Silk Sonic, After Winning a Bunch of Awards, Aren’t Submitting Album to 2023 Grammys - Pitchfork

Silk Sonic are not submitting their debut album, An Evening With Silk Sonic, for information astatine the 2023 Grammy Awards, Rolling Stone reports. “We genuinely enactment our each connected this record, but Silk Sonic would similar to gracefully, humbly, and, astir importantly, sexually, bow retired of submitting our medium this year,” the band’s Bruno Mars told Rolling Stone. “We anticipation we tin observe with everyone connected a large twelvemonth of euphony and partake successful the party. Thank you for letting Silk Sonic thrive.”

Voting for the 2023 Grammys begins today. Albums and singles released betwixt October 1, 2021, and September 30, 2022, are eligible for submission and consideration. Silk Sonic’s medium was released connected November 12, 2021.

The eligibility play for the 2022 Grammys spanned September 1, 2020, to September 30, 2021. As a result, Silk Sonic’s debut single, “Leave the Door Open,” was eligible due to the fact that it was released successful March 2021. At the 2022 Grammys, Silk Sonic won each 4 awards for which they were nominated: Best R&B Song, Best R&B Performance, Song of the Year, and Record of the Year, each for “Leave the Door Open.”

Referencing his and Anderson .Paak’s galore victories, Mars told Rolling Stone that they’d “be brainsick to inquire for thing more.” He added, “We convey the Grammys for allowing america to execute connected their platform—not once but twice—and awarding america astatine past year’s ceremony.”

In a connection shared with Pitchfork, Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. said: “Silk Sonic has been specified a amusive item of our past mates of shows, and they deservedly had an astonishing nighttime astatine the 64th Grammys earlier this year. We admit their determination not to taxable this twelvemonth but look guardant to celebrating an astonishing twelvemonth successful euphony together.”

Pitchfork has besides reached retired to representatives for Silk Sonic for further remark and information.