Grammy Burning Questions: Where Justin Bieber, BTS, Drake, Kacey Musgraves and Others Landed on First Ballot
Chris Willman Music WriterTheoretically, the first Grammys ballot that comes out early in the voting process shouldn’t be so full of surprises. Nearly everything that gets submitted that meets basic eligibility requires makes it onto the initial ballot, as the huge number of contenders listed for record of the year (1,172 hopefuls, this time) and song of the year (1,163) would indicate.But which categories the submissions will end up in can involve suspense and even shocks — hence the triplicate controversies over Kacey Musgraves, Bo Burnham and Brandi Carlile being shuffled into categories different from the ones they intended to compete in.