Billboard: Will Sabrina Carpenter Be Eligible to Compete for Best New Artist at the 2025 Grammys?
Will Sabrina Carpenter Be Eligible to Compete for Best New Artist at the 2025 Grammys? https://t.co/q1aa4R6OBp
- billboard (@billboard) June 25, 2024
Today, Billboard posted an article discussing if Sabrina Carpenter would be eligible for Best New Artist for the 2025 Grammys, this despite having already released 5 albums (6 by the time the 2025 Grammys air). They also mention how she has a chance of being nominated for Album, Record and Song of the Year.
How, you might ask, can an artist be nominated for best new artist when they’re on their sixth album? The Recording Academy bases eligibility on when an artist “achieved a breakthrough into the public consciousness,” not on the number of releases they have had.
“While there will be no specified maximum number of releases, the Screening Committee will be charged with determining whether the artist had attained a breakthrough or prominence prior to the eligibility year. Such a determination would result in disqualification,” read the rules and guidelines for the upcoming 67th Grammy Awards.
Billboard continues and points out that, "The eligibility year for the upcoming Grammys began on Sept. 16, 2023. At that point, Carpenter had reached the Billboard Hot 100 with two singles - 'Skin,' which debuted and peaked at No. 48 in February 2021, and 'Nonsense,' which peaked at No. 56 in February 2023."
"Carpenter had cracked the Billboard 200 with five albums or EPs, three of which made the top half of the chart - Eyes Wide Open, which debuted and peaked at No. 43 in May 2015; Evolution, which debuted and peaked at No. 28 in November 2016; and Emails I Can’t Send, which debuted and peaked at No. 23 in July 2022. None of these titles had been certified gold by the RIAA by Sept. 16, 2023. Emails went gold on March 1, 2024, amid her current breakthrough," says the source.
They also point out that Carpenter has never been nominated before, something that automatically disqualifies an artist. They also bring up Tate McRae, and say she has already been submitted for Best New Artist three times (the last three years), so McRae is no longer eligible. However, Carpenter has been been submitted twice (2017 and 2024), so she does not violate the 3 times rule.
"It will be up to the aforementioned Screening Committee to weigh all these factors and decide if Carpenter should be allowed to compete for best new artist," Billboard added.
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