But,Beyonce has the popularity and acclaim,so idg your point.

And now he'll get a huge boost thanks to Grammys and will sell million and million. King B

Making it even more impressive.

I think ATRL users think that music industry = mainstream or ~80 percent of music industry is pop segment. It is not true. Look at Nielsen Music year-end report:


Rock music is the biggest genre in overall. Look at album sales - 1/3 of albums sold were rock albums! Of course we are not sure how many "rock members" can vote in general fields but I'm pretty sure it's higher than 20%. Paul Grein in yahoo! and Hits articles wrote that pop votes might be divided between Beyonce, Sam and Ed. He was right.

Conclusion: I know we love pop music but pop music is not everything!

Edit: And yes, I am pretty sure that there are people in Academy who don't know who's Ariana.

y'all butthurt as ****kkkkkkkkkkk

gz to beck! the album is 10000X better than beyonce.

Get it 1989!

The not-so-subtle shade and bias. Billboard is a joke

It's wrong that he won, imo. I think both sales and quality should be taken into consideration, given that it represents the album of the year. If it was given on quality, the category should be named 'Best Album'.