Blue Ivy Carter is the youngest individually credited winner. She was 9 years old when she won her first award in 2021, after she was credited on her mother Beyoncé's song "Brown Skin Girl", released in 2019. LeAnn Rimes is the youngest individual winner. She was 14 years old when she won her first two awards in 1997.
8-year-old Leah Peasall, who won in 2002 after being featured on the "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" soundtrack, holds the record as the youngest-ever Grammy winner. Blue Ivy Carter, at 9, became the second-youngest in 2021.
At age 14, Harlem-native Walter Russell III secured his first Grammy at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards held earlier this month.
Sinead O'Connor has always been an artist who refuses to beat to the sound of anyone else's drum. The Irish singer is a maverick in the truest sense of the word, and O'Connor proved this in 1991 when she turned down an award from the Grammys.
Eilish has received multiple accolades, including seven Grammy Awards, two American Music Awards, two Guinness World Records, three MTV Video Music Awards, three Brit Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and an Academy Award.
Grande has received numerous accolades throughout her career, including two Grammy Awards, one Brit Award, one Bambi Award, two Billboard Music Awards, three American Music Awards, nine MTV Video Music Awards, and 30 Guinness World Records.
Monica. Sure, her 1999 Grammy win at 18 years and 123 days old was overshadowed by a now-long-rumored feud with her “The Boy is Mine” duet mate Brandy — but Monica has survived that and much more.
Formally, there are no cash prizes associated with winning a Grammy award and even selling the statue is against the rules of the Recording Academy, the organization that presents the awards.
Sell A Grammy, Break A Law
It's illegal to sell a Grammy since the statues legally belong to the National Academy of Recording Arts & Science. This might explain why more one-hit wonder Grammys aren't floating around on Ebay.
they will never understand bts like we do,” one wrote, referring to BTS's music video Yet To Come, which was nominated but instead was beaten by Taylor Swift. Others were furious that BTS lost to Sam Smith and Kim Petra's Unholy. Another angry fan wrote, “'You need me i don't need you'.
Kanye West has accumulated his 21 Grammys in even less time than his frequent collaborator Jay-Z. He won three awards in rap and R&B categories in 2004, and then he kept winning almost every year until 2013, when he received his most recent plaudits.
Even country singer Dolly Parton has “only” won 10 Grammys despite being a country music legend and pop cultural phenomenon.
Georg Soltí: 31 Grammys
British-Hungarian conductor Georg Soltí kept the Grammy win record at 31 awards for 25 years. The renowned orchestral leader won his last Grammy in 1998 — just months after he died in September of 1997 at age 84 — for his recording of Richard Wagner's opera Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg.
However, once the statuette is awarded, its actual value drops to $0, as the Recording Academy prohibits the resale of its awards. Although the award has no value, there is a monetary addition to the winners due to the phenomenon known as the 'Grammy bounce.
Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, has been barred from performing at the 2022 Grammy Awards because of his "concerning online behavior," according to a spokesperson for the controversial artist.
The record for the most Grammy Awards won in a lifetime is held by Beyoncé, an American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer, who has won 32. It was previously held by Georg Solti, a Hungarian-British conductor, who won 31.
Long before Kendrick Lamar, Ariana Grande, Drake, and Childish Gambino's refusal to perform at the Grammys, and ahead of Jay-Z and Kanye's skipping of the ceremonies (despite collecting multiple awards), Sinead O'Connor, whose 53rd birthday is this week, became the first musical artist to say “no” to The Recording ...
Taylor Swift's Best Music Video win was her first of the 2023 GRAMMYs, which also marked another GRAMMY first for the superstar.
American rappers Jay-Z and Kanye West are two-time winners of this award; fellow American rapper Kendrick Lamar is a six-time winner.
However, on November 20, 1990, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences revoked the award after producer Frank Farian admitted the duo did not sing at all on their album, Girl You Know It's True. As of the 2021 ceremony, this is the only time where a Grammy has been revoked.
Black Eyed Peas - 6 Grammy Award Wins.
They are the first Korean pop act to receive a Grammy Award nomination, and the first Korean artist to be nominated for a Brit Award. With 30 awards overall, including a record four consecutive wins for Artist of the Year (Asia), BTS are the most-awarded foreign artist in the history of the Japan Gold Disc Awards.
Not only did she become the youngest person to win one of Grammy's top awards — record, song and album of the year, and best new artist — Eilish is the first artist to sweep all four since Christopher Cross in 1981.