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Harvey Mason Jr.

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435 total appearances

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Decoder with Nilay Patel
Why the Grammys need to change, with CEO Harvey Mason Jr.

The team's working on awards, on membership, on advocacy, on all the things that I talked about throughout the academy. And we have a great staff of DEI department. We have people in culture. There's a lot of different departments that are focused on making sure that the academy can have that impact, making sure we are successful.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Why the Grammys need to change, with CEO Harvey Mason Jr.

The team's working on awards, on membership, on advocacy, on all the things that I talked about throughout the academy. And we have a great staff of DEI department. We have people in culture. There's a lot of different departments that are focused on making sure that the academy can have that impact, making sure we are successful.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Why the Grammys need to change, with CEO Harvey Mason Jr.

The team's working on awards, on membership, on advocacy, on all the things that I talked about throughout the academy. And we have a great staff of DEI department. We have people in culture. There's a lot of different departments that are focused on making sure that the academy can have that impact, making sure we are successful.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Why the Grammys need to change, with CEO Harvey Mason Jr.

growing the right membership and we talk about the awards and our ability to monetize our intellectual property our grammys through a show we have to have the right awards so you got to have the right awards department thinking about that you got to have the right membership department because without the right members you're not going to get the right results in order to stay relevant we have to have relevant members so we've just gone through a membership overhaul 100 of our members have been requalified we have 66 of our members are all new within the last five years

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Why the Grammys need to change, with CEO Harvey Mason Jr.

growing the right membership and we talk about the awards and our ability to monetize our intellectual property our grammys through a show we have to have the right awards so you got to have the right awards department thinking about that you got to have the right membership department because without the right members you're not going to get the right results in order to stay relevant we have to have relevant members so we've just gone through a membership overhaul 100 of our members have been requalified we have 66 of our members are all new within the last five years

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Why the Grammys need to change, with CEO Harvey Mason Jr.

growing the right membership and we talk about the awards and our ability to monetize our intellectual property our grammys through a show we have to have the right awards so you got to have the right awards department thinking about that you got to have the right membership department because without the right members you're not going to get the right results in order to stay relevant we have to have relevant members so we've just gone through a membership overhaul 100 of our members have been requalified we have 66 of our members are all new within the last five years

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Why the Grammys need to change, with CEO Harvey Mason Jr.

And we've just added 3,000 new women voters. We've got almost 40% people of culture or people of color. I'm sorry. Those are not the numbers that we had four years ago. So we're all very proud as a staff and our elected leadership as to the work that's been done to change our membership, which then, of course, changes the awards, changes our show, changes our ability to generate revenue.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Why the Grammys need to change, with CEO Harvey Mason Jr.

And we've just added 3,000 new women voters. We've got almost 40% people of culture or people of color. I'm sorry. Those are not the numbers that we had four years ago. So we're all very proud as a staff and our elected leadership as to the work that's been done to change our membership, which then, of course, changes the awards, changes our show, changes our ability to generate revenue.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Why the Grammys need to change, with CEO Harvey Mason Jr.

And we've just added 3,000 new women voters. We've got almost 40% people of culture or people of color. I'm sorry. Those are not the numbers that we had four years ago. So we're all very proud as a staff and our elected leadership as to the work that's been done to change our membership, which then, of course, changes the awards, changes our show, changes our ability to generate revenue.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Why the Grammys need to change, with CEO Harvey Mason Jr.

I think about it constantly, to tell you the truth. And fiddling is a nicer way of, or maybe a more playful way of saying it, but it's really the evolution of what we do in iteration around everything at the academy. And that has been a big area of focus for me and my management team over the last four years, because we are 66 years old is an iconic institution, if I could say so.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Why the Grammys need to change, with CEO Harvey Mason Jr.

I think about it constantly, to tell you the truth. And fiddling is a nicer way of, or maybe a more playful way of saying it, but it's really the evolution of what we do in iteration around everything at the academy. And that has been a big area of focus for me and my management team over the last four years, because we are 66 years old is an iconic institution, if I could say so.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Why the Grammys need to change, with CEO Harvey Mason Jr.

I think about it constantly, to tell you the truth. And fiddling is a nicer way of, or maybe a more playful way of saying it, but it's really the evolution of what we do in iteration around everything at the academy. And that has been a big area of focus for me and my management team over the last four years, because we are 66 years old is an iconic institution, if I could say so.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Why the Grammys need to change, with CEO Harvey Mason Jr.

And it means a lot to a lot of people, including people in the music community, but also music fans. So we want to be respectful of what that is and what it has been. But for me, we cannot afford to be stagnant. Music moves so fast. And you and your viewers, listeners know technology and the way people are consuming music and art is evolving so rapidly that we had to evolve as an organization. So

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Why the Grammys need to change, with CEO Harvey Mason Jr.

And it means a lot to a lot of people, including people in the music community, but also music fans. So we want to be respectful of what that is and what it has been. But for me, we cannot afford to be stagnant. Music moves so fast. And you and your viewers, listeners know technology and the way people are consuming music and art is evolving so rapidly that we had to evolve as an organization. So

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Why the Grammys need to change, with CEO Harvey Mason Jr.

And it means a lot to a lot of people, including people in the music community, but also music fans. So we want to be respectful of what that is and what it has been. But for me, we cannot afford to be stagnant. Music moves so fast. And you and your viewers, listeners know technology and the way people are consuming music and art is evolving so rapidly that we had to evolve as an organization. So

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Why the Grammys need to change, with CEO Harvey Mason Jr.

I spend a lot of time thinking, how can we adjust? How can we pivot? How can we see around the corner what's happening next? So a lot of that work, I have to say, comes from our membership because the membership really submits the changes. They submit proposals. What are we going to honor in music this year? How are we going to title this new category?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Why the Grammys need to change, with CEO Harvey Mason Jr.

I spend a lot of time thinking, how can we adjust? How can we pivot? How can we see around the corner what's happening next? So a lot of that work, I have to say, comes from our membership because the membership really submits the changes. They submit proposals. What are we going to honor in music this year? How are we going to title this new category?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Why the Grammys need to change, with CEO Harvey Mason Jr.

I spend a lot of time thinking, how can we adjust? How can we pivot? How can we see around the corner what's happening next? So a lot of that work, I have to say, comes from our membership because the membership really submits the changes. They submit proposals. What are we going to honor in music this year? How are we going to title this new category?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Why the Grammys need to change, with CEO Harvey Mason Jr.

What's the nomenclature behind this genre of music? And the reason it's so important is that the members are the ones that know. They know better than I do. They know better than a lot of the staff because our members are music professionals. So they might hear something in the new genre that's coming up and be like, oh, you guys aren't catching on. We have to honor this music.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Why the Grammys need to change, with CEO Harvey Mason Jr.

What's the nomenclature behind this genre of music? And the reason it's so important is that the members are the ones that know. They know better than I do. They know better than a lot of the staff because our members are music professionals. So they might hear something in the new genre that's coming up and be like, oh, you guys aren't catching on. We have to honor this music.