Lana Del Rey & Phoebe Bridgers Competing Against Themselves at Grammys – Billboard

Along with being Grammy-nominated for album of the 12 months for her personal album Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Underneath Ocean Blvd, Lana Del Rey is featured on two albums which can be competing together with her album in that class – Taylor Swift’s Midnights and Jon Batiste’s World Music Radio.

Likewise, along with being nominated for his personal album World Music Radio, Batiste is featured on Del Rey’s album. And along with being nominated as a member of boygenius for the file, Phoebe Bridgers is featured on SZA’s SOS.

In all however just a few years since 2006, this may have meant that Del Rey, Batiste and Bridgers would have a number of album of the 12 months nods this 12 months. However this 12 months, the Recording Academy added a baseline for receiving an album of the 12 months nomination. Contributors should contribute to twenty% of an album’s enjoying time. This is applicable to featured artists in addition to songwriters, producers, engineers, mixers and mastering engineers.

Six of this 12 months’s eight album of the 12 months nominees have featured artists, however not one of the featured artists met that 20% requirement. So, these featured artists gained’t be in line to win a Grammy even when the album wins, however they’ll get a certificates and may get a shout-out within the winner’s acceptance speech.

(Nigerian musician Sean Kuti, the youngest son of Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti, is featured on two of the 14 tracks on Janelle Monáe’s The Age of Pleasure, however that didn’t fairly meet the usual.)

This 12 months’s two different two album of the 12 months nominees – boygenius’ The File and Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts – had no featured artists.

Right here’s how the Grammy guidelines on this class have modified through the years. From 2006-16, all credited featured artists on the successful album gained Grammys. From 2017-20, the baseline requirement was 33% of an album’s enjoying time, which some thought was too restrictive. From 2021-22, all featured artists have been once more eligible to win. This 12 months, a baseline was re-added, however one which was extra liberal than the earlier one – 20%.

Through the years when there was no baseline requirement, the featured artists on Herbie Hancock’s River: The Joni Letters, Swift’s Fearless, Daft Punk’s Random Entry Reminiscences and Batiste’s We Are all gained Grammys.

Listed below are the featured artists on this 12 months’s six album of the 12 months nominees that had featured artists.