Grammy's Best New Artist Jinx

The Grammy Award for Best New Artist, established in 1960, skips the presentation in 1967 and is awarded based on the artist's first recording establishing public identity during the eligibility year. It is sometimes asserted, with varying degrees of sincerity, that winning the award is a curse, as several award winners (particularly from the late 1970s and early 1980s) were never able to duplicate the success they experienced in their debut year.

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