The Grammy Awards will look quite different when they come back next year, and they’re bringing many major changes our way. From banning AI-generated music to reducing the field in the “big four” categories, the Recording Academy is introducing many changes for the upcoming ceremony.
It will be much harder to get into the “four big” categories at the Grammys this year since the field has been significantly reduced. Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist will all include only eight nominations next year, instead of ten.
Outside of the general field, the Grammy ballot has been reduced from 26 fields to 11, to ensure that all voting members were able to exercise all ten of their allocated votes. Several new categories have been introduced, including best African music performance, best alternative jazz album, and best pop dance recording.
As AI-generated music experiences a huge boom, the Recording Academy introduced a rule that “only human creators are eligible to be submitted for consideration for, nominated for, or win a Grammy Award” and that “a work that contains no human authorship is not eligible in any categories.”
The eligibility period for the upcoming year is set for October 1, 2022 to September 15, 2023, while the date of the ceremony is yet to be announced.
