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The Recording Academy has announced today five new categories for the 2023 Grammys, including one for video game soundtracks. Titled "Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media," the category will target "a current video game or other interactive media" with a "score soundtrack albums comprised predominately of original scores," meaning it wouldn't count heavily licensed soundtracks, like a Grand Theft Auto title or last year's Guardians of the Galaxy game. Up until now, video game soundtracks would have been expected to compete with film and TV soundtracks in the "Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media" category, though no video game has ever been nominated.

The other new categories announced were "Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical," "Best Alternative Music Performance," "Best Americana Performance," and "Best Spoken Word Poetry Album."

The exact qualification period for the 2023 Grammys hasn't been announced yet, but it will begin on October 1, 2021, and will likely run through August or September of 2022. The ceremony typically takes place in January of each year, but the last two have been delayed to March or April due to COVID, so it's unclear when we can expect the 2023 ceremony.

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[ZeroFX]

yeah irrelevant

 

[Delerious]

I mean, cool. But also, blegh.

 

[TBIEGS]

Wow, an award statue! Aww...it's a Grammy.

 

[AngryCinnabon]

Interesting...maybe this was partially because of Meta Knight cover winning? eh who knows, I'm not into Grammys anyways so i don't really care too much personally.

 

[Viri]

Wow, maybe more than 2 people will watch the Grammy award show this year. The Oscars got lucky, and had an actor assault another actor to get some views.

 

[Marc_LFD]

Too little too late.

 

[K3Nv2]

No producers were slapped in the making of this award.

 

[m_babble]

The Grammys have never been good at highlighting (or even acknowledging) anything of quality.

 

[LoggerMan]

There is a Grammy for best CD packaging, so game soundtrack makes sense.

 

[eyeliner]

Well, more sponsored wins.

Guess this new category will serve to make money, as these so called "best of" are anything but.

Someone submits a shortlist, that shortlist is then lobbied for, usually by sponsoring some things here and there to the panel of judges.

And the one who throws more money wins!

Yeah, irrelevant. Very much.

 

[HideoKojima]

Let's target the gaming community they said.

 

[Osha]

Too little too late.

It's not even too little, it's absolutely nothing, giving videogames their own category just implies game soundtracks aren't "real music", so they just shove that stuff in its own corner so they don't tarnish the "true art".

 

[Marc_LFD]

It's not even too little, it's absolutely nothing, giving videogames their own category just implies game soundtracks aren't "real music", so they just shove that stuff in its own corner so they don't tarnish the "true art".

And that, too.

Someone tell me Red Dead Revolver's score isn't real music then he/she has no taste or knowledge.

 

[MadonnaProject]

More trophies to hand out to rap sounding music. Yukk.

Sorry that was wrong of me to say. I meant "music".

 

[Lazyt]

i bet Nintendo will never attend those if they ever win