Talk:Grammy Award for Album of the Year

Paul McCartney
3 wins? I wouldn't doubt it with all he has done... but judging from the very tables that exist with this article... I only see 1 win, with The Beatles. I see no solo wins... or any wins with Wings. Is this fact accurate?


 * I don't see where the article says McCartney had three wins. It does say three solo nominations, which agrees with the big table -- Foetusized (talk) 02:29, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Differentiation
Could someone explain how "Album of the Year" is different from "Record of the Year"?--Xtreambar 22:49, 27 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes. "Album" is for albums (i.e. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band) and "record" is for singles (like 2006's winner "Not Ready To Make Nice").

Record of the Year and Song of the Year are different - record is the best single of the year, Song of the Year is a songwriting award. Doc Strange

So I realize the section I just removed was requested by the user above me, and I wanted to explain why I removed it. Besides being written in a manner most unsuited for Wikipedia--very conversational, misspellings, etc--it's also fairly superfluous with the Record of the Year article very adequately explaining the confusion between the two. Because the phrase "album of the year" should be self explanatory, with the confusion coming from the term "record of the year," it's more appropriate for the disambiguation to be in the record of the year page. 8bits (talk) 06:57, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Additionally both the main Grammy Awards and List of Grammy Award Categories page includes a description of both categories. 8bits (talk) 07:03, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

Template formatting
Please come discuss formatting of the template system at Talk:Grammy_Award.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 19:39, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

Can someone please note that...
Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, The Beatles, and Lady Gaga are the only four artists in history who have received three Grammy “Album Of The Year” nominations in a row. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.125.13.190 (talk) 06:56, 1 December 2011 (UTC) Please also note that Lauryn Hill is cited as having won two years in a row - 1999 and 2000. From the table below and the fact that she did not seem to have a release, this is not possible. I believe that Santana did win in 2000. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.206.125.192 (talk) 02:39, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

Basic Massive Error: Years
The awards are for the *past* year, not for the year of the ceremony, for example Tapestry by Carole King is Album of the Year 1971 etc, see the Grammy database .... --E-Kartoffel (talk) 23:14, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

Featured artists/female winners
I am not exactly sure when the Academy started nominating/awarding featured artists. But that was recent, probably in 2008.

The featured artists on Santana's Supernatural (2000) and Ray Charles' Genius Love Company (2005) are not listed as winners once you make a "Past Winners Search" on GRAMMY.com. This very same article does not list them as winners, either.

That being said, the following facts are not truth:
 * Norah Jones holds the female artist record with the most wins in this category with four:
 * Norah Jones has only received this award twice: For her own Come Away with Me (2002) and as a featured artist on Herbie Hancock's River: The Joni Letters.
 * Natalie Cole, Lauryn Hill,... and Bonnie Raitt are all tied with two wins each, winning for their respective albums, Unforgettable... with Love, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, Raising Sand and Nick of Time and as featured artists..
 * Natalie Cole and Bonnie Raitt only received this award once for their own albums as they do not appear to have won as featured artists on Charles' Genius Love Company.
 * Lauryn Hill's win for Supernatural in 2000 is credited as a producer and not as a featured artist.

In conclusion, women who have won the award twice include Norah Jones, Alisson Krauss, and Lauryn Hill.

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Nominee inaccuracies for 1961 and 1962?
According to ref. 12, "Brahms: Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat – Sviatoslav Richter" was never nominated for Album of the Year in 1961. Similarly, according to ref. 13, "West Side Story Soundtrack – Various Artists" was never nominated for Album of the Year in 1962.

Both had won awards for other categories, however I have scoured the Internet and have not found any reference that confirms these two entries as nominees for Album of the Year.

Both of these entries seem to have existed on this page since its original publication, so I am reticent about removing them in case someone knows something I do not. Can anyone find any reference that confirms these nominations?

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.37.207.131 (talk) 03:59, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

Possible edit war over Mariah Carey
I believe that a Mariah Carey fan may be coming here and repeatedly changing the winner of the 1991, 1996 and 2006 Grammys to Mariah Carey rather than the actual winners. We may want somebody to look into who is doing this and perhaps take action. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.105.17.83 (talk) 18:54, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

This page is all wrong
The Grammy Awards air in February (and occasionally March) but the awards are for the previous year's releases. The cutoff is October. John Lennon's Double Fantasy was released in November 1980, past the cutoff, so it wasn't considered until 1981 when it won the 1981 Album of the Year in a ceremony which aired on February 24, 1982 (the 24th Annual Grammy Awards). It wasn't the 1982 Grammy. They can't award Grammy of the Year in February of the same year just in case, you know, someone releases a blockbuster album in April. Here's the Grammy Award Official website denoting Double Fantasy as the 1981 award winner, which makes this entire page off by a year in every category. https://www.grammy.com/awards/24th-annual-grammy-awards Hotcop2 (talk) 03:09, 6 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Taylor Swift just won of the Album of the Year. It was released last year. The ceremony was last night. See? Hotcop2 (talk) 03:13, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Also, the new Beatle song Now and Then was released in November 2023, past the cutoff date. I've no doubt it will be nominated this year (2024) for at least Best Video and maybe Historical Recording. Win or lose, it will air on the next Grammys in 2025. It will not win a 2025 Grammy.Hotcop2 (talk) 18:30, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

The Grammys organize strictly by the year sequence number of the ceremony (currently 1st - 66th). Avoiding the calendar year when citing awards is a good reason not to introduce more confusion here by labeling the 24th awards as 1981. If anything, adding a column with the sequence number of the ceremony beside the broadcast year would be helpful. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wclaytong (talk • contribs) 12:10, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
 * No, the GRAMMYS consider Double Fantasy, the winner AT the 24th annual broadcast in February 1981 Winner. The source is the GRAMMYS itself.  You cannot issue the 1982 Grammy of the Year in February of that year. Suppose someone puts a good album in say, like May?Hotcop2 (talk) 12:31, 11 February 2024 (UTC)