Babel opened with 600k and was one of the biggest albums of that year and M&S had general field bids two years in a row (BNA in '11 and ROTY & SOTY in '12); that's why voters didn't care or know about their ratings.
Wait.. Barbra has been nominated 9 times for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album but she didn't win any of those noms. Also, she lost to Tony 5 times in the category.
Wait.. Barbra has been nominated 9 times for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album but she didn't win any of those noms. Also, she lost to Tony 5 times in the category.
Tony Bennett could sing standards in his sleep. Luckily, his umpteenth run through the Great American Songbook — this one a PR coup with Lady Gaga — never lapses into the lazy or the rote. Both singers sound stoked by each other’s presence.
but if the category is Traditional Pop then... 
