Grammys: Most and Least Well-known Finest New Artist Winners

• Finest new artist is likely one of the most high-profile Grammy Awards.
• Main stars like Adele, Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey, and The Beatles have received previously.
• Nevertheless, not-so-famous artists have additionally received, together with Esperanza Spalding and Christopher Cross.

Finest new artist is likely one of the “Massive 4” classes on the Grammy Awards, an enormous honor for any rising music star.

The class can also be considerably controversial. {Qualifications} have shifted over time, however on the whole, artists do not really should be “new” with a purpose to be nominated. They only should be “new” to the mainstream.

Nowadays, screening committees are tasked with evaluating whether or not artists “had attained a breakthrough or prominence previous to the eligibility yr.” In brief, the award is supposed to tell apart the artist who had the shiniest banner yr — and has a good brighter future.

This hasn’t all the time labored out as deliberate. Whereas a few of the greatest new artists have gone on to superstardom, simply as many winners have light from the highlight.

We rounded up 11 of essentially the most well-known greatest new artists in Grammys historical past, in addition to 11 of the least well-known.

(Notice: We solely thought of artists who received 10 or extra years in the past. For individuals who received extra lately, their fame is just too contemporary to gauge objectively. Every class is listed beneath in reverse chronological order.)