Taylor Swift makes Grammy historical past with fourth album of 12 months win

Pop celebrity Taylor Swift set one other report on Sunday, successful the Grammy award for album of the 12 months for an unprecedented fourth time as girls dominated the music trade’s high honours.

Swift additionally introduced from the Grammys stage that she would launch a brand new album in April.

The 34-year-old received album of the 12 months for Midnights” eclipsing music legends Frank Sinatra, Paul Simon and Stevie Wonder, who every claimed the prize 3 times.

Swift stated she was thrilled by the honour and gushed in regards to the success she feels from writing and singing songs. “It makes me so happy,” she stated. “All I want to do is keep doing this.”

Earlier, Swift claimed the prize for finest pop vocal efficiency and used the second to announce that she’s going to launch The Tortured Poets Department on April 19.

“I want to say thank you to the fans by telling you a secret that I’ve been keeping from you for the last two years,” Swift stated as she disclosed the brand new album, which was made out there for pre-sales in the course of the Grammys telecast.

Swift, who’s about to jet to Tokyo to renew the world’s highest-grossing live performance tour, was among the many girls who swept the key Grammy awards on Sunday.

🌃 Congrats Album Of The Year winner – ‘Midnights’ @TaylorSwift13 #GRAMMYs pic.twitter.com/EfWKmWd77X

— Recording Academy / GRAMMYs (@RecordingAcad) February 5, 2024

Billie Eilish claimed music of the 12 months for What Was I Made For?, a ballad written for the Barbie film soundtrack.

“As a woman, it feels a lot of the time like you’re not being seen,” Eilish advised reporters backstage. “I feel that this makes me feel very seen. Sometimes it feels really good to have somebody tell you ‘good job.'”

Miley Cyrus, winner of her first two Grammys on Sunday, landed the report of the 12 months honour for her empowerment anthem Flowers.

“This award is amazing,” Cyrus stated, “but I really hope that it doesn’t change anything because my life was beautiful yesterday.”

Best new artist went to R&B and pop singer Victoria Monet, who thanked her mother, “a single mom raising this really bad girl”.

Winners have been chosen by the musicians, producers, engineers and others who make up the Recording Academy. The group has labored to diversify its membership in recent times by inviting extra girls and other people of color to its ranks.

SZA, who went into the evening because the most-nominated artist, received three trophies together with finest R&B music for Snooze.

“I came really, really far,” she stated. “I can’t believe this is happening, and it feels very fake.”

Indie rock band boygenius, a band shaped by musicians Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker, additionally claimed three awards.

JONI MITCHELL, BILLY JOEL PERFORM

Comedian Trevor Noah, again for a fourth stint as host, opened the present on CBS by joking that it was “the only concert that starts on time”.

Folk singer Joni Mitchell carried out for the primary time on the Grammys, singing Both Sides Now from a chair and sporting blonde braids and a beret, with Brandi Carlile enjoying guitar beside her.

In a tribute to the various musicians and trade executives who handed away within the final 12 months, Stevie Wonder performed For Once In My Life to honour the late Tony Bennett who sang alongside from a video.

Annie Lennox sang Nothing Compares 2 U in a tribute to Sinead O’Connor, and Fantasia Barrino honoured Tina Turner along with her model of Proud Mary, backed by singers in shiny gold and silver fringed outfits.

Jon Batiste performed Ain’t No Sunshine and Lean On Me in a tribute to Clarence Avant, generally known as “the Godfather of Black music”.

Near the beginning of the present, nation star Luke Combs sang his cowl hit Fast Car, alongside the unique singer and author of the 1988 music, Tracy Chapman.

Toward the tip, Billy Joel carried out his new single Turn The Lights Back On, his first unique music in 17 years.

In accepting the Dr. Dre Global Impact Award, rapper Jay-Z aired some Grammy grievances, together with the truth that his celebrity spouse Beyonce had by no means received album of the 12 months regardless of having earned extra Grammys than anybody else.

“I don’t want to embarrass this young lady,” Jay-Z stated as Beyonce watched from the viewers. “But she has more Grammys than anyone and never won album of the year. So even by your own metrics, that doesn’t work.”