In these times, when most music lovers prefer to build their musical selection lowering their favorite songs from any digital platform, and when the music industry is gradually showing a dramatic decline; Recording Academy decided to award only by streaming songs released.
The news was confirmed to the media by the senior vice president of the awards, Bill Freimuth; who also announced that this category will enjoy the award from the Grammys in 2017, specifically on February 12 in Los Angeles.
This news was received with great pleasure, because for independent producers and musicians, is increasingly uphill realize a project recording and production of a recording material to carry these awards. Now, just released recordings by streaming, and both are located on platforms like Spotify subscription, Apple Music and Tidal may have Grammy nominations.
"We realized that there are a number of important artists who chose, for philosophical reasons or otherwise, to launch its music only by streaming and did not want to exclude them," said Freimuth, adding that "the effort is to protect the integrity of the Grammy and sometimes this means creating some rules, sometimes this means ease some rules, sometimes involves reducing a category, add a category other this is to better reflect the current state of music in this country. "; He culminated referring to the United States. Hopefully the Latin Grammys also incorporate this modality.
