The Recording Academy announced some new Grammy rules yesterday, including this mind-bender:
You don’t have to be a new artist anymore to win Best New Artist.
As of 2016, the rules stated that a Best New Artist nominee had to release at least five tracks or one album, but no more than 30 tracks or three albums. Now, there are no limits on how much music an artist has released. Instead, nominees are only not eligible if they have, quote, “attained a breakthrough or prominence prior to the eligibility year.“
Elsewhere, they changed the Urban Contemporary Album category to Progressive R&B Album, but added the word “urban” to one of the Latin music categories.
