Recording Academy Announces 9 Rule Changes to Its Grammy Awards & Nominations Process

American post-hardcore band Slaves have announced that they plan to change their name.

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

The board includes two former best new artist winners.

Slated to be the biggest dance music livestream to happen yet during quarantine, Electric Blockaloo has announced that it's postponing the event for two weeks and also changing its name to Rave Family Block Fest.

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.

Emmy Awards are getting a quick update. On Wednesday, the Television Academy announced a couple changes to this year's awards ceremony, sharing that it would expand the number of nominations in the comedy and drama categories to eight total, regardless of the number of submissions.However, as the number of television series and projects continue to grow, the Academy also restructured how many nominees are selected in other categories.

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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 has announced new changes that will impact the 2021 Grammy Awards. In a press released obtained by E! News, The Academy announced updates to the Best New Artist category, Latin, R&B and Rap Fields, Nominations Review Committees and more.

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.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeNetflix’s “Cheer” and VH1’s “RuPaul’s Drag Race” both earned five nominations for the second annual Critics Choice Real TV Awards, while Netflix dominated the tally among all networks.Administered jointly by the Critics Choice Association and the nonfiction producers organization NPACT, the Critics Choice Real TV Awards has also named “Survivor” host and executive producer Jeff Probst as the recipient of its Critics Choice Real TV Impact Award.“Cheer’s”