Paul Grein is a Recording Academy/GRAMMY.com contributor.
Editor's Note: This article was originally published on Feb. 8, 2018 and was updated on Feb. 12, 2025 to reflect current stats and wins; Taylor Weatherby also contributed. Black artists have been making history at the GRAMMYs since the awards were first presented on May 4, 1959, when Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie each took home two awards. African-American creators…
Now that you've read all the major storylines about Music's Biggest Night, find out what history was made in New York on Jan. 28. Here are 14 records that were set at the 60th GRAMMY Awards. 1. Bruno Mars' Sweeps Three Big Four Categories Bruno Mars swept the awards for Record, Album and Song Of The Year. He's the first…
GRAMMY history will be made on Jan. 28. Records will be set. Milestones will be reached. No one knows exactly which records will be set, but here are 15 that potentially could come to fruition. Which of these possibilities will become reality? Take your best guess and then be sure to watch the 60th GRAMMY Awards on Jan. 28 to…
Looking for a different kind of New Year's resolution? How about pledging to become an expert on this year's nominees for the 60th GRAMMY Awards? We can help you do just that. <iframe width="620" height="349" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mzMhGhIPZuk" frameborder="0" gesture="media" allow="encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe> From first-time nominees and top nominees to GRAMMY history and potential records at stake, we've sliced and diced the 84 categories…
Who are the biggest GRAMMY winners for each decade from the 1950s to the 2010s? We dug into the GRAMMY Winners Book to find out. In this series of reports, we've been looking at the four artists (more in the case of ties) who received the most awards in each decade. (The dates refer to the year of the award,…
Who are the biggest GRAMMY winners for each decade from the 1950s to the 2010s? In our ongoing Music's Biggest Winners series, we'll take a look at the four artists (more in the case of ties) who received the most awards in each decade. You'll learn a little bit about the artists, their GRAMMY wins during the decade and other…
It was 50 years ago today that Barbra Streisand opened on Broadway in "Funny Girl." None of the opening-night reviewers actually said "She's like buttah" (to borrow Linda Richman's [aka Mike Myers'] famous line from SNL's "Coffee Talk" sketch), but that's definitely the impression they left. Time raved, "Some stars merely brighten up a marquee; Barbra Streisand sets an entire…
Who are the biggest GRAMMY winners for each decade from the 1950s to the 2010s? In our ongoing Music's Biggest Winners series, we'll take a look at the four artists (more in the case of ties) who received the most awards in each decade. You'll learn a little bit about the artists, their GRAMMY wins during the decade and other…
(On Feb. 9 The Recording Academy, AEG Ehrlich Ventures and CBS will present "The Beatles: The Night That Changed America — A GRAMMY Salute." The two-and-a-half hour special will celebrate the legacy of the Beatles and their groundbreaking first appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show" exactly 50 years to the day, date and time of the original event.) America has…
Who are the biggest GRAMMY winners for each decade from the 1950s to the 2010s? In our ongoing Music's Biggest Winners series, we'll take a look at the four artists (more in the case of ties) who received the most awards in each decade. You'll learn a little bit about the artists, their GRAMMY wins during the decade and other…
Who are the biggest GRAMMY winners for each decade from the 1950s to the 2010s? In our ongoing Music's Biggest Winners series, we'll take a look at the four artists (more in the case of ties) who received the most awards in each decade. You'll learn a little bit about the artists, their GRAMMY wins during the decade and other…
Who are the biggest GRAMMY winners for each decade from the 1950s to the 2010s? In our ongoing Music's Biggest Winners series, we'll take a look at the four artists (more in the case of ties) who received the most awards in each decade. You'll learn a little bit about the artists, their GRAMMY wins during the decade and other…
Adele made GRAMMY history at the 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards. By winning six awards, she equaled Beyoncé's record for the most GRAMMYs won by a female artist in one night and Eric Clapton's record for the most awards won by a British artist in one night. Adele, 23, also broke Michael Jackson's record as the youngest artist to scoop up…
Pharrell Williams could be headed for the GRAMMY history book this year. Williams is nominated for Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical, an award he previously won in 2003 as a member of the Neptunes (with Chad Hugo). If Williams wins this year, he'll become only the third producer to win in this category both on his own and with a partner.…
Two songs that were nominated for Best Song Written For Visual Media at the 58th Annual GRAMMY Awards will be competing again for Original Song at the 88th annual Academy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 28. The songs are "Til It Happens To You," which Lady Gaga and Diane Warren co-wrote for the documentary The Hunting Ground, and "Earned It (Fifty Shades Of Grey),"…
Frank Sinatra has been a GRAMMY favorite from the very beginning. He had two of the five nominations for Album Of The Year for 1958, the GRAMMYs' inaugural year. He later became the first artist to receive two Album Of The Year awards — and also the first to receive three. He is, to date, the only artist to receive…
Sam Smith is just the 10th artist in the GRAMMY Awards' 57-year history to receive nominations in all four of the General Field categories in the same year. His gospel-tinged ballad "Stay With Me (Darkchild Version)" is nominated for Record and Song Of The Year. (He co-wrote it with James Napier and William Phillips.) His debut album In The Lonely Hour is a…
(The following is a feature from "The Music And Politics Issue" of GRAMMY magazine.)Songs have been part of U.S. presidential campaigns since long before the advent of recording. A little ditty titled "The Hunters Of Kentucky" was played at Andrew Jackson's rallies in 1824 and 1828. "Tippecanoe And Tyler Too," a song based on what may be the catchiest campaign…
(In addition to the GRAMMY Awards, The Recording Academy presents Special Merit Awards recognizing contributions of significance to the recording field, including the Lifetime Achievement Award, Trustees Award and Technical GRAMMY Award. In the days leading up to the 55th GRAMMY Awards, GRAMMY.com will present the tributes to the 2013 Special Merit Awards recipients.)In late 1963, Alan Livingston, then president of Capitol Records, took…
Three of this year's five recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors are past GRAMMY winners for Album Of The Year. Billy Joel took the award in 1979 for 52nd Street, Carlos Santana in 1999 for Santana's blockbuster Supernatural and Herbie Hancock in 2007 for the star-studded River: The Joni Letters.Joel also swept Record and Song Of The Year in 1978…
