The Television Academy handed out 94 Grammy Awards this year and a majority of those were announced during a 3-hour ceremony before the main CBS telecast. Despite many of the winners waiting to show up to Staples, er, Crypto.com Arena for the main ceremony, three Oscar nominees, Billie Eilish, Finneas, and Ludwig Göransson took home big Grammy wins in the pre-ceremony across the street at the Peacock Theater. Oh, and The Beatles won a Grammy in 2024 for Best Music Video while Kylie Minogue won her second Grammy for “Padam Padam” in the Pop Dance Recording category.

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The 2021 Grammy Awards were handed out in a hybrid-live ceremony in Los Angeles hosted by “The Daily Show’s” Trevor Noah. In a night that spread the wealth, H.E.R. surprised many by winning Song of the Year for the very deserving “I Can’t Breathe,” Taylor Swift took Album of the Year for “Folklore” and Billie Eilish won Record of the Year for “Everything I Wanted.”

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The pandemic is full of surprises and that includes the delayed 2021 Grammy Awards ceremony. In what we believe is a first for the Grammy Awards, a song nominated for the Song Written for Visual Media category has won before the project was ever released. Billie Eilish and Finneas took the Grammy for “No Time To Die” which is now scheduled for release in the U.S. on Oct. 8, 2021.

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There was a good hour where you wondered “What were the producers thinking?” but for the most part, the 2019 Grammy Awards were incredibly entertaining.  Especially considering the lack of awards handed out on the telecast and its 3-hour and 40-minute or so runtime.

You can find out all of the major category winners here, but here’s a look at some of the best and worst moments of the telecast.

Best: Production Design of “Havana”
Camila Cabello’s “Havanna” feels like it’s been out forever (August 2017 qualifies thanks to Grammy rules) but Ricky Martin doing a cameo and some sick dancers helped freshen it up a bit.

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In the face of criticism over the lack of minority and female nominees in its top categories, the Recording Academy has informed its members that it is taking action.  Beginning with next year’s Grammys, major awards such as Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best New Artist will expand from five to eight nominees.  And, frankly, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the caretakers of the Academy Awards, should pay close attention.

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In many ways the 60th Grammy Awards were not only lacking in star power, but any sense of history for a major anniversary for music’s most prestigious honor. Perhaps considering the political and social justice tone of the evening the artists commandeered it to be about looking forward and not to the past. That’s a good thing.

Unfortunately, the winners were sadly predictable in may respects.  Too few won too many awards (in this case Bruno Mars and Kendrick Lamar) and the artist who would have been the most generic pick possible took home the major honors (Mars).

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The 60th Grammy Awards were handed out in New York City on Sunday over separate pre-telecast and live broadcast ceremonies.  The biggest winner of the night was Bruno Mars who won Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, R&P Performance, R&B Song, R&B Album and Engineered Album.  Kendrick Lamar took Rap Performance, Rap/Sung Performance, Rap Song, Rap Album aand Music Video .  Ed Sheeran won Pop Performance, Pop Vocal Album and Pop Solo Performance, but did not attend the ceremony. 

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