Grammy Burning Questions: Where Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Nicki Minaj, Steve Lacy, Zach Bryan, Ye and Others Landed on First Ballot
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Guess how many submissions Taylor Swift has on the preliminary Grammy ballot?
If you know her all too well, you can probably intuit the answer to that one even before we tell you? It’s 13… of course. But there are many other burning questions about the ballot that has gone out to Recording Academy members where the answers are not so easily guessed, and we’re here to clear up some of those mysteries.
The annual intrigue often centers on which categories certain genre-straddling artists ended up submitting their material in… or where that material got shifted sometimes against the artists’ wishes, as we’ve seen already this year with Nicki Minaj very vocally objecting to having “Super Freaky Girl” moved from a rap category to pop.
Is Swift herself back to being a country girl, as far as Grammy submissions are concerned, after years as a pop superstar? What genre, or genres, is Beyoncé’s primary wheelhouse this time around?
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