As music & the industry keeps changing, it's all but impossible to write rules that will be fair in every situation
won best new artist, even though he had been prominently featured on thefor six weeks in 1961. Goulet was allowed to compete in 1962 because that was the year his first studio album was released.
There was evidently some grumbling about that. The very next year another performer who had appeared in a Broadway show released her debut album but the Grammys had tightened up the rules. And that's why wasn't allowed to compete for best new artist of 1963 -- even though the Broadway album that kept her out of contention,In fairness to the Recording Academy, it's all but impossible to write rules that will be fair in every situation. The business keeps changing. Music keeps changing.
We'll find out later this month if Lizzo is allowed to compete for best artist. It will come down to how the Grammy organization answers this question: Is it more fair to stick to the rules as written, or to not let the rules get in the way of a nomination for a worthy artist?
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