It's Time for the Grammys to Abolish the 33% Rule (Guest Column) Ross Golan, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail This column by songwriter-producer Ross Golan — who has worked with Ariana Grande, Maroon 5, Celine Dion, Justin Bieber and many others and is also creator and host of the “And the Writer Is” podcast — calls for the Recording Academy to change the “33% rule” it uses to determine which contributors to an album receive an award. Variety welcomes suitable and responsible guest columns, to submit please email music@variety.com. Pardon the sports analogy, but imagine a World Series-winning baseball team not giving any of their starting pitchers championship rings because they only started 20% of the team’s games. What if the rules were that you had to be on the field for 33% of all games played to count as a member of the team?