The Current State of the Music Industry

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The most sought after recognition in the commercial realm of music is to receive a GRAMMY Award. The GRAMMY’s are both hosted and decided by The Recording Academy, also known as The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (“NARAS”). NARAS is an organization of musicians, producers, recording engineers, and other recording professionals.  Other than the notion of popularity as it pertains to commercialism, they are meant and assumed to be an agnostic establishment that chooses nominations based on industry and artistic merit.  This club of so-called industry elites decide the “only peer-presented award to honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency, …