Grammy Awards

The topic of this blog is as we all know music, so therefore it is some sort of sense in writing about the price all musicians want to achieve, or should want to achieve cause its super awesome, or I dunno, but anyways..I'm talking about The Grammy Awards, which originally was called The Gramophone Awards, but I guess that sounded too "not-cool" so they had to change it to something more soundable and maybe abit more modernized.

The nomination begins with induviduals or record companies who has to send in a copy to the Nation Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, where 150 experts will review.

There are four main prices to be awarded:
Album of the year
Song of the year
Record of the year
Best new artist

Other awards are given for performance and production in specific genres, as well as for other contributions such as artwork and video. Special awards are also given out for more long-lasting contributions to the music industry.

The awards has gotten some criticism. The lead-singer of the band Tool did not meet up for one of their awards and he said this: "I think the Grammys are nothing more than some gigantic promotional machine for the music industry. They cater to a low intellect and they feed the masses. They don't honor the arts or the artist for what he created. It's the music business celebrating itself. That's basically what it's all about."

The top leaders of most Grammys won:
#1 Georg Solti with 31 awards!
#2 Quincy Jones with 27
and
#3 Alsion Krauss with 26
And the leaders of bands is U2 with 22 awards.


The trophy shows a gramophone which is from where the first name originates (doh!).