally called the Grammy Award for Best New Age Recording, the honor was first presented to Swiss musician Andreas Vollenweider at the 29th Grammy Awards in 1987 for his album Down to the Moon. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position". The Grammy Award for Best New Age, Ambient or Chant Album is presented to recording artists for quality albums in the new-age music genre at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards.
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