It looks like Taylor Swift had another opportunity to add to his trophy collection.
The 31-year-old pop star country singer will be eligible for Grammy nominations on her upcoming re-recorded albums, a Recording Academy spokesman told Billboard recently.
Swift promised to create new versions of his first albums after superstar entrepreneur Scooter Braun bought and sold his master recordings.
Hopeful at the prize: Taylor Swift, 31, may be eligible to win a Grammy with her newly re-recorded albums, Billboard reported last week; Swift seen in 2019 in Las Vegas
According to a Recording Academy spokesman: ‘The current eligibility guidelines would allow new performances and albums to be eligible if they had been recorded in the past five years.’
However, they added that ‘None of the older songs would be eligible for songwriting awards’.
Although Swift’s 2006 self-titled album was a success, reaching number 5 on the Billboard 200 album chart, she began her re-recording sequence with her second album, Fearless.
Last week, she released a new version of her single Love Story, renamed Love Story (Taylor Version), which remains close to the original recording and still features many of the original studio musicians and touring band members.
It is possible: A spokesperson for the Recording Academy said: ‘Current eligibility guidelines would allow new performances and albums to be eligible if they had been recorded in the past five years’; Swift seen on the cover of her Love Story re-recording
New candidates: the singer’s old songs could not be nominated for songwriting awards, but the six bonus tracks she promised could be eligible if they were not released; seen in 2019 in LA
In addition to the new versions of the album’s original tracks, Swift said he is including six unreleased bonus tracks that were never included in the original release.
According to the Recording Academy, these songs will also be eligible for awards and may even qualify for songwriting honors, as long as they have never been officially released elsewhere.
It is unclear whether the Shake It Off singer will release more singles in the coming weeks, but fans will have to wait until April 9 to hear the full version of their re-recorded Fearless album.
Although she did not list a release date in her initial project announcement, eagle-eyed Swifties noticed that some uppercase letters randomly seemed to spell ‘APRIL NINTH’, and a representative later confirmed that the album was coming up on April 9th.
Tricky: Swift will release Fearless (Taylor’s Version) on April 9, after sending an encoded message in her ad; seen in 2019 in New Jersey
Fearless was a Grammy hit, where he won four awards, including the prestigious Album of the Year trophy.
Although Taylor retained the publishing rights for her songs and earns money every time someone broadcasts them or buys a download or CD of the songs, she did not own the original recordings, which were maintained by her Big Machine label.
In 2019, she signed a new contract with Universal Music Group giving her the rights to all future masters, which would include her surprise albums Folklore and Evermore, as well as 2019’s Lover.
However, she has no control over her massively popular albums Red and 1989, which signaled her move to pop music and away from country stardom.
Out of your hands: superstar entrepreneur Scooter Braun 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 contract in 2019, Braun bought his old Big Machine label in a $ 300 million deal that had the bonus of giving him the master for his first six albums.
The singer complained that the purchase ‘took my work out of my life’ by ‘the hands of someone who tried to take it apart’, probably referring to Braun’s work with Swift’s longtime enemy, Kanye West.
She claimed that she approached the record company about buying her masters, but she was rejected, as Big Machine was supposed to only give her rights to her masters if she agreed to record more albums for the record company.
Even so, she would have only regained the rights to one album at a time for each new album she produced.
Taylor’s new version of Fearless will not be eligible for any awards at the Grammy Awards ceremony in March, but it may be under consideration for the 2022 ceremony.
Next year: Taylor’s new version of Fearless will not be eligible for any awards at the Grammy Awards ceremony in March, but it may be under consideration for the 2022 ceremony