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Batiste proves this with his whopping 11 nominations coming across six fields - R&B, jazz, American roots, music for visual media, classical, and music video/film - plus a few in the general category for good measure. These days, you can’t become the Grammys’ top nominee without showing up in multiple fields. If the Grammys are gonna Grammy, at least it’s coming at fewer musicians’ expenses. And there’s even a few true wild cards like ABBA’s Record of the Year nod for comeback single “I Still Have Faith in You” (their first Grammy nomination ever) and Kanye West’s Album of the Year nod for Donda (his first nomination in that category). They also had room for usual suspects like H.E.R., Brandi Carlile, and newly crowned Grammy darling Jon Batiste - despite my speculation that without nominating committees to narrow the field, some of these releases would fall through the cracks. The generals saw few snubs hitmakers Rodrigo, Eilish, Doja Cat, Justin Bieber, and Lil Nas X ran the table as expected. What all that seems to mean this year is there’s room for the expected hits, the Grammy darlings, and a few wild cards. It’s hard to draw early takeaways from the first nomination slate without nominating committees because of the change to expand the generals. said the Academy expanded the generals “to celebrate” the elimination of the committees and because “there’s a lot more excellence to recognize and celebrate.” But dropping it on us at the last possible second (and, ahem, throwing our Grammy picks into disarray)? “This is a new time, and this is a new Academy,” Mason said.
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The change came three years after the Academy expanded those categories from five nominees to eight and the same year the Academy got rid of the long-criticized nominating committees in most categories. Just hours before announcing the nominations, the Recording Academy said the four general categories - Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist - would grow from eight to ten nominees, effective immediately. The general categories grow even bigger … at the last possible second.
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Who overperformed? Who came up short? Who could we have done without recognizing at all? And what can we make of the first nominations without committees? Here are the day’s biggest takeaways. Still, the day wasn’t without its surprises, hotly debated across social media from the moment the nominations were announced. This year’s nominations lacked the shock of that snub expected nominees like Olivia Rodrigo, Billie Eilish, and Doja Cat showed up exactly where expected.
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On top of it all, this year’s nominations were first without nominating committees after calls against them came to a head with the Weeknd’s across-the-board snubs last year. To some, there was more pressure on the Academy to right the wrongs of last year’s baffling general-category choices to others, there was less - with the 2021 nominations as more evidence of the Grammys’ slipping relevance. Music fans got to pregame their Thanksgiving table arguments today after the Recording Academy announced its 2022 Grammy nominations. From left: Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, and Kacey Musgraves.