Because it's a dance and house music album fusing elements of R&B, soul, disco and hip-hop, members of the Recording Academy debated where Beyoncé's Renaissance should compete
A representative for Beyoncé said she had no comment on the matter, and representatives for the academy didn’t immediately reply to an email seeking comment.
Debates about an album or song’s placement is a normal process at the Grammys, and the academy enlists about 350 volunteer music industry experts to help decide where a song or album should compete. Sometimes things get complicated when a song or album has a multi-genre sound and could fit in multiple genres — and when a genre committee can’t decide where the song or album should live, the National Screening Committee steps in, listens to the music and makes a decision.
But sometimes what’s decided turns controversial. Nicki Minaj’s “Super Freaky Girl” — which is spending its 10th week on top of Billboard’s Hot Rap Songs chart — got kicked out of rap and was sent to pop, a decision she heavily criticized on social media.
Renaissance is an album based in dance and house music, though it fuses elements of R&B, soul, disco, hip-hop and trap. When it was released in July — a month after Drake dropped his house album— it sparked conversations, think pieces and social media essays about the history of dance music and its roots in Black art and culture.debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s 200 Albums chart, and its lead single, “Break My Soul,” topped the all-genre Hot 100 chart.
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