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With 32 golden gramophones to her name, Beyoncé is the winningest artist in Grammy history. And her lead might increase soon: She’s nominated for 11 awards at the 2025 Grammys, taking place this Sunday, February 2.
But even people who don’t have a record-setting number of Grammys might have other Grammy-related claims to fame. Here are some notable superlatives, from youngest winner of the four top categories to oldest Best New Artist and beyond.
- Most Grammy Awards ever
- Youngest artist to win all four general field categories
- First Grammy-winning video game theme
- First Grammy winner to be stripped of their award
- First female artists to win Best Rap Performance
- Longest span between Album of the Year nominations
- Most nominations for Song of the Year
- First Album of the Year nomination for a Spanish-language album
- Oldest Best New Artist (solo)
- Youngest nominee
Most Grammy Awards ever
It makes sense that many of the top Grammy winners also hold other Grammy records. Beyoncé, for example, also happens to be the most Grammy-nominated artist of all time. Quincy Jones is the winningest producer; U2 is the winningest rock act; and so on. See who else made the list below.
Rank | Winner | Role | Number of Grammys | Other Distinctions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1. | Beyoncé | Singer-songwriter | 32 | Most nominated artist (99) |
2. | Georg Solti | Conductor | 31 | Most classical music Grammys |
3. | Quincy Jones | Producer | Most Grammys for a producer | |
4. | Alison Krauss | Musician/singer-songwriter | 27 | Most country music Grammys for a female artist |
4. | Chick Corea | Musician/composer | 27 | Most jazz Grammys |
5. | John Williams | Conductor/composer | 26 | |
5. | Pierre Boulez | Conductor/composer | 26 | |
6. | David Frost | Producer (classical) | 25 | |
6. | Stevie Wonder | Musician/singer | Most Grammys for a solo pop performer | |
6. | Vladimir Horowitz | Conductor/composer | 25 | |
7. | Jay-Z | Rapper | 24 | Tied with Kanye West for most rap Grammys |
7. | Kanye West | Rapper | 24 | Tied with Jay-Z for most rap Grammys |
8. | U2 | Band | 22 | Most rock Grammys |
8. | Vince Gill | Singer-songwriter | 22 | Most country music Grammys |
9. | Serban Ghenea | Engineer/mixer | Most Album of the Year Grammys (5) | |
10. | Al Schmitt | Engineer/mixer | 20 | |
10. | Bruce Springsteen | Musician/singer-songwriter | 20 | |
10. | Henry Mancini | Conductor/composer | 20 | |
10. | Kirk Franklin | Gospel singer/choirmaster | ||
10. | Pat Metheny | Jazz guitarist/composer | 20 | |
11. | Tony Bennett | Musician/singer | 19 | |
11. | Yo-Yo Ma | Cellist | 19 | |
12. | Aretha Franklin | Musician/singer-songwriter | 18 | |
12. | Jimmy Sturr | Polka musician | 18 | Most polka Grammys |
12. | Paul McCartney | Musician/singer-songwriter | 18 |
Youngest artist to win all four general field categories
Recipient: Billie Eilish, 18 years and 39 days old
Eilish won Best New Artist, Album of the Year (When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?), and Song and Record of the Year (“Bad Guy”) in 2020. The previous record holder was Adele, but she didn’t win all four awards on the same night.
First Grammy-winning video game theme
Recipient: “Baba Yetu” (Civilization IV)
Christopher Tin composed this Swahili edition of the Lord’s Prayer for the 2005 video game Civilization IV. He included a version of the song on his 2009 album Calling All Dawns, and in 2011 it won the Grammy for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s).
First Grammy winner to be stripped of their award
Recipient: Milli Vanilli
Milli Vanilli’s Fabrice Morvan and Rob Pilatus lost their 1990 Best New Artist award after the public discovered that they lip-synced all their songs.
First female artists to win Best Rap Performance
Recipients: Megan Thee Stallion and Beyoncé
Beyoncé and Megan Thee Stallion’s 2021 win for “Savage” was Megan’s first-ever Grammy. The track also earned her the distinction of being the first female rapper to win Best Rap Song as the lead artist (as opposed to being featured on a male artist’s track).
Longest span between Album of the Year nominations
Recipient: Ray Charles
Ray Charles earned his first Album of the Year nomination for 1961’s Genius + Soul = Jazz and his final one for 2004’s Genius Loves Company—a record-setting 43-year span. He also just missed our list of top Grammy winners: He took home 17 in total.
Most nominations for Song of the Year
Recipient: Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift set a new record for most Song of the Year nominations when she nabbed her seventh for “Anti-Hero” off her 2022 album Midnights. (She was previously tied at six with Paul McCartney and Lionel Richie.) She widened that gap ahead of the 2025 Grammy Awards with her eighth Song of the Year nomination for “Fortnight” off The Tortured Poets Department. Of her 14 career Grammy wins, not a single one has been for Song of the Year.
First Album of the Year nomination for a Spanish-language album
Recipient: Un Verano Sin Ti by Bad Bunny
The Puerto Rican rapper’s 2022 album lost to Harry Styles’s Harry’s House, but it did win the Grammy for Best Música Urbana Album.
Oldest Best New Artist (solo)
Recipient: Victoria Monét, 34 years and 279 days old
Sheryl Crow was just over 33 years old when she won Best New Artist in 1995; R&B’s Victoria Monét beat the record by more than a year in 2024.
Youngest nominee
Recipient: Hazel Monét, 2 years and 262 days old
Coincidentally, Monét’s daughter Hazel is the Grammys’ youngest nominee: She wasn’t even 3 years old when she earned a nod as a featured artist for laughing on her mom’s 2023 track “Hollywood.” They lost the award for Best Traditional R&B Performance to PJ Morton’s “Good Morning” featuring Susan Carol.
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