NY AP - Changes in the Grammy Awards include members voting in fewer groups at the 2017 show and songs only released on streaming services becoming in contention for candidate selection
NEW YORK (AP) - Changes on the Grammy Awards include people voting in fewer categories at the 2017 display and songs only released on streaming services becoming in contention for candidate selection.
The Recording Academy introduced changes Thursday that will effect the 2017 Grammys, in order to be presented Feb.
twelve in Los Angeles. Streaming-only recordings - released on paid-subscription platforms like Spotify, Apple Music and Tidal however, not for sale on iTunes - will today qualify for Grammy selections.
"We noticed that there were several higher-profile musicians who were choosing : for philosophical reasons because much as anything - to produce their music by means of streaming-only, and we do not want to be exclusionary toward them, " Bill Freimuth, the academy's senior vice president associated with awards, said in an interview.
FILE - Within this Oct. 4, 2015, file photo, Chance The Rapper performs at the Austin City Limits Music Celebration in Zilker Park in Austin, Texas. Changes on the Grammy Awards include members voting in fewer groups at the 2017 display and songs only launched on streaming services becoming in contention for candidate selection. Chance the Rapper?s ?Coloring Book? was released exclusively upon Apple Music and will certainly now have an opportunity to compete.
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Some acts, including Prince and Beyonce, have exclusively first showed music on Tidal. They later released the songs on bokep ngentot iTunes along with other platforms. Chance the Rapper's project, "Coloring Book, " had been released exclusively on Apple Music and will have a opportunity to compete.
Additional changes include the number of categories that Grammy users can vote in, which usually is reduced to fifteen from 20. That amount doesn't include the top four categories - album of the year, song of the year, record of the year plus best new artist - which all members are usually permitted to vote in. They will were approved last 30 days during the annual panel of trustees meeting.
The particular best new artist class - often revamped maintain with the changing songs industry - will right now allow a performer that releases a minimum of five public to qualify. Previously, works would have to launch an album. Best new artist isn't only with regard to brand-new acts: Acts be eligible until they release three albums or 30 singles.
The best rap/sung collaboration, awarded to rap and R&B acts that team up on a track, is getting renamed to best rap/sung performance. And the award will be no longer exclusive in order to collaborations: Solo acts who else sing and rap on the track - including Drake, Future and Chris Brownish - can now contend in the category with the song featuring both vocal styles.
"The effort here is to protect the particular integrity of the Grammy Awards, and so occasionally that means typing up some rules, and occasionally that means loosening up some rules, sometimes that means contracting a category, occasionally that means adding the category, " Freimuth said.
"It's all to best reflect the existing state associated with music with this country. inch
Other changes include splitting best blues album in to two categories - greatest traditional blues album and best contemporary blues album.
Songs and albums launched between Oct. 1, 2015 and Sept. 30, 2016 will be eligible for candidate selection at the 2017 Grammys. Nominations will be introduced Dec. 6.
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