1976: Paul Simon, Still Crazy After All These Years(Nominees: Janis Ian,Between the Lines; Elton John,Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy; Linda Ronstadt,Heart Like a Wheel; Eagles,One of These Nights) This year’s nominations really celebrated the art of songwriting. It’s easy to...
The Album Of The Year designation, whoever publishes them, always need to come with an asterisk attached unless the choice is so obvious in every conceivable way – commercially, artistically, influentially – that no other selection could possibly be made. The more you veer away from those obj...
Swift and Beck are far from alone. Most follow-ups to Album of the Year winners weren't even nominated in that category. Take a look at how artists have fared with their first studio albums following their Album of the Year winners. (I only took it back to 1969 because release patterns...
But regardless of labels, it all comes together in one aggressive melting pot known as hard rock. So scroll through the gallery below and see which albums helped to shape rock as we know it as we explore the Best Hard Rock Album of Each Year Since 1970. And if you're wondering why yo...
If Black Panther wins Album of the Year, as your Grammy Nerds have fearlessly predicted, it will become the third rap album to take that marquee award. The first two were Lauryn Hill’s The...
What is the best metal album of each year since 1970? Come find out! We've sifted through the best of the best from over half a century of metal, enjoying fierce debates along the way while making agonizing choices as we're forced to choose just one representative from each year. ...
Chart columnist Chris Molanphy argues that this year's Grammys may be remembered as an inflection point in the music business’s decade-long shift away from the album and back towards the single.
Simon's wins were more spread out: He claimed the trophy in 1971, 1976 and 1987. Meanwhile, Wonder picked up his Album of the Year awards in '74, '75 and '77, and he's also one of the most-awarded artists in Grammys history, with 25 total trophies to his name. ...
The fact that Rumours, Fleetwood Mac’s hit album, was ever finished, let alone stayed atop the charts for 31 weeks, win the Grammy for Album of the Year and became one of the biggest selling albums of all time (more than 45 million copies), is testament to the artistry of the ...
Swift's last album,Midnights, was released in October 2022 and also won Album of the Year at this year's Grammys. Prior to its release,Midnightshad fans decoding hidden messages and underlying meanings, and in true Swiftie fashion, fans are already bursting with ideas about the singer's new...