66th Annual Grammy Awards

The 66th Annual Grammy Awards honored the best recordings, compositions, and artists from October 1, 2022, to September 15, 2023, as chosen by the members of The Recording Academy, on February 4, 2024. In its 21st year at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, the ceremony was broadcast on CBS and available to stream on Paramount+, and was hosted by Trevor Noah for the fourth time.

The nominations were announced on November 10, 2023; SZA received the most nominations with nine, followed by Victoria Monét, Phoebe Bridgers (solo and as part of boygenius), and Serban Ghenea with seven each. Monét's 2-year-old daughter, Hazel, became the youngest nominee in Grammy Awards history; she was a featured artist on her mother's song "Hollywood", which was nominated for Best Traditional R&B Performance.

Bridgers was the night's biggest winner, receiving four awards: Three as part of Boygenius (Best Rock Song, Best Rock Performance, and Best Alternative Music Album), and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance alongside SZA. SZA, Monét, and Killer Mike received three awards each. Taylor Swift made history as the first singer to win Album of the Year four times, and engineer Serban Ghenea extended his record with a fifth award in the category as well. South African singer Tyla was the winner of the inaugural Best African Performance award.

In the big four categories, Swift's Midnights won the aforementioned Album of the Year prize; Miley Cyrus's "Flowers" won Record of the Year; Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas won Song of the Year for "What Was I Made For?" (from the soundtrack of Barbie); and Victoria Monét took home Best New Artist.

Background
For the 2024 ceremony, the academy announced several changes for different categories, the introduction of new categories, and updates on eligibility rules:

Category changes

 * Three new categories – Best African Music Performance, Best Alternative Jazz Album and Best Pop Dance Recording – were added. There are 94 categories total.
 * Two categories, Producer of the Year, Non-Classical and Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical, were moved to the General Field and can now be voted on by the entire Grammy voting membership.
 * The number of nominees in the "Big Four" General Field categories (Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist) was reduced again from ten to eight.
 * In order to qualify as a nominee on a project nominated for Album of the Year, the credited [lead] artists, featured artists, songwriters, producers, engineers, mixers and mastering engineers must play on a total of 20% of an album's playing time. There had previously been no minimum level of involvement required at the preceding two Grammy Awards.
 * The requirement that a project must include at least 51% performance-based material has been removed from the Best Music Film category.
 * Best Regional Mexican Music Album (including Tejano) has been renamed Best Música Mexicana Album (including Tejano).
 * Best Improvised Jazz Solo has been renamed Best Jazz Solo Performance.

Field changes
The Grammy ballot was reduced from 26 fields to 11, not including the General Field. The Recording Academy stated that this was done to ensure that all voting members were able to exercise all 10 of their allocated votes, as this was prevented when some fields only contained one category. In addition to their votes in the General Field, voters are encouraged to cast up to ten genre category votes spread across a maximum of three fields. As of the 66th Annual Grammy Awards, the fields are listed as follows: 1. General (6 categories)

2. Pop & Dance/Electronic Music (6 categories)

3. Rock, Metal & Alternative Music (6 categories)

4. R&B, Rap & Spoken Word Poetry (10 categories)

5. Jazz, Traditional Pop, Contemporary Instrumental & Musical Theater (9 categories)

6. Country & American Roots Music (13 categories)

7. Gospel & Contemporary Christian Music (5 categories)

8. Latin, Global, African, Reggae & New Age, Ambient or Chant Music (10 categories)

9. Children's, Comedy, Audiobook Narration and Storytelling, Visual Media & Music Video/Film (9 categories)

10. Package, Notes & Historical (4 categories)

11. Production, Engineering, Composition & Arrangement (8 categories)

12. Classical Music (8 categories)

Artificial intelligence ineligibility
On June 16, 2023, in response to the rapidly developing field of artificial intelligence (AI), the Recording Academy declared that "only human creators are eligible to be submitted for consideration for, nominated for, or win a Grammy Award. A work that contains no human authorship is not eligible in any categories." The organization further specified that works featuring AI-generated material are eligible for an award only if a human contributed to the work meaningfully in the creation process and that contributors of only AI-generated material are not eligible for an award. This controversy was cleared up when the song "Heart on My Sleeve" by ghostwriter977, which uses AI voice cloning to mimic the vocals of Drake and The Weeknd, was submitted for Grammy consideration. While the song was written by a human, it was deemed ineligible due to its AI vocals, illegal usage of those vocals without clearance by either artists' record labels, and lack of commercial availability.

Performers
The first three performers for the ceremony, Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa, and Olivia Rodrigo, were announced on January 15, 2024. The second batch of performers, consisting of Travis Scott, Luke Combs and Burna Boy, were announced on January 21. Billy Joel, who performed on the Grammys for the first time in 22 years, was announced on January 25, the same day that the performers for the Premiere ceremony were revealed to be J. Ivy, Jordin Sparks, Larkin Poe, Pentatonix, Sheila E, Laufey and more. U2 joined the lineup on January 27, with a performance from their U2:UV residency at Sphere in Las Vegas. Joni Mitchell, who made her debut performance at the ceremony, was announced on January 28. SZA joined the lineup on January 29. Performers for the In Memoriam segment were announced on February 2, with Miley Cyrus confirmed to perform in the ceremony on the same day. Playboi Carti also performed with Travis Scott.

Presenters
Justin Tranter was announced as the host for the Premiere ceremony on January 25, 2024, alongside the list of presenters. The presenters for the main ceremony were announced on January 31. Watsonx, a generative AI tool of IBM, was used to generate editorial content around nominees during the presentation.

Premiere ceremony
 * Justin Tranter ― host
 * Carly Pearce
 * Jimmy Jam
 * Molly Tuttle
 * Natalia Lafourcade
 * Patti Austin
 * Rufus Wainwright

Main ceremony
 * Mariah Carey ― Presented Best Pop Solo Performance
 * Christina Aguilera and Maluma ― Presented Best Música Urbana Album
 * Kacey Musgraves ― Presented Best Country Album
 * Lizzo ― Presented Best R&B Song
 * U2 ― Presented Best Pop Vocal Album
 * Lenny Kravitz ― Introduced Jon Batiste
 * Oprah Winfrey ― Introduced Fantasia
 * Lionel Richie ― Presented Song of the Year
 * Brandi Carlile — Introduced Joni Mitchell
 * Samara Joy — Presented Best New Artist
 * Meryl Streep and Mark Ronson — Presented Record of the Year
 * Celine Dion — Presented Album of the Year

Winners and nominees
First round voting took place from October 11 to October 20, 2023. The nominations were announced on November 10 on a livestream by Arooj Aftab, Vince Gill and Amy Grant, Jimmy Jam, Jon Bon Jovi, Samara Joy, Muni Long, Cheryl Pawelski, Kim Petras, Judith Sherman, St. Vincent, Jeff Tweedy, Weird Al Yankovic, Gayle King, Nate Burleson, Tony Dokoupil, and Harvey Mason Jr.

Final round voting took place from December 14, 2023, to January 4, 2024. Winners were announced during the Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony and telecast. Winners appear first and highlighted in bold.

MusiCares Person of the Year
MusiCares Person of the Year is a charity award celebrating an artist's creative achievements and their dedication to philanthropy.
 * Jon Bon Jovi

Lifetime Achievement Awards

 * Donna Summer
 * Gladys Knight
 * Laurie Anderson
 * N.W.A
 * Tammy Wynette
 * The Clark Sisters

Grammy Trustees Award

 * Peter Asher
 * DJ Kool Herc
 * Joel Grey

Technical Grammy Award

 * Tom Kobayashi
 * Tom Scott

Grammy Music Educator Award

 * Annie Ray

Dr. Dre Global Impact Award

 * Jay-Z

Best Song for Social Change

 * "Refugee" – K'naan, Gerald Eaton & Steve McEwan

Multiple nominations and awards
The following received multiple awards:

Four:
 * Phoebe Bridgers

Three:
 * Boygenius
 * Killer Mike
 * Victoria Monét
 * SZA
 * Zakir Hussain

Two:
 * Fred Again
 * André 3000
 * Jack Antonoff
 * Miley Cyrus
 * Billie Eilish
 * Béla Fleck
 * Jason Isbell
 * Lecrae
 * Finneas O'Connell
 * Paramore
 * Taylor Swift

The following received multiple nominations:

Nine:
 * SZA

Seven:
 * Phoebe Bridgers
 * Serban Ghenea
 * Victoria Monét

Six:
 * Jack Antonoff
 * Jon Batiste
 * Brandy Clark
 * Boygenius
 * Miley Cyrus
 * Billie Eilish
 * Ludwig Göransson
 * Olivia Rodrigo
 * Taylor Swift

In Memoriam
The following individuals were included a montage during the In Memoriam performance at the ceremony. An expanded list of those who died during the previous year was included on the Grammy website.


 * Tony Bennett
 * Harry Belafonte
 * Astrud Gilberto
 * Robbie Robertson
 * Wayne Shorter
 * Bill Lee
 * Jerry Moss
 * Les McCann
 * Peter Schickele
 * Tom Smothers
 * Carla Bley
 * André Watts
 * Denny Laine
 * Dick Waterman
 * Chita Rivera
 * Jimmy Buffett
 * Shane MacGowan
 * Mary Weiss
 * Jane Birkin
 * Wayne Kramer
 * Jim Ladd
 * Andy Rourke
 * David Lindley
 * Ryuichi Sakamoto
 * David Jolicoeur
 * Randy Meisner
 * Charlie Robison
 * Michael Rhodes
 * Gary Rossington
 * María Jiménez
 * Melinda Wilson
 * Gary Wright
 * Sinéad O'Connor
 * Burt Bacharach
 * Cynthia Weil
 * Seymour Stein
 * Terry Kirkman
 * Phil Quartararo
 * George Winston
 * Jaquelyne Ledent-Vilain
 * Charlie Monk
 * Menahem Pressler
 * Melanie
 * Ahmad Jamal
 * Clarence Avant
 * Rudolph Isley
 * Jean Knight
 * Sixto Rodriguez
 * Marlena Shaw
 * Jerry Bradley
 * Russell Batiste Jr.
 * Jeffrey Foskett
 * Rita Lee
 * Royal Blakeman
 * Bobby Caldwell
 * Aaron Spears
 * DJ Mark the 45 King
 * Gangsta Boo
 * Chris Strachwitz
 * Kris L. Claver
 * Magoo
 * Kendall A. Minter
 * Gordon Lightfoot
 * Tina Turner