9 Ways the Grammys & Latin Grammys Differ: ‘The Two Academies Complement Each Other, Rather Than Mirror Each Other’

Bad Bunny and CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso each person 2 grounds of the twelvemonth nominations astatine this year’s Latin Grammys, adjacent though the creator billing is the aforesaid connected some of their entries.Bad Bunny is nominated with some “Baile Inolvidable” and “DTmF”; CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso with some “El Día Del Amigo” and “#Tetas.”

The Grammys allow “up to 2 (2) nominations per creator provided astatine slightest 1 (1) is with a co-nominee(s).” Beyoncé had 2 grounds of the twelvemonth nominations astatine the Grammys successful 2021, 1 connected her ain and 1 arsenic a featured creator with Megan Thee Stallion. Pharrell Williams had 2 grounds of the twelvemonth nods successful 2014, arsenic a featured creator down 2 antithetic acts – Daft Punk and Robin Thicke.

The Latin Grammys construe that regularisation acold much liberally, considering each the different nominated participants connected the grounds – producers(s), engineer(s), mixer(s), and mastering engineer(s) – arsenic “co-nominees.” If a fixed grounds had different radical serving successful immoderate of those capacities, those radical would beryllium considered co-nominees, allowing the creator to person 2 nominations. An creator could person 2 nominations, but successful the precise uncommon lawsuit wherever the creator was besides the sole producer, engineer, mixer and mastering technologist connected his/her ain record.

This precise wide explanation is caller this year. In each erstwhile lawsuit astatine the Latin Grammys wherever an creator had aggregate grounds of the twelvemonth nominations successful the aforesaid year, the different 1 (or ones) was a collaboration with different artist. The artists progressive were Carlos Vives successful 2014, Maluma successful 2017, Juanes successful some 2017 and 2019, J Balvin successful 2020, and Ricardo Montanerin 2021.

Asked astir this, a Latin Recording Academy spokesperson responded: “This enactment was made by the Latin Academy voting members and is 1 that we enactment successful this voting category.

“Category guidelines are deliberately written to assistance our 2 Academies, and their members, interpret, use consistency, and find the anticipation to germinate the Awards process twelvemonth to year. Much similar euphony itself, sometimes circumstantial class guidelines aren’t black-and-white. While immoderate rules, similar eligibility dates for example, are precise straightforward, others are little so. Our process is taxable to not lone interpretation, but besides to unfastened discussion—the discussions we person with the media companies and members submitting the recordings, the artists themselves, and our members who passionately thrust the full Awards process.”

The crushed this matters is two-fold. These treble nominations for Bad Bunny and CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso cost 2 different artists a grounds of the twelvemonth nomination. And the treble nominations whitethorn good wounded Bunny’s and CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso’s chances of winning grounds of the year, since their votes volition beryllium divided betwixt 2 records.

“This is not a caller policy, is simply an mentation of the existing regularisation for grounds of the year,” the spokesperson said.

Will the Latin Grammys revert to the former, stricter (and much sensible) mentation adjacent year? To beryllium determined.