The voting process is the same as the Grammys, with members of the Latin Recording Academy submitting entries, placing those entries into categories, and voting in a nomination round and a final round to award a Grammy-winner.
The Grammys are not just for major label artists. DIY musicians and songwriters are eligible for Grammy nominations, and many have been nominated and even won the award. He has advice on how to get the most out of the Grammy experience. Ardoin attended the ceremony and his publicist helped immensely among the red carpet media frenzy.
Ardoin has experience to share in this area, too. Ardoin agrees. Get help if you can, involve others, two heads are better than one. Greg Majewski has written about heavy tunes for Invisible Oranges, Metal Bandcamp and various now-defunct metal sites.
He lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife and hundreds of plants. Skip to content. How to get nominated for a Grammy as an independent musician. But why are the Grammys important to indie musicians? What are the Grammys? How did the Grammys start? What are the eligibility requirements for Grammy submissions? To be eligible for submission, a release only needs to meet three requirements: Release date: For the upcoming Grammy ceremony, submissions must have been distributed between September 1, and September 30, Length: To be considered for album submission, a recording must contain at least five different tracks with a total playing time of 15 minutes, or a total playing time of 30 minutes with no minimum track amount.
Singles have no such requirements. A recording must meet the industry minimum standard bit, Each submitted song must have proper metadata credits songwriters, producers, etc. Original material: Starting with the Grammys, an album must contain greater than 75 percent of newly recorded within five years of the release date , recordings that have not been released prior.
Currently the rule is 50 percent. Are other credited personnel also eligible? This is done to ensure that voters are only voting for categories that they're experts in.
In case you want to become a member of the Recording Academy, you'll need to receive at least two recommendations from the ones already in the music industry. Academy members are allowed to recommend new members in their account where non-members also get to submit recommendations using the recommendation form on Grammy's official website. Once you have been recommended, you will need to complete a profile of yourself and submit it before March 1st to be considered for that year's class.
If the membership is approved, you will receive an official invite to join the Academy by June 30th. The Voting Members will vote on the entries they feel deserves a nomination in their respective categories. Each specific category will only have five slots, which is why it is a major accomplishment to even be nominated for a Grammy. The Voting Members will then vote on the nominee in each of the eligible voting categories that they feel should win the Grammy.
The nominee that receives the most votes will bag the award. On the night of the ceremony, the awards for the categories that have a broader popular appeal will be televised.
This usually includes Best New Artist, Record of the Year, Album of the Year, and many big awards in popular genres like hip-hop and pop. These Awards were founded by the Latin Recording Academy and first awarded in for recognizing achievements in music from anywhere in the world recorded in Portuguese or Spanish.
The voting process is pretty much the same as the American Grammys, with the members of the Latin Recording Academy submitting the entries, placing them into categories, and voting in the nomination round and final round to award the rightful Grammy-winner.
It is important to know that the Grammys aren't just for major label artists. In fact, songwriters and DIY musicians are also eligible for Grammy nominations with many of them getting nominated and even winning the award on a regular basis.
He advises aspiring indie artists on how to make the most of this Grammy experience by telling if you ever got nominated, there are certain things that you'll need to do for maximizing this opportunity. You need to get a publicist at all costs. Ardoin attended the ceremony with his publicist helping him among the red carpet media frenzy. He claims that this is one of those times in your career when you'll have the whole world's attention.
You should let your publicist fight for your attention in the midst of all the chaos. Ardoin has quite a bit of experience in this area too. He claims that the Grammy gave him access to several new opportunities. Even though neither the nomination nor the award comes with a paycheque and you've got to work hard to create opportunities in the industry, but the nomination will help you with billing though.
You will be able to put "Grammy nominee" on your marquees, advertisements, flyers, and write-ups. The album 'The Love' was nominated in this category by their peers who were also children's music experts. They said that artists should focus on what the audience needs and then create for a great need. It'll make your music super clear while also letting the listeners know if it is something that they need to hear.
Another popular children's artist, Jon Samson, shares a similarly pragmatic view of the Grammy nomination process. He claims that as wonderful as it is to receive a nomination, you shouldn't always prioritize the Grammy nomination as the endgame.
You need to invest in the process of producing powerful art that'll help people feel your music. If you produce music with the goal of getting nominations, you'll notice the more you're trying to get attention, the less it'll happen.
Ardoin seems to agree with this theory. He claims that you must prioritize having a quality project. So why hold back your album from Grammy consideration? If you're on a major label, your label might hold back your album in favor of one it thinks might have a better shot. If you're on a small label, your representation might not have any idea how to submit at all. But if you're handling this all yourself, you're in luck.
The Academy accepts online submissions. If so, you're in a good spot. Probably the easiest major Grammy to get nominated for and have a chance at winning is the Best New Artist category. You don't have to be a totally unheard-of artist to be nominated here. The award says it's for someone who "first establishes the public identity of that artist or established group" as a performer.
So even if you've been working in the industry for years, if this is your first solo album, you can be a new artist. Even if you've been working in the industry for years, you can be a new artist.
In fact, the Best New Artist category is one of the strangest categories at the Grammys because it's completely inconsistent. Some people believe the award is cursed and will destroy the career of a young artist. But all in all, it's an award that can be a total surprise, particularly because it does not have to be an artist's first album. It just has to be the first recording that "establishes the public identity" — in other words, brings them into the mainstream.
One of the biggest problems with the Grammy voting committee is it's so big that many voting members are not familiar with every category. What this means is that big names and Top 40 artists are more likely to get nominated from the entry pool and win in the voting rounds.
As Rob Kenner, a Grammy screener, wrote for Complex :. Because famous people tend to get more votes from clueless Academy members, regardless of the quality of their work. In the Best New Artist category, name recognition is going to be less of an issue than in a category like pop or hip-hop. But sometimes even that category is flooded with well-known names.
Both Sam Smith and Iggy Azalea released their first albums in and were nominated for the award in Only Recording Academy voting members vote on Grammy winners. The Academy flaunts the fact that the voting committees are made up of a jury of a musician's peers. What that means in practicality is that musicians, engineers, lyricists, producers, and liner note writers can all apply to vote. Voting members are asked to vote in only nine genre categories and the four main categories Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist when choosing nominees.
They are then asked to vote for winners in up to 20 genre categories and the four major categories, so that their expertise is best used. But that means some genres are voted on less than others in the nominations round, and then many people without expertise vote to pick genre winners. In the mids, the Recording Academy quietly assembled a committee to review voters' choices. Then they make adjustments if they feel adjustments are needed.
Basically, all the categories that drive television ratings, as well as categories in specialty genres, can be rigged by this undisclosed private committee.
To the Grammys' credit, this committee has some value. Richie was far from the best choice that year, and his win helped create the public perception that the Grammys were cut off from what "good music" meant.
What the committee does and how it makes choices, though, remains fairly private. The names of members are kept secret, and the only journalist to get a member of the committee to speak off the record was Robert Hilburn in for the LA Times.
In that article, the unnamed source explains how the group decides the nominees:. The goal in each category is to take the 20 nominations that the members send forth and get the list down to a consensus of the seven or eight that we feel are the [best].
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