New York (CNN Business) – It is official: The Weeknd boycotts the Grammys, dijo el cantante in The New York Times.
The pop star star who has not presented any songs for the most prestigious annual premium entry of the music industry has been nominated for not being nominated for a single gala by his late blinding «Blinding Lights», who has spent 52 weeks at the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100.
The notice will be issued when the Grammy-based organization submits a statement on its secret ballot system and superstitions against black and female artists. The 63rd edition of the annual event will transmit this domingo.
CNN contacted The Weeknd in a comment box.
The cantonment is particularly concerned about the lack of transparency in the voting process of the most codified premiums. The nominations are from members of the Recording Academy, an organization with fines from the famous conede in Santa Mónica, California, whose membership is composed of artists, producers and executives from industry and other members.
As of 1995, the most coveted Grammy Awards, including Major New Artist, Disco of the Year, Song of the Year and Album of the Year, were elected by a secret committee of members of the academy, apart from Billboard.
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The committee’s process was originally carried out to ensure that the final nominations were more progressive and “musically adventurous”, Billboard said. Throughout the process, he has been criticized in recent years for answering that black artists such as The Weeknd and Kendrick Lamar have repeatedly appeared in the Grammy Awards’ “Big Four” categories.
Only four black artists have won the Grammy Awards in the last few years. The last black artist to win the award at the 2008 album The Herbie Hancock pianist.
A study by the USC Inclusion Initiative Annenberg presented the March found that black artists representing around 38% of all artists in the Billboard Hot 100 from 2012 to 2020, but only receiving around 27% of the Grammy nominees ese lapso. Only 24% of the Grammy nominees for this year are black.
Watch a Beyoncé, it’s not one of Grammy’s premieres, between them the Grabación del año of ‘Savage’, together with the rapper Megan Thee Stallion, and the Canción del año by ‘Black Parade’, on the map of amor sonor to the African diaspora.
When The New York Times asked how the boycott was carried out, The Weeknd said: “By secret committees.”
“Blinding Lights” is one of the five songs No. 1 of Billboard who did not receive a Grammy nomination in the last 30 years, according to the Associated Press. The album in which the song, “After Hours”, appeared, was also released.
The star of the pop pop scene in Toronto, whose real name is Abel Tesfaye, is not the only artist to criticize the entry of the most prestigious awards of the music industry before its annual transmission number 63 is domingo.
British singer and songwriter Zayn Malik has made a slight disapproval of improvisations against the Grammys, accusing him of showing off his favorite teners after the negative nomination for “Niemand luister nie”, sucer album die studio.
“Que j **** los Grammy y todos sus associates”, writes Malik. “Less than the amount and manuscripts, no nomination considerations have been made. He just sent them a canvas of dulces ».
Malik says that all of it is not personal, that it is “due to the need for inclusion and the lack of transparency in the nomination process and the space it creates and that allows favoritism, racism and influential speech policies in the voting process ».