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    Grammys Preview: In With the New, Finally?

    With rap and R&B vaulting to the U.S.’s most popular genre and online voting allowed, Sunday’s ceremony will honor an unusually diverse slate.
    by Spencer Kornhaber Jan 26, 2018 3 minutes
    Source: Charles Sykes / AP

    When the sound of popular music shifts, it takes a while for the supposed scorekeepers of popular music to notice., Nielsen and switched to new, more statistically rigorous methods to measure sales and spins (rather than trusting radio stations and record stores to self-report) and suddenly, hip-hop began landing No. 1 albums. Something similar is happening now. The counting institutions have more fully weighed streaming services, and hip-hop and R&B fresh dominance: leapfrogging rock as the most popular genre in America, landing Hot 100 smashes with new regularity.

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