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What's a Grammy Worth? New Voters, New Winners, and Rewriting History

What's a Grammy Worth? New Voters, New Winners, and Rewriting History

Update: 2025-11-13
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This episode is in partnership and collaboration with our friends at The Recording Academy


You’ll hear our deep dive on what we can learn from this years Grammys with our usual analysis and a few select guests including: Panos Panay (President of The Recording Academy), Tati Cirisano (MIDiA Research), Zack O’Malley Greenburg, author and investor.


We discuss the biggest takeaways from the 2026 nominations, the rise of international music, how the voting body has evolved, and the economic lift of a Grammy win.





CHAPTERS


01:41 - Biggest takeaways


05:41 - Tati Cirisano joins us


13:02 - Panos Panay joins us


17:10 - Which past Grammys would have changed


21:52 - The Grammy Bump


33:10 - Zack Greenburg joins us


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GUESTS
Panos Panay, President, The Recording Academy


Tatiana Cirisano, VP Music Strategy, MIDiA Research


Zack O’Malley Greenburg, Author, Empire State of Mind






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RESOURCES
What is the Economic Value of a GRAMMY in Today’s Industry? - Chartmetric and Will Page
























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What's a Grammy Worth? New Voters, New Winners, and Rewriting History

What's a Grammy Worth? New Voters, New Winners, and Rewriting History

Dan Runcie