Best New Artist is an interesting category for the Grammy's. This is the category people expect the artist to be a force to deal with in the Grammy's for years to come. Well, the only problem is that in most cases some Best New Artists have never won or nominated another award after winning this. Recently, this has changed but when you look at some of the artists in years pass who didn't win and are some of the biggest names in the industry, it's interesting who comes out winning this category.

For instance, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis beat out Kendrick Lamar, Ed Sheeran, and Kacey Musgraves in 2014. They had a big record with The Heist but that's a tough choice between those four, especially due to the latter three having so much success the past two years. One that is crazy is in 2011 Espranza Spalding (jazz musician and the first one to win this award) beat out Drake, Florence and the Machine, Mumford and Sons, and Justin Bieber. That group is filled with the biggest names in music and sadly I have never heard of Espranza Spalding, but I bet she is great, I just can't imagine the Grammy's overlooking the other nominees and thinking they won't be as good.

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Meghan Trainor has stiff competition from Tori Kelly(my personal choice to win the award) and Sam Hunt.  Many people were going with either of these two due to their constant success where Meghan Trainor had her bigger hits at the tail end of 2014 and the beginning of 2015.  Not to say she is awful or doesn't deserve the award, I am just saying she is not as popular now as she was six months ago.  Then again, who knows she might come out with an album that wins tons of awards in the next couple years.

 

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