Astoundingly, the whole Okay-pop style bought the chilly shoulder on the 2024 Grammy Awards — who else is getting snubbed?
The checklist of nominations for the 2024 Grammy Awards was surprisingly missing in any Okay-pop act — regardless of one other banner 12 months for profession highs for artists out of Seoul. Followers of the style are removed from shocked, however that doesn’t cease them from being upset, notably with the range on show within the music submitted for consideration. Even the solo work of BTS — the one Okay-pop act to have ever secured a Grammy nom — has gone missed.
Okay-pop acts in over 40 classes have been submitted for consideration, akin to music from Seventeen, Stray Youngsters, Tomorrow X Collectively, Fifty Fifty, and every of the seven members of BTS — together with Jungkook’s “Seven” and Jimin’s “Like Loopy.” However there have been a number of different shocking snubs within the checklist of nominations exterior of Okay-pop, and lots of of them in nation music.
Morgan Wallen and Luke Combs are two of the most important names in nation music, however the style stays largely unrepresented within the Grammy nominations. Outdoors of Wallen’s hit “Final Night time,” which is up for Finest Nation Track — an award given to the songwriters, which Wallen isn’t — he acquired zero nods, regardless of a success Billboard chart-topping album.
Combs’ cowl of Tracy Chapman’s “Quick Automobile” is nominated for Finest Nation Solo Efficiency — the one nod for a track that simply gained Single of the 12 months on the CMAs on November 8. Even Lainey Wilson’s phenomenal CMA wins solely noticed her with a single nom on the 2024 Grammy Awards.
Pink, whose profession spans over 20 years, acquired zero nominations for a Grammy this 12 months, regardless of her hit monitor “Trustfall” from the album of the identical identify proving her continued endurance in pop music mainstream. Equally, Sam Smith’s fourth studio album, the soulful dancehall-disco providing “Gloria,” was shut out of any 2024 nominations, regardless of Smith’s 5 prior Grammy wins.
DJ and producer Metro Boomin is up for Producer of the 12 months — a prestigious award, to make certain. However his work with artists like 21 Savage, Travis Scott, Drake, John Legend, Chris Brown, Gunna, and The Weeknd over the previous 12 months (and on his album “Heroes & Villains”) led many to imagine he would have acquired greater than only a single nomination.
Even Drake, an artist who usually dominates the Grammy scene, solely wound up with 4 nominations. That appears odd, contemplating the success of his 21 Savage collaboration “Her Loss.” However having withdrawn his identify from Grammy consideration in 2022, and opting to not submit his album “Actually, Nevermind” in 2023, the Recording Academy might need been much less impressed to appoint him for extra classes.
That mentioned, it’s arduous to be too upset about 4 nominations, particularly ones as spectacular as Finest Melodic Rap Efficiency, Finest Rap Efficiency, Finest Rap Track, and Finest Rap Album. It’s simply considerably fewer than we’re used to seeing for Drake, who’s used to boasting over 5; his file for Grammy nominations in a single ceremony is eight.