Tate McRae Not Eligible For Grammys Best New Artist, While Sabrina Carpenter Might

[RAMROD 109,386]

The rules and guidelines booklet for the upcoming 67th Grammy Awards notes: “While there will be no specified maximum number of releases, the Screening Committee will be charged with determining whether the artist had attained a breakthrough or prominence prior to the eligibility year. Such a determination would result in disqualification.”

The eligibility year for the upcoming Grammysbegan on Sept. 16, 2023. At that point, Carpenter had reached the Billboard Hot 100 with two singles – “Skin,” which debuted and peaked at No. 48 in February 2021, and “Nonsense,” which peaked at No. 56 in February 2023.

While Carpenter had never climbed above a so-so No. 48 on the Hot 100 prior to this eligibility year, she has been on fire in recent months, with her current single, “Please Please Please,” debuting at No. 2 last week and moving up to No. 1 this week.

It’s always been hard to come up with hard-and-fast rules governing best new artist, which is probably why the description of the category in the rules and guidelines booklet is easily twice as long as the descriptions of album, record and song of the year, combined.

Carpenter has not been previously nominated for a Grammy, which generally results in disqualification from best new artist. And she has not been entered in the best new artist competition three times, which is an automatic disqualifier. Tate McRae has been entered three times (the last three years), so she is not eligible to be entered again. Carpenter has been entered twice – in 2017 and 2024, so she does not run afoul of that rule.

It will be up to the aforementioned Screening Committee to weigh all these factors and decide if Carpenter should be allowed to compete for best new artist. The key criteria: “This category recognizes an artist whose eligibility-year release(s) achieved a breakthrough into the public consciousness and notably impacted the musical landscape.”

The Academy can’t confirm what will or won’t be on the ballot until the screening process is completed. They don’t want to box themselves into a position, when it’s really the prerogative of the screening committee to make those decisions.

But that committee does generally seem to look for ways to include, rather than exclude artists in this category. They seem to recognize that new artists develop and break through at their own pace.

 

https://www.billboard.com/music/awards/sabrina-carpenter-grammy-best-new-artist-2025-eligible-or-not-1235718054/amp/

[GagaGame 3,656]

the payola tricks!!! burn her, witch!!!!

[River 116,459]

idk who is Tata McRaw

Congrats to Sabrina

[nATAH 48,889]

sorry to tate for failing to secure a nom 3 times in a row, i guess? i don't get what's going on here

[VTV 12,841]

Sabrina better beat that new artist curse

[olive specter 1,166]

1 hour ago, RAMROD said:

Carpenter had reached the Billboard Hot 100 with two singles – “Skin,”

oh wait

is sabrina the same girl who fought with olivia rodrigo over that brainwashed church gay boy? lol

[Plastic Flower 4,853]

She should be nominated. Idk about Tate, did she make an impact after Greedy?

[HIM820 1,840]

1 hour ago, NATAH said:

sorry to tate for failing to secure a nom 3 times in a row, i guess? i don't get what's going on here

People just think it’s weird because in her breakout year where she would most likely be nominated, she isn’t even eligible- it is her teams fault truth be told. 
 

Then when Sabrina is eligible, someone who was more well known before 2024 and has 5 albums, it’s understandable why the gp/fans would think it’s odd. It just has to do with Grammy rules and those change a lot so it makes sense why people wouldn’t know them. 

[Dawson 9,486]

how do you get best new artist on your 6th album

[Versace 7,959]

Sabrina new artist? 

Lol girl has been in the industry for at least a decade 

 

[nATAH 48,889]

19 minutes ago, HIM820 said:

People just think it’s weird because in her breakout year where she would most likely be nominated, she isn’t even eligible- it is her teams fault truth be told. 
 

Then when Sabrina is eligible, someone who was more well known before 2024 and has 5 albums, it’s understandable why the gp/fans would think it’s odd. It just has to do with Grammy rules and those change a lot so it makes sense why people wouldn’t know them. 

sounds like grammys needs to rename it to best first chart hit rather than artist

[RodeckDanny 2,450]

Spotify has dared to play Sabrina on my radio of songs that have nothing to do, Like i was playing Indie rock and then... Please please??

PAYOLA

[monstertoronto 10,116]

They should call it “Best Emerging Artist” or “Best Rising Artist” because that seems to be what they’re actually honouring here, not whether they’re actually “new”.  

[highwayunicorn9 181]

But what about Chappell?

[andy232000 11,369]

1 hour ago, monstertoronto said:

They should call it “Best Emerging Artist” or “Best Rising Artist” because that seems to be what they’re actually honouring here, not whether they’re actually “new”.  

This is actually a great idea tbh. If you rename the category you basically open up the chances for all those artists who had their moment later on their careers