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\n\tThe Rolling Stones<\/a> have been known as the world\u2019s greatest rock and roll band for six decades, but Grammy voters were shamefully late in getting on board. The Stones weren\u2019t nominated in any category <\/em>until the 1979 ceremony, when Some Girls<\/em> was nominated for album of the year.<\/p>\n \n\tHow could that be? How could such classic albums as Sticky Fingers <\/em>and Exile on Main St.<\/em> have been completely ignored \u2013 not to mention such landmark singles as \u201c(I Can\u2019t Get No) Satisfaction,\u201d \u201cHonky Tonk Women\u201d and \u201cBrown Sugar\u201d?<\/p>\n \n\tOne reason is that Grammy voters in \u201960s and \u201970s were resistant to rock, favoring pop and what we now call traditional pop. (Nowadays, Grammy voters love rock and have been slow to embrace hip-hop. Resistance to the new and different is often a byproduct of institutional voting.)<\/p>\n \n\tThe Beatles <\/a>landed five consecutive album of the year nominations in the \u201960s, but The Beatles were more in line with Grammy tastes. They were more often on the pop side of pop\/rock, and Lennon\/McCartney\u2019s songwriting was more rooted in traditional songcraft.<\/p>\n \n\tAnother reason The Stones were left out for so long was the Grammys didn\u2019t have performance categories dedicated to rock until 1990 \u2013 and didn\u2019t have a best rock album category until 1995. (Fittingly, The Stones were the first winner of the latter award.)<\/p>\n \n\tSince Grammy voters belatedly discovered The Stones, the band has fared pretty well in the nominations. They won a Grammy (best traditional blues album) for their previous studio album, High & Lonesome<\/em>. Their three studio albums before that were each nominated for best rock album.<\/p>\n \n\tThe band\u2019s 2023 album Hackney Diamonds<\/em>, which was mostly produced by Andrew Watt<\/a>, has an excellent chance of landing a best rock album nod and an outside chance of landing an album of the year nod. \u201cAngry,\u201d the album\u2019s opening track and lead single, was nominated for best rock song at the ceremony in February. The 2025 nominations will be announced on Nov. 8. The awards will be presented on Feb. 2, 2025.<\/p>\n \n\tWatt (profiled here<\/a>) has his own following in Grammyland \u2013 he won producer of the year, non-classical in 2021, which makes him the most recent producer not named Jack Antonoff<\/a> to win that award. Watt, who is just 33, wasn\u2019t even born when The Stones\u2019 Steel Wheels<\/em> album was released in 1989.<\/p>\n \n\tLook and see how The Stones have fared in the Grammy nominations since 1979, the year Grammy voters first invited them to the party. The year show is the year of the Grammy ceremony.<\/p>\n