Feist’s The Reminder has won the Shortlist Music Prize, the award given to the “best” U.S-released album that sold less than 500,000 copies from last year. Note that the award’s powers that be announced the final 10 nominees on Oscar-nomination day and then announced the winner on a day where most of the country was probably occupying its news-gathering time with other matters. Perhaps I need to up my dose of morning optimism, but I have a strange feeling that this is going to be the last time this particular prize is bestowed on any NPR-beloved artist. [Brooklyn Vegan]
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I’m no Feist-hater, and even I think this is bullshit. I remember when you guys posted about the list a couple of weeks ago, I checked the latest SoundScan totals, and that album was over 500K already.
And I’m sure there’s some technicality that permitted The Reminder’s inclusion, because maybe at year-end, it was only at 490K, blah-blah-blah, but…what the fuck is the point of this prize if they’re giving it to a record that’s been Starbucks-and-iPod fodder for nearly a year? Man, way to make yourselves look even stupider, guys.
Why do I like Feist? Because she’s feisty of course.
The best record out of that group of records won. If Feist were to be disqualified because she sold over 500K, I might have to give it up to Working For A Nuclear-Free City.