Music’s most prestigious awards, The Grammy Awards has made known its intention to start considering Souncloud projects eligible for the awards.
The move was championed by Chance The Rapper and will come into effect in 2018. The rapper had earlier criticized The Recording Academy (organizers of the Grammy Awards) for only acknowledging commercially sold records for nominations, when the purpose of the awards is to reward quality music being released.
The Souncloud is being used more by artistes and it didn’t make sense for them to be singled out of recognition for their work.
The decision of the Recording Academy reads:
Any album released physically, via downloads or streams will be eligible, the music must be streamed on a service that hosts multiple artists, has existed for at least a year and has paid subscription, and of course the music must be original (not infringing on another work’s copyright).