The Recording Academy has introduced the newest set of updates to their guidelines and pointers for the Grammy Awards, which can come into pressure subsequent 12 months.
These adjustments observe on from the announcement in April that the organisation can be scrapping its Nominations Assessment Committee, which had attracted ample controversy lately.
The most recent Grammys rule adjustments notably concern the Album of the Yr class, which this 12 months was received by Taylor Swift for her file ‘Folklore’.
From 2022, any producer, songwriter, engineer or featured artist on an album nominated for Album of the Yr will even earn a nomination, even when they solely labored on one tune of the album in query. Beforehand, nominations had been solely awarded to personnel who had been credited on 33 per cent or extra of an album’s enjoying time.
The foundations for album eligibility have additionally modified, which means that any album put ahead for nomination should be comprised of not less than 75 per cent of newly recorded music.
Different notable adjustments for future Grammys ceremonies embrace a brand new rule which prohibits Academy members and their publicists from lobbying for any recordings besides their very own, in addition to the renaming of the Greatest Dance Recording class – it’ll now be often called Dance/Digital Recording.
You’ll be able to learn the entire newest rule adjustments that the Grammys will likely be implementing from 2022 here.
Earlier this month The Weeknd confirmed that he’ll proceed to boycott the Grammys regardless of their latest rule adjustments.
“Regardless that I received’t be submitting my music, the Grammys’ latest admission of corruption will hopefully be a constructive transfer for the way forward for this plagued award and provides the artist neighborhood the respect it deserves with a clear voting course of,” he mentioned.
