Grammy Awards 2024: Hottest red carpet looks, all the award winners - and biggest snubs
Taylor Swift accepts the award for album of the year for Midnights during the 66th annual Grammy Awards. Photo / Chris Pizzello, ap
Hosted by Trevor Noah for the fourth consecutive year, the 66th Grammy Awards are currently taking place in Los Angeles and the Herald has all the updates as they happen.
The first big moment of the event took place moments before the official ceremony began with American rapper Killer Mike being detained by police after he won three Grammy awards - including his first in more than two decades.
Another memorable moment saw Taylor Swift making a huge announcement while accepting her 13th Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Album for Midnights, revealing she is releasing her new album The Tortured Poets Department on April 19.
She later made Grammy history winning her fourth Album of the Year award for ‘Midnights’. Until this year’s awards, Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon and Swift had all won the award three times.
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Elsewhere, Miley Cyrus won her first ever Grammy for best pop solo performance for Flowers, as did Karol G who won the Grammy for best música urbana album.
This year’s award show sees SZA as the leading nominee with a total of nine nods, including Album of the Year for SOS and Song of the Year for Kill Bill — a revenge anthem with an R&B ballad. The song was SZA’s first number one on the Billboard Global 200 and US Hot 100 charts. It went on to spend eight weeks at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 before her April 2023 remix with Doja Cat pushed it to number one.
The final awards of the night saw Victoria Monét make an emotional speech after winning Best New Artist - her third Grammy win of the night.
Cyrus had a huge surprise later in the evening winning her second ever Grammy; Record of the Year for ‘Flowers’. During her acceptance speech, she made several swerves thanking her team and members of her family but noticeably not her father, Billy Ray Cyrus whom she is reportedly estranged from.
Album of the Year was then presented by the Grammy’s top secret surprise guest presenter Celine Dion. The star received a standing ovation when she came on stage after being diagnosed with stiff person syndrome, which caused her to stop performing in late 2022.
She awarded Swift with the Grammy.
Full list of Grammy Award winners:
Record of the Year
“Worship” — Jon Batiste
“Not Strong Enough” — Boygenius
WINNER: “Flowers” — Miley Cyrus
“What Was I Made For?” [from the motion picture Barbie] — Billie Eilish
“On My Mama” — Victoria Monét
“Vampire” — Olivia Rodrigo
“Anti-Hero” — Taylor Swift
“Kill Bill” — SZA
Album of the Year
World Music Radio — Jon Batiste
The Record — Boygenius
Endless Summer Vacation — Miley Cyrus
Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd — Lana Del Rey
The Age of Pleasure — Janelle Monáe
Guts — Olivia Rodrigo
WINNER: Midnights — Taylor Swift
SOS — SZA
Song of the Year
“A&W” — Jack Antonoff, Lana Del Rey, and Sam Dew, songwriters (Lana Del Rey)
“Anti-Hero” — Jack Antonoff and Taylor Swift, songwriters (Taylor Swift)
“Butterfly” — Jon Batiste and Dan Wilson, songwriters (Jon Batiste)
“Dance The Night” (from Barbie The Album) — Caroline Ailin, Dua Lipa, Mark Ronson, and Andrew Wyatt, songwriters (Dua Lipa)
“Flowers” — Miley Cyrus, Gregory Aldae Hein, and Michael Pollack, songwriters (Miley Cyrus)
“Kill Bill” — Rob Bisel, Carter Lang, and Solána Rowe, songwriters (SZA)
“Vampire” — Daniel Nigro and Olivia Rodrigo, songwriters (Olivia Rodrigo)
WINNER: “What Was I Made For?” [from the motion picture Barbie] — Billie Eilish O’Connell and Finneas O’Connell, songwriters (Billie Eilish)
Best New Artist
Gracie Abrams
Fred Again..
Ice Spice
Jelly Roll
Coco Jones
Noah Kahan
WINNER: Victoria Monét
The War and Treaty
Best R&B Song
Coco Jones – ICU
Halle – Angel
Robert Glasper ft. SiR & Alex Isley – Back to Love
WINNER: SZA – Snooze
Victoria Monét – On My Mama
Best Country Album
Rolling Up the Welcome Mat — Kelsea Ballerini
Brothers Osborne — Brothers Osborne
Zach Bryan — Zach Bryan
Rustin’ in the Rain — Tyler Childers
WINNER: Bell Bottom Country — Lainey Wilson
Best Música Urbana Album
“Saturno,” Rauw Alejandro
WINNER: “Mañana Será Bonito,” Karol G
“Data,” Tainy
Best Pop Solo Performance
WINNER: “Flowers,” Miley Cyrus
“Paint the Town Red,” Doja Cat
“What Was I Made For?” from “Barbie,” Billie Eilish
“Vampire,” Olivia Rodrigo
“Anti-Hero,” Taylor Swift
Best Pop Vocal Album
Chemistry — Kelly Clarkson
Endless Summer Vacation — Miley Cyrus
Guts — Olivia Rodrigo-
(Subtract) — Ed Sheeran
WINNER: Midnights — Taylor Swift
Producer of the Year, Non-Classical
WINNER: Jack Antonoff
Dernst “D’Mile” Emile II
Hit-Boy
Metro Boomin
Daniel Nigro
Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical
Edgar Barrera
Jessie Jo Dillon
Shane McAnally
WINNER: Theron Thomas
Justin Tranter
Best Pop Dance Recording
“Baby Don’t Hurt Me” — David Guetta, Anne-Marie, and Coi Leray
“Miracle” — Calvin Harris featuring Ellie Goulding
WINNER: “Padam Padam” — Kylie Minogue
“One in a Million” — Bebe Rexha and David Guetta
“Rush” — Troye Sivan
Best Dance/Electronic Music Album
Playing Robots Into Heaven — James Blake
For That Beautiful Feeling — The Chemical Brothers
WINNER: Actual Life 3 (January 1 – September 9 2022) — Fred again..
Kx5 — Kx5
Quest for Fire — Skrillex
Best Rock Album
But Here We Are — Foo Fighters
Starcatcher — Greta Van Fleet
72 Seasons — Metallica
WINNER: This Is Why — Paramore
In Times New Roman... — Queens of the Stone Age
Best Alternative Music Album
The Car — Arctic Monkeys
WINNER: The Record — Boygenius
Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd — Lana Del Rey
Cracker Island — Gorillaz
I Inside the Old Year Dying — PJ Harvey
Best R&B Album
Girls Night Out — Babyface
What I Didn’t Tell You (Deluxe) — Coco Jones
Special Occasion — Emily King
WINNER: Jaguar II — Victoria Monét
Clear 2: Soft Life EP — Summer Walker
Best Melodic Rap Performance
“Sittin’ on Top of the World” — Burna Boy featuring 21 Savage
“Attention” — Doja Cat
“Spin Bout U” — Drake and 21 Savage
WINNER: “All My Life” — Lil Durk featuring J. Cole
“Low” — SZA
Best Rap Song
“Attention” — Rogét Chahayed, Amala Zandile Dlamini, and Ari Starace, songwriters (Doja Cat)
“Barbie World” [from Barbie The Album] — Isis Naija Gaston, Ephrem Louis Lopez Jr., and Onika Maraj, songwriters (Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice featuring Aqua)
“Just Wanna Rock” — Mohamad Camara, Symere Woods, and Javier Mercado, songwriters (Lil Uzi Vert)
“Rich Flex” — Brytavious Chambers, Isaac “Zac” De Boni, Aubrey Graham, J. Gwin, Anderson Hernandez, Michael “Finatik” Mule, and Shéyaa Bin Abraham-Joseph, songwriters (Drake and 21 Savage)
WINNER: “Scientists & Engineers” — Andre Benjamin, Paul Beauregard, James Blake, Michael Render, Tim Moore, and Dion Wilson, songwriters (Killer Mike featuring André 3000, Future, and Eryn Allen Kane)
Best Alternative Jazz Album
Love in Exile — Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, Shahzad Ismaily
Quality Over Opinion — Louis Cole
SuperBlue: The Iridescent Spree — Kurt Elling, Charlie Hunter, and SuperBlue
Live at the Piano — Cory Henry
WINNER: The Omnichord Real Book — Meshell Ndegeocello
Best Americana Album
Brandy Clark — Brandy Clark
The Chicago Sessions — Rodney Crowell
You’re the One — Rhiannon Giddens
WINNER: Weathervanes — Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
The Returner — Allison Russell
Best Música Mexicana Album (Including Tejano)
Bordado a Mano — Ana Bárbara
La Sánchez — Lila Downs
Motherflower — Flor de Toloache
Amor Como en las Películas de Antes — Lupita Infante
WINNER: Génesis — Peso Pluma
Best African Music Performance
“Amapiano” — Asake and Olamide
“City Boys” — Burna Boy
“Unavailable” — Davido featuring Musa Keys
“Rush” — Ayra Starr
WINNER: “Water” — Tyla
Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media (includes film and television)
Barbie — Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt, composers
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever — Ludwig Göransson, composer
The Fabelmans — John Williams, composer
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny — John Williams, composer
WINNER: Oppenheimer — Ludwig Göransson, composer