<P> In the same genre field, the traditional and contemporary blues categories and the traditional and contemporary folk categories each were consolidated into one per genre, due to the number of entries and given the challenges in distinguishing between contemporary folk and Americana, and contemporary and traditional blues . In the world music genre field, the traditional and contemporary categories also merged . </P> <P> In the classical genre field, its main category Best Classical Album was discontinued because most recipients in this category had also won in one of the other classical categories for the same album . Classical recordings are now eligible for the main Album of the Year category . </P> <P> There were also a few minor name changes to better reflect the nature of the separate categories . It was determined by the Recording Academy that the word "gospel" in the gospel genre field tends to conjure up the images and sounds of traditional soul gospel and leaves out the current contemporary Christian music (CCM). Therefore, the genre field and some categories were renamed as Gospel / Contemporary Christian Music . </P> <P> Since 2012 there have been a small number of adjustments made to the list of categories and genre fields . The number of categories has gone up from 78 in 2012 to 84 in 2017 . </P>

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