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Grammy Awards Expand Nominees for Top Album, Song, Record & New Artist From 5 to 8: Exclusive
In one of the most sweeping changes since the introduction of the Grammy Awards in 1959, the number of nominations in the record, song and album of the year and best new artist categories will expand from five to eight. The change takes effect immediately with the 61st Annual Grammy Awards in 2019.
"Throughout the year, we team up with music people across all genres and disciplines to consider revisions and subsequently make amendments to our rules and entry guidelines to ensure we're keeping up with our ever-changing industry and meeting the needs of music creators," said Recording Academy president/CEO Neil Portnow in a statement. "This creates more opportunities for a wider-range of recognition in these important categories and gives more flexibility to our voters when having to make the often challenging decisions about representing excellence and the best in music for the year. We look forward to celebrating all of our nominees when they are announced later this year."
The suggested changes were ratified at the Trustees' meeting in May in Hawaii.
Other than in cases of a tie, the nominations have been limited to five in each of the four General Field categories since the Grammys' inception (the best new artist award began with the 2nd Grammy Awards) The other 80 categories remain capped at five nominations each. The move further reflects the large number of entries in the General Field categories, which are voted on by all eligible Grammy members.
The Recording Academy's decision echoes an expansion undertaken by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences in 2009 when it doubled the number of best picture nominees from five to up to 10. The thinking behind that change was to possibly allow more blockbusters to be nominated in the top category and potentially broaden the Oscars' audience. It is unclear how the Recording Academy's decision will affect the February telecast in terms of performances, although in the past, the Grammys usually have tried to highlight all the nominees in the album of the year category in some way. The Grammy Awards return to Los Angeles' Staples Center in 2019 after switching to New York's Madison Square Garden in 2018.
The change is one of the biggest under Portnow's watch and likely will be one of his last, as he will depart the Recording Academy after his current contract expires in July 2019. Portnow also oversaw a tremendous reduction of Grammy categories in 2011 when the number of categories shrunk from 109 to 78 (they have edged back up to 84) and gender categories were eliminated.
There had been speculation that following this year's kerfuffle when only one female won a Grammy during the televised portion of the awards that the gender categories may return, but a quick review of the other rule changes for the 61st Annual Grammy Awards show that is not the case.
Among the other changes -- most of them are fine-tuning or clarifying category definitions -- music supervisors will now be considered nominees in the best compilation soundtrack album and restoration engineers will now be eligible for best historical album.
In the best song written for visual media category, if a track is released in the current eligibility year (Oct. 1-Sept. 31), but the soundtrack album is not released until the following eligibility year, the track will be eligible for Grammy consideration in the following year so long as it is not submitted in any category in the current year.
Additionally, the world music field will now determine its five finalists by a nominations review committee, which will take the top 15 selections from the general voting membership's first ballot and narrow the selections to five. Review committees are already used in a number of other categories, including album of the year.
I think 5 was fine, but I guess.
That's stupid asf. Only one person is gonna win so what's the point of expanding?
Quote from: D?RR??N. on June 26, 2018, 11:02:26 AM
That's stupid asf. Only one person is gonna win so what's the point of expanding?
MESS!
Competition tough.
Quote from: D?RR??N. on June 26, 2018, 11:02:26 AM
That's stupid asf. Only one person is gonna win so what's the point of expanding?
One person is going to win.
But 3 more artists have the opportunity to win...
I still think it should stay as 5, though.
So they can include more niggers they won?t award.
Fuck that 0 for 8 shit.
I see they?re getting ready for Everything is Love and Beys solo mess
:cheerup:
Stupid
The credibility of the award was already going down the drain but this makes it even less exclusive and special feeling. Gross.
Quote from: D?RR??N. on June 26, 2018, 11:02:26 AM
That's stupid asf. Only one person is gonna win so what's the point of expanding?
acknowledgment
Artists still get credit and love for being nominated
Yeah even when the artist doesn't win, they still receive the grammy certificate for acknowledgement of their nomination.
Take into consideration the changing industry. Music comes at a significantly faster pace, and the amount has increased tenfold so this makes sense to me.
Quote from: KingDrewLove on June 26, 2018, 02:07:16 PM
Take into consideration the changing industry. Music comes at a significantly faster pace, and the amount has increased tenfold so this makes sense to me.
!!!! This is actually more fair
Cuz a lot of albums get nominated based on hype or whatever the latest release was from someone major
Quote from: Rxxf on June 26, 2018, 12:28:32 PM
Quote from: D?RR??N. on June 26, 2018, 11:02:26 AM
That's stupid asf. Only one person is gonna win so what's the point of expanding?
One person is going to win.
But 3 more artists have the opportunity to win...
I still think it should stay as 5, though.
And it allows more ppl to say they were nominated for something
Y?all are so gullible.
As soon as they get called out on forever forcefeeding the categories with mediocre white ppl. They extend to 8 so they can sneak those ppl in more blatantly while the token niggers split votes and cancel each other out :kii:
But a seat at the table to you too! :kii:
Quote from: Heard About Slei? on June 26, 2018, 02:43:49 PM
Y?all are so gullible.
As soon as they get called out on forever forcefeeding the categories with mediocre white ppl. They extend to 8 so they can sneak those ppl in more blatantly while the token niggers split votes and cancel each other out :kii:
But a seat at the table to you too! :kii:
!!!!!!!!!!!!
There?s no guarantee that a major black artist would be splitting votes with an India arie or something just because they?re black :dead:
I?m sure that?s their line of thinking, but that won?t always be the case. It?s a good look for those that are rarely nominated either way
The same girls are gonna come away with the wins. they?ve been handing out grammy?s all willy nilly for over a decade now
n
It hasn?t meant a TON in quite a while actually.
The same five artists are gonna win so I don't see this changing much.
Quote from: 1RIG on June 26, 2018, 02:57:41 PM
There?s no guarantee that a major black artist would be splitting votes with an India arie or something just because they?re black :dead:
I?m sure that?s their line of thinking, but that won?t always be the case. It?s a good look for those that are rarely nominated either way
The same girls are gonna come away with the wins. they?ve been handing out grammy?s all willy nilly for over a decade now
n
It hasn?t meant a TON in quite a while actually.
India started the 0 for 8 shit
Alicia and nelly whooped ha ass :plzstop:
Ummkay...
The Grammy's are a mess and just continue to lose more credibility every year. They elimate male/female categories, but expand the nominees to 8. :uhh: Also, most of the Best New Artis nominees hardly make any impact and disappear only to never be heard from again, so why bother expanding that category to 8? I just hope this is an effort to nominate better quality music, since it has mainly turned into a popularity contest.
Quote from: Heard About Slei? on June 26, 2018, 02:43:49 PM
Y?all are so gullible.
As soon as they get called out on forever forcefeeding the categories with mediocre white ppl. They extend to 8 so they can sneak those ppl in more blatantly while the token niggers split votes and cancel each other out :kii:
But a seat at the table to you too! :kii:
SKDJDJK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this is terrible.
Quote from: Heard About Slei? on June 26, 2018, 03:10:22 PM
Quote from: 1RIG on June 26, 2018, 02:57:41 PM
There?s no guarantee that a major black artist would be splitting votes with an India arie or something just because they?re black :dead:
I?m sure that?s their line of thinking, but that won?t always be the case. It?s a good look for those that are rarely nominated either way
The same girls are gonna come away with the wins. they?ve been handing out grammy?s all willy nilly for over a decade now
n
It hasn?t meant a TON in quite a while actually.
India started the 0 for 8 shit
Alicia and nelly whooped ha ass :plzstop:
bbnnnnnnnn then they tugged at Jazmine?s wig ... twice
:stressed:
They're just gonna add more niggers and NOT award them. :dead:
That's excessive.
And now that I think about it... this year has been so shit I can't even imagine the stuff that's going to be nominated this year
Quote from: Andrais. on June 26, 2018, 04:46:19 PM
They're just gonna add more niggers and NOT award them. :dead:
The way they had 3 Black men this year in AOTY
and still managed to give it to the one that?s ?ethnic? but not Black
Nnhgggjhhgfff
Quote from: 1RIG on June 26, 2018, 02:22:38 PM
Quote from: KingDrewLove on June 26, 2018, 02:07:16 PM
Take into consideration the changing industry. Music comes at a significantly faster pace, and the amount has increased tenfold so this makes sense to me.
!!!! This is actually more fair
I dont mind it. And they always try to make those categories diverse. Album of the Year - one country, one black, one soul, one this, one that. I'm sure there have been times when they wanna choose a 5th one out of the HUNDREDS of submissions they get, but just throws in one to appease the masses. I dont mind the addition. Now if I see the nominations and it lack sdiversity (all men like the last time for AOTY), I'll fume then.
Quote from: TriBeCa on June 26, 2018, 04:25:01 PM
The Grammy's are a mess and just continue to lose more credibility every year. They elimate male/female categories, but expand the nominees to 8. :uhh: Also, most of the Best New Artis nominees hardly make any impact and disappear only to never be heard from again, so why bother expanding that category to 8? I just hope this is an effort to nominate better quality music, since it has mainly turned into a popularity contest.
Now the Best New Artist category they can keep to 5. Most times I dont know who half the nominees are. And the past winners aren't new. When Meghan Trainor and Alessia Cara won 2-3 years after they debuted... :uhh: