With one other 12 months’s value of Grammys handed out, it’s high time to examine in on Grammy Award records and all the massive names who’ve broken them over the course of the awards show’s six-decade history.
Taylor Swift skipped the 2019 Grammys — as a substitute opting to attend the British Academy Film Awards with boyfriend Joe Alwyn — but she broke a Grammy record back in 2010 when she was still verging on the country side of pop music. Swift was barely out of her teens on the time, however the record holder for youngest Grammy winner was 12 years younger when she won.
Beyoncé and Jay-Z were also no-shows on the 2019 ceremony, but they returned in 2021 — and have all the time remained legends within the Recording Academy’s eyes. Jay-Z tied with Quincy Jones for many nominations (80), and Beyoncé broke a record in 2010 that Adele tied in 2012, as detailed within the gallery below. Queen Bey can also be probably the most decorated female artist of all time.
Billie Eilish, for her part, swept the 2020 awards show with wins in the most important categories of the night, including Album of the 12 months, Song of the 12 months, Record of the 12 months and Best Latest Artist. Plus, she was just 18 years old on the time.
“[Billie] was very grateful, obviously, and a whole lot of her friends were there,” her brother, Finneas O’Connell, told Vogue in February 2020. “She has more ‘drift’ than I do, but we were each sort of embarrassed to win a lot; you hope that it’s going to be sort of equal, but after the third in a row … Well, we love all our fellow nominees.”
The producer noted that he was pulling for Lizzo or Lil Nas X. “If I’d bet on anyone, I might have lost money in us winning every thing,” he said.
O’Connell continued: “I believed ‘Truth Hurts’ would win Record of the 12 months. And I believed ‘Old Town Road’ would win Song of the 12 months since it was. I used to be hopeful about Album of the 12 months, and that’s one which I’m really happy with because I like listening to that album front to back. That was the one one which I used to be like, ‘Perhaps!’”
And though Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Bruce Springsteen, Kanye West and Stevie Wonder have all earned 20 or more Grammy Awards to date, not one in all those artists are near beating the record for probably the most lifetime Grammy wins. Scroll right down to see that record holder and several other more stars whose award shelves should be needing reinforcements.
