The Grammys' New Rules Confirm Anyone Can Be a 'Best New Artist'

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The Recording Academy announces new changes to one of the award show’s most controversial categories, explicitly allowing artists with sizable catalogs to be eligible

for the award in 2010 after being nominated for Best Dance Recording in 2009, the rules were updated the next year. “By current rules, if the other artist’s album or the new artist’s single receives a nomination, the new artist may never have the opportunity to compete in the best new artist category,” the

in 2010. “With this change, each artist will have at least one opportunity to enter in this important and highly visible category.”, “to remove the album barrier given current trends in how new music and developing artists are released and promoted.” Now the eligibility requirements mean that new artists “must have released a minimum of five singles/tracks or one album, but no more than 30 singles/tracks or three albums.

It’s 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.

 

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