The Grammy Awards are changing the way they do things.<\/b>
\nThe Grammy Awards have changed their tune and voted to remove its nomination review committees \u2014 groups that determined the contenders for key awards at the coveted music show. The Recording Academy made the announcement Friday after the board of trustees met and approved the change. \u201cIt\u2019s been a year of unprecedented, transformational change for the Recording Academy, and I\u2019m immensely proud to be able to continue our journey of growth with these latest updates to our awards process,\u201d Harvey Mason Jr., the academy\u2019s interim president and CEO, said in a statement Friday. The major change comes months after The Weeknd blasted the Grammys and called them \u201ccorrupt\u201d after he earned zero nominations for the 2021 show despite having the year\u2019s biggest single with \u201cBlinding Lights.\u201d Nominees will now be based purely on votes made by the academy\u2019s 11,000+ voting members. For the Grammys\u2019 top four awards \u2014 album, song and record of the year, along with best new artist \u2014 a nomination review committee of at least 20 music generalists in past years selected the top eight nominees from those voted into the top 20. Now The majority of the 84 Grammy categories were voted by nomination review committees, which were intended to safeguard a specific genre\u2019s integrity and to serve as additional checks and balances. While nominees for some categories like best pop vocal album and best pop solo performance were based purely on votes, a number of genre categories had nomination review committees. Those included the rap, rock, R&B, country, dance\/electronic music, American Roots, Latin, jazz and gospel\/Christian music fields. Nomination review committees for those groups consisted of 13 to 17 voting members who selected five nominees from the top 15. But questions have loomed for years around the nominations process with music industry players calling for more transparency because the selection of finalists happens behind closed doors. Others have claimed that members of key nominating committees promote projects they worked on or projects they favor based on personal relationships.<\/p>\n