Lateral progress, rap, and the 2025 Grammy nominations

thefader.com:

Last month, the Grammys announced their annual awards show would move from longtime host CBS to ABC and Hulu starting in 2027.

The 10-year deal is a retrenchment of Music’s Biggest Night™ following a pandemic ratings nadir, although viewership of just 9.2 million in 2021 had recovered to a healthy 16.9 million by this February.

Three years into the tenure of CEO Harvey Mason Jr., the Recording Academy has made a public effort to expand and diversify the ranks of the Grammys electorate, taking steps to recertify veteran voters and reorganize overly fractured voting categories.

The end result is a voting body with more women and people of color than ever before, even if the Recording Academy remains 62% male and 64% over the age of 40.