When the “Barbie” movie hit the summer movie screen last June, the crowds grew bigger and bigger, shattering the box office with $1 billion dollars in sales.
When the soundtrack dropped, it featured big names in the industry such as Ice Spice, HAIM the band, Dua Lipa, and many more from the Billboard 200 chart. This influence, dubbed the “The Barbie Influence,” had a major impact across the entertainment world, especially on the 2024 list of Grammy contenders.
The 2024 Grammy nominations were announced last Friday, and the stars are celebrating as they learned the Barbie Influence worked its magic in the music industry.
In the general field for this year’s Grammy Award ceremony, all eyes are on female recording artists. This is the first time that a major award ceremony is dedicated to only female artists. After SZA’s leading nine nominations, three music figures are tied with seven nominations apiece: Monét, Phoebe Bridgers (six of those for her work with Boygenius, one for a collaboration with SZA), and mixing engineer Serban Ghenea.
Then eight musicians are tied for having six nominations each: producer Jack Antonoff, Batiste, Boygenius, Brandy Clark, Miley Cyrus, Eilish, Rodrigo, and Taylor Swift. It’s a woman’s world in the music universe right now, with Batiste being the only male performer to get six nominations or more, even as nine female performers did the same.
Here are the artists that has the most nominations for this year.
Solana Rowe ‘SZA’ – nine nominations
· Album of the Year – SOS
· Record of the Year – Kill Bill
· Song of the Year – Kill Bill
· Best Pop Duo Performance – Ghost in the Machine featuring Phoebe Bridgers
· Best R&B Performance – Kill Bill
· Best Traditional R&B Performance – Love Language
· Best R&B Song – Snooze
· Best Progressive R&B Album – SOS
· Best Melodic Rap Performance – Low
Phoebe Bridgers – seven nominations (six are shared with Boygenius)
· Album of the Year – The Record
· Record of the Year – Not Strong Enough
· Best Pop Duo Performance – Ghost in the Machine featuring Phoebe Bridgers
· Best Rock Song – Not Strong Enough
· Best Rock Performance – Not Strong Enough
· Best Alternative Music Performance – Cool About It
· Best Alternative Music Album – The Record
Victoria Monet – seven nominations
· Record of the Year – On My Mama
· Best New Artist
· Best R&B Performance – How Does It Make You Feel
· Best Traditional R&B Performance – Hollywood
· Best R&B Song – On My Mama
· Best R&B Album – Jaguar 2
· Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical – Jaguar 2
Olivia Rodrigo – six nominations
· Album of the Year – Guts
· Record of the Year – Vampire
· Song of the Year – Vampire
· Best Pop Solo Performance – Vampire
· Best Pop Vocal Album – Guts
· Best Rock Song – Ballad of a Homeschooled Girl