Looks like Taylor Swift may have gotten another chance to add to her trophy collection.
The 31-year-old country singer-pop star will be eligible for Grammy Awards on her upcoming re-recorded albums, a spokeswoman for the Recording Academy recently told Billboard.
Swift promised to create new versions of her early albums after superstar manager Scooter Braun bought her master recordings and then sold them.
Hope Awards: Taylor Swift, 31, could qualify for the Grammys with her newly recorded albums, Billboard reported last week; Swift was spotted in Las Vegas in 2019
According to a spokesperson for the Recording Academy: “Current fitness guidelines will allow the new performances and albums to be eligible if they have been recorded within the past five years.”
However, they added that “none of the older songs would be eligible for songwriting awards.”
Although Swift’s self-titled debut album from 2006 was a hit and peaked at number 5 on the Billboard 200 album chart, she began her series of recordings with her second album, Fearless.
Last week, she released a new version of her single Love Story, called Love Story (Taylor’s Version). It sticks a lot to the original recording and even contains many of the original studio musicians and tour members.
This is possible: A spokesman for the Recording Academy said: ‘Current admission guidelines will allow new performances and albums to be eligible if recorded within the last five years’; Swift seen on the cover of her Love Story recording
New contenders: The singer’s old songs could not be nominated for songwriting awards, but the six bonus tracks she promised may be eligible if not released; seen in 2019 in LA
In addition to the new versions of the original album tracks, Swift said she includes six unreleased bonus tracks that were never included with the original version.
According to the Recording Academy, the songs will also be eligible for awards and may qualify for honors for songwriting, as long as they have never been officially released elsewhere.
It is unclear whether the Shake It Off singer will hand out more singles in the coming weeks, but fans will have to wait until April 9 to listen to the full version of her chosen Fearless album.
Although she did not mention an issue date in her initial announcement of the project, Swifties noted with angry eyes that some letters written randomly in capital letters apparently spelled ‘APRIL NINTH’, and a representative later confirmed that the album arrives on April 9th. .
Tricky: Swift releases Fearless (Taylor’s Version) on April 9 after sending a coded message in her announcement post; seen in 2019 in New Jersey
Fearless was a hit at the Grammys, where he won four awards, including the coveted Album of the Year trophy.
Although Taylor retains the publishing rights to her songs and earns money every time someone streams them or buys a download or a CD from the compositions, she did not own the actual master recordings held by her record label Big Machine.
In 2019, she signed a new agreement with Universal Music Group giving her the rights to all future masters, which will include her surprise albums Folklore and Evermore, as well as Lover of 2019.
However, she did not have control over her very popular albums Red and 1989, which indicated that she was moving to pop music and away from country stars.
Out of her hands: Superstar manager Scooter Braun bought Taylor’s master recordings for her first six albums in 2019, including her hugely successful albums Red and 1989.
Shortly after signing her new deal in 2019, Braun bought her old Big Machine label in a $ 300 million deal that had the bonus of giving him the masters on her first six albums.
The singer complained that the purchase deprived me ‘of my life’s work’ by ‘someone trying to dismantle it’, presumably with reference to Braun’s work with Swift’s longtime nemesis Kanye West.
She claims that she approached the label about buying her masters, but she was rejected, as Big Machine apparently would only give her the rights to her masters if she agreed to record more albums for the label.
Even then, she would only get the rights to one album at a time for each new album she would produce.
Taylor’s new version of Fearless is not eligible for awards at the Grammy Awards in March, but she could be considered for the 2022 ceremony.
Next year: Taylor’s new version of Fearless is not eligible for awards at the Grammy Awards in March, but she could be considered for the 2022 ceremony