I take a look at the artists who are nominated for Best New Artist at the 2019 Grammy Awards. Jorja Smith, H.E.R., Luke Combs and Dua Lipa feature.
It’s that time of the year agin when I look back on the songs that made my year. Appearances from the usual suspects Drake, Florence and the Machine and Lady Gaga sit side by side with some brand new artists like Maggie Rogers and Cardi B.
I have managed to post just one of these Definitive Ranking articles in each of the last 4 years, at least I’m consistently slow! In a bid to bring this type of article back to life I’m looking at one of Pop music’s most well known, most divisive and most successful recording artists. Taylor Swift …
The final of the big 4 categories, Album of the Year contains some of the best music of the last 12 months, as well as a Post Malone album. Who deserves to win? Continue reading
The categories that seemed to ‘benefit’ the least from the expansions of nominees from 5 to 8 this year, Record of the Year and Song of the Year remain, for the most part, quite predictable. All but one of the nominees were top 10 hits on the Hot 100, but there were still a few … Continue reading
Another year gone, another list of albums that I loved. The likes of Christine and the Queens, Robyn, Years & Years and Kacey Musgraves feature in the list. Continue reading
There’s less than a month to go until the nominations for the 2019 Grammys are revealed and I have just one more of the general field categories to cover. While the expansion of nominees to 8 means a lot for the likes of Best New Artist, for Album of the Year it could mean even … Continue reading
Side by side with Record of the Year as always, the expansion of the Song of the Year category could mean big things for some outsiders here. There’s plenty of artists and writers vying for their first nomination in the big 4 categories here, with no clear winner making this one of the most interesting … Continue reading
Probably the Grammy category most closely associated with the Billboard Hot 100 chart; there have only been a handful of nominees and even fewer winners to fail to make the higher echelons of the chart. You’d think this might make predicting potential nominees easier, but with 8 songs now set to make the cut the … Continue reading
A year ago I said ‘If The Weight of These Wings doesn’t win Best Country Album in February, I will absolutely baffled’. I’m still baffled that Miranda Lambert’s masterpiece and one of the best country albums of the decade missed out on even a nomination last year, and so my predictions this year have been thrown out … Continue reading
