Will besties Taylor Swift and Gracie Abrams go head to head on the Billboard 200 next week? Does Sabrina Carpenter have the qualifications to be nominated for a Grammy? Keep watching to find out!
Tetris Kelly:
There are some battles brewing in the music biz. Who could take the top spot on the Billboard 200? And who even qualifies for the Best New Artist Grammy? Let’s break it down. Gracie Abrams sophomore album, ‘The Secret of Us,’ is expected to secure a solid streaming debut, but it’s going to come down to sales to see if she can best her bestie collaborator, Taylor Swift, and her nine week run with ‘The Tortured Poets Department.’ With Gracie’s vinyl variants and Taylor’s CD variants, it’s anybody’s game. As for the Best New Artist Grammy there are many musicians that fans are pulling for, but who even qualifies for the award? Sabrina Carpenter currently owns the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100. She’s never been nominated for a Grammy and she hasn’t been entered in the Best New Artist competition three times. She’s been entered twice, in 2017 and 2024. So she’s fair game. The same can’t be said for Tate McRae. While she’s had a stellar year with “Greedy” topping the Global 200 and Global 200 excluding the US, she was entered for best new artists the last three years so she won’t qualify. We’ll know all the Grammy nominations on November 8.
