Recording Academy Shares Guidelines for Reopening Studios

Freddie Gibbs is back on the move. After a smoldering 2019 with RCA Records / Keep Cool, Gibbs jumps ship and will be running alongside Warner Records, Billboard exclusively reports.

Despite COVID-19 being a very real threat in many major cities and regions of the US and the rest of the world, cinemas are planning to reopen shortly, as in a couple of weeks. We’ve already heard from AMC about the plan to reopen almost all of the company’s locations by July and now, Regal Cinemas is following suit, as the chain has announced a reopening date of July 10 and a brand-spanking-new list of regulations customers and employees will have to follow.

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 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.

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.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorPrince often played special concerts on June 7, his birthday — the most elaborate was probably a full-scale show at Detroit’s Cobo Arena in 1986 — and since his death in 2016, has observed the date with special events (like Spike Lee’s block party in Brooklyn in 2017) or releases (like last year’s “Originals” album).For a number of reasons, 2020 is different, not least because of the nationwide protests against police violence that have spiraled in the wake of

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIn response to George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police, Tompkins Square Records today released “Out of the Ashes,” a 16-track compilation album of area artists that will benefit two charitable organizations in the city.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAlong with the social-change efforts announced by its parent company Universal Music Group earlier this week, Republic Records has announced its own campaign — one aspect of which is that the company will cease to use the term “urban” to describe black music. “ ‘Urban’ is rooted in the historical evolution of terms that sought to define Black music,” the memo reads.

With many recording studios around the country now weighing the possibility of reopening as stay-at-home mandates are eased, the Recording Academy’s producers & engineers wing has released a list of safety considerations for studio owners, engineers and others who work in the recording community. “Directives for opening are, of course, on a

Los Angeles County will present guidelines for the reopening of film and TV production as well as theme parks, restaurants, sports venues, manufacturing and corporate businesses this coming Tuesday.

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Caroline Records has added Denis Omar Aponte, known as Omy de Oro, to its roster after signing a distribution deal with the rising Puerto Rican trap and reggaetón artist.Caroline, which is the independent distribution and label services arm of Capitol Music Group, will help develop the 25-year-old singer, who recently collaborated with global superstar Bad Bunny on the track "Subimos de Rango."Omy de Oro joins other Caroline Records signees including urbano artist Brytiago, rapper Lil Baby,

The show might go on sooner than we think, but the reopening of the Great White Way comes with a few guidelines that The Actors Equity Association (AEA) will be following when the lights go back on.

Zac Brown Band musician John Driskell Hopkins has helped to record a cover of folk legend John Prine’s Angel From Montgomery to raise coronavirus relief funds.