Is there an award extra baffling than the Grammy’s Greatest New Artist? Even based on the Academy itself, it has essentially the most “difficult algorithm” of any award given.
In accordance with the Grammys, a “new artist” is outlined as somebody who has had “a breakthrough into the general public consciousness and impacted the musical panorama in the course of the 12 months’s eligibility interval.” In order that implies that you could possibly 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 achieved since:
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2007: Carrie Underwood
12.
2011: Esperanza Spalding
15.
2014: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
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2017: Likelihood the Rapper
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2021: Megan Thee Stallion
So, who will win this 12 months? 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!
