Is there an award extra baffling than the Grammy’s Greatest New Artist? Even in keeping with the Academy itself, it has essentially the most “difficult algorithm” of any award given.
In response to the Grammys, a “new artist” is outlined as somebody who has had “a breakthrough into the general public consciousness and impacted the musical panorama through the yr’s eligibility interval.” In order that implies that you may have been releasing music for literal years; so long as you have not been nominated for a efficiency Grammy earlier than, you are good to go.
So, this is a glance again on the Greatest New Artists of the century — and what they’ve accomplished since:
8.
2007: Carrie Underwood
12.
2011: Esperanza Spalding
15.
2014: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
18.
2017: Likelihood the Rapper
22.
2021: Megan Thee Stallion
So, who will win this yr? It is between Gracie Abrams, Fred Once more, Ice Spice, Jelly Roll, Coco Jones, Noah Kahan, Victoria Monét, and The Struggle and Treaty — so we’ll simply need to see!
