(LOS ANGELES) – There’s much to discuss regarding the 2024 Grammy Award nominations, with new categories, SZA and “Barbie.” Who was left off the list? What were the most pleasant surprises? Let us investigate.
There’s a lot to appreciate about the 66th Grammy Awards nominees – and a lot to be perplexed about. Despite outstanding years, Reneé Rapp, Peso Pluma, and PinkPantheress have not been nominated for Best New Artist. Rapp’s “Snow Angel” was the year’s biggest debut solo album by a female performer.
Peso Pluma received only one nomination: best msica Mexicana album (including Tejano) for his third studio album, “Génesis.” Rapp and PinkPantheress were passed over, and Peso Pluma received only one nomination: best msica Mexicana album (including Tejano).
Indeed, in a year dominated by Mexican music, it is strange to see no nominations for Eslabon Armada or Grupo Frontera, particularly for their songs “Ella Baila Sola” with Peso Pluma and “Un x100to” with Bad Bunny. Natanael Cano and Fuerza Regida are also conspicuously missing.
2024 Grammy Nomination Snubs And Surprises: No K-Pop, Little Country And Regional Mexican Music
Because the category got fewer than 40 entries this year, there are only three nominees for best music Urbana album this year, which accounts for Karol G’s lone nomination for her historic 2023 album “Maana Será Bonito.”
Without a doubt, country music has had a significant 2023. For the first time in July, country acts occupied the top three positions on the Hot 100: controversy propelled Jason Aldean’s “Try That In a Small Town” to No. 1, followed by Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night” and Luke Combs’ cover of Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car.”
Also this summer, country singer Oliver Anthony Music became the first artist to debut at the top of the Hot 100 with the viral “Rich Men North of Richmond.” The reign of Aldean and Anthony was brief — although Combs did receive a Grammy nod for best country solo performance in 2024 — but Wallen stands out as a glaring omission.
While Wallen’s song “Last Night” is nominated for Best Country Song, a Songwriter’s award, he is not. His newest album, “One Thing at a Time,” had lasted 16 weeks at the top as of October 14, meaning he’d maintained the top spot for nearly 40% of the year… yet his record was released in March.
2024 Grammy Nomination Snubs And Surprises: No K-Pop, Little Country And Regional Mexican Music
Wallen has skipped nominations before. After a video of him using a racial slur surfaced in 2021, he was disqualified or limited from various award events, and he received no Grammy nominations for his best-selling “Dangerous: The Double Album.”
The eligibility period went from October 1, 2022, to September 15, 2023, which means that several K-pop giants, including TOMORROW X TOGETHER, Stray Kids, and the Y2K-loving girl group NewJeans, might have been nominated. They weren’t, however.
TXT’s “The Name Chapter: Temptation” debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in February, followed by Stray Kids’ “Maxident” and NewJeans’ “Get Up.”
Some critics predicted that NewJeans would be nominated for Best New Artist, making them the first K-pop girl group to receive a Grammy nomination. It could have been them, or it could have been the K-pop girl trio Fifty Fifty, whose bubblegum pop hit “Cupid” was unavoidable on TikTok this summer — they got so popular that they even appeared on the “Barbie” film soundtrack.
2024 Grammy Nomination Snubs And Surprises: No K-Pop, Little Country And Regional Mexican Music
Despite this, BTS remains the only K-pop group to receive a Grammy nomination. Despite five nominations, they have yet to win a Grammy.
Fans of Michelle Williams’ reading of Britney Spears’ biography “The Woman in Me” may be disappointed to learn that the actor will not be eligible in this cycle’s best audiobook, narration, and storytelling recording category. That might happen around 2025.
The omission of Prince Harry, whose biography “Spare” sold more than 3.2 million copies worldwide in only one week, is arguably the most startling. The British royal narrated the audiobook but was not nominated. Meryl Streep, William Shatner, Rick Rubin, Senator Bernie Sanders, and Michelle Obama, on the other hand, did.
Using charts as the most direct measure of popularity: There has been a noticeable need for dominant hip-hop releases. The Luminate 2022 Year-End report indicated that R&B/hip-hop is America’s most popular genre, accounting for the most on-demand song streams in the United States and the biggest share of total album consumption. No rapper had ever topped the Billboard 200 before Travis Scott’s “Utopia” in August. Scott received only one nomination this time around: Best Rap Album.
2024 Grammy Nomination Snubs And Surprises: No K-Pop, Little Country And Regional Mexican Music
Gunna, whose 2023 album “A Gift & a Curse” was massive, is oddly absent from the list. Some of the genre’s biggest songs were pushed to rap-specific categories (think Lil Durk ft. J. Cole’s “All My Life” or Lil Uzi Vert’s “Just Wanna Rock.”)
If there’s anything to celebrate, it’s Victoria Monét’s seven nominations. The R&B singer-songwriter has already received Grammy nominations for a different skill set. Monét was nominated for album of the year at the 2020 Grammys as a producer for her work on Ariana Grande’s “Thank U, Next.” She is best known now for her work with Ariana Grande and Chloe x Halle, but she’s always been a solo artist to watch.
She is the only leading nominee nominated for Best New Artist this year. Monét has also been nominated for record of the year and best R&B song for her shiny, brassy “On My Mama,” as well as best R&B performance and traditional R&B performance. “Jaguar ll,” her 2023 release, is nominated for best R&B and best-engineered, non-classical album.
Of course, the best story of the 2024 Grammy nominees is how many women are represented in the key categories.
The majority of the leading nominations are female, with names like Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Miley Cyrus, and Olivia Rodrigo among them. Jon Batiste is the only man in the record and album of the year categories.
SOURCE – (AP)
