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Women owned the night at the 2024 Grammys as female acts took home all the night’s televised awards, including Taylor Swift — who became the first person to win album of the year four times — Billie Eilish for song of the year, Miley Cyrus for record of the year and Victoria Monét for best new artist. Phoebe Bridgers was the night’s top winner, picking up four honors: three with her band boygenius as well as best pop duo/group performance for “Ghost In the Machine” with SZA, who also won three honors.…

While six-time Grammy nominees Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish and Miley Cyrus won multiple awards and, in the case of Swift, made history, at the 2024 Grammys, fellow six-time nominees and past Grammy winners Olivia Rodrigo and Jon Batiste each went home empty-handed despite their half-dozen nominations apiece. Batiste even won album of the year in 2022 and some prognosticators thought he could emerge victorious for the top prize despite the strong female presence among this year’s nominees and winners.…

Barbie came into the 2024 Grammys with 11 nominations and went home with three of them. Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell won song of the year for “What Was I Made For?” Their fellow contenders included Lana Del Rey’s “A&W,” Taylor Swift’s “Anti-Hero,” Jon Batiste’s “Butterfly,” Dua Lipa’s “Dance the Night” also from Barbie, Miley Cyrus’ “Flowers,” SZA’s “Kill Bill” and Olivia Rodrigo’s “Vampire.” During her acceptance speech, Eilish gave a special shout-out to Barbie director Greta…

Taylor Swift secured a historic fourth Album of the Year win, while Miley Cyrus and SZA enjoyed big nights of their own at the 2024 Grammy Awards. Swift’s world-conquering 2023 LP Midnights took home the night’s top prize, making her the first artist to win the award four times. She first won Album of the Year in 2010 for Fearless, then again in 2016 for 1989, and 2021 for Folklore. (Mixing and mastering engineers Tom Coyne, Serban Ghenea, and John Hanes previously won, though Swift is the first artist.)  “I…

Miley Cyrus took home one of the night’s top prizes, record of the year, at the 2024 Grammys for “Flowers,” presented by Meryl Streep and her son-in-law, Mark Ronson. Streep kicked off the presentation by saying they would be presenting the best album of the year, because a record is an album. Then Ronson explained that is not what the award is. It actually recognizes everything that goes into making a song, including artists, producers, recording engineers, mixers and mastering engineers.…

The musician presented the coveted award to Taylor Swift Twenty-seven years ago, Celine Dion was presented Album of the Year for Falling into You by Diana Ross and Sting. The Canadian musician reflected on that career highlight during a rare surprise appearance at the 2024 Grammy Awards, where she presented that same award to Taylor Swift for Midnights. “When I say I’m happy to be here, I really mean it from my heart,” Dion told the audience. She has scarcely been seen amidst her ongoing battle…

Travis Scott went on a rampage while performing hit songs from his UTOPIA album at the 2024 Grammys Sunday night. Standing onstage, surrounded by speakers and smoke, the rapper performed “My Eyes,” “I Know?” and “FE!N.” Towards the end of the set, Scott could be seen going around, breaking chairs and other props that were placed on the stage. Prior to his performance, Scott spoke in a video spoke about his album UTOPIA, which was also nominated for best rap album this year. “If you could…

Victoria Monét took home the trophy for Best New Artist at the 2024 Grammy Awards. Jazz musician Samara Joy, who won in the same field last year, presented the award to the 34-year-old singer-songwriter. “Thank you so much to the champagne servers of tonight,” Monét began, before thanking her mom, (“A single mom raising this really bad girl!”) and describing the “15-year pursuit” she embarked on after moving to Los Angeles in 2009 for her career. She compared herself to a plant, roots growing underground, finally…

Burna Boy performed at the Grammy Awards for the first time, with his representatives noting he is the first Afro-fusion artist to do so in a press release distributed prior to Grammy night. Though Burna is largely associated with the more widely known genre Afrobeats — which itself is often a fusion of genres such as highlife, hip-hop, R&B, and more — he has long attempted to differentiate himself by referring to his own music as Afro-fusion. Other artists, like Ghanaian singer Amaarae, have categorized their music…

Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell won the award for song of the year at the 2024 Grammys for “What Was I Made For?” from Barbie. After Lionel Richie announced the winner, Eilish was visibly shocked. “Yikes… Damn, that’s stupid guys,” the singer said when taking the stage. Eilish went on to say that she was sure there was “not a chance” they would win. “I just want to say, everybody in this category — like that was a crazy list of incredible people! Incredible artists. Crazy right now,” she…