The Fugees Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean and Pras Michel have cancelled their much-awaited reunion tour celebrating the 25th anniversary of the release of their 1996 blockbuster album The Score .
We can probably expect fewer shockeroos both in terms of omitting records that met all the usual criteria and still weren’t nominated and including records that had barely registered.
This past year, The Weeknd’s failure to receive a single nomination made the most headlines, but nearly as surprising was Harry Styles’ failure to land a nomination in any of the Big Three categories: album, record and song of the year.
For most of Grammy history, The Weeknd and Styles would have been automatic Grammy nominees in the top categories not just because they had huge commercial success, but also because they made great records that represented a meaningful advance in their careers. They did everything right, and still didn’t get nominated (in the top categories, in Styles’ case).