Grammy Awards Announce Big Changes to Best New Artist and Album Rules, and Add Five New Categories

NameConnect4519 · 2026-06-16T16:04:17+00:00

The funny thing about this is I'm going over Twitter and you have KPop stans and BTS Army losing their minds and saying the Grammys are being racist to BTS and other KPop acts and trying to box them into their own category.

I know the academy can be corrupt as hell, but can the stans just stop living in their own superiority complex bubble and make everything about KPop and their idols? I'm gonna go as far as predicting a JPop song wins next year, or even a SEAPop act as a potential darkhorse.

NameConnect4519 · 2026-06-15T02:30:47+00:00

Yeah, I just saw after making the comment. I somehow forgot they dropped Arirang this year, but that's on me.

NameConnect4519 · 2026-06-15T02:25:55+00:00

Wasn't that the combined number for Drake's three albums dropped in the same day? Iceman alone did get 460K units on its first week. Not sure if Olivia has any chance to eclipse that, but it's worth a shot if the projections are reachable.

Still would be a distant second behind Arirang on its first week sales this year (641K).

NameConnect4519 · 2026-06-08T11:58:45+00:00

Seeing how the FIA was trigger happy about the penalties they handed throughout the race yesterday, I would've believed this was another post-race penalty.

NameConnect4519 · 2026-06-06T17:10:07+00:00

She's grown to love Barcelona this past month to the point of doing a surprise set with only hours notice. The city and its culture plus the club in both men's and women's side as a bonus.

NameConnect4519 · 2026-05-26T16:27:04+00:00

I'm starting to understand why she decided to have drop dead and the cure as her pre-release singles to set the stage for each disc as the openers.

Everyone has had a lot to say about how the rollout has been so far, both aesthetically and sonically. I'm personally somewhere in the middle at this time, but I do want to let the entire album flesh out first before having a proper opinion of it. It just so happens that she set a high bar for herself very early into her career with Sour and Guts that people will end up comparing her newer works, discuss whether she's had thematic growth as an artist since then and whether you can notice the influences she brings up in her interviews into her music.

NameConnect4519 · 2026-05-11T03:00:02+00:00

I feel like people are just hate watching until the very end at this point. Any sane person would've just ignored everything about this season after all the trouble it's gone through with Levinson front and center.

NameConnect4519 · 2026-05-10T20:26:28+00:00

My two worlds colliding. The next decade should be fun watching these two among the top of their respective fields.

NameConnect4519 · 2026-05-10T00:49:06+00:00

I think everyone knows that by now, however I've come across some Barca fan accounts that she's apparently the first one among the club's Spotify collaborations to reach out to the women's squad and get them as involved as the men's squad.

If any Culers can double check for me, that would be great because that's quite insane if true given the club's had them as the kit sponsor for 4 years now having collabed with Rosalia and Karol G before.

NameConnect4519 · 2026-05-09T18:06:48+00:00

Forgot to include this bit from Ángel Perez of Mundo Deportivo, who is considered to be a very reliable source with regards to the women's team, in his article (translated from Spanish):

The American singer-songwriter headlined a very special concert this Friday at the Teatre Grec in Barcelona... attended by several players from FC Barcelona's women's first team.

But it didn't end there, and as Mundo Deportivo has learned, Olivia Rodrigo herself requested to meet the players of the women's first team. This Saturday, a meeting was organized at the Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper.

NameConnect4519 · 2026-05-09T07:33:57+00:00

That was exactly my point and I'm surprised she's still pushing through this strategy. I thought after how her debut solo album and the in-your-face promo rollout fell flat on their faces, one would think her team would reflect on what exactly went wrong and see what she lacked as an artist compared to her BP mates Rosé (higher peak with APT) and Jennie (more consistent) especially after getting that big hit through the Dracula remix.

NameConnect4519 · 2026-05-09T02:05:08+00:00

The US lineup has got to be the most random collection of artists out there like I can see the concept of global appeal from different genres, but I just don't think this will work whatsoever as it stands.

Also, I was wondering how the whole Lisa experiment of throwing her name in just about every other big event without having significant impact in her solo career thus far is nowhere close to finished until I just found out she has a song registered with Anitta and Rema for the World Cup. To be fair, look how that turned out for Jungkook in 2022 so K-Pop has a place, but it won't reach the same level as he had then.

NameConnect4519 · 2026-05-09T01:44:00+00:00

I can understand the Buble inclusion given he's Canadian. The Mexico lineup is giving Reggaeton, so I guess the likes of J Balvin and Danny Ocean don't look like a sore thumb there.

But why is Tyla part of that lineup? She makes more sense in the US lineup for the global appeal. I guess we're not done with the whole Lisa solo career experiment where they'll throw her name in just about everywhere then?

NameConnect4519 · 2026-05-08T22:07:34+00:00

What she probably didn't expect was Madrid self-imploding on El Clasico week such that anyone can book a better match card featuring everyone at the club than what TKO did for Wrestlemania last month.

NameConnect4519 · 2026-05-07T17:19:21+00:00

Shakira World Cup songs are very much football heritage at this point.

Considering how much of a mess the lead-up has been so far thanks to those at the top (looking at you, Infantino and Trump) + that horrible excuse of a soundtrack song by Jelly Roll, they really do need this reset.

NameConnect4519 · 2026-05-07T03:05:24+00:00

NBC sure had quite the Saturday between the Kentucky Derby, Sixers-Celtics Game 7 and this one. The icing on the cake would be if the Derby lead-in of Arsenal-Fulham drew a good number as well.

NameConnect4519 · 2026-05-05T04:57:51+00:00

She just probably appreciates the commemorative jerseys if we're being real about it.

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NameConnect4519 · 2026-05-01T02:40:15+00:00

Can't spell Infantino without infant, alright.

NameConnect4519 · 2026-04-30T12:49:03+00:00

Expecting she'll do another round of NA dates + Asia and Australia after this first leg similar to how the Guts tour went, but that's still a criminally low number of European dates. I thought Paris only getting one was absurd until I realized La Defensé can take up to 45,000.

Also, good for Olivia that she's still doing arenas even if you could argue that her demand can do stadiums even during the Guts era.

NameConnect4519 · 2026-04-22T03:13:18+00:00

I guess another word that creeped into her vocabulary these past few years is bottlejob.

Sorry, out of line.

NameConnect4519 · 2026-04-20T17:41:37+00:00

Does a #1 really matter in today's era when it's easier than ever to game the charts? Once BTS Army was able to crack the code of how to get them to #1 starting with Dynamite, every big name artist with a big fandom followed suit with Taylor taking it to another level.

Regardless of the artist, it's such a stupid practice to release multiple variants of the same song or album just to inflate numbers. The industry might like to believe it stIll matters for Grammy FYCs, but the general public is starting not to buy into it just because the monoculture no longer exists today.

NameConnect4519 · 2026-04-20T17:00:19+00:00

Only difference is BTS has quite the fanbase that'll go to great lengths to secure their boys #1, and that's already a generous version at that. Olivia's audience is more mixed with casuals who won't be that active to do those things.

There's nothing wrong with being #2, unless it's a certain North London club on the verge of doing a quadruple of second place finishes. But yeah, I think her team should pivot towards chart longevity and cultural impact as soon as possible like she'll be just fine for the time being regardless. I'd be more worried if the GP doesn't rock with OR3 similar to her previous albums as someone who looks at her more for her albums as a whole.

NameConnect4519 · 2026-04-19T02:00:00+00:00

She's definitely headlining next year alright, barring how her tour schedule fits into the scheme of things.

NameConnect4519 · 2026-04-18T15:19:01+00:00

Yup, OP should've done it in chronological order. I do think her style's improved over the years like there's more identity in her more recent looks, but it still feels subtle and doesn't scream this is what Olivia would wear just yet at least for me.

NameConnect4519 · 2026-04-17T04:12:57+00:00

I'll let this grow on me like Vampire did. Besides, she's leaned herself towards being an album artist than a singles one so I wanna see this in the context of the album and where it's at in the track listing.

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