"The New Classic" was named one of the best hip-hop albums of the year by "XXL" on a list published on 30 June 2014, adding that "the album proved to a gang of skepts who doubted Iggy's controversial style from the start that she was more than capable of making hip-hop tracks with a pop appeal." It was placed at number twenty-five on Digital Spy's top albums of 2014 and listed among Fuse's 40 best albums of 2014. The album won the Breakthrough Artist Release award at the 2014 ARIA Music Awards and &lt;a href="American%20Music%20Award%20for%20Favorite%20Rap/Hip-Hop%20Album"&gt;Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Album&lt;/a&gt; at the 2014 American Music Awards, beating out Drake's "Nothing Was the Same" and Eminem's "The Marshall Mathers LP 2". It received a nomination for Best Rap Album at the 57th Grammy Awards. The album was also up for Top Rap Album at the 2015 Billboard Music Awards.