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*The Recording Academy announced on Friday that it has eliminated the “secret” nomination review committees including the Big Four categories: Album, Record, and Song of the Year, as well as Best New Artist. The move comes after Grammy Awards and slammed the Recording Academy for being corrupt.  After the Canadian-born artist was shut out of this year’s Grammy nominations, he told New York Times that he will boycott the Grammy’s going forward due to the secret committees ...

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 ...

The Grammys nomination process will look much different from here on out.  On Friday, the Recording Academy announced it has eliminated the nomination review committees in general and genre fields, including the Big Four categories: Album, Record, and Song of the Year, as well as Best New Artist. Variety reports the affected committees were primarily made up of music executives whose names were kept from the public. Although the Academy previously defended the anonymous process as a way t...

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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...