According to a report from the New York Times, Taylor Swift and Kanye West benefitted from Recording Academy’s last-minute decision to expand the number of finalists in the Grammy’s Big Four categories from eight to 10.
The outlet reports that West’s Donda and Swift’s evermore were missing from an early list of Album of the Year nominees.
Harvey Mason Jr., CEO of the Recording Academy, told the Times that the last-minute expansion in the number of Grammy nominees was done “to make room for more music, more artists and more genres, and to embrace the spirit of inclusion.”
