This was the last year the Grammy Awards were broadcast on CBS, and the day began with a pre-show, Grammy Premiere Ceremony hosted by Darren Criss and streamed on YouTube. 86 awards were handed out, beginning with dance and electronic categories, which saw Lady Gaga, Tame Impala, Doechi, and FKA Twigs take trophies. Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo also won Pop/Duo Group Performance for “Defying Gravity” from“Wicked.”
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The main ceremony was hosted for the sixth and final time by Trevor Noah. The broadcast will move from ABC to CBS beginning in 2027. Yes, big changes are in store, but this year saw Kendrick Lamar dominate the night, taking Record of the Year for “Luther,” Rap Album for “GNX,” Best Melodic Rap Performance for “Luther” With SZA, as well as Best Rap Song winners – “tv off” Kendrick Lamar featuring Franklin Holladay. Those wins saw the LA icon pass Jay-Z as the most Grammy-awarded Rapper of all-time.
Bad Bunny won Musica Urbana Album for “DeBiTirarMas Fotos” and earned a standing ovation for beginning his acceptance speech with “ICE Out!” He later won the final award of the night, Album of the Year. He was contractually unable to perform due to his Super Bowl Halftime show a week from today. Other standout performers included Sabrina Carpenter, Lady Gaga, Olivia Dean, Tyler the Creator, Rose with Bruno Mars, who kicked off the show, and a fantastic In Memoriam led by Lauryn Hill and The Fugees.
Gaga started a big potential Grammy day off with two wins for Remixed Recording and Best Dance Pop Recording for “Abracadabra.” She later won Best Pop Vocal Album for “Mayhem.” Cirkut, the producer of Gaga’s “Mayhem,” nominated for Album of the Year, took the prestigious Producer of the Year Grammy.
Olivia Dean beat out an insanely competitive field to win Best New Artist. In a massive surprise, Lola Young won Pop Vocal Performance for “Messy,” beating out Gaga, Justin Bieber, Sabrina Carpenter, and Chappell Roan. Another upset came in Song of the Year, where a shocked Billie Eilish and Finneas won for “Wildflower.” Eilish is now a 10-time Grammy winner.
Both Compilation Soundtrack and Score Soundtrack for Visual Media went to “Sinners.” “Golden” From “KPop Demon Hunters” took Song Written for Visual Media, an Oscar precursor for Best Original Song. Steven Spielberg earned his first Grammy Award as a producer of “Music by John Williams,” which won Best Music Film. The legendary filmmaker is now officially EGOT.
Kehlani won Best R&B Performance and Best R&B Song for “Folded.” Leon Thomas took Best R&B Album and Best R&B Performance for “MUTT.” Best Country Contemporary Album went to “Beautifully Broken” by Jelly Roll.
Best Alternative Music Album and Best Alternative Music Performance went to The Cure for “Songs of a Lost World” and “Alone,” respectively. The legendary band was not on hand as they were attending the funeral of their longtime guitarist Perry Bamonte.
Songwriter of the Year went to Amy Allen.
The major categories winners and the nominees in those fields are as follows:
Album of the Year
“DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS,” Bad Bunny
“Swag,” Justin Bieber
“Man’s Best Friend,” Sabrina Carpenter
“Let God Sort Em Out,” Clipse, Pusha T & Malice
“Mayhem,” Lady Gaga
“GNX,” Kendrick Lamar
“Mutt,” Leon Thomas
“Chromakopia,” Tyler the Creator
Record of the Year
“DtMf,” Bad Bunny
“Manchild,” Sabrina Carpenter
“Anxiety,” Doechii
“Wildflower,” Billie Eilish
“Abracadabra,” Lady Gaga
“Luther,” Kendrick Lamar with SZA – ***WINNER***
“The Subway,” Chappell Roan
“APT.,” Rose with Bruno Mars
Song of the Year
“Abracadabra”
“Anxiety”
“APT.”
“DTMF”
“Golden”
“Luther”
“Manchild”
“WILDFLOWER” – ***WINNER***
Pop Vocal Album of the Year
Swag, Justin Bieber
Man’s Best Friend, Sabrina Carpenter
Something Beautiful, Miley Cyrus
Mayhem, Lady Gaga
I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy, Pt. 2, Teddy Swims
Pop Solo Performance
Daises, Justin Bieber
Manchild, Sabrina Carpenter
Disease, Lady Gaga
The Subway, Chappell Roan
Messy, Lola Young – ***WINNER***
Pop Duo/Group Performance
Defying Gravity, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande – ***WINNER****
Golden, HUNTR/X: EJAE, Audrey Nuna, REI AMI
Gabriella, KATSEYE
APT., ROSE and Bruno Mars
30 For 30, SZA with Kendrick Lamar
New Artist
Olivia Dean – ***WINNER***
Katseye
The Maria
Addison Rae
Sombr
Leon Thomas
Alex Warren
Lola Young
Producer of the Year
Dan Auerbach
Cirkut – ***WINNER***
Dijon
Blake Mills
Sounwave
Dance/Electronic Recording
No Cap, Disclosure & Anderson.Paak
Victory Lap, Fred again.., Skepta, & PlaqueBoyMax
SPACE INVADER, KAYTRANADA
VOLTAGE, Skrillex
End of Summer, Tame Impala – ***WINNER***
Dance Pop Recording
Bluest Flame, Selena Gomez & benny blanco
Abracadabra, Lady Gaga – ***WINNER***
Midnight Sun, Zara Larson
Just Keep Watching (From F1® The Movie), Tate McRae
Illegal, Pink Pantheress
Dance/Electronic Album
EUSEXUA, FKA twigs – ***WINNER***
Ten Days, Fred Again…
Fancy That, Pink Pantheress
Inhale / Exhale, RÜFÜS DU SOL
F*** U SKRILLEX YOU THINK UR ANDY WARHOL BUT UR NOT!! <3, Skrillex
Remixed Recording
Abracadabra (Gesaffelstein Remix), Gesaffelstein, remixer (Lady Gaga, Gesaffelstein)
Don’t Forget About Us, KAYTRANADA, remixer (Mariah Carey &
KAYTRANADA) – ***WINNER***
A Dreams A Dream – Ron Trent Remix, Ron Trent, remixer (Soul II Soul)
Galvanize, Chris Lake, remixer (The Chemical Brothers & Chris
Lake)
Golden – David Guetta REM/X, David Guetta, remixer (HUNTR/X: EJAE, Audrey
Rap Album
Let God Sort Em Out, Clipse, Pusha T & Malice
GLORIOUS, GloRilla
God Does Like Ugly, JID
GNX, Kendrick Lamar – ***WINNER***
CHROMAKOPIA, Tyler the Creator
R&B Album
BELOVED, GIVĒON
Why No More?, Coco James
The Crown, Ledisi
Escape Room, Teyana Taylor
MUTT, Leon Thomas – ***WINNER***
Song Written for Visual Media
As Alive As You Need Me To Be [From “TRON: Ares”]
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, songwriters (Nine Inch Nails)
Golden [From “KPop Demon Hunters”]
EJAE & Mark Sonnenblick, songwriters (HUNTR/X: EJAE, Audrey Nuna, REI AMI) -***WINNER***
I Lied to You [From “Sinners”]
Ludwig Göransson & Raphael Saadiq, songwriters (Miles Caton)
Never Too Late [From “Elton John: Never Too Late”]
Brandi Carlile, Elton John, Bernie Taupin & Andrew Watt, songwriters (Elton John, Brandi Carlile)
Pale, Pale Moon [From “Sinners”]
Ludwig Göransson & Brittany Howard, songwriters (Jayme Lawson)
Sinners [From “Sinners”]
Leonard Denisenko, Rodarius Green, Travis Harrington, Tarkan Kozluklu, Kyris Mingo & Darius Povilinus, songwriters (Rod Wave)
Compilation for Visual Media
A Complete Unknown, Timothée Chalamet
F1® The Album, (Various Artists)
KPop Demon Hunters, (Various Artists)
Sinners (Various Artists) – ***WINNER***
Wicked (Various Artists)
Score Soundtrack For Visual Media (Includes Film And Television)
How To Train Your Dragon, John Powell
Severance, Season 2, Theodore Shapiro
Sinners, Ludwig Göransson – ***WINNER***
Wicked, John Powell & Stephen Schwartz
The Wild Robot, Kris Powers
Musical Theater Album
Buena Vista Social Club – ***WINNER***
Death Becomes Her
Gypsy
Just In Time
Maybe Happy Ending
Traditional Country Musical Album
Dollar A Day, Charley Crockett
American Romance, Lukas Nelson
Oh What A Beautiful World, Willie Nelson
Hard Headed Woman, Margo Price
Ain’t In It For My Health, Zach Top – ***WINNER***
Contemporary Country Musical Album
Patterns – Kelsea Ballerini
Snipe Hunter – Tyler Childers
Evangine vs. the Machine – Eric Church
Beautifully Broken – Jelly Roll ***WINNER***
Postcards from Texas – Miranda Lambert
Rock Album
private music, Deftones
I quit, HAIM
From Zero, Linkin Park
NEVER ENOUGH, Turnstile – ***WINNER***
Idols, YUNGBLUD
Metal Performance
Night Terror, Dream Theater
Lachryma, Ghost
Emergence, Sleep Token
Soft Spine, Spirit Box
BIRDS, Turnstile – ***WINNER***
Gospel Performance/Song
Do It Again, Kirk Franklin
Church, Tasha Cobbs Leonard, John Legend
Still (Live), Jonathan McReynolds & Jamal Roberts
Amen, Pastor Mike Jr.; Adia Andrews, Michael McClure Jr
Come Jesus Come, Cece Winans Featuring Shirley Caesar – ***WINNER***
Musica Urbana Album
DeBiTirarMas Fotos, Bad Bunny – ***WINNER***
MixTeip, J Balvin
FERXXO VOL X: Sagrado, Feid
NAIKI, Niki Nicole
EUB DELUXE, Trueno
SINFÓNICO (En Vivo), Yandel
Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
Elvis, Rocky & Me: The Carol Connors Story, Kathy Garver
Into the Uncut Grass, Trevor Noah
Lovely One: A Memoir, Ketanji Brown Jackson
Meditations: The Reflections Of His Holiness The Dalai Lama, Dalai Lama – ***WINNER***
You Know It’s True: The Real Story Of Milli Vanilli, Fab Morvan
Music Video
Young Lion, Sade
Sophie Muller, video director, Sade & Aaaron Taylor Dean, video producers
Manchild, Sabrina Carpenter
Vania Heymann & Gal Muggia, video directors; Aiden Magarian, Nathan Scherrer & Natan Schottenfels,
video producers
So Be It, Clipse
Hannan Hussain, video director; Daniel Order, video producer
Anxiety, Doechii
James Mackel, video director; Pablo Feldman, Jolene Mendes & Sophia Sabella, video producers – ***WINNER***
Love, OK Go
Aaron Duffy, Miguel Espada & Damian Kulash Jr., video directors; Petra Ahmann, video producer
Music Film
Devo, Devo
Chris Smith, video director; Danny Gabai, Anita Greenspan, Chris Holmes & Chris Smith, video
producers
Live at the Royal Albert Hall, RAYE
Paul Dugdale, video director; Stefan Demetriou & Amy James, video producers
Relentless, Diane Warren
Bess Kargman, video director; Peggy Drexler, Michele Farinola & Kat Nguyen, video producers
Music by John Williams, John Williams
Laurent Bouzereau, video director; Sara Bernstein, Laurent Bouzereau, Justin Falvey, Darryl Frank, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Meredith Kaulfers, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Steven Spielberg & Justin Wilkes, video producers – ***WINNER***
Piece by Piece, Pharrell Williams
Morgan Neville, video director; Morgan Neville, Caitrin
Rogers, Mimi Valdes & Pharrell Williams, video producers
The rest of this year’s Grammy nominees and winners are available here.
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Editor-at-Large Gregory Ellwood is one of Hollywood's most respected awards journalists, covering the Oscars and Emmys beat with the access and institutional knowledge that comes from decades reporting at the center of the industry. Based in West Hollywood, he has written for the LA Times, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, HitFix, and Vox, among others.
