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Post by Admin on Nov 23, 2021 18:43:13 GMT
2022 GRAMMY Nominations Announced
The nominations for the 2022 GRAMMY Awards show, officially known as the 64th GRAMMY Awards, will be announced.
Find out who takes home GRAMMY gold at the 64th GRAMMY Awards, airing live on the CBS Television Network and available to stream live and on-demand on Paramount+ on Monday, Jan. 31, 2022, at 8-11:30 p.m. ET / 5-8:30 p.m. PT. Check your local listings.
About the Recording Academy / GRAMMYs:
The Recording Academy is the world's leading society of musical professionals and is dedicated to celebrating, honoring and sustaining music's past, present and future.
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Post by Admin on Nov 24, 2021 22:49:52 GMT
Olivia Rodrigo's breakout year keeps going from strength to strength, with the 18-year-old bagging her first Grammy nomination. In fact, she received seven of them!  It's hard to believe that, before 2021, the teenager had yet to burst into the mainstream, having been relatively unknown before starring in High School Musical: The Musical: The Series. However, as the new year began, so did Olivia's meteoric rise following the release of her record-breaking debut single "Drivers License" in January. Since then, she's gone on to score two No. 1 hits, with her first album, Sour, also hitting the top spot. In fact, of the five singles she's released this year, four have landed in the top 10 and all of them have been certified platinum or above. Having seen so much success this year already, it was expected Olivia would score big when the Grammy nominations were announced on Tuesday — and, with seven nominations to her name, it's fair to say she met those expectations head-on. |
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Post by Admin on Nov 25, 2021 21:28:47 GMT
 The organization behind the Grammy Awards decided at a meeting on Monday — just 24 hours before this year’s nominees were announced — that the top categories should expand to 10 nominees from eight, a last-minute move that added stars like Kanye West, Taylor Swift, Abba and Lil Nas X to the existing slate of potential winners. When the nominations were revealed on a live webcast the next morning, Harvey Mason Jr., the CEO of Recording Academy, hailed the surprise shift as a way “to make room for more music, more artists and more genres, and to embrace the spirit of inclusion.” But among the added names were some of pop’s biggest stars and people who were already on the ballot elsewhere. For album of the year, the two contenders added to the ballot were Swift’s “Evermore” and West’s “Donda,” joining titles by Justin Bieber, Olivia Rodrigo, Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga, Doja Cat, H.E.R., Billie Eilish, Lil Nas X and Jon Batiste. The nod for “Evermore” was Swift’s sole nomination for her own music on Tuesday. (She is also nominated as a songwriter on Rodrigo’s “Sour.”) West’s nomination for “Donda” brought his career total to 75. It was possible to discover which artists benefited from the expansion because their names were absent from an early version of the “final nominations list” that had been created several days before the announcement and included only eight names in those categories. That version had begun circulating outside the Recording Academy before the nominations were announced Tuesday, and a copy of it was obtained by The New York Times. The expansion in the top categories comes after the academy has trumpeted a new era of openness and transparency in its awards process. The 64th annual Grammys will be the first in more than 30 years without the use of anonymous nomination review committees, which were charged with whittling down voters’ choices to create the final ballot — a step that was intended to safeguard the awards’ integrity but was accused of allowing manipulation behind the scenes. |
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Post by Admin on Dec 6, 2021 19:54:04 GMT
When the Grammy nominations were announced on Nov. 23, Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff and St. Vincent were listed as album of the year nominees for their role as songwriters on Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour. That raised some eyebrows because those three songwriters weren’t actively involved in the creation of Sour. It’s simply a case that Rodrigo and her producer and frequent collaborator, Daniel Nigro, interpolated an old song of theirs.
The Recording Academy made an update on its site on Sunday (Dec. 5) which indicates that it has withdrawn the nominations for Sour for Swift, Antonoff and St. Vincent (Annie Clark).
Swift and Antonoff are still listed as album of the year nominees for their work on Swift’s evermore. Antonoff also remains a nominee for producer of the year, non-classical. St. Vincent remains a nominee for best alternative music album for Daddy’s Home.
Here’s an Academy statement on the subject: “During the submission process, the Academy received credits from the label for the track ‘deju vu.’ Last week, we received the correct credits from the label that recognize Annie Clark, Jack Antonoff and Taylor Swift as songwriters of an interpolation on the track, ‘deja vu.’ In keeping with current Grammy guidelines, as songwriters of an interpolated track, Clark, Antonoff and Swift are not nominees in the album of the year category for Sour. Antonoff and Swift are nominated in the category for Swift’s album, evermore.”
This year, the Academy announced that all songwriters on album of the year nominees will receive nominations. But the Academy is wisely drawing a distinction between songwriters who are actively involved in the creation of a new song and those whose old work was merely interpolated.
“deja vu,” one of the biggest hits on Sour, includes an interpolation of “Cruel Summer,” a song that Swift, Jack Antonoff and St. Vincent co-wrote for Swift’s 2019 album, Lover. Another track on Rodrigo’s album, “1 step forward, 3 steps back,” contains an interpolation of “New Year’s Day,” a song Swift and Antonoff co-wrote for Swift’s 2017 album, reputation. (That one was listed correctly when the label submitted Rodrigo’s entry, according to the Academy.)
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Post by Admin on Dec 8, 2021 3:52:21 GMT
 Selena Gomez is feeling grateful. On Monday, the 29-year-old singer said she shed tears of joy after Revelación, her first Spanish-language EP, scored a nod for best Latin pop album at the 2022 Grammy Awards - her first nomination by the Recording Academy. "I cried like a little baby. I was very excited," Gomez told Entertainment Tonight after learning she was nominated. "I worked really hard on that project, so it was a lovely surprise. I'm very excited!" The "Adiós" singer dropped the seven-track album in March, telling Vogue at the time the record was a tribute to her Latina roots and a gift to her vast fanbase in Latin America. "The project is really an homage to my heritage," she told the magazine. "It's a Sasha Fierce moment, for sure." Before Revelación dropped, Gomez told Apple Music's Zane Lowe that she dreamed of pursuing the project for a decade. |
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