67th Grammy Awards Highlights
The 67th Grammy Awards made a grand return to the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, with Trevor Noah as the host for the evening. The star-studded event showcased performances from notable artists including Sabrina Carpenter, Chappell Roan, the Weeknd, Shakira, and Charli XCX. In addition to celebrating musical achievements, the broadcast also functioned as a fundraiser aimed at assisting music professionals and supporting wildfire relief efforts in Los Angeles. The night was particularly memorable for Kendrick Lamar and Beyoncé, who took home significant awards. Below is the full list of winners from the event.
Album of the Year
“Cowboy Carter” — Beyoncé | WINNER
“New Blue Sun” — André 3000
“Short n’ Sweet” — Sabrina Carpenter
“Brat” — Charli XCX
“Djesse Vol. 4” — Jacob Collier
“Hit Me Hard and Soft” — Billie Eilish
“Chappell Roan, the Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess” — Chappell Roan
“The Tortured Poet’s Department” — Taylor Swift
Song of the Year
“Not Like Us” — Kendrick Lamar, songwriter (Kendrick Lamar) | WINNER
“A Bar Song (Tipsy)” — Sean Cook, Jerrel Jones, Joe Kent, Chibueze Collins Obinna, Nevin Sastry and Mark Williams, songwriters (Shaboozey)
“Birds of a Feather” — Billie Eilish O’Connell and Finneas O’Connell, songwriters (Billie Eilish)
“Die With a Smile” — Dernst “D’Mile” Emile II, James Fauntleroy, Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars and Andrew Watt, songwriters (Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars)
“Fortnight” — Jack Antonoff, Austin Post and Taylor Swift, songwriters (Taylor Swift featuring Post Malone)
“Good Luck, Babe!” — Kayleigh Rose Amstutz, Daniel Nigro and Justin Tranter, songwriters (Chappell Roan)
“Please Please Please” — Amy Allen, Jack Antonoff and Sabrina Carpenter, songwriters (Sabrina Carpenter)
“Texas Hold ’Em” — Brian Bates, Beyoncé, Elizabeth Lowell Boland, Megan Bülow, Nate Ferraro and Raphael Saadiq, songwriters (Beyoncé)
Record of the Year
“Not Like Us” — Kendrick Lamar | WINNER
“Now and Then” — The Beatles
“Texas Hold ’Em” — Beyoncé
“Espresso” — Sabrina Carpenter
“360” — Charli XCX
“Birds of a Feather” — Billie Eilish
“Good Luck, Babe!” — Chappell Roan
“Fortnight” — Taylor Swift featuring Post Malone
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
“Die With A Smile” — Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars | WINNER
“us.” — Gracie Abrams Featuring Taylor Swift
“Levii’s Jeans” — Beyoncé featuring Post Malone
“Guess” — Charli XCX and Billie Eilish
“the boy is mine” — Ariana Grande, Brandy & Monica
Best Latin Pop Album
“Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran” — Shakira | WINNER
“Funk Generation” — Anitta
“El Viaje” — Luis Fonsi
“GARCÍA” — Kany García
“Orquîdeas” — Kali Uchis
Best New Artist
Chappell Roan | WINNER
Benson Boone
Sabrina Carpenter
Doechii
Khruangbin
RAYE
Shaboozey
Teddy Swims
Best Country Album
“Cowboy Carter” — Beyoncé | WINNER
“F-1 Trillion” — Post Malone
“Deeper Well” — Kacey Musgraves
“Higher” — Chris Stapleton
“Whirlwind” — Lainey Wilson
Best Pop Vocal Album
“Short n’ Sweet” — Sabrina Carpenter | WINNER
“Hit Me Hard And Soft” — Billie Eilish
“eternal sunshine” — Ariana Grande
“Chappell Roan, the Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess” — Chappell Roan
“The Tortured Poets Department” — Taylor Swift
Best Rap Album
“Alligator Bites Never Heal” — Doechii | WINNER
“Might Delete Later” — J. Cole
“The Auditorium, Vol. 1” — Common and Pete Rock
“The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce)” — Eminem
“We Don’t Trust You” — Future and Metro Boomin
Best Classical Compendium
“Ortiz: Revolución Diamantina” — Gustavo Dudamel, conductor; Dmitriy Lipay, producer | WINNER
“Akiho: BeLonging” — Andy Akiho and Imani Winds; Andy Akiho, Sean Dixon and Mark Dover, producers
“American Counterpoints” — Curtis Stewart; James Blachly, conductor; Blanton Alspaugh, producer
“Foss: Symphony No. 1; Renaissance Concerto; Three American Pieces Ode” — JoAnn Falletta, conductor; Bernd Gottinger, producer
“Mythologies II” — Sangeeta Kaur, Omar Najmi, Hilá Plitmann, Robert Thies and Danaë Xanthe Vlasse; Michael Shapiro, conductor; Jeff Atmajian, Emilio D. Miler, Hai Nguyen, Robert Thies, Danaë Xanthe Vlasse and Kitt Wakeley, producers
Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals
“Alma” — Erin Bentlage, Sara Gazarek, Johanye Kendrick and Amanda Taylor, arrangers (säje featuring Regina Carter) | WINNER
“Always Come Back” — Matt Jones, arranger (John Legend)
“b i g f e e l i n g s” — Willow, arranger (Willow)
“Last Surprise” — (From “Persona 5”) Charlie Rosen and Jake Silverman, arrangers (The Bit Big Band featuring Jonah Nilsson and Button Masher)
“The Sound of Silence” — Cody Fry, arranger (Cody Fry featuring Sleeping at Last)
Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella
“Bridge Over Troubled Water” — Jacob Collier, Tori Kelly and John Legend, arrangers (Jacob Collier featuring John Legend and Tori Kelly) | WINNER
“Baby Elephant Walk — Encore” — Michael League, arranger (Snarky Puppy)
“Rhapsody in Blue (Grass)” — Béla Fleck and Ferde Grofé, arrangers (Béla Fleck featuring Michael Cleveland, Sierra Hull, Justin Moses, Mark Schatz and Bryan Sutton)
“Rose Without the Thorns” — Erin Bentlage, Alexander Lloyd Blake, Scott Hoying, A.J. Sealy and Amanda Taylor, arrangers (Scott Hoying featuring säje and Tonality)
“Silent Night” — Erin Bentlage, Sara Gazarek, Johnaye Kendrick and Amanda Taylor, arrangers (säje)
Best Musical Theater Album
“Hell’s Kitchen” — Shoshana Bean, Brandon Victor Dixon, Kecia Lewis and Meleah Joi Moon, principal vocalists; Adam Blackstone, Alicia Keys and Tom Kitt, producers (Alicia Keys, composer and lyricist) (original Broadway cast) | WINNER
“Merrily We Roll Along” — Jonathan Groff, Lindsay Mendez and Daniel Radcliffe, principal vocalists; David Caddick, Joel Fram, Maria Friedman and David Lai, producers (Stephen Sondheim, composer and lyricist) (new Broadway cast)
“The Notebook” — John Clancy, Carmel Dean, Kurt Deutsch, Derik Lee, Kevin McCollum and Ingrid Michaelson, producers; Ingrid Michaelson, composer and lyricist (original Broadway cast)
“The Outsiders” — Joshua Boone, Brent Comer, Brody Grant and Sky Lakota-Lynch, principal vocalists; Zach Chance, Jonathan Clay, Matt Hinkley, Justin Levine and Lawrence Manchester, producers; Zach Chance, Jonathan Clay and Justin Levine, composers/lyricists (original Broadway cast)
“Suffs” — Andrea Grody, Dean Sharenow and Shaina Taub, producers; Shaina Taub, composer and lyricist (original Broadway cast)
“The Wiz” — Wayne Brady, Deborah Cox, Nichelle Lewis and Avery Wilson, principal vocalists; Joseph Joubert, Allen René Louis and Lawrence Manchester, producers (Charlie Smalls, composer and lyricist) (2024 Broadway cast recording)
Best Spoken Word Poetry Album
“The Heart, the Mind, the Soul” — Tank and the Bangas | WINNER
“Civil Writes: The South Got Something to Say” — Queen Sheba
“cOncrete & wHiskey Act II Part 1: A Bourbon 30 Series” — Omari Hardwick
“Good M.U.S.I.C. Universe Sonic Sinema: Episode 1 in the Beginning Was the Word” — Malik Yusef
“The Seven Number Ones” — Mad Skillz
Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
“Beyond the Years — Unpublished Songs of Florence Price” — Karen Slack, soloist; Michelle Cann, pianist | WINNER
“A Change Is Gonna Come” — Nicholas Phan, soloist; Palaver Strings, ensembles
“Newman: Bespoke Songs” — Fotina Naumenko, soloist; Marika Bournaki, pianist (Nadège Foofat; Julietta Curenton, Colin Davin, Mark Edwards, Nadia Pessoa, Timothy Roberts, Ryan Romine, Akemi Takayama, Karlyn Viña and Garrick Zoeter)
“Show Me the Way” — Will Liverman, soloist; Jonathan King, pianist
“Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder” — Joyce DiDonato, soloist; Maxim Emelyanychev, conductor (Il Pomo d’Oro)
Best Classical Instrumental Solo
“Bach: Goldberg Variations” — Víkingur Ólafsson | WINNER
“Akiho: Longing” — Andy Akiho
“Eastman: The Holy Presence of Joan D’Arc” — Seth Parker Woods; Christopher Rountree, conductor (Wild Up)
“Entourer” — Mak Grgić (Ensemble Dissonance)
“Perry: Concerto for Violin & Orchestra” — Curtis Stewart; James Blachly, conductor (Experiential Orchestra)
Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
“Rectangles and Circumstance” — Caroline Shaw and Sō Percussion | WINNER
“Adams, J.L.: Waves & Particles” — Jack Quartet
“Beethoven for Three: Symphony No. 4 and Op. 97, ‘Archduke’” — Yo-Yo Ma, Leonidas Kavakos and Emanuel Ax
“Cerrone: Beaufort Scales” — Beth Willer, Christopher Cerrone and Lorelei Ensemble
“Home” — Miró Quartet
Best Choral Performance
“Ochre” — Donald Nally, conductor (The Crossing) | WINNER
“Clear Voices in the Dark” — Matthew Guard, conductor (Carrie Cheron, Nathan Hodgson, Helen Karloski and Clare McNamara; Skylark Vocal Ensemble)
“A Dream So Bright — Choral Music of Jake Runestad” — Eric Holtan, conductor (Jeffrey Biegel; True Concord Orchestra; True Concord Voices)
“Handel: Israel In Egypt” — Jeannette Sorrell, conductor (Margaret Carpenter Haigh, Daniel Moody, Molly Netter, Jacob Perry and Edward Vogel; Apollo’s Fire; Apollo’s Singers)
“Sheehan: Akathist” — Elaine Kelly, conductor; Melissa Attebury, Stephen Sands and Benedict Sheehan, chorus masters (Elizabeth Bates, Paul D’Arcy, Tynan Davis, Aine Hakamatsuka, Steven Hrycelak, Helen Karloski, Enrico Lagasca, Edmund Milly, Fotina Naumenko, Neil Netherly, Timothy Parsons, Stephen Sands, Miriam Sheehan and Pamela Terry; Novus NY; Artefact Ensemble, The Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Downtown Voices and Trinity Youth Chorus)
Best Contemporary Classical Composition
“Ortiz: Revolución Diamantina” — Gabriela Ortiz, composer (Gustavo Dudamel, Los Angeles Philharmonic and Los Angeles Master Chorale) | WINNER
“Saariaho: Adriana Mater” — Kaija Saariaho, composer (Esa-Pekka Salonen, Fleur Barron, Nicholas Phan, Christopher Purves, Axelle Fanyo, San Francisco Symphony Chorus and Orchestra)
“Casarrubios: Seven for Solo Cello” — Andrea Casarrubios, composer (Andrea Casarrubios)
“Coleman: Revelry” — Valerie Coleman, composer (Decoda)
“Lang: Composition as Explanation” — David Lang, composer (Eighth Blackbird)
Best Orchestral Performance
“Ortiz: Revolución Diamantina” — Gustavo Dudamel, conductor (Los Angeles Philharmonic) | WINNER
“Adams: City Noir, Fearful Symmetries and Lola Montez Does the Spider Dance” — Marin Alsop, conductor (ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra)
“Kodály: Háry János Suite; Summer Evening and Symphony in C Major” — JoAnn Falletta, conductor (Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra)
“Sibelius: Karelia Suite, Rakastava and Lemminkäinen” — Susanna Mälkki, conductor (Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra)
“Stravinsky: The Firebird” — Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor (San Francisco Symphony)
Best Instrumental Composition
“Strands” — Pascal Le Boeuf, composer (Akropolis Reed Quintet, Pascal Le Boeuf and Christian Euman) | WINNER
“At Last” — Shelton G. Berg, composer (Shelly Berg)
“Communion” — Christopher Zuar, composer (Christopher Zuar Orchestra)
“I Swear, I Really Wanted to Make a ‘Rap’ Album But This Is Literally the Way the Wind Blew Me This Time” — André 3000, Surya Botofasina, Nate Mercereau and Carlos Niño, composers (André 3000)
“Remembrance” — Chick Corea, composer (Chick Corea and Béla Fleck)
Best Immersive Audio Album
“i/o (In-Side Mix)” — Hans-Martin Buff, immersive mix engineer; Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel and Richard Russell, immersive producers (Peter Gabriel) | WINNER
“Avalon” — Bob Clearmountain, immersive mix engineer; Rhett Davies and Bryan Ferry, immersive producers (Roxy Music)
“Genius Loves Company” — Michael Romanowski, Eric Schilling and Herbert Waltl, immersive mix engineers; Michael Romanowski, immersive mastering engineer; John Burk, immersive producer (Ray Charles with various artists)
“Henning Sommerro: Borders” — Morten Lindberg, immersive mix engineer; Morten Lindberg, immersive mastering engineer; Morten Lindberg, immersive producer (Trondheim Symphony Orchestra)
“Pax” — Morten Lindberg, immersive mix engineer; Morten Lindberg, immersive mastering engineer; Morten Lindberg, immersive producer (Ensemble 96 and Current Saxophone Quartet)
Producer of the Year, Classical
Elaine Martone | WINNER
Erica Brenner
Christoph Franke
Morten Lindberg
Dmitriy Lipay
Dirk Sobotka
Best Engineered Album, Classical
“Bruckner: Symphony No. 7”; “Bates: Resurrexit” — Mark Donahue and John Newton, engineers; Mark Donahue, mastering engineer (Manfred Honeck and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra) | WINNER
“Adams: Girls of the Golden West” — Alexander Lipay and Dmitriy Lipay, engineers; Alexander Lipay and Dmitriy Lipay, mastering engineers (John Adams, Daniela Mack, Ryan McKinny, Paul Appleby, Hye Jung Lee, Elliot Madore, Julia Bullock, Davóne Tines, Los Angeles Philharmonic and Los Angeles Master Chorale)
“Andres: The Blind Banister” — Silas Brown, Doron Schachter and Michael Schwartz, engineers; Matt Colton, mastering engineer (Andrew Cyr, Inbal Segev and Metropolis Ensemble)
“Clear Voices in the Dark” — Daniel Shores, engineer; Daniel Shores, mastering engineer (Matthew Guard and Skylark Vocal Ensemble)
“Ortiz: Revolución” — Diamantina Alexander Lipay and Dmitriy Lipay, engineers; Alexander Lipay and Dmitriy Lipay, mastering engineers (Gustavo Dudamel, María Dueñas, Los Angeles Philharmonic and Los Angeles Master Chorale)
Best New Age, Ambient, or Chant Album
“Triveni” — Wouter Kellerman, Éru Matsumoto and Chandrika Tandon | WINNER
“Break of Dawn” — Ricky Kej
“Visions of Sounds De Luxe” — Chris Redding
“Opus” — Ryuichi Sakamoto
“Chapter II: How Dark It Is Before Dawn” — Anoushka Shankar
“Warriors of Light” — Radhika Vekaria
Best Reggae Album
“Bob Marley: One Love — Music Inspired by the Film (Deluxe)” — Various Artists | WINNER
“Take It Easy” — Collie Buddz
“Party With Me” — Vybz Kartel
“Never Gets Late Here” — Shenseea
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