Recording Academy Announces 2021 Grammys Changes to Reflect "Current State of the Music Industry"

Slaves have announced that they are changing their name due to its perceived ties to racism.Taking to Instagram yesterday (June 26), the band released a statement regarding their name change.As individuals, as well as a collective, we hold certain virtues close to our hearts – honesty and transparency with our fans being some of the most important,” the statement began.“The name ‘Slaves’ was conceived as a reference to the band’s battle with substance abuse in the past, to the idea that we

The Recording Academy has announced a summer 2020 call-to-action initiative to help provide pandemic and tax relief for music creators and music businesses, and to promote social change through legislation. The seven-week effort will culminate with the academy's seventh annual District Advocate event on Aug. 12.

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterThe Recording Academy has announced a summer 2020 call-to-action initiative to help provide pandemic relief for music creators and music businesses, and to promote positive social change through legislation.

Anytime there is a royalty for the use of a sound recording in the U.S., the music creator is entitled to receive it, regardless of the creator's nationality and their copyright laws back home. The same is not true around the world -- but rights management agency SoundExchange is trying to change that. SoundExchange today (June 24) launches Fair Trade of Music, an education and

William DeVaughn, “Just be thankful for what you got.” Live music may have been all but erased due to the virus, but recorded music has shown to be resilient thanks to subscription streaming, which makes up almost three quarters of all recorded-music spend.Had this crisis hit when we went shopping for records at stores like Tower Records, one shudders to think if there would be anything left.Will Page is a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics, who previously was the chief economist

The board includes two former best new artist winners.

The number of women on the Recording Academy’s 40-member board of trustees jumped from 14 to 17 following the recent trustees elections, which included, for the first time in academy history, four “at large” trustee seats. In three of those four two-person contests, two women faced off, ensuring that a female would fill that seat.Trustees are primarily selected by the governors of each of the academy’s 12 chapters.

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

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.

Republic Records announced last week that it will cease using the term “urban,” Mason noted that the Academy’s changes actually were decided last month.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorThe Recording Academy has announced several rule changes for the 63rd Grammy Awards, including omitting the term “urban” from its awards categories and language.The academy is changing the name of the urban contemporary album category to progressive R&B album. The word “urban” has been subject to increasing criticism, most recently by Tyler, the Creator, who called it “a politically correct way to say the N-word” at the January ceremony.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorTo say that interim Recording Academy president/CEO Harvey Mason jr. has had a challenging first few months on the job is an understatement of epic proportions.

Billboard discussed the changes with Harvey Mason, Jr., Chair & Interim President/CEO of the Recording Academy.1. In best new artist, the Academy dropped the rule that an artist may have released no more than 30 tracks prior to the start of the current eligibility year: The Academy had sought to quantify its definition of best new artist, but found that it’s almost impossible to come up with numbers that are fair in every situation.

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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,

“This fund will support the extraordinary, dedicated organisations that are on the front lines of the fight against racism"

In the wake of George Floyd’s death, the music will be paused.

Thanks to tough measures that included overnight curfews and restricted travel between provinces, health authorities were hopeful that African countries could avoid the worst of the coronavirus outbreaks that have ravaged Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States. As of May 28, Nigeria and South Africa — two of the continent’s largest music economies — had

By Denise Petski