Grammy Awards to cease using 'urban' term recordingacad
announced Wednesday . Along with the changes, which include updates to the Best New Artist category, Latin, R&B and Rap Fields, Nominations Review Committees, the Recording Academy will make the Grammy Awards rules and guidelines book publicly available for the first time — and available here.
impacted by coronavirus — and the changes reflect his stated goals of greater transparency and inclusion. The rule amendments, which Mason explains below, are as follows:Best Urban Contemporary Album has been renamed Best Progressive R&B Album to appropriately categorize and describe this subgenre. This change includes a more accurate definition to describe the merit or characteristics of music compositions or performances themselves within the genre of R&B.
Best New Artist used to have a limit on how many recordings a nominee has released, but not any more. Is that an effort to address mixtapes and songs released on SoundCloud and other online platforms? When we started nominee reviews, we had to be sure we paid attention to conflicts of interest.
Finally, why has it been decided that the president/CEO and board chair can’t also be co-chairs of committees?
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