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Recording Academy Membership Report Finds 66% of Grammy Voting Body Has Joined Since 2019
The Recording Academy released its 2024 Membership Report. The most striking statistic: 66% of the current Grammys electorate has joined since 2019.
We started to see a shift in voting patterns in February 2019, even before the new membership model was introduced, when Childish Gambino ’s “This Is America” became the first hip-hop hit to win record or song of the year. On July 26, Mason sent a pointed letter, via email, to the Academy’s voting members, “It’s about the current year and the quality of the work, period!,” he implored. If you are taking into account an artist’s older work, or their reputation, or race, or gender, what label they are on, who their manager is, how many friends participated in the project, or anything else like that, you’re not doing your job.”
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