Grammy Award records

Throughout the history of the Grammy Awards, many significant records have been set. This page only includes the competitive awards which have been 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, Trustees Awards, Technical Awards or Legend Awards. The page however does include other non-performance related Grammys that may have been presented to the artist.

Awards

Most Grammys won

The record for the most Grammy Awards won in a lifetime is held by Georg Solti, a Hungarian-British conductor who was music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for twenty-two years. He won 31 competitive Grammy Awards out of 74 nominations and was also awarded the first Grammy Trustees Award in 1967 and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996.

Rank	Artist	Awards
1	Georg Solti	31
2	Quincy Jones	28
3	Alison Krauss	27
4	Pierre Boulez	26
5	Vladimir Horowitz	25
5	John Williams	25
7	Beyoncé	24
8	Chick Corea	23
9	U2	22
9	Jay-Z	22
9	Stevie Wonder	22
12	Kanye West	21
12	Vince Gill	21
14	Henry Mancini	20
14	Pat Metheny	20
14	Bruce Springsteen	20
14	Al Schmitt	20

Most Grammys won by a male artist

has won 31 Grammy Awards.

Rank	Artist	Awards
1	Georg Solti	31
2	Quincy Jones	28
3	Pierre Boulez	26
4	Vladimir Horowitz	25
4	John Williams	25
6	Chick Corea	23
7	Jay-Z	22
7	Stevie Wonder	22
9	Kanye West	21
9	Vince Gill	21
11	Henry Mancini	20
11	Pat Metheny	20
11	Al Schmitt	20
11	Bruce Springsteen	20
15	Tony Bennett	18
15	Jimmy Sturr	18
15	Yo-Yo Ma	18
15	Paul McCartney	18

Most Grammys won by a female artist

has, as a solo artist, collaborator and producer, won 27 Grammy Awards.

Rank	Artist	Awards
1	Alison Krauss	27
2	Beyoncé	24
3	Aretha Franklin	18
4	Adele	15
4	Alicia Keys	15
6	Ella Fitzgerald	13
6	Emmylou Harris	13
6	Leontyne Price	13
9	CeCe Winans	12
10	Shirley Caesar	11
10	Lady Gaga	11
12	Chaka Khan	10
12	Bonnie Raitt	10
12	Linda Ronstadt	10
12	Taylor Swift	10
16	Cheryl Bentyne	9
16	Janis Siegel	9
16	Margaret Hillis	9
16	Sheryl Crow	9
16	Norah Jones	9
16	Mary J. Blige	9
16	Natalie Cole	9
16	Hillary Scott	9
16	Rihanna	9
16	Dolly Parton	9

Most Grammys won by a group

holds the record for most Grammy Awards won by a group. They have won 22 awards.

Rank	Artists	Awards
1	U2	22
2	Alison Krauss and Union Station	14
3	Dixie Chicks	12
4	Foo Fighters	11
5	Pat Metheny Group	10
6	Emerson String Quartet	9
7	Blackwood Brothers	8
7	Manhattan Transfer	8
7	Santana	8
7	Asleep At The Wheel	8
7	Take 6	8
7	Metallica	8
13	Simon & Garfunkel	7
13	The Beatles	7
13	Coldplay	7
13	Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder	7
13	Lady Antebellum	7
13	Los Tigres del Norte	7

Most Grammys won by a producer

with 28 awards holds the record for most Grammy Awards won by a producer. Some producers have also won awards as engineers, mixers and/or mastering engineers.

Rank	Producer	Awards
1	Quincy Jones	28
2	David Foster	16
2	James Mallinson	16
2	David Frost	16
5	Steven Epstein	15
6	Phil Ramone	14
7	T Bone Burnett	13
7	Robert Woods	13
7	Jay David Saks	13
7	Pharrell Williams	13
11	Arif Mardin	11
11	Judith Sherman	11

Most Grammys won by an engineer or mixer

, with 20 awards, has won more Grammy Awards than any other engineer or mixer. Serban Ghenea is second with 16 Grammy Awards.

Rank	Engineer / Mixer	Awards
1	Al Schmitt	20
2	Serban Ghenea	16
3	Tom Elmhirst	16

Youngest winners

are the youngest Grammy winners, when they were credited artists on the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, which won Album of the Year in 2002. LeAnn Rimes is the youngest individual winner. 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	Age	Artist
1	8 years	Leah Peasall
2	11 years	Hannah Peasall
3	14 years	Sarah Peasall
4	14 years, 182 days	LeAnn Rimes
5	14 years, 313 days	Luis Miguel
6	17 years, 80 days	Lorde
7	18 years, 39 days	Billie Eilish
8	18 years, 105 days	Daya
9	18 years, 123 days	Monica
10	19 years, 67 days	Christina Aguilera

Youngest artists to win Album of the Year

is the youngest artist to win Album of the Year. She was 18 years old when she won in 2020 for her album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?.

Rank	Age	Artist
1	18 years, 39 days	Billie Eilish
2	20 years, 49 days	Taylor Swift
3	21 years, 242 days	Alanis Morissette
4	22 years, 18 days	Barbra Streisand
5	23 years, 274 days	Lauryn Hill
6	23 years, 283 days	Adele
7	23 years, 293 days	Stevie Wonder
8	23 years, 330 days	Norah Jones

Youngest artist to win Record of the Year

At 18 years of age, Billie Eilish became the youngest artist to win Record of the Year when she won for “Bad Guy” in 2020.

Youngest artist to win Song of the Year

At 17 years of age, Lorde became the youngest artist to win Song of the Year when she won for “Royals” in 2014.

Youngest artist to win Best New Artist

At 14 years of age, LeAnn Rimes became the youngest Best New Artist winning and the youngest individual Grammy winner when she won in 1997.

Oldest winners

is the oldest person to win a Grammy. In 2011 he was awarded Best Traditional Blues Album for Joined At The Hip at 97 years of age.

Rank	Age	Artist
1	97 years, 221 days	Pinetop Perkins
2	95 years, 31 days	George Burns
3	94 years, 132 days	Jimmy Carter
4	91 years, 137 days	Jimmy Carter
5	90 years, 52 days	Elizabeth Cotten
6	90 years, 26 days	Betty White

Note: Sources vary on the birth year of Elizabeth Cotten, with some stating it as 1893, while others say 1895. The above information credits it as 1895. With either year, Cotten is the oldest female Grammy winner.

Most honored albums

's Supernatural and U2's How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb hold the record for most honoured 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	Albums and artists	Awards
1	How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb — U2	9
1	Supernatural — Santana	9
3	Come Away With Me — Norah Jones	8
3	Genius Loves Company — Ray Charles	8
3	Thriller — Michael Jackson	8
7	All That You Can't Leave Behind — U2	7
7	Back on the Block — Quincy Jones	7
7	When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? — Billie Eilish	7
7	21 — Adele	7
7	24K Magic — Bruno Mars	7
11	Back to Black — Amy Winehouse	6
11	The Blueprint 3 — Jay Z	6
11	Bridge Over Troubled Water — Simon & Garfunkel	6
11	Raising Sand — Robert Plant & Alison Krauss	6
11	The Return of Roger Miller — Roger Miller	6
11	Taking the Long Way — Dixie Chicks	6
11	To Pimp a Butterfly — Kendrick Lamar	6
11	Toto IV — Toto	6
11	Unforgettable... with Love — Natalie Cole	6
11	Unplugged — Eric Clapton	6
11	25 — Adele	6

Most Album of the Year wins

The record for most Album of the Year wins is four. Tom Coyne, a mastering engineer won Album of the Year four times — 21, 1989, 25, 24K Magic
Three recording artists, four record producers, four engineer/mixers and two mastering engineers have won the award three times;

Frank Sinatra, artist — Come Dance with Me!, September of My Years, A Man and His Music
Stevie Wonder, artist — Innervisions, Fulfillingness' First Finale, Songs in the Key of Life
Paul Simon, artist — Bridge over Troubled Water, Still Crazy After All These Years, Graceland
David Foster, producer — Unforgettable... with Love, The Bodyguard - Original Soundtrack Album, Falling into You
Phil Ramone, producer — Still Crazy After All These Years, 52nd Street, Genius Loves Company
Daniel Lanois, producer — The Joshua Tree, Time Out of Mind, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
Bob Ludwig, mastering engineer — Babel, Random Access Memories, Morning Phase
Mike Piersante, engineer/mixer — O Brother, Where Art Thou? – Soundtrack, Raising Sand, 25
Tom Elmhirst, engineer/mixer — 21, Morning Phase, 25
Ryan Tedder, producer — 21, 1989, 25
Serban Ghenea, engineer/mixer — 1989, 25, 24K Magic
John Hanes, engineer/mixer — 1989, 25, 24K Magic
Most Record of the Year wins

The record for most Record of the Year wins is four. Tom Coyne won four consecutive times as a mastering engineer — “Stay with Me ”, “Uptown Funk”, “Hello”, “24K Magic”
In addition, only two persons have won the award three times;

Paul Simon, artist — “Mrs. Robinson”, “Bridge over Troubled Water”, “Graceland”
Tom Elmhirst, engineer/mixer — “Rehab”, “Rolling in the Deep”, “Hello”
Most Song of the Year wins

The record for the most Song of the Year wins is two. Six songwriters have won in this category twice

Henry Mancini - “Moon River”, “Days of Wine and Roses”
Johnny Mercer - “Moon River”, “Days of Wine and Roses”
James Horner - “Somewhere Out There”, “My Heart Will Go On”
Will Jennings - “Tears in Heaven”, “My Heart Will Go On”
U2 - “Beautiful Day”, “Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own”
Adele - "Rolling in the Deep”, “Hello”
Most Grammys won for consecutive albums

and The Manhattan Transfer have won seven consecutive awards for seven consecutive studio albums.

Most consecutive Grammys won for the same category

holds the record for winning the most consecutive Grammys in the same category. She won the Best Female R&B Vocal Performance every year from 1968 to 1975, for an eight-year winning streak. She also won in this category in 1982, 1986, and 1988, giving her 11 wins in the category.
After Franklin, Jimmy Sturr, Bill Cosby, and John Williams are tied for second place for consecutive Grammy wins in the same category:
Sturr won six years in a row between 1987 and 1992 for Best Polka Album. He also won for three runs of four consecutive years He won 18 out of the 24 Best Polka Album Grammys that were awarded since that category was added in 1985. The award was discontinued in 2009.
Cosby won six years in a row between 1965 and 1970 for Best Comedy Album.
Williams won six years in a row between 1978 and 1983 for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media.
Pat Benatar won Best Female Rock Vocal Performance four years in a row.
Lenny Kravitz won Best Male Rock Vocal Performance award four years in a row.
Tom Coyne won Record of the Year four years in a row.

Artists who have won all four General Field awards

There have been only three artists who have won all four General Field awards: Best New Artist, Song of the Year, Record of the Year, and Album of the Year. In 1981, Christopher Cross became the first artist to win all four awards, as well as the first artist to win all four awards in a single ceremony. Adele is the second artist to win all four, and the first female to do so. In 2009, she won Best New Artist and in 2012 and 2017, she won Song of the Year, Record of the Year, and Album of the Year. In 2020, Billie Eilish became the third artist ever, second female overall, and first female artist to win all four awards in a single ceremony.

Single ceremony

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	Artist	Awards
1	Michael Jackson	8
1	Santana	8
3	Roger Miller	6
3	Quincy Jones	6
3	Eric Clapton	6
3	Beyoncé	6
3	Adele	6
3	Tom Elmhirst	6
3	Bruno Mars	6

Most Grammys won by a male artist in one night

The record most Grammys won by a male artist in one night is eight. Michael Jackson won eight in 1984.

Rank	Artist	Awards
1	Michael Jackson	8
2	Roger Miller	6
2	Quincy Jones	6
2	Eric Clapton	6
2	Bruno Mars	6

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 and Adele each won six in 2010 and 2012, respectively.

Rank	Artist	Awards
1	Beyoncé	6
1	Adele	6
2	Lauryn Hill	5
2	Alicia Keys	5
2	Norah Jones	5
2	Beyoncé	5
2	Amy Winehouse	5
2	Alison Krauss	5
2	Adele	5
2	Billie Eilish	5

Most Grammys won by a group in one night

The record most Grammys won by a group artist in one night is eight. Santana won eight in 2000.

Rank	Artists	Awards
1	Santana	8
2	Simon & Garfunkel	5
2	U2	5
2	Dixie Chicks	5
2	Lady Antebellum	5
2	Foo Fighters	5

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 his work on the Dixie Chicks' Taking the Long Way, and Best Rock Album for the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Stadium Arcadium as well as Producer of the Year, Non-Classical.
Finneas O'Connell repeated the record in 2020, winning Producer of the Year, Non-Classical and four more awards including Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Album of the Year and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical for his work on Billie Eilish's When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?.

Most Grammys won by an engineer or mixer in one night

The most Grammys won by an engineer or mixer in one night is six. At the 59th Annual Grammy Awards in 2017, Tom Elmhirst won Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Album, Best Alternative Music Album, Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, and Best Rock Album for his work on Adele's 25, David Bowie's Blackstar, and Cage the Elephant's Tell Me I'm Pretty, respectively.

Artists who have won all four General Field Awards at a single ceremony

and Billie Eilish are the only artists who have received all four General Field awards in one night.

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

The three biggest Grammy Awards are Album of the Year, Record of the Year and Song of the Year. Eight artists have won all three in one night. Adele is the first and only artist in Grammy history to accomplish this twice.

Year	Artist
1971	Paul Simon
1972	Carole King
1981	Christopher Cross
1993	Eric Clapton
2007	Dixie Chicks
2012	Adele
2017	Adele
2018	Bruno Mars
2020	Billie Eilish

Most Grammys won by an album in one night

The most awards awarded to an album in one night is nine. At the 42nd Annual Grammy Awards 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 Vocal, Best Rock Instrumental Performance, and Best Rock Album.

Most posthumous Grammys won in one night

holds the record for most posthumous awards won in one night. He was awarded five Grammy Awards at the 47th Annual Grammy Awards in 2005 including Album of the Year.

Nominations

Most Grammy nominations

holds the record for the most Grammy nominations with 80.

Rank	Artist	Nominations
1	Quincy Jones	80
2	Paul McCartney	78
3	Jay Z	77
4	Georg Solti	74
4	Stevie Wonder	74
6	Henry Mancini	72
7	John Williams	71
8	Beyoncé	70
9	Kanye West	69
10	Pierre Boulez	67
11	Chick Corea	65
12	Leonard Bernstein	63
13	Jay David Saks	53
14	Willie Nelson	52
15	Thomas Z. Shepard	50
15	Bruce Springsteen	50
17	James Mallinson	49
17	Babyface	49
17	Dolly Parton	49

Most nominations in one night

and Babyface hold the record for most Grammy nominations in one night with 12 nominations.

Rank	Artist	Nominations	Year
1	Michael Jackson	12	1984
1	Babyface	12	1997
3	Kendrick Lamar	11	2016
4	Lauryn Hill	10	1999
4	Kanye West	10	2005
4	Beyoncé	10	2010
4	Eminem	10	2011
8	Roger Miller	9	1966
8	Paul McCartney	9	1966
8	The Manhattan Transfer	9	1986
8	Eric Clapton	9	1993
8	Santana	9	2000
8	Jay Z	9	2014
8	Beyoncé	9	2017

Most nominations without winning

With 18 nominations, Zubin Mehta has received the most Grammy nominations without winning.

Rank	Artist	Nominations
1	Zubin Mehta	18
2	Brian McKnight	17
3	Snoop Dogg	16
4	Björk	15
4	Joe Satriani	15
4	Fred Hersch	15
7	Toshiko Akiyoshi	14
7	Martina McBride	14
7	Dierks Bentley	14
10	Katy Perry	13
10	Nas	13
10	Spyro Gyra	13
10	Musiq Soulchild	13
10	Charlie Wilson	13
15	Diana Ross	12
15	Busta Rhymes	12
15	Ledisi	12
15	Lenny Gomulka	12
15	Keith Jarrett	12
15	Jazmine Sullivan	12

Norwegian sound engineer and chorus leader Morten Lindberg removed himself from this list in February 2020, when he finally received his first Grammy Award with his 28th nomination between 2006 and 2020.

Most nominations in one night without winning

The record for most Grammy nominations without a win in one night is 9, held by Paul McCartney. The record was set in 1966.

Rank	Artist	Nominations
1	Paul McCartney	9
2	Kanye West	8
2	Rihanna	8
2	Jay-Z	8
5	Stevie Wonder	7
5	India.Arie	7
5	Kendrick Lamar	7
8	Henry Mancini	6
8	Thomas Z. Shepard	6
8	Lionel Richie	6
8	David Foster	6
8	Mariah Carey	6
8	50 Cent	6
8	Bruno Mars	6

Grammy nominations in the most fields

Artists who had been nominated for all four General Field awards in one night

Only twelve artists have been nominated for all four General Field awards in one night. Lizzo is the oldest person to be nominated for all four awards in one night, at 31 years old; while the youngest person to be nominated is Billie Eilish at 17 years old. Both were nominated in 2020, making it the first time that two artists were nominated for all four awards in one night. In 1968, Bobbie Gentry became the first person and first female artist to be nominated for all four awards, followed by Christopher Cross in 1981 and Fun. in 2013, becoming the first male artist and first group to be nominated, respectively.

Year	Artist
1968	Bobbie Gentry
1981	Christopher Cross
1985	Cyndi Lauper
1989	Tracy Chapman
1991	Mariah Carey
1998	Paula Cole
2002	India.Arie
2008	Amy Winehouse
2013	Fun.
2015	Sam Smith
2020	Billie Eilish
2020	Lizzo

Youngest nominees

Leah Peasall of The Peasall Sisters is the youngest ever Grammy nominee as one of the credited artists on the O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Soundtrack in 2002. Deleon Richards is the youngest performer to receive an individual nomination, for Best Soul/Gospel performance.

Rank	Age	Artist
1	8 years	Leah Peasall
2	8 years, 161 days	Deleon Richards
3	11 years	Hannah Peasall
4	12 years, 126 days	Zac Hanson
5	12 years, 155 days	Joey Alexander
6	12 years, 199 days	Michael Jackson
7	12 years, 234 days	Kelvin Grant
8	12 years, 273 days	Billy Gilman
9	14 years, 45 days	Chris "Daddy Mac" Smith
10	14 years, 140 days	Marie Osmond
11	14 years, 182 days	LeAnn Rimes
12	14 years	Sarah Peasall
13	14 years, 197 days	Chris "Mac Daddy" Kelly
14	14 years, 313 days	Luis Miguel
15	14 years, 348 days	Taylor Hanson

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