Addison Rae and Grupo Firme among 3,600 invited to join Recording Academy

Thanks to breakout singles similar “Diet Pepsi” and to praise from the likes of Charli XCX and Lana Del Rey, Addison Rae is considered by galore prognosticators to beryllium successful the premix for a champion caller creator information astatine adjacent year’s 68th Grammy Awards.

Now the 24-year-old vocalist could assistance find the results of the ceremonial arsenic well.

The Recording Academy connected Wednesday said that it’s invited astir 3,600 euphony professionals to go members of the enactment down music’s astir prestigious awards ceremonial — among them the erstwhile TikTok prima who’s go a large popular beingness successful the past 12 months oregon so.

In summation to Rae, the academy extended invites to the rapper Joey Badass, the vocalist Mariah the Scientist, the comedian Nikki Glaser and the members of the K-pop-style miss radical Katseye and the determination Mexican euphony set Grupo Firme.

In a statement, Rae called the invitation “a immense honor” and said she’s “so fortunate to beryllium surrounded by endowment and poise that inspires maine to make fearlessly.” Added Glaser: “This is the top happening the Grammys person fixed maine since the fractional of Benson Boone’s tuxedo I kept” aft February’s show.

Of the 3,600 caller invitees, astir 2,600 (including the aforementioned artists) are being offered voting rank successful the academy. The radical presently has astir 13,000 members who ballot connected the Grammys; past year, Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. told The Times that successful summation to adding caller members — portion of a broader effort to diversify an electorate agelong criticized for being excessively old, excessively antheral and excessively achromatic — the radical was shedding voters that nary longer met the organization’s qualifications for membership.

As an example, Mason described “voters that possibly had a deed grounds oregon a opus published successful the ’70s oregon ’80s and conscionable kept voting.” His goal, helium added, was a voting assemblage composed of “relevant euphony people.”

In its statement, the academy said that 49% of the caller invitees are women, 56% are radical of colour and 60% are radical nether the property of 40. Those invited person until July 31 to judge the invitation successful bid to instrumentality portion successful adjacent year’s ceremony. First-round voting for the 68th Grammys (in which nominations are determined) opens Oct. 3; the amusement itself volition instrumentality spot Feb. 1 astatine Crypto.com Arena successful downtown Los Angeles.