What is the difference between song and record of the year? All you need to know about Bonnie Raitt and Lizzo’s Grammy Awards wins
At the 65th Yearly Grammy Grants this year, Bonnie Raitt won the Tune of the Year grant, while Lizzo won the Record of the Year grant.
A selected thing can be viewed as both a melody and a record, yet the differentiation between the two honors turns out to be to some degree hazy. To lay it out plainly, the Tune of the Year grant is given for the creation and composing of the melody and explicitly recognizes the musicians of the melody, while the Record of the Year grant is given explicitly for a specific recording or version of a melody.
Record of the Year has been introduced at the Grammy Grants starting around 1959
The Record of the Year grant and the Tune of the Year grant have existed starting from the beginning of the yearly honor show back in 1959, and along with the Collection of the Year grant, they structure the triangle of the most esteemed and desired of the multitude of grants in the occasion.
As per the Recording Foundation Outline, the Record of the Year Grant is given for the differentiation and value of an economically delivered tape to “honor, imaginative accomplishment, specialized capability and generally speaking greatness in the recording business, regardless of deals or graph position.”
In the early long stretches of 1959-1965, the Record of the Year grant was simply given to the craftsman. Notwithstanding, the honor class gradually extended throughout the long term, first to incorporate the maker of a record until 1998, then, at that point, the blender and recording engineers alongside specialists and makers from 1999 to 2012.
Beginning around 2013, the Record of the Year designations at the Grammy Grants have included of craftsmen, makers, recording engineers, blending architects, and dominating specialists.
The Tune of the Year grant was made in 1959, close by the Record of the Year, while the Grammys was as yet known as the Gramaphone Grants.
As indicated by the Recording Institute, the rules for the honor for Tune of the Year is that the tune “should contain song and verses and should be either another melody or a tune initially accomplishing noticeable quality during the qualification year. Tunes containing unmistakable examples or introductions are not qualified.”
Throughout the long term, the Tune of the Year classification at the Grammy Grants has extended to incorporate type explicit honors, like the honor for Best Nation Song(1965), the honor for Best R&B melody (1969), the honor for Best Rap Song(2004), and the Lyricist of the Year: Non-Old style (2023).
Both the Tune of the Year and Record of the Year grants have a long history of gathering synchronous designations.
Notwithstanding, it is very challenging to win both around the same time, with a couple of specialists having that accomplishment.
Simon and Garfunkel won the two honors in 1971 at the thirteenth Yearly Grammy Grants for their single, Scaffold Over Grieved Waters.
This was trailed by Christopher Cross, who not just won Record of the Year and Tune of the Year Grants yet in addition Collection of the Year, Best New Craftsman, and Best Plan at the 1981 Grammy Grants. This record was just matched in 2022, when Billie Eilish comparably won each of the five honors.
