Looks like Taylor Swift may have gotten another chance to add to her trophy collection.
The 31-year-old pop star-turned-country singer will be eligible for Grammy Award nominations on her next re-recorded albums, a recording Academy spokesman recently told Billboard.
Swift has committed to creating new versions of his first albums after Scooter Braun, superstar manager, bought and then sold his master recordings.
Awards await: 31-year-old Taylor Swift could choose to win a Grammy with her newly recorded albums, Billboard reported last week; Swift seen in 2019 in Las Vegas
According to a spokesman for the Recording Academy: “Current eligibility guidelines would allow new performances and albums to be eligible if they were recorded in the last five years.”
However, they added that “None of the older songs would be eligible to receive composition awards.”
While Swift’s 2006 debut album was a hit, reaching number 5 on the Billboard 200 album chart, he began his recording series again with his second album, Fearless.
Last week he released a new version of his single Love Story, renamed Love Story (Taylor’s Version), which adheres heavily to the original recording and even features many of the original studio musicians and members of the touring band.
It is possible: a spokesman for the Recording Academy said, “Current eligibility guidelines would allow new performances and albums to be eligible if they were recorded in the last five years”; Swift seen on the cover of his recording of the love story
New nominees: the singer’s old songs could not be nominated for composition awards, but the six tracks she promised could be eligible if they were not published; seen in 2019 in Los Angeles
In addition to the new versions of the original tracks on the album, Swift has said that it includes six extra unreleased tracks that were never included in the original release.
According to the Recording Academy, these songs will also be eligible for awards and could even be eligible for composition honors, as long as they were never officially released anywhere else.
It’s unclear whether the Shake It Off singer will deliver more singles in the coming weeks, but fans will have to wait until April 9 to hear the full version of her newly recorded Fearless album.
Although it did not include a release date in its initial announcement of the project, Eagle-eyed Swifties noticed that some random capital letters appeared to spell “NOVEMBER APRIL” and a representative later confirmed that the album would arrive on April 9th. .
Tricky: Swift will release Fearless (Taylor’s version) on April 9 after sending an encrypted message to her ad message; seen in 2019 in New Jersey
Fearless was a Grammy hit, winning four awards, including the prestigious Album of the Year trophy.
Although Taylor has retained the publishing rights to his songs and earns money every time someone streams them or buys a download or CD of the compositions, he did not have the actual master recordings that had his Big Machine record label.
In 2019, he signed a new deal with Universal Music Group that gave him the rights of all future masters, which would include his surprise albums Folklore and Evermore, as well as 2019 Lover.
However, he has no control over his popular albums, Red and 1989, which indicated his passage through pop music and away from the country star.
From his hands: Scooter Braun, superstar manager, bought Taylor’s master recordings for his first six albums in 2019, including his hugely successful albums Red and 1989
Shortly after signing his new deal in 2019, Braun bought his old Big Machine label on a $ 300 million deal that had the benefit of giving the masters their first six albums.
The singer complained that the purchase “stripped me of the work of my life” at the hands “of someone who tried to dismantle it,” allegedly referring to Braun’s work with Kanye West, the longtime enemy. of Swift.
He claimed that he had approached the record label to buy his masters, but had been turned down, as supposedly Big Machine would only give him the rights of his masters if he agreed to record more albums for the label.
Even then, he would only have regained the rights to one album at a time for each new album he would produce.
Taylor’s new version of Fearless won’t be eligible for any awards at the March Grammy Awards ceremony, but it could be in consideration for the 2022 ceremony.
Next year: Taylor’s new version of Fearless won’t be eligible for any awards at the Grammy Awards in March, but could be considered for the 2022 ceremony