For Lady Gaga Grammy rules change

Lady Gaga continues her global takeover with the news that her exclusion from the Best New Artist Category in last year’s Grammy’s based on a technicality is now rendered invalid, since the Recording Academy has changed its rules in response, RTT News reports. As of last year, anyone already nominated in another Grammy category (Gaga’s first single “Just Dance” was nominated for Best Dance Recording in 2008) was disqualified from the Best New Artist category. Now, only artists who have already won a Grammy or released mutiple albums are exempt from the category, with a spokesperson for the Academy explaining, “More and more, the first release of a new artist is as a featured artist on someone else’s album, or the new artist may release a single long before the release of the first album.”