When is something old considered new? If you're talking about the Grammy Awards, that's often whoever lands in the best new artist category, easily the weirdest of the races.
Take Sabrina Carpenter, who finds herself nominated for best new artist this year — on her sixth full-length release. There's little doubt that the “Espresso” singer ruled the airwaves in 2024, but she was already making a mark on the Billboard Hot 100 chart as early as 2021 with the No. 48 song “Skin.”
