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What the Grammys’ New Rule Tweaks Mean for the Dance/Electronic Community
Four of the ten rule changes announced last week by the Recording Academy are making a few small and a few significant differences for the genre.
To wit, the 2024 nominees in this category included tech house titan Dom Dolla and longstanding producer Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, with winners since the award was introduced in 1998 having included genre legends like Frankie Knuckles, Deep Dish, Roger Sanchez, Louie Vega, Justice, David Guetta, Skrillex and Tiësto. The tweak states that all eligibly credited featured artists withunder50% playtime will now be awarded a winners’ certificate for all genre album categories. “Most often,” the proposal for this change stated, “a Featured Artist would be a Vocalist that performed on one or multiple songs on the record, but didn’t achieve 50% playtime as a whole (otherwise they would be a Grammy winner).”
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