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New rules and new categories are coming to the GRAMMY AWARDS, the RECORDING ACADEMY announced FRIDAY (4/30). Among the changes are the elimination of Nominations Review Committees and fewer categories in which voters may vote, as well as the consolidation of six craft categories into two. The rule changes, effective immediately for the 64th annual awards set for JANUARY 22nd, 2022, include dropping the nominations review committees in general and genre fields in favor of a majority ...

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Grammy statues photographed on Jan. 12, 2019. The Trustees seem to have decided that these nominations review committees have outlived their usefulness. In a bombshell move, the trustees of the Recording Academy voted Friday (April 30) to disband nominations review committees and let Grammy voters have the final say in all non-craft categories. The trustees met over Zoom to discuss this and proposals that were passed by the awards and nominations committee. In other key moves, the trustees vote...