Grammy Awards increase nominees in top four fields to eight in a bid to diversify
by Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times
Jun 26, 2018
3 minutes
"The more the merrier" - and, presumably, the greater the diversity - is the guiding principle behind one of the biggest changes to the Grammy Awards process in recent years. The Recording Academy will up the number of nominees from five to eight for its 2019 Grammy ceremony in each of the general categories of record, album, song and best new artist.
The changes are detailed in a letter going out this week to all 24,000 academy members advising them of several modifications that are
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