Grammys will no longer use term “urban” in awards categories

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Black Lives Matter movement to take a hard look at itself.Last week the Recording Academy announced it was changing the name of the Best Urban Contemporary Album category to Best Progressive R&B Album.

The US Recording Academy has announced a number of changes to the Grammy Awards in an attempt to overcome past accusations of corruption and racism.

The Recording Academy has addressed the conflicts of interest in the Grammy Awards nomination committee and made several changes to the awards categories.

Cuz I Love You won earlier this year—is now going to be called the Best Progressive R&B Album category in an effort to "appropriately categorize and describe this subgenre," as well as acknowledge albums that feature song and production elements of hip-hop, rap, dance, pop, euro-pop, country, rock, folk and alternative music.The Best Rap/Sung Performance category is now being changed to Best Melodic Rap Performance to "represent the inclusivity of the growing hybrid trends" within the genre.

The Recording Academy announced nine key changes to its awards and nominations process on Wednesday morning (June 10). These changes were ratified at the semiannual Trustees Meeting in May.

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GRAMMY Awards are undergoing some changes. The Recording Academy announced on Wednesday that they've voted to rename four categories ahead of the 63rd Annual GRAMMY Awards.The first of the categories to change is Best Urban Contemporary Album, an award that Lizzo won at this year's ceremony for her album, .

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#WeUseOurVoices, Use Yours.

Ariana Grande, The Weeknd and Taylor Swift, said on Instagram today that it will remove the word from department names, employee titles and music genres, clarifying in a press release that this will not lead to any structural changes at the company."We encourage the rest of the music industry to follow suit as it is important to shape the future of what we want it to look like, and not adhere to the outdated structures of the past," the Instagram post reads.The term dates back to the mid-1970s,

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