The Weeknd will continue to boycott Grammys despite rule changes

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The Weeknd has said that he still won’t submit his music for consideration by the Grammy Awards.

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The Weeknd has vowed to continue to boycott the Grammys - despite a major change to their rules. After it was announced that the Recording Academy will stop using secret committees to select nominees, the three-time Grammy-winner has insisted he still can't "trust" them.

The Weeknd has doubled down on his decision to no longer enter his music for future Grammy consideration, despite the Recording Academy’s announcement to eliminate “secret committees”. “Even though I won’t be submitting my music, the Grammys’ recent admission of corruption will hopefully be a positive move for the future of this plagued award and give the artist community the respect it deserves with a transparent voting process,” he said in a May 3 statement to The New York Times.

told Variety on Monday he won't be ending his boycott of the Grammys following a recent change made by the Recording Academy to eliminate "secret" nomination committees. "The trust has been broken for so long between the Grammy organization and artists that it would be unwise to raise a victory flag," he said.

After not receiving any nominations at the 2021 Grammys, The Weeknd vowed to boycott the awards by both refusing to make any appearances and not submitting his music for future consideration. In his statement, The Weekend cited what he viewed as "corruption" in the nominating process as well as the "secret committees" who make the final nominee decisions in the majority of Grammy categories.

If the Recording Academy was attempting to appease naysayers by axing the anonymous review committees who, for years, have determined the nominees for major categories at the Grammys, it failed to win over one of its biggest critics: the Weeknd, who affirmed his boycott of the awards show on Monday.

feelings about the Grammys — it’s still dusk. Doubling down on his deep-rooted disdain for the Recording Academy, the three-time Grammy Award winner again deemed the institution “corrupt,” despite its recent vow to no longer choose nominations via small committees of anonymous members. “The trust has been broken for so long between the Grammy organization and artists that it would be unwise to raise a victory flag,” The Weeknd, 31, told Variety of the academy’s dissembling of the “secret”

Over the weekend, the trustees of the Recording Academy voted Friday (April 30) to disband nominations review committees and let Grammy voters have the final say in all non-craft categories.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe Weeknd has responded to the rule changes for the Grammy Awards announced by the Recording Academy on Friday — primarily a change that eliminates the “secret” nomination-review committees that played a key role in his being shut out of all nominations for the 2021 awards, despite having one of the biggest albums and the most-streamed single of the year with “After Hours” and “Blinding Lights,” respectively.“The trust has been broken for so long between the Grammy

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