AFAIK, that's the way it's always been. Only a very few times in my lifetime has there been a non-popular artist given a Grammy. In other words, it's a crock and always has been.
Also note that the
Grammy web site claims the date is (as I write this) January 18, 103. Good job. They've only had three years to notice and correct this. (Actually, it turns out that IE, of course, implements getYear incorrectly and returns 2003, whereas Mozilla does the right thing and returns 103. SO the incorrect thing has become a defacto standard. Still, you think they could add one line of code to check. <sigh>