Give Chance The Rapper a Grammy! Recording Academy Welcomes Streaming Projects
"I hear you gotta sell it to snatch the GRAMMY." So spat Chance the Rapper on Kanye West's The Life of Pablo opener "Ultralight Beam," lamenting the ineligibility of his then-TBD third mixtape. Sure enough, Chance stuck to his I-don't-ever-sell-music guns and dropped the incredible Coloring Book as a streaming-only project, first on Apple Music, then everywhere else.
And now he might snatch the GRAMMY without having ever sold it. The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences—a.k.a. the Recording Academy, a.k.a. the GRAMMYs people—announced on Thursday that commercially unavailable projects that only exist in streaming form can now be nominated. The rule has been backdated to Oct. 1, 2015.
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