To ensure the Awards process remains representative of the current musical landscape, the Trustees have approved the following changes recommend by the Awards & Nominations Committee:
*Best American Roots Song has been added to the American Roots Music Field. A songwriter's award, it will encompass all of the subgenres of the Field (Americana, bluegrass, blues, folk, regional roots music), and puts the Field in line with the Rock, Rap, R&B, Country, and Gospel/CCM Fields, all of which have songwriters' awards.
*The Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance category has been renamed Best Metal Performance and becomes a stand-alone category. Hard Rock singles/tracks will now be screened in the Best Rock Performance category. It was determined that metal has a very distinctive sound, and hard rock more closely aligns with rock and can exist comfortably as one end of the rock spectrum. Additionally, based on the number of metal entries, the category would be able to sustain a healthy competition among true metal acts.
*The Music Video Field will now become Music Video/Film Field, which also resulted in renaming the Best Short Form Music Video category to Best Music Video, and the Best Long Form Music Video category to Best Music Film. Best Music Video is for music videos recognized by the artist and/or the record label as the official video for an individual single or track, released for sale to the public or first appearing on television or online during the current eligibility year, and are synchronous or predominantly synchronous to a commercially released recording. Best Music Film is for concert/performance films or music documentaries released for sale to the public for the first time or first appearing on television or online during the current eligibility year. Music-related documentaries must have 51 percent or more music performance-based material. Also eligible are general release theatrical, non-fictional music-related films with 51 percent or more music performance-based material.
This article gave me hope that Part of Me could be nominated for the Grammy next year due to it having to be on Sale to be nominated, but apparently the POM DVD came out in September.
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Originally posted by americanshameless
Hopefully this will now inspire basics to actually film their videos with the Grammys in mind.
The category has been there for years, why would it suddenly inspire people to work for it now that it has had a minor name change?
No, Best Pop Song would be a songwriter's award (rather than a performer's one), which the Pop field doesn't have. It's probably the biggest genre field (along with Jazz) to not have a songwriter's award.
SN: Isn't it three renamed categories?? Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance was also renamed...
This article gave me hope that Part of Me could be nominated for the Grammy next year due to it having to be on Sale to be nominated, but apparently the POM DVD came out in September.
