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Throughout the 54 year history of the Grammy Awards, many significant records have been set by various artists. This page only includes the competitive awards won by various artists. This does not include the various special awards that are presented by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences such as Lifetime Achievement Awards or Legend Awards. The page however does include other non-performance related Grammys (known as the Craft & Production Fields) that may have been presented to the artist(s).

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[edit] Awards

[edit] Most Grammys won

The record for the most Grammy Awards won in a lifetime is held by Georg Solti, a Hungarian-British conductor who conducted the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for twenty-two years. He has won 31 Grammy Awards[1] and has a total of 74 career Grammy nominations.

Rank 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th
Artist Georg Solti Quincy Jones, Alison Krauss Pierre Boulez Vladimir Horowitz U2, Stevie Wonder John Williams Aretha Franklin, Vince Gill, Henry Mancini, Bruce Springsteen Pat Metheny Chick Corea, Al Schmitt, Jimmy Sturr, Kanye West Ray Charles, Eric Clapton
Total awards 31 27 26 25 22 21 20 19 18 17

[edit] Most Grammy Awards won by a male artist

Georg Solti has won a total of 31 Grammys Awards.

Rank 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th
Artist Georg Solti Quincy Jones Pierre Boulez Vladimir Horowitz Stevie Wonder Vince Gill, Henry Mancini, Bruce Springsteen Pat Metheny Chick Corea, Jimmy Sturr, Kanye West Ray Charles, Eric Clapton Tony Bennett, Leonard Bernstein, Sting, Yo-Yo Ma
Total awards 31 27 26 25 22 20 19 18 17 16

[edit] Most Grammy Awards won by a female artist

Alison Krauss as a solo artist, collaborator (with Union Station) and producer has won 27 Grammy Awards.[2]

Rank 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th
Artist Alison Krauss Aretha Franklin Beyoncé Alicia Keys Ella Fitzgerald, Leontyne Price Emmylou Harris Shirley Caesar Chaka Khan, Linda Ronstadt, Cece Winans Mary J. Blige, Natalie Cole, Sheryl Crow, Norah Jones Bonnie Raitt
Total awards 27 18 16 14 13 12 11 10 9

[edit] Most Grammy Awards won by a group

U2 has won 22 Grammy Awards throughout their career.

Rank 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th
Artist U2 Dixie Chicks, Alison Krauss and Union Station Foo Fighters Pat Metheny Group Metallica, Santana, Take 6 The Beatles, Coldplay, Lady Antebellum, Simon & Garfunkel The Black Eyed Peas, The Eagles, Outkast, The Police, Red Hot Chili Peppers
Total awards 22 13 11 10 8 7 6

[edit] Most Grammys Won by a Producer

Quincy Jones with 27 awards holds the record for most Grammy Awards won by a producer.

Rank 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th
Producer Quincy Jones David Foster Steven Epstein, Phil Ramone T Bone Burnett Arif Mardin David Frost Babyface
Total awards 27 16 13 12 11 10 9

[edit] Most Grammys won by an Engineer or Mixer

Al Schmitt with 18 Grammy Awards, has won more Grammys than any other engineer or mixer.

[edit] Youngest winners

LeAnn Rimes is the youngest person to win a Grammy. She was 14 years old when she won her first two awards in 1997. She was also the first Country artist to win the Best New Artist Grammy.

Rank 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th
Artist LeAnn Rimes Luis Miguel Christina Aguilera Beyoncé Alison Krauss Joss Stone Rihanna Taylor Swift Adele
Age 14 14 19 19 19 19 19 20 20

[edit] Youngest artists to win Album of the Year

Taylor Swift is the youngest artist to win Album of the Year. She was 20 years old when she won in 2010.

Rank 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th
Artist Taylor Swift Alanis Morissette Barbra Streisand Stevie Wonder Lauryn Hill Adele Norah Jones
Age 20 21 21 22 23 23 23

[edit] Oldest winners

Pinetop Perkins is the oldest person to win a Grammy. In 2011 he was awarded Best Traditional Blues Album for Joined At The Hip - at age 97. He recorded the album with Willie "Big Eyes" Smith.

Rank 1st 2nd 3rd
Artist Pinetop Perkins George Burns Betty White
Age 97 94 90

[edit] Most honored albums

Santana's Supernatural and U2's How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb holds the record for most honored album having won nine awards. Supernatural won nine awards in 2000 and How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb won three awards in 2005 and won a further six in 2006 giving it a total of nine awards.

Rank 1st 2nd 3rd 4th
Album & Artist How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb - U2, Supernatural - Santana Come Away With Me - Norah Jones, Genius Loves Company - Ray Charles, Thriller - Michael Jackson All That You Can't Leave Behind - U2, 21 - Adele Back on the Block - Quincy Jones, Back To Black - Amy Winehouse, Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel, Raising Sand - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, Taking the Long Way - Dixie Chicks, Toto IV- Toto, Unplugged - Eric Clapton
Awards won by album 9 8 7 6

[edit] Most Album of the Year Wins

The record for most Album of the Year wins is three. Three artists and three producers have won the award three times.

Year Third Album of the Year Awarded 1967 1977 1987 1997 2005 2006
Artist/Producer Frank Sinatra Stevie Wonder Paul Simon David Foster Phil Ramone Daniel Lanois

[edit] Most Grammy Awards won for consecutive albums

Pat Metheny and his band the Pat Metheny Group have won 19 Grammy Awards in total, including seven consecutive awards for seven consecutive albums.[3] Metheny held the record for Grammy wins in the most different categories as of the 2005 Grammy Awards:

[edit] Most Consecutive Grammy Awards won for the same category

Jimmy Sturr and Bill Cosby hold the record for most consecutive Grammy wins in the same category. Jimmy Sturr won six years in a row between 1987 and 1992 for Best Polka Album. Sturr also won for three runs of four consecutive years (1996–1999, 2001–2004, and 2006–2009 He has won 18 out of the 24 Best Polka Album Grammys that have been awarded since that category was added in 1985. The award was discontinued after 2009.

Bill Cosby won Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album for 6 consecutive years between 1965 and 1970.

[edit] Most wins of the Grammy for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance

Lenny Kravitz has won the Best Male Rock Vocal Performance award 4 years in a row (1999, 2000, 2001, 2002).

[edit] Most Best Female R&B Vocal Performance Wins

Aretha Franklin has won the Best Female R&B Vocal Performance Grammy 11 times, 8 of which were won consecutively.

[edit] Artists who have won all four General Field awards

There have been only two artists have won all four General Field awards. In 1981, Christopher Cross won Record, Album and Song of the Year as well as Best New Artist. Adele is the second artist to win all four. In 2009 she won Best New Artist and three years later in 2012 she won Record, Album and Song of the Year.

[edit] Single ceremony

[edit] Most Grammys won in one night

The Record for Most Grammys won in one night is eight. Michael Jackson won eight in 1984 and Santana tied Jackson's record in 2000.

Rank 1st 2nd
Artist Michael Jackson (1984), Santana (2000) Roger Miller (1966), Quincy Jones (1991), Eric Clapton (1993), Beyoncé (2010), Adele (2012)
Total awards 8 6

[edit] Most Grammys won by a male artist in one night

Michael Jackson won eight awards in 1984.

Rank 1st 2nd
Artist Michael Jackson (1984) Roger Miller (1966), Quincy Jones (1991), Eric Clapton (1993)
Total awards 8 6

[edit] Most Grammys won by a female artist in one night

The record most Grammys won by a female artist in one night is six. Beyoncé won six awards in 2010 and Adele tied the record in 2012.

Rank 1st 2nd
Artist Beyoncé (2010), Adele (2012) Lauryn Hill (1999), Alicia Keys (2002), Norah Jones (2003),
Beyoncé (2004), Amy Winehouse (2008), Alison Krauss (2009)
Total awards 6 5

[edit] Most Grammys won by a group in one night

In 2000 Santana was awarded a total of 8 awards. They won the awards for Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals, Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals, Best Pop Instrumental Performance, Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals, Best Rock Instrumental Performance and Best Rock Album.

Rank 1st 2nd
Artist Santana (2000) U2 (2006), Dixie Chicks (2007), Lady Antebellum (2011), Foo Fighters (2012)
Total awards 8 5

[edit] Most Grammys won by a record producer in one night

The record for most awards won by a producer in one night is five. Rick Rubin won five awards in 2007 including Record of the Year, Album of the Year and Best Country Album for the Dixie Chicks, Best Rock Album for the Red Hot Chili Peppers as well as Producer of the Year, Non Classical.

[edit] Most Grammys won by an Engineer or Mixer in one night

The most Grammys won by an engineer or mixer in one night is five. At the 47th Annual Grammy Awards in 2005, Al Schmitt won Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Album, Best Engineer Album, Non Classical and Best Surround Sound Album for his work on Ray Charles's Genius Loves Company.

[edit] Artists to have won all the General Field Awards at a single ceremony

Christopher Cross (1981) received all four General Field awards in one night. Cross won the Record of the Year ("Sailing"), Album of the Year ("Christopher Cross"), Song of the Year ("Sailing"), and Best New Artist Grammys in a single ceremony.[4]

[edit] Artists who have won Record, Album and Song of the Year in one night

The three biggest Grammy Awards are Record of the Year, Album of the Year and Song of the Year. Six artists have won all three in one night.

Rank 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th
Artist Paul Simon Carole King Christopher Cross Eric Clapton Dixie Chicks Adele
Year 1971 1972 1981 1993 2007 2012

[edit] Most awards won by an album in one night

The most awards awarded to an album in one night is nine. In 2000 Santana's Supernatural was awarded nine awards. It won Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Pop Performance by a duo or Group With Vocals, Best Pop Collaboration with vocals, Best Pop Instrumental Performance, Best Rock Performance by a Duo or group with Vocals, Best Rock Instrumental Performance and Best Rock Album.

[edit] Most posthumous awards won in one night

Ray Charles holds the record for most posthumous awards won in one night. He won five awards in 2005 including Album of the Year.

[edit] Nominations

[edit] Most Nominations

Quincy Jones holds the record for the most Grammy nominations with 79.[5]

Rank 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th
Artist Quincy Jones Georg Solti John Williams Chick Corea Jay-Z, Dolly Parton Beyoncé, Kanye West Barbra Streisand Alison Krauss Aretha Franklin, Eminem
Total nominations 79 74 59 56 45 44 41 39 38

[edit] Most Nominations in One Night

In 1984 Michael Jackson set the record for most Grammy Nominations in one night with 12 nominations.

Rank 1st 2nd
Artist Michael Jackson (1984) Lauryn Hill (1999) Kanye West (2005), Beyoncé (2010), Eminem (2011)
Total nominations 12 10

[edit] Most nominations without winning

Brian McKnight who has been nominated 16 times, holds the record for most Grammy nominations without winning.

Rank 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th
Artist Brian McKnight Joe Satriani Martina McBride, Snoop Dogg Bjork Diana Ross, Spyro Gyra Busta Rhymes, Connie Smith, Musiq Soulchild, Vanessa L. Williams Me'Shell Ndegeocello, Megadeth, Alan Parsons Nas
Drake (entertainer)		 Alice In Chains, Tori Amos, Avril Lavigne, Katy Perry, 'N Sync, Jazmine Sullivan
Total nominations 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8

[edit] Most Nominations in One Night without winning

India.Arie received seven nominations in 2002 winning none. She lost Song of the Year, Best New Artist, Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, Best R&B Song & Best R&B Album to Alicia Keys. She lost Record of the Year to U2 and Album of the Year to O Brother, Where Art Thou?. Bruno Mars also received six nominations in 2012, fiercely losing everything he's nominated to Adele and her producer Paul Epworth.

Rank 1st 2nd 3rd
Artist India.Arie (2002) Mariah Carey (1996), 50 Cent (2006), Bruno Mars (2012) Joan Osborne (1996), Avril Lavigne (2003), 50 Cent (2004), Alicia Keys (2006), Gwen Stefani (2006), James Blunt (2007), Jazmine Sullivan (2009), B.o.B (2011), Lil Wayne (2012)
Total Nominations 7 6 5

[edit] Nominations in the most categories

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.

[edit] Youngest Nominees

Deleon Richards is the youngest person ever to be nominated for a Grammy.[6] DeLeon was 9 years old when nominated.

Rank 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th
Artist Deleon Richards Zac Hanson Michael Jackson Billy Gilman LeAnn Rimes Luis Miguel Taylor Hanson Justin Bieber Avril Lavigne Britney Spears
Age 9 12 12 12 14 14 14 16 17 18

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Music: The Grammys/Classical; Fewer Records, More Attention", by Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, February 23, 2003. Retrieved 2008-01-07.
  2. ^ "U2 dominates Grammy night", CBC News, February 9, 2006. Retrieved 2008-01-07.
  3. ^ Jazz Legends Pat Metheny Group Improvise on Austin City Limits :: eJazzNews.com : The Number One Jazz News Resource On The Net :: Jazz News Daily
  4. ^ "A Virtual College of Grammy Knowledge", by Wook Kim, Entertainment Weekly, 2007. Retrieved 2008-01-07.
  5. ^ "2008 NEA Jazz Master: Quincy Jones", National Endowment for the Arts, 2008. Retrieved 2008-01-07.
  6. ^ [1], Retrieved 2009-09-02.
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