Her album was the first hip hop act ever to win the coveted award. Will Heath/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images.
Great albums released early during the eligibility window can fade from memory, and the recently increased field of eight nominees means plenty of dark horse entries can shake things up. All Rights Reserved. If the climate of 2020 increases his chances, says one label head and longtime voter, his win would reverberate well beyond the awards show.
Only one album award was won in the 1970s by a woman (Carole King), and 0.5 in the 1980s -- that half-Grammy going to Yoko Ono in 1982 for her part in Double Fantasy with John Lennon (and it would have been a quadruple fantasy for anyone to imagine she was the central figure on the academy’s mind there). The ceremony was known as the "Grammy Year of Women", because every artist nominated for Album of the Year was female (including Garbage, with Shirley Mansonas the lead si… So Raitt’s win at the start of the decade was a harbinger of voters’ frequent resort to more nostalgic music as an alternative to alternative, which provided an opening for some female artists (see also Natalie Cole’s 1992 win for Unforgettable… With Love). Advertising.
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Privacy Policy Josh Glicksman (No one would have predicted that Nirvana’s former drummer, Dave Grohl, would someday become the unofficial mayor of Grammyland.) As of 2012, classical albums are eligible for this award, with the award for Advertising.
A Black artist or group hasn't won the Grammys' most prestigious award since Herbie Hancock in 2008. It’s dispiriting to think it still might take a movement to win a slate of brilliant women the honors they deserve -- but the upside is that we’ve got one, in #MeToo and Time’s Up and in their allies against harassment and unequal treatment. Good for us.”, But if academy members really “got” something that year, they quickly lost it.
That day, The Recording Academy’s then-president, Michael Greene, confessed that while he had loved Hill’s album, he had wondered “if the academy membership would get it.
And the closest the Grammys has come to a similarly inclusive album of the year field was last year, when no nominees were white males -- and only one, Lorde, was a woman.
Only one album award was won in the 1970s by a woman (Carole King), and 0.5 in the 1980s -- that half-Grammy going to Yoko Ono in 1982 for her … It was not until 1968, 1969, 1999, 2011, and 2014 that the award was won by a rock, country, hip hop, indie and electronic album respectively. “The thing I’m looking for most, which is the trickiest thing this year, is impact,” says Recording Academy member and Grammy-winning songwriter-producer Mark Batson (Eminem, Alicia Keys). Sometimes, making the political statement is more important than just making an artistic statement.”. “That has to have a connection to how people vote, and I’d say, ‘Let those emotions in.’ ”. Cookie Settings The mid-1990s were prime time for a new generation of power-ballad divas, yielding Whitney Houston’s 1994 album win for The Bodyguard’s soundtrack and Dion’s 1997 triumph with Falling Into You. The remaining nine artists on this list have each won album of the year once. At the 42nd Annual GRAMMY Awards at Los Angeles’ Staples Center, Santana made up for lost time, winning eight awards: Record Of The Year, Album Of The Year, Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals, Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals, Best Pop Instrumental Performance, Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal, Best Rock Instrumental Performance and Best Rock … In 1962, the award name was extended to Album of the Year (other than classical) but, in 1965, the shorter name returned. Terms of Use Even in normal times, predicting the Grammys’ album of the year category can feel like trying to guess where lightning will strike.
Every album of the year nominee was either female or female-led: Hill, Shania Twain, Madonna, Sheryl Crow and Garbage, fronted by Shirley Manson.
This article originally appeared in the Sept. 19, 2020, issue of Billboard.
(In fact, only one other rap album has: Outkast’s Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. © 2019 Billboard.
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And in answer to 2018’s letdowns, the Grammys expanded the nominations from five to eight for each of 2019’s biggest prizes. by The 41st Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 24, 1999, at Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles. A Black artist hasn’t won the award for album of the year since Herbie Hancock in 2008, and only two hip-hop talents have taken home the night’s biggest honor: Lauryn Hill in 1999 and OutKast in 2004. Billboard is a subsidiary of Valence Media, LLC. Those kinds of interventions contributed to an atmosphere in which even Grammy voters could grasp the importance of a figure like Hill, as well as her music, which drew together many sonic strands of the decade and which still carries a charge today. Lauryn Hill was the main recipient, winning a total of 5 awards including Album of the Year and Best New Artist. “Whether or not the voting bloc of the Grammys is or isn’t tone-deaf this year remains to be seen,” he says, “but I hope that our industry links arms with one another in a meaningful way, whatever the outcome is.”, The diversity of winners particularly has come under fire in recent years, as back-to-back ceremonies spawned hashtags like #GrammysSoWhite and #GrammysSoMale. Both sides would be highlighted in 1999, with the noisier Garbage and the rootsier Crow representing a wider-than-ever spectrum of sounds from women artists. This article originally appeared in the Oct. 13 issue of Billboard. Will that be enough to correct the academy’s run of bad calls and reawaken the spirit of ’99? “If African American artists were dominant in this year’s Grammys, it would be a sign that the music industry is implicitly endorsing Black Lives Matter,” says the label head. Youth culture in the early and mid parts of the decade was dominated by the sounds of alt-rock and rap, which were unlikely to be most sonically conservative Grammy voters’ cup of Black Label. Visit Insider's homepage for more stories. As if to grind salt into the wound, after January’s show, Recording Academy president/CEO Neil Portnow said that if women musicians wanted better representation, they should “step up.”.
Great albums released early during the eligibility window can fade from memory, and the recently increased field of eight nominees means plenty of dark horse entries can shake things up. All Rights Reserved. If the climate of 2020 increases his chances, says one label head and longtime voter, his win would reverberate well beyond the awards show.
Only one album award was won in the 1970s by a woman (Carole King), and 0.5 in the 1980s -- that half-Grammy going to Yoko Ono in 1982 for her part in Double Fantasy with John Lennon (and it would have been a quadruple fantasy for anyone to imagine she was the central figure on the academy’s mind there). The ceremony was known as the "Grammy Year of Women", because every artist nominated for Album of the Year was female (including Garbage, with Shirley Mansonas the lead si… So Raitt’s win at the start of the decade was a harbinger of voters’ frequent resort to more nostalgic music as an alternative to alternative, which provided an opening for some female artists (see also Natalie Cole’s 1992 win for Unforgettable… With Love). Advertising.
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Privacy Policy Josh Glicksman (No one would have predicted that Nirvana’s former drummer, Dave Grohl, would someday become the unofficial mayor of Grammyland.) As of 2012, classical albums are eligible for this award, with the award for Advertising.
A Black artist or group hasn't won the Grammys' most prestigious award since Herbie Hancock in 2008. It’s dispiriting to think it still might take a movement to win a slate of brilliant women the honors they deserve -- but the upside is that we’ve got one, in #MeToo and Time’s Up and in their allies against harassment and unequal treatment. Good for us.”, But if academy members really “got” something that year, they quickly lost it.
That day, The Recording Academy’s then-president, Michael Greene, confessed that while he had loved Hill’s album, he had wondered “if the academy membership would get it.
And the closest the Grammys has come to a similarly inclusive album of the year field was last year, when no nominees were white males -- and only one, Lorde, was a woman.
Only one album award was won in the 1970s by a woman (Carole King), and 0.5 in the 1980s -- that half-Grammy going to Yoko Ono in 1982 for her … It was not until 1968, 1969, 1999, 2011, and 2014 that the award was won by a rock, country, hip hop, indie and electronic album respectively. “The thing I’m looking for most, which is the trickiest thing this year, is impact,” says Recording Academy member and Grammy-winning songwriter-producer Mark Batson (Eminem, Alicia Keys). Sometimes, making the political statement is more important than just making an artistic statement.”. “That has to have a connection to how people vote, and I’d say, ‘Let those emotions in.’ ”. Cookie Settings The mid-1990s were prime time for a new generation of power-ballad divas, yielding Whitney Houston’s 1994 album win for The Bodyguard’s soundtrack and Dion’s 1997 triumph with Falling Into You. The remaining nine artists on this list have each won album of the year once. At the 42nd Annual GRAMMY Awards at Los Angeles’ Staples Center, Santana made up for lost time, winning eight awards: Record Of The Year, Album Of The Year, Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals, Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals, Best Pop Instrumental Performance, Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal, Best Rock Instrumental Performance and Best Rock … In 1962, the award name was extended to Album of the Year (other than classical) but, in 1965, the shorter name returned. Terms of Use Even in normal times, predicting the Grammys’ album of the year category can feel like trying to guess where lightning will strike.
Every album of the year nominee was either female or female-led: Hill, Shania Twain, Madonna, Sheryl Crow and Garbage, fronted by Shirley Manson.
This article originally appeared in the Sept. 19, 2020, issue of Billboard.
(In fact, only one other rap album has: Outkast’s Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. © 2019 Billboard.
And in answer to 2018’s letdowns, the Grammys expanded the nominations from five to eight for each of 2019’s biggest prizes. by The 41st Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 24, 1999, at Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles. A Black artist hasn’t won the award for album of the year since Herbie Hancock in 2008, and only two hip-hop talents have taken home the night’s biggest honor: Lauryn Hill in 1999 and OutKast in 2004. Billboard is a subsidiary of Valence Media, LLC. Those kinds of interventions contributed to an atmosphere in which even Grammy voters could grasp the importance of a figure like Hill, as well as her music, which drew together many sonic strands of the decade and which still carries a charge today. Lauryn Hill was the main recipient, winning a total of 5 awards including Album of the Year and Best New Artist. “Whether or not the voting bloc of the Grammys is or isn’t tone-deaf this year remains to be seen,” he says, “but I hope that our industry links arms with one another in a meaningful way, whatever the outcome is.”, The diversity of winners particularly has come under fire in recent years, as back-to-back ceremonies spawned hashtags like #GrammysSoWhite and #GrammysSoMale. Both sides would be highlighted in 1999, with the noisier Garbage and the rootsier Crow representing a wider-than-ever spectrum of sounds from women artists. This article originally appeared in the Oct. 13 issue of Billboard. Will that be enough to correct the academy’s run of bad calls and reawaken the spirit of ’99? “If African American artists were dominant in this year’s Grammys, it would be a sign that the music industry is implicitly endorsing Black Lives Matter,” says the label head. Youth culture in the early and mid parts of the decade was dominated by the sounds of alt-rock and rap, which were unlikely to be most sonically conservative Grammy voters’ cup of Black Label. Visit Insider's homepage for more stories. As if to grind salt into the wound, after January’s show, Recording Academy president/CEO Neil Portnow said that if women musicians wanted better representation, they should “step up.”.