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This yr’s sixty fourth Latin Grammy Awards may have its first-ever nonfungible token (NFT) assortment after the Latin Recording Academy signed a three-year contract for award show-related NFTs.
The aforementioned partnership is between the Latin Recording Academy, which is behind the Latin Grammys, and OneOf, a Web3 music platform. Every assortment, which is able to lead as much as that yr’s award present, will embrace drops highlighting Latin music.
Based on Manuel Abud, the CEO of the Latin Recording Academy, it is a new type of musical innovation and a manner for followers to “personal a bit of the Latin GRAMMYs.”
“The Latin Recording Academy is dedicated to exploring progressive, new methods to have fun excellence in Latin music and to attach music to different artwork types in our tradition, together with visible and digital arts.”
The Latin Grammy Awards NFTs will drop all through October within the lead as much as the award present on Nov. 18.
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This comes after OneOf’s partnership with the Grammy Awards, wherein it additionally deliberate a three-year NFT launch plan. The primary assortment was launched coinciding with the sixty fourth Grammys, for which Binance was the official crypto change associate.
The Grammys will not be the primary main award present with Web3 integrations. Earlier this yr the MTV Video Music Awards introduced its latest award class of “Finest Metaverse Efficiency.”
Moreover, music trade giants have been quickly adopting Web3 applied sciences to improve the enterprise. Sony Music filed a trademark software for NFT-authenticated music on Aug. 30 of this yr.
Musicians have been using the know-how to launch NFT singles or to enhance music rights and licensing. Furthermore, NFTs formally grew to become acknowledged as a chart-eligible format, with musicians comparable to Muse profiting from the event.