Music awards shows may come and go, but the original Grammys remain The Oscars of the music industry representing the entire music spectrum from classical, country and gospel to rock, rap and reggae.
This year's annual Grammy Awards ceremony was televised on CBS on Sunday, March 14, 2021 at 8PM ET live from the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Hosting this year's ceremony was The Daily Show host and funnyman Trevor Noah.
Trevor Noah takes the Grammy stage for the for time ever to host this year's ceremony.
2021 Grammy nominees
2021 Grammy nominees (also see WINNERS, below) had Beyonce leading the pack with nine nods, followed by Taylor Swift, Dua Lipa and Roddy Ricch, who each earned six nominations. Brittany Howard was close behind with five nominations.
Earning four Grammy nods each were Megan Thee Stallion, DaBaby, Phoebe Bridgers, Justin Bieber, and last year's big winner, Billie Eilish.
As elsewhere, the post-holiday surge of COVID cases forced organizers to rethink the timing of this year's ceremony, which was originally scheduled to air on January 31. Winners accepted their awards virtually, although an A-list of live performances included Bad Bunny, Taylor Swift, Cardi B, BTS, Brandi Carlile, DaBaby, Billie Eilish, Miranda Lambert, Lil Baby, Dua Lipa, Chris Martin, John Mayer, Megan Thee Stallion, Maren Morris, Post Malone, Roddy Ricch, and Harry Styles.
Just up ahead, check out the complete list of 2021 Grammy nominees and winners along with fun facts and trivia about music's biggest night ...
DID YOU KNOW? Top Grammy Awards fun facts
The first ever Grammy for Best Rap
performance
was awarded
in 1989
to
Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff for
"Parents Just Don't Understand".
• The Grammy Awards presentation is the second-most-watched awards show after the Oscars.
• In 2021, Beyoncé earned her 28th Grammy, surpassing country-bluegrass artist Alison Krauss, who’d held the record with 27 Grammys.
• In 1989, the Fresh Prince (Will Smith) and DJ Jazzy Jeff won the first Grammy for a Rap performance.
• The first artists to be stripped of their Grammys were Milli Vanilli in 1989, when it was discovered that their album was not originally sung by them. The duo, which won for Best New Artist that year, lip-synced a live performance during the program.
• Rapper Snoop Dogg has been nominated 12 times for a Grammy but has never won.
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Record of the Year
"Black Parade" — Beyoncé
"Colors" — Black Pumas
"Rockstar" — DaBaby Featuring Roddy Ricch
"Say So" — Doja Cat "Everything I Wanted" — Billie Eilish (WINNER)
"Don't Start Now" — Dua Lipa
"Circles" — Post Malone
"Savage" — Megan Thee Stallion Featuring Beyoncé
Song of the Year
"I Can't Breathe" — Dernst Emile II, H.E.R. & Tiara Thomas, songwriters (H.E.R.) (WINNER)
"Black Parade" — Denisia Andrews, Beyoncé, Stephen Bray, Shawn Carter, Brittany Coney, Derek James Dixie, Akil King, Kim "Kaydence" Krysiuk & Rickie "Caso" Tice, songwriters (Beyoncé)
"The Box" — Samuel Gloade & Rodrick Moore, songwriters (Roddy Ricch)
"Cardigan" — Aaron Dessner & Taylor Swift, songwriters (Taylor Swift)
"Circles" — Louis Bell, Adam Feeney, Kaan Gunesberk, Austin Post & Billy Walsh, songwriters (Post Malone)
"Don't Start Now" — Caroline Ailin, Ian Kirkpatrick, Dua Lipa & Emily Warren, songwriters (Dua Lipa)
"Everything I Wanted" — Billie Eilish O'Connell & Finneas O'Connell, songwriters (Billie Eilish)
"If The World Was Ending" — Julia Michaels & JP Saxe, songwriters (JP Saxe Featuring Julia Michaels)
Album of the Year Folklore — Taylor Swift (WINNER) Chilombo — Jhené Aiko Black Pumas (Deluxe Edition) — Black Pumas Everyday Life — Coldplay Djesse Vol. 3 — Jacob Collier Women In Music Pt. III — Haim Future Nostalgia — Dua Lipa Hollywood's Bleeding — Post Malone
Best New Artist
Megan Thee Stallion (WINNER)
Ingrid Andress
Phoebe Bridgers
Chika
Noah Cyrus
D Smoke
Doja Cat
Kaytranada
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
"Rain On Me" — Lady Gaga with Ariana Grande (WINNER)
"Un Dia (One Day)" — J Balvin, Dua Lipa, Bad Bunny & Tainy
"Intentions" — Justin Bieber Featuring Quavo
"Dynamite" — BTS
"Exile" — Taylor Swift Featuring Bon Iver
Best Pop Vocal Album Future Nostalgia — Dua Lipa (WINNER) Changes — Justin Bieber Chromatica — Lady Gaga Fine Line — Harry Styles Folklore — Taylor Swift
Best Pop Solo Performance
"Watermelon Sugar"— Harry Styles (WINNER)
"Yummy" — Justin Bieber
"Say So" — Doja Cat
"Everything I Wanted" — Billie Eilish
"Don't Start Now" — Dua Lipa
"Cardigan" — Taylor Swift
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album American Standard — James Taylor (WINNER) Blue Umbrella — (Burt Bacharach &) Daniel Tashian True Love: A Celebration of Cole Porter — Harry Connick, Jr. Unfollow the Rules — Rufus Wainwright Judy — Renée Zellweger
Best Dance/Electronic Album Bubba — Kaytranada (WINNER) Kick I — Arca Planet's Mad — Baauer Energy — Disclosure Good Faith — Madeon
Best Dance Recording
"10%" — Kaytranada Featuring Kali Uchis (WINNER)
"On My Mind" — Diplo & SIDEPIECE
"My High" — Disclosure Featuring Aminé & Slowthai
"The Difference" — Flume Featuring Toro Y Moi
"Both of Us" — Jayda G
Best Contemporary Instrumental Album Live at the Royal Albert Hall — Snarky Puppy (WINNER) Axiom — Christian Scott Atunde Adjuah Chronology of a Dream: Live at the Village Vanguard — Jon Batiste Take the Stairs — Black Violin Americana — Grégoire Maret, Romain Collin & Bill Frisell
Best Rock Performance "Shameika" — Fiona Apple (WINNER)
"Not" — Big Thief
"Kyoto" — Phoebe Bridgers
"The Steps" — HAIM
"Stay High" — Brittany Howard
"Daylight" — Grace Potter
Best Metal Performance "Bum-Rush" — Body Count (WINNER)
"Underneath" — Code Orange
"The In-Between" — In This Moment
"Bloodmoney" — Poppy
"Executioner's Tax (Swing of the Axe) — Live" — Power Trip
Best Rock Song
"Stay High" — Brittany Howard, Songwriter (Brittany Howard) (WINNER)
"Kyoto" — Phoebe Bridgers, Morgan Nagler & Marshall Vore, Songwriters (Phoebe Bridgers)
"Lost in Yesterday" — Kevin Parker, Songwriter (Tame Impala)
"Not" — Adrianne Lenker, Songwriter (Big Thief)
"Shameika" — Fiona Apple, Songwriter (Fiona Apple)
Best Rock Album The New Abnormal — The Strokes (WINNER) A Hero's Death — Fontaines D.C. Kiwanuka — Michael Kiwanuka Daylight — Grace Potter
Sound & Fury — Sturgill Simpson
Best Alternative Music Album Fetch the Bolt Cutters — Fiona Apple (WINNER) Hyperspace — Beck Punisher — Phoebe Bridgers Jaime — Brittany Howard The Slow Rush — Tame Impala
Best Progressive R&B Album It Is What It Is — Thundercat (WINNER) Chilombo — Jhené Aiko Ungodly Hour — Chloe X Halle Free Nationals — Free Nationals F*** Yo Feelings — Robert Glasper
Best R&B Performance
"Black Parade" — Beyoncé (WINNER)
"Lightning & Thunder" — Jhené Aiko Featuring John Legend
"All I Need" — Jacob Collier Featuring Mahalia & Ty Dolla $Ign
"Goat Head" — Brittany Howard
"See Me" — Emily King
Best Traditional R&B Performance
"Anything for You" — Ledisi (WINNER)
"Sit on Down" — The Baylor Project Featuring Jean Baylor & Marcus Baylor
"Wonder What She Thinks of Me" — Chloe X Halle
"Let Me Go" — Mykal Kilgore
"Distance" — Yebba
Best R&B Song "Better Than I Imagine" — Robert Glasper, Meshell Ndegeocello & Gabriella Wilson, Songwriters (Robert Glasper Featuring H.E.R. & Meshell Ndegeocello) (WINNER)
"Black Parade" — Denisia Andrews, Beyoncé, Stephen Bray, Shawn Carter, Brittany Coney, Derek James Dixie, Akil King, Kim "Kaydence" Krysiuk & Rickie "Caso" Tice, Songwriters (Beyoncé)
"Collide" — Sam Barsh, Stacey Barthe, Sonyae Elise, Olu Fann, Akil King, Josh Lopez, Kaveh Rastegar & Benedetto Rotondi, Songwriters (Tiana Major9 & EARTHGANG)
"Do It" — Chloe Bailey, Halle Bailey, Anton Kuhl, Victoria Monét, Scott Storch & Vincent Van Den Ende, Songwriters (Chloe X Halle)
"Slow Down" — Nasri Atweh, Badriia Bourelly, Skip Marley, Ryan Williamson & Gabriella Wilson, Songwriters (Skip Marley & H.E.R.)
Best R&B Album
Bigger Love — John Legend (WINNER)
Happy 2 Be Here — Ant Clemons
Take Time — Giveon
To Feel Love/D — Luke James
All Rise — Gregory Porter
Best Melodic Rap Performance
"Lockdown" — Anderson .Paak (WINNER)
"Rockstar" — Dababy Featuring Roddy Ricch
"Laugh Now Cry Later" — Drake Featuring Lil Durk
"The Box" — Roddy Ricch
"Highest in the Room" — Travis Scott
Best Rap Song
"Savage" — Beyoncé, Shawn Carter, Brittany Hazzard, Derrick Milano, Terius Nash, Megan Pete, Bobby Session Jr., Jordan Kyle Lanier Thorpe & Anthony White, Songwriters (Megan Thee Stallion Featuring Beyoncé) (WINNER)
"The Bigger Picture" — Dominique Jones, Noah Pettigrew & Rai'shaun Williams, Songwriters (Lil Baby)
"The Box" — Larrance Dopson, Samuel Gloade, Rodrick Moore, Adarius Moragne, Eric Sloan & Khirye Anthony Tyler, Songwriters (Roddy Ricch)
"Laugh Now Cry Later" — Durk Banks, Rogét Chahayed, Aubrey Graham, Daveon Jackson, Ron Latour & Ryan Martinez, Songwriters (Drake Featuring Lil Durk)
"Rockstar" — Jonathan Lyndale Kirk, Ross Joseph Portaro IV & Rodrick Moore, Songwriters (Dababy Featuring Roddy Ricch)
Best Rap Album King's Disease — Nas (WINNER) Black Habits — D Smoke Alfredo — Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist A Written Testimony — Jay Electronica The Allegory — Royce 5’9"
Best Rap Performance
"Savage" — Megan Thee Stallion Featuring Beyoncé (WINNER)
"Deep Reverence" — Big Sean Featuring Nipsey Hussle
"Bop" — DaBaby
"What's Poppin" — Jack Harlow
"The Bigger Picture" — Lil Baby
"Dior" — Pop Smoke
Best Country Album Wildcard — Miranda Lambert (WINNER) Lady Like — Ingrid Andress Your Life Is a Record — Brandy Clark Nightfall — Little Big Town Never Will — Ashley McBryde
Best Country Solo Performance
"When My Amy Prays" — Vince Gill (WINNER)
"Stick That in Your Country Song" — Eric Church
"Who You Thought I Was" — Brandy Clark
"Black Like Me" — Mickey Guyton
"Bluebird" — Miranda Lambert
Best Country Duo/Group Performance
"10,000 Hours" — Dan + Shay & Justin Bieber (WINNER)
"All Night" — Brothers Osborne
"Ocean" — Lady A
"Sugar Coat" — Little Big Town
"Some People Do" — Old Dominion
Best Country Song
"Crowded Table" — Brandi Carlile, Natalie Hemby & Lori Mckenna, Songwriters (The Highwomen) (WINNER)
"Bluebird" — Luke Dick, Natalie Hemby & Miranda Lambert, Songwriters (Miranda Lambert)
"The Bones" — Maren Morris, Jimmy Robbins & Laura Veltz, Songwriters (Maren Morris)
"More Hearts Than Mine" — Ingrid Andress, Sam Ellis & Derrick Southerland, Songwriters (Ingrid Andress)
Some People Do" — Jesse Frasure, Shane McAnally, Matthew Ramsey & Thomas Rhett, Songwriters (Old Dominion)
Best New Age Album More Guitar Stories — Jim "Kimo" West (WINNER) Songs From the Bardo — Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal & Jesse Paris Smith Periphery — Priya Darshini Form//Less — Superposition Meditations — Cory Wong & Jon Batiste
Best Jazz Vocal Album Secrets Are the Best Stories — Kurt Elling Featuring Danilo Pérez (WINNER) Ona — Thana Alexa Modern Ancestors — Carmen Lundy Holy Room: Live at Alte Oper — Somi With Frankfurt Radio Big Band What's the Hurry — Kenny Washington
Best Improvised Jazz Solo
"All Blues" — Chick Corea (WINNER)
"Guinnevere" — Christian Scott Atunde Adjuah
"Pachamama" — Regina Carter
"Celia" — Gerald Clayton
"Moe Honk" — Joshua Redman
Best Jazz Instrumental Album Trilogy 2 — Chick Corea, Christian Mcbride & Brian Blade (WINNER) On the Tender Spot of Every Calloused Moment — Ambrose Akinmusire Waiting Game — Terri Lyne Carrington And Social Science Happening: Live at the Village Vanguard — Gerald Clayton
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album Data Lords — Maria Schneider Orchestra (WINNER) Dialogues on Race — Gregg August Monk'estra Plays John Beasley — John Beasley's MONK'estra The Intangible Between — Orrin Evans and the Captain Black Big Band Songs You Like a Lot — John Hollenbeck With Theo Bleckmann, Kate Mcgarry, Gary Versace and the Frankfurt Radio Big Band
Best Latin Jazz Album Four Questions — Arturo O'Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra (WINNER) Tradiciones — Afro-Peruvian Jazz Orchestra City of Dreams — Chico Pinheiro Viento Y Tiempo — Live at Blue Note Tokyo — Gonzalo Rubalcaba & Aymée Nuviola Trane's Delight — Poncho Sanchez
Best Gospel Performance/Song
"Movin' On" — Jonathan Mcreynolds & Mali Music; Darryl L. Howell, Jonathan Caleb Mcreynolds, Kortney Jamaal Pollard & Terrell Demetrius Wilson, Songwriters (WINNER)
"Wonderful Is Your Name" — Melvin Crispell III
"Release (Live)" — Ricky Dillard Featuring Tiff Joy; David Frazier, Songwriter
"Come Together" — Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins Present: The Good News; Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins & Jazz Nixon, Producers; Lashawn Daniels, Rodney Jerkins, Lecrae Moore & Jazz Nixon, Songwriters
"Won't Let Go" — Travis Greene; Travis Greene, Songwriter
Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song
"There Was Jesus" — Zach Williams & Dolly Parton; Casey Beathard, Jonathan Smith & Zach Williams, Songwriters (WINNER)
"The Blessing (Live)" — Kari Jobe, Cody Carnes & Elevation Worship; Chris Brown, Cody Carnes, Kari Jobe Carnes & Steven Furtick, Songwriters
"Sunday Morning" — Lecrae Featuring Kirk Franklin; Denisia Andrews, Jones Terrence Antonio, Saint Bodhi, Rafael X. Brown, Brittany Coney, Kirk Franklin, Lasanna Harris, Shama Joseph, Stuart Lowery, Lecrae Moore & Nathanael Saint-Fleur, Songwriters
"Holy Water" — We the Kingdom; Andrew Bergthold, Ed Cash, Franni Cash, Martin Cash & Scott Cash, Songwriters
"Famous For (I Believe)" — Tauren Wells Featuring Jenn Johnson; Chuck Butler, Krissy Nordhoff, Jordan Sapp, Alexis Slifer & Tauren Wells, Songwriters
Best Gospel Album Gospel According to PJ — PJ Morton (WINNER) 2econd Wind: Ready — Anthony Brown & Group Therapy My Tribute — Myron Butler Choirmaster — Ricky Dillard Kierra — Kierra Sheard
Best Contemporary Christian Music Album Jesus Is King — Kanye West (WINNER) Run to the Father — Cody Carnes All of My Best Friends — Hillsong Young & Free Holy Water — We the Kingdom Citizen of Heaven — Tauren Wells
Best Roots Gospel Album Celebrating Fisk! (The 150th Anniversary Album) — Fisk Jubilee Singers (WINNER) Beautiful Day — Mark Bishop 20/20 — The Crabb Family What Christmas Really Means — The Erwins Something Beautiful — Ernie Haase & Signature Sound
Best Latin Pop or Urban Album YHLQMDLG — Bad Bunny (WINNER) Por Primera Vez — Camilo Mesa Para Dos — Kany García Pausa — Ricky Martin 3:33 — Debi Nova
Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album La Conquista del Espacio — Fito Paez (WINNER)
Aura — Bajofondo
Monstruo — Cami
Sobrevolando — Cultura Profética
Miss Colombia — Lido Pimienta
Best Regional Mexican Music Album (Including Tejano)
Un Canoto por México, Vol. 1 — Natalia Lafourcade (WINNER)
Hecho en México — Alejandro Fernández
La Serenata — Lupita Infante
Bailando Sones y Huapangos Con Mariachi Sol de Mexico de Jose Hernandez — Mariachi Sol de Mexico de Jose Hernandez
Ayayay! — Christian Nodal
Best Tropical Latin Album 40 — Grupo Niche (WINNER)
Mi Tumbao — José Alberto "El Ruiseñor"
Infinito — Edwin Bonilla
Sigo Cantando al Amor (Deluxe) — Jorge Celedon & Sergio Luis
Memorias de Navidad — Víctor Manuelle
Best Americana Album World On The Ground — Sarah Jarosz (WINNER) Old Flowers — Courtney Marie Andrews Terms Of Surrender — Hiss Golden Messenger El Dorado — Marcus King Good Souls Better Angels — Lucinda Williams
Best American Roots Performance
"I Remember Everything" — John Prine (WINNER)
"Colors" — Black Pumas
"Deep in Love" — Bonny Light Horseman
"Short and Sweet" — Brittany Howard
"I'll Be Gone" — Norah Jones & Mavis Staples
Best American Roots Song
"I Remember Everything" — Pat McLaughlin & John Prine, Songwriters (John Prine) (WINNER)
"Cabin" — Laura Rogers & Lydia Rogers, Songwriters (The Secret Sisters)
"Ceiling to the Floor" — Sierra Hull & Kai Welch, Songwriters (Sierra Hull)
"Hometown" — Sarah Jarosz, Songwriter (Sarah Jarosz)
"Man Without a Soul" — Tom Overby & Lucinda Williams, Songwriters (Lucinda Williams)
Best Bluegrass Album Home — Billy Strings (WINNER) Man on Fire — Danny Barnes To Live in Two Worlds, Vol. 1 — Thomm Jutz North Carolina Songbook — Steep Canyon Rangers The John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project, Vol. 1 — Various Artists
Best Traditional Blues Album Rawer Than Raw — Bobby Rush (WINNER) All My Dues Are Paid — Frank Bey You Make Me Feel — Don Bryant That's What I Heard — Robert Cray Band Cypress Grove — Jimmy "Duck" Holmes
Best Folk Album All the Good Times — Gillian Welch & David Rawlings (WINNER) Bonny Light Horseman — Bonny Light Horseman Thanks for the Dance — Leonard Cohen Song for Our Daughter — Laura Marling Saturn Return — The Secret Sisters
Best Regional Roots Music Album Atmosphere — New Orleans Nightcrawlers (WINNER) My Relatives "Nikso Kowaiks" — Black Lodge Singers Cameron Dupuy and the Cajun Troubadours — Cameron Dupuy and the Cajun Troubadours Lovely Sunrise — Nā Wai ʽehā A Tribute to Al Berard — Sweet Cecilia
Best Contemporary Blues Album Have You Lost Your Mind Yet? — Fantastic Negrito (WINNER) Live at the Paramount — Ruthie Foster Big Band The Juice — G. Love Blackbirds — Bettye LaVette Up and Rolling — North Mississippi Allstars
Best Global Music Album Twice As Tall — Burna Boy (WINNER) FU Chronicles — Antibalas Agora — Bebel Gilberto Love Letters — Anoushka Shankar Amadjar — Tinariwen
Best Reggae Album Got to Be Tough — Toots & The Maytals (WINNER) Upside Down 2020 — Buju Banton Higher Place — Skip Marley It All Comes Back to Love — Maxi Priest One World — The Wailers
Best Children's Music Album All the Ladies — Joanie Leeds (WINNER) Be a Pain: An Album for Young (and Old) Leaders — Alastair Moock And Friends I'm an Optimist — Dog on Fleas Songs for Singin' — The Okee Dokee Brothers Wild Life — Justin Roberts
Best Comedy Album Black Mitzvah — Tiffany Haddish (WINNER) I Love Everything — Patton Oswalt The Pale Tourist — Jim Gaffigan Paper Tiger — Bill Burr 23 Hours to Kill — Jerry Seinfeld
Best Musical Theater Album Jagged Little Pill (WINNER)
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