The Recording Academy is diversifying and increasing its number of new members. It has now sent more than 3900 people an invitation to join. These are all established music professionals from various backgrounds, genres and disciplines.

The Recording Academy invites close to 4,000 artists to become new members

In a first, The Recording Academy that organises Grammy Awards annually, announced its decision to become the first major music award production to commit to the use of the contract addendums known as inclusion riders.

Recording Academy commits to Grammy Awards inclusion rider

The Weeknd started an online duel with The Recording Academy (Grammys) earlier this week after they reportedly snubbed him at this year’s nominations with not a single nod to him despite the singer belting out some fan hits.

The Weeknd takes a dig at Grammys again, says 'was planning performance for weeks'

Following the footsteps of The Academy, The Recording Academy aka The Grammys have now changed the name of a popular category award. Showing more cultural sensitivity, they have changed the name of its Best World Music Album to Best Global Music Album.

Here's why The Grammys have changed the name of Best World Music Album category to Global Music Album