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Grammys 2024: Taylor Swift wins Album of the Year four times in a row, Miley Cyrus bags her first trophy

While Billie Eilish took home the song of the year award for her Barbie song What Was I Made For, Joni Mitchell won her 10th Grammy in the best folk album category

Urmi Chakraborty Calcutta Published 05.02.24, 01:53 PM
(L-R) Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus.

(L-R) Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus. Instagram

Taylor Swift became the first artiste to win the Album of the Year trophy at the Grammy Awards four times in a row, while Miley Cyrus bagged her first-ever Grammy for Best Pop-solo Performance and Record at the 66th edition of the award ceremony on Monday.

Taylor received the Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album awards for her 2022 album Midnights. While delivering her acceptance speech, the Lover singer also announced the release of her new studio album The Tortured Poets Department. Taylor’s Midnights was nominated in the Album of the Year category alongside singers Lana Del Rey’s Did You Know That There's A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, Olivia Rodrigo’s GUTS, SZA’s SOS and Miley’s Endless Summer Vacation.

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Miley, on the other hand, won two Grammys for her song Flowers, which topped Billboard’s Hot 100 for eight consecutive weeks and emerged as the most-streamed song in a single week on Spotify with over 100 million plays.

“She can buy herself flowers and win her own #GRAMMYs,” the US-based Recording Academy wrote on X, announcing the singer as the winner. Other contenders in this category included Billie Eilish, Victoria Monét, Jon Batiste and Taylor.

Billie Eilish, who emerged as a pop sensation in 2015 with her debut single Ocean Eyes, won trophies for the Song of the Year and Song Written for Visual Media for her Barbie song What Was I Made For. The song, which was nominated at the Golden Globes earlier this year, also received nods for record of the year, best music video and pop-solo performance awards.

Taylor’s Anti-Hero, Dua Lipa’s Barbie song Dance The Night, Lana’s A&W, Olivia’s Vampire and Batiste’s Butterfly were the other nominations in the Song of the Year category.

While On My Mama singer Victoria Monét won the Best New Artist award, SZA was awarded with the Best Pop Duo/Group performance trophy for her song Ghost In The Machine featuring Phoebe Bridgers.

Veteran singer Joni Mitchell, who also performed live at the opening ceremony of the awards show, won the Best Folk Album award for her 2022 live album Joni Mitchell At Newport. This marks the Cactus Tree singer’s 10th Grammy win.

Hosted by comedian-actor Trevor Noah, the ceremony can be watched on Grammy.com and the Recording Academy's YouTube channel in India.

Winners in other popular musical genres:

Best Dance/Electronic Recording

Rumble by Skrillex, Fred again.. & Flowdan

Best Pop Dance Recording

Padam Padam by Kylie Minogue

Best Rock Song

Not Strong Enough by Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers & Lucy Dacus, songwriters (boygenius)

Best Rock Performance

Not Strong Enough by Boygenius

Best Rock Album

This Is Why by Paramore (also won in the best alternative music performance category)

Best Metal Performance

72 Seasons by Metallica

Best Alternative Music Album

The Record by boygenius

Best Rap Song

SCIENTISTS & ENGINEERS by Killer Mike Featuring André 3000 and Future And Eryn Allen Kane

Best Country Song

White Horse by Chris Stapleton and Dan Wilson

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