The Grammys update nomination requirements in the ‘Album of the Year’ category

[Teletubby 142,562]

• In Album Of The Year category, the baseline for earning a nomination has been raised to 20% of the album’s playing time for credited artists, featured artists, songwriters, producers, engineers, mixers and mastering engineers.
•  The number of nominees in the General Field categories of Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Album of the Year, and Best New Artist has been reduced from 10 to 8.

[Teletubby 142,562]

now Lana won't get Grammy if Midnights win

[Lippoutou 4,542]

Does anyone have an example of an album that contained less than 20% of playtime of credited artists and that was recently nominated??? Sounds to me like it doesn't change anything.

[COOOK 76,406]

@Beyonce Knowles i said, submit RENAISSANCE again.

[Teletubby 142,562]

6 minutes ago, Lippoutou said:

Does anyone have an example of an album that contained less than 20% of playtime of credited artists and that was recently nominated??? Sounds to me like it doesn't change anything.

Mavis Staples has Grammy for 00:20 interlude on "We Are" by Jon Batiste
https://www.grammy.com/artists/mavis-staples/8064
it will change a lot. so far, everyone involved in the album has received awards, now if someone is involved in only one song probably won't get it, for example Lana won't get Grammy if Midnights wins because "Snow On The Beach" playing time is less than 20%.

[River 110,970]

20 minutes ago, Teletubby said:

it will change a lot. so far, everyone involved in the album has received awards, now if someone is involved in only one song probably won't get it, for example Lana won't get Grammy if Midnights wins because "Snow On The Beach" playing time is less than 20%.

but what about the more lana remix?

[Teletubby 142,562]

1 minute ago, River said:

but what about the more lana remix?

no

[Levine 23,453]

37 minutes ago, Teletubby said:

Mavis Staples has Grammy for 00:20 interlude on "We Are" by Jon Batiste
https://www.grammy.com/artists/mavis-staples/8064
it will change a lot. so far, everyone involved in the album has received awards, now if someone is involved in only one song probably won't get it, for example Lana won't get Grammy if Midnights wins because "Snow On The Beach" playing time is less than 20%.

Before this new rule, if Midnight received AOTY award, Lana would have gotten it too?  The buffonery. Sounds like a good change tbh.

So that's propably the reasons they didn't get to Beyoncé in the last years, they had to produce like 100 grammys only for her album. 

[Anderson123 37,190]

That is kinda fair I guess. Sad for the writers, producers, etc. who worked less than 20% of an album.

[River 110,970]

24 minutes ago, Teletubby said:

no

explain

[Teletubby 142,562]

Just now, River said:

explain

it's on Midnights (The Til Dawn Edition), which is over 80 minutes long. playing time of remix + original version is 8:05 so it's only 10%, not enough to get a nomination.

[River 110,970]

2 minutes ago, Teletubby said:

it's on Midnights (The Til Dawn Edition), which is over 80 minutes long. playing time of remix + original version is 8:05 so it's only 10%, not enough to get a nomination.

time to release (Midnight till 1 AM) with Castle By The Beach (More Lana More Banana Remix) and 1-2 demos

[River 110,970]

tbh I don't want Lana to get a grammy thanks to a feature, she deserves it for her own work.

[StrawberryBlond 14,527]

Best decision, for sure, it was always a ridiculous rule. To see artists who contributed one teeny feature manage to get a Grammy nomination for being part of another artist's album has never made sense to me. Even Lana getting a nom for The Weeknd's Starboy because she did a brief feature on it didn't sit right with me, which is why I'm glad it never won as even if that meant she'd have a Grammy, it would be on a technicality in my mind, a Grammy on paper but ultimately meaningless. If she wins for a song that's a duet or a feature, I can just about deal with that, but not just a tiny part of the puzzle in the a big overall product of another artist's work. Surprised this was a rule for so long. I mean, this is totally allowing artists to feature all their friends on their album so they can at the very least say that they got nominated for a Grammy and it means a massive amount of unnecessary trophies have to be produced.

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11 hours ago, Lippoutou said:

Does anyone have an example of an album that contained less than 20% of playtime of credited artists and that was recently nominated??? Sounds to me like it doesn't change anything.

olivia rodrigo SOUR had taylor swift credited which is why they changed the rules.