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The Grammy Awards (originally called the Gramophone Awards), presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in the recording industry, is one of four major music awards shows held annually in the United States (the Billboard Music Awards, the American Music Awards, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, make up the rest). However, the Grammys, usually held in February (last of what are considered the "big three" music awards shows, including the BMA and AMA shows), are considered the approximate equivalent to the Oscars in the music world.

Like the Oscars, the Grammys, which currently have 108 categories within 30 genres of music such as pop, gospel, and rap, are voted upon by peers (voting members of the Recording Academy) rather than being based upon popularity like the AMAs or sales and chart achievements like the BMAs.

The awards are named for the trophy which the winner receives—a small gilded statuette of a gramophone, handcrafted by Billings Artworks. The awards ceremony features performances by prominent artists, and some of the more prominent Grammys are presented in a widely-viewed televised ceremony.

Some feel that Grammys tend to go to either well-established artists or those being hyped by the recording industry. In fact, many popular artists such as Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Garth Brooks, Pink Floyd, Kenny Rogers, The Rolling Stones, Metallica, Van Halen, and Ozzy Osbourne have been awarded very few Grammys. Mariah Carey had only won two Grammy awards up until the awards of 2006; she now has won a total of five. Significant, long-lived rock bands like Led Zeppelin, Bon Jovi, Guns N' Roses, Def Leppard, Queen, AC/DC, and Mötley Crüe have received none. On the other hand, U2 has received 22 awards to date.

Of the "big three" music awards shows, the Grammys are the highest rated.

The eligibility period for the Grammys begins November 1. For example, John Lennon & Yoko Ono's album Double Fantasy was released in November 17, 1980, 16 days too late to qualify for the 1981 Grammys; it was entered for the 1982 awards and eventually won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year.

The Grammys are currently broadcast on CBS. Prior to the first live Grammys telecast in 1971 on ABC (CBS bought the rights in 1973 after moving the ceremony to Nashville, Tennessee; the American Music Awards were created for ABC as a result), a series of taped annual specials in the 1960s called The Best on Record were broadcast on NBC.

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Grammy records

The record for most lifetime Grammys is held by Sir Georg Solti, who was the conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for twenty-two years. He personally won 31 Grammys and is listed for 38 Grammys (6 went to the engineer and 1 to a soloist); he was nominated an additional 74 times before his death in 1997.

Pat Metheny and the Pat Metheny Group have won 17 Grammys in total, including seven consecutive awards for seven consecutive albums. Metheny held the record for Grammy wins in the most different categories as of the 2005 Grammy Awards:

  1. Best Jazz Fusion Performance (1983, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1990)
  1. Best Instrumental Composition (1991)
  1. Best Contemporary Jazz Performance/Album (1993, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2003, 2005)
  1. Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual or Group (1998, 2000)
  1. Best Rock Instrumental Performance (1999)
  1. Best Jazz Instrumental Solo (2001)
Session drummer Hal Blaine played on six consecutive records which won Record of the Year:

  1. 1966 Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass - "A Taste of Honey"
  1. 1967 Frank Sinatra - "Strangers in the Night"
  1. 1968 5th Dimension - "Up, Up and Away"
  1. 1969 Simon & Garfunkel - "Mrs. Robinson"
  1. 1970 5th Dimension - "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In"
  1. 1971 Simon & Garfunkel - "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
Alison Krauss (as a solo artist, collaborator, producer and with Union Station) has taken home 20 Grammy Awards, the most of any female artist or any country artist. She is now tied for 7th on the all-time winners list.

Motown artist Stevie Wonder has won 24 awards, including 12 in the 1970s. Three of those awards were for Album of the Year for three consecutive albums.

Legendary Opera Diva Leontyne Price has won 18 awards.

Soul and R&B legend Aretha Franklin has won 11 awards for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, including 8 consecutive (and the first 8 ever awarded) awards in the category:

  1. 1968 - "Respect"
  1. 1969 - "Chain of Fools"
  1. 1970 - "Share Your Love With Me"
  1. 1971 - "Don't Play That Song"
  1. 1972 - "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
  1. 1973 - Young, Gifted, and Black
  1. 1974 - "Master of Eyes"
  1. 1975 - "Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing"
  1. 1982 - "Hold On, I'm Comin'"
  1. 1986 - "Freeway of Love"
  1. 1988 - Aretha
The most Grammys won in a single night is eight -- a record shared by Michael Jackson (1983) and Carlos Santana (2000).

Michael Jackson: 

Santana:
The record for most Grammys (5) won in a single night by a female artist is held by four artists: Beyoncé Knowles 2004, Norah Jones 2003, Alicia Keys 2002, Lauryn Hill 1999

Beyoncé:

Beyoncé for "Dangerously In Love 2"

Luther Vandross & Beyoncé for "The Closer I Get to You"

Shawn Carter, Rich Harrison, Beyoncé Knowles & Eugene Record for "Crazy in Love" performed by Beyoncé featuring Jay-Z

Beyoncé for Dangerously in Love

Beyoncé featuring Jay-Z for "Crazy In Love"

Norah Jones:

Norah Jones for "Don't Know Why"

Norah Jones for Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

Norah Jones for "Don't Know Why"

Norah Jones for Come Away With Me

Alicia Keys:

Alicia Keys for "Fallin'"

Alicia Keys

Alicia Keys for "Fallin'"

Alicia Keys (songwriter) for "Fallin'"

Alicia Keys for Songs in A Minor

Lauryn Hill:

Lauryn Hill for The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill for "Doo Wop (That Thing)"

Lauryn Hill (songwriter) for "Doo Wop (That Thing)"

Lauryn Hill for The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Christopher Cross (Grammy Awards of 1981) is the only artist to receive the "Big Four" (Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist) in a single ceremony. As a side note, Norah Jones (Grammy Awards of 2003) won Record of the Year, Album of the Year; that same year her guitarist, Jesse Harris, won the Song of the Year for writing 'Don't Know Why'. Although Norah sang the song, she did not receive the Song of the Year Grammy because it is a songwriter's award.

Béla Fleck has been nominated in more categories than any other musician, namely country, pop, jazz, bluegrass, classical, folk, and spoken word, as well as composition and arranging.

Award categories

Bold ones, known 'The Big Four', are the most prestigious awards of all.

Alternative

Blues

Children's

Classical

Comedy

Composing and arranging

Country

Dance

Disco

Film/TV/Media

Folk

Gospel

Historical

Jazz

Latin

Musical Show

Music Video

New Age

Packaging and notes

Polka

Pop

Production and engineering

R&B

Rap

Reggae

Rock

Surround Sound

Spoken

Traditional Pop

World

Awards by year

Years reflect the year in which the awards were presented, for music released in the previous year.

Grammy Awards by year
1959 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006


U.S. Music Awards
Major Ceremonies
American Music Awards | Billboard Music Awards | Grammy Awards | Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Minor award ceremonies
Soul Train Music Awards | MTV Video Music Awards | Latin Grammy Awards | BET Awards | Teen Choice Awards | Radio Music Awards

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