With one other yr’s value of Grammys handed out, it’s excessive time to verify in on Grammy Award information and all the large names who’ve damaged them over the course of the awards present’s six-decade historical past.
Taylor Swift skipped the 2019 Grammys — as a substitute opting to attend the British Academy Movie Awards with boyfriend Joe Alwyn — however she broke a Grammy file again in 2010 when she was nonetheless verging on the nation aspect of pop music. Swift was barely out of her teenagers on the time, however the file holder for youngest Grammy winner was 12 years youthful when she gained.
Beyoncé and Jay-Z had been additionally no-shows on the 2019 ceremony, however they returned in 2021 — and have at all times remained legends within the Recording Academy’s eyes. Jay-Z tied with Quincy Jones for many nominations (80), and Beyoncé broke a file in 2010 that Adele tied in 2012, as detailed within the gallery beneath. Queen Bey can also be probably the most adorned feminine artist of all time.
Billie Eilish, for her half, swept the 2020 awards present with wins within the largest classes of the evening, together with Album of the Yr, Music of the Yr, Report of the Yr and Finest New Artist. Plus, she was simply 18 years outdated on the time.
“[Billie] was very grateful, clearly, and a whole lot of her buddies had been there,” her brother, Finneas O’Connell, advised Vogue in February 2020. “She has extra ‘float’ than I do, however we had been each type of embarrassed to win a lot; you hope that it will likely be type of equal, however after the third in a row … Effectively, we love all our fellow nominees.”
The producer famous that he was pulling for Lizzo or Lil Nas X. “If I’d guess on anybody, I’d have misplaced cash in us profitable the whole lot,” he mentioned.
O’Connell continued: “I believed ‘Reality Hurts’ would win Report of the Yr. And I believed ‘Outdated City Highway’ would win Music of the Yr as a result of it was. I used to be hopeful about Album of the Yr, and that’s one which I’m actually happy with as a result of I like listening to that album entrance to again. That was the one one which I used to be like, ‘Possibly!’”
And although Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Bruce Springsteen, Kanye West and Stevie Surprise have all earned 20 or extra Grammy Awards to date, not a type of artists are near beating the file for probably the most lifetime Grammy wins. Scroll right down to see that file holder and a number of other extra stars whose award cabinets have to be needing reinforcements.
