All Grammys count the same toward someone’s career Grammy total, but we all know they’re not really on an equal footing. Every media outlet on Earth will report the winners of album of the year and record of the year next Feb. 1, but good luck trying to find out who won best regional roots music album (we’ll have it, of course).
Some categories are far more competitive than others. There are more than 20 times as many entries in this year’s most populated category, song of the year (1,015), as in this year’s least populated category, best compilation soundtrack for visual media (48).
Since final-round voting for the 68th Grammy Awards opened Friday (Oct. 3), Grammy voters have been conscientiously poring over the entry lists for 90 of the 95 Grammy categories (or so Recording Academy lea