{"id":808256,"date":"2020-06-10T15:00:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T21:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=1012966"},"modified":"2020-06-10T15:00:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T21:00:31","slug":"the-grammys-new-rules-confirm-anyone-can-be-a-best-new-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/the-grammys-new-rules-confirm-anyone-can-be-a-best-new-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Grammys\u2019 New Rules Confirm Anyone Can Be a \u2018Best New Artist\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In 2017, when Chance the Rapper walked triumphantly onto the stage at the Grammys to accept his award as that year\u2019s Best New Artist, he was wearing a tab baseball cap emblazoned with the number \u201c3\u201d \u2014 a reference to how many full-length projects he\u2019d released. Last year, Lizzo was nominated for the same award, in large part due to her breakout song \u201cTruth Hurts,\u201d which was released in 2017. Seemingly every year, the nominees for Best New Artist are peppered with artists who are decidedly not new, often prompting debate among music fans. On Wednesday, the Recording Academy made it clear that this would not be changing.<\/p>\n

In an announcement detailing changes to the Academy\u2019s lexicon \u2014 \u201curban\u201d gets replaced with \u201cprogressive,\u201d<\/a> \u201cBest Rap\/Sung Performance\u201d is now \u201cBest Melodic Rap Performance\u201d \u2014 it also adjusted its ruling on what, exactly, constitutes a new artist. At the 63rd Grammy Awards<\/a>, the \u201cBest New Artist\u201d category will no longer be held to a \u201cspecified maximum number of releases. Instead, \u201cscreening committees will determine whether the artist had attained a breakthrough or prominence prior to the eligibility year.\u201d The \u201cnew\u201d in \u201cBest New Artist\u201d will seemingly be the least important part of the phrase.<\/p>\n

For the past decade, the Recording Academy has tinkered with what it means to be a \u201cBest New Artist.\u201d After Lady Gaga was ineligible<\/a> for the award in 2010 after being nominated for Best Dance Recording in 2009, the rules were updated the next year. \u201cBy current rules, if the other artist\u2019s album or the new artist\u2019s single receives a nomination, the new artist may never have the opportunity to compete in the best new artist category,\u201d the Academy said<\/a> in 2010. \u201cWith this change, each artist will have at least one opportunity to enter in this important and highly visible category.\u201d<\/p>\n

Six years later, the rules were amended again<\/a>, \u201cto remove the album barrier given current trends in how new music and developing artists are released and promoted.\u201d Now the eligibility requirements mean that new artists \u201cmust have released a minimum of five singles\/tracks or one album, but no more than 30 singles\/tracks or three albums.\u201d It\u2019s what allowed artists like Chance The Rapper and Dua Lipa to take home \u201cBest New Artist\u201d trophies, despite releasing multiple bodies of work that were widely consumed prior to their victory.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s uncertain if this change will open the floodgates for a host of decidedly not-new artists looking for the bump a Grammy nomination entails. When the goalposts keep moving, it becomes hard to tell what a win really means.<\/p>\n

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In 2017, when Chance the Rapper walked triumphantly onto the stage at the Grammys to accept his award as that year\u2019s Best New Artist, he was wearing a tab baseball cap emblazoned with the number \u201c3\u201d \u2014 a reference to how many full-length projects he\u2019d released. Last year, Lizzo was nominated for the same award, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-808256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-06 17:13:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}