Would David Bowie win AOTY if he wasn’t blocked by the committee?

[Interstella 5555]

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<p style=”text-align: left;”>2017 was the year that 25 infamously won AOTY over Lemonade. That said, there was a huge elephant in the room: David Bowie’s latest masterpiece, Blackstar, was blocked by the committee</p>
That album was released right after his death in early 2016, met with universal acclaim and named of of the Best albums of the decade by several music publications. He won all the four nominations he received that year (4/4), although he never was a Grammy darling (he had only won one Grammy before that)

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[Gucci Joined: Dec 1st, 2019 Topics: 0 Posts: 19694 View Predictions]

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Honey, we have already discussed this.  If unblocked, David Bowie would NOT have won Album of the Year.  No one was beating Adele.

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[GhostfaceDilla Joined: May 9th, 2022 Topics: 3 Posts: 844 View Predictions]

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It’s making sense since they gave Ray Charles a posthumous victory. I also think Radiohead got blocked in favor of Bieber or Drake.

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[Interstella 5555 Joined: Aug 26th, 2018 Topics: 3 Posts: 69 View Predictions]

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I mean, yeah, there was no way that Drake was being nominated that year without a committee choosing the 5 albums

 

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[alex.g Joined: Sep 20th, 2017 Topics: 1 Posts: 611 View Predictions]

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Sweeping his genre nominations indicates he had enough support for a general field nomination, so it seems obvious the committee blocked him.

If nominated, he might have beaten Adele, or split the vote and taken more votes from 25 than from Lemonade, but we’ll never know for sure.

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[Mood Joined: Mar 20th, 2022 Topics: 2 Posts: 228 View Predictions]

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alex.g wrote:

Sweeping his genre nominations indicates he had enough support for a general field nomination, so it seems obvious the committee blocked him. If nominated, he might have beaten Adele, or split the vote and taken more votes from 25 than from Lemonade, but we’ll never know for sure.

Yeah and Blackstar won best engineered album too

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[Huerco Joined: Oct 31st, 2020 Topics: 9 Posts: 2095 View Predictions]

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Yes, he would have won

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[jarg Joined: Feb 18th, 2021 Topics: 2 Posts: 923 View Predictions]

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yes. absolutely. definitely.

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[jjjmoss13 Joined: Jun 25th, 2023 Topics: 0 Posts: 1116 View Predictions]

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I’d say the biggest aoty losses based on actual nominees/winners this century were:

Sam smith – record/song/pop album, lost to beck with 1 other win

Lady a – record/song/country album, lost to arcade fire in their sole career win

Amy – record/song/pop album, lost to herbie hancock with 1 other win

Beck and Herbie were kinda career wins. I suspect Lady A at least in part didn’t win cuz that would have been back to back country wins.

25 would obviously still have taken pop solo/pop album, I assume roty, and I’d lean soty too. So I think with that hardware, aoty would have been included in the sweep even with bowie in. Sam & Amy lost to career wins but were obvious New Artist winners so the voters might’ve thought it’d be nice to go with a veteran over a dominant newbie for the top prize.

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[P(oweR) Valley Joined: Sep 27th, 2011 Topics: 2 Posts: 6594 View Predictions]

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He could have, but there was also the era where veterans fell off with voters in the general field and the industry was so heavy on the Adele juice. I don’t think it was a sure bet David Bowie would have prevailed. 25, despite what people might say about its quality, was such a monumental followup to another monumental album. It was probably hard to stop the Adele train that year.

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[Délulu Joined: Sep 6th, 2019 Topics: 7 Posts: 2640 View Predictions]

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Lemonade could win AOTY since I can see Blackstar and 25 split votes from those veterans

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