Not a single one of the album’s singles managed to hit the Billboard 100 either. It received a non-embarrassing but not particularly notable average score of 73 from review aggregator Metacritic. The album, however, was released all the way back in November 2019 (making it eligible, though you would have thought voters forgot it). Half of the choices here are complete head-scratchers.Ĭoldplay’s “Everyday Life” might be the safest of the “…what?” nominations, if only because the band is well-established and known. This isn’t a choice you make to go down in the history books as a quality album of note, but it does make sense in recognizing work that is undeniably popular. Despite critics making sport out of trashing him early in his career, his album “Hollywood’s Bleeding” managed to wear them down and glided its ways to respectable (albeit not sterling) reviews. Post Malone originally arrived on the music scene with all the gravitas of Uncle Kracker or Bubba Sparxxx, but he’s managed to spawn a string of singles that go down easy on radio stations. The nomination wasn’t a guarantee, but not a shock, either. The band has healthy popularity in urban coastal areas, and this album is the best reviewed of their career.
III” was not considered a lock for a nomination, unlike Lipa and Swift, but it was still very much in the discussion. The Albums That Weren’t Guarantees, But Not Shocks
Again, this was widely expected and well deserved. While Dua Lipa’s popularity in America lags behind her profile in her native England, she’s still a widely known up-and-coming pop artist whose “Future Nostalgia” was hailed by critics as the best mainstream pop album of the year (sorry, Gaga). It was widely considered a lock for a nomination, if not the actual win. Taylor Swift’s “Folklore” was welcomed as a career high by most critics, and spent eight weeks at the apex of the Billboard 200. III,” Haim“Future Nostalgia,” Dua Lipa“Hollywood’s Bleeding,” Post Malone“Folklore,” Taylor Swift The Albums That Actually Deserved Nominations “Chilombo,” Jhené Aiko“Black Pumas (Deluxe Edition),” Black Pumas“Everyday Life,” Coldplay“Djesse Vol. It’s truly astonishing, even for the Grammys.
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To somehow snub Fiona Apple, Bob Dylan, Lady Gaga, and The Weeknd in one fell swoop? We’re not even sure a room full of chimpanzees picking up CDs at random and throwing them into a box labeled “nominations” could manage that. What is astonishing, however, is just how incredibly and quite bizarrely wrong the Grammy nominations are for the ceremony’s single biggest award: Album of the Year. It’s not a surprise nor particularly unusual for the Recording Academy. This year’s freshly released batch of nominations are no different, and there’s lots to quibble and critique across the board. The Grammys always makes nomination choices using some unholy alchemy of popularity, sales, potential ratings, and, occasionally, actual critical acclaim-and yet, regularly, their choices tend to have little relation to any of those criteria.
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