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Main article: Grammy Award The Grammy Awards holds several records held by various competitive-award winning artists. This page only includes the competitive awards won by artists. This does not include the various special awards that are presented by the Recording Academy. [edit] Awards[edit] Most Grammys won in a lifetimeThe record for the most Grammy Awards in a lifetime is held by Sir Georg Solti, a Hungarian-British conductor who conducted the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for twenty-two years. He personally won 31 Grammys[1] and he was nominated an additional 74 times before his death in 1997. In Second Place is Quincy Jones who has won a total of 27 awards. Alison Krauss is in third place having won a total of 26 awards. U2 and Stevie Wonder are in fourth place with 22 awards.
[edit] Most Grammy Awards won for consecutive albumsPat Metheny and the Pat Metheny Group have won 17 Grammy Awards in total, including seven consecutive awards for seven consecutive albums.[2] Metheny held the record for Grammy wins in the most different categories as of the 2005 Grammy Awards:
[edit] Most Consecutive Grammy Awards won for the same categoryJimmy Sturr has won 18 Grammy Awards in total, all for Best Polka Album, including three runs of four consecutive years (1996-1999, 2001-2004, and 2006-2009) and one run of 6 consecutive years (1987-1992). He has won 18 out of the 24 Best Polka Album Grammys that have been awarded since that category was added in 1985. 2009 was the last time the award was handed out. It has since been announced that the award will not be presented as of 2010. [edit] Most consecutive performances on albums that won the Grammy Award for Record of the YearSession drummer Hal Blaine played on six consecutive records that won Record of the Year:
[edit] Most Grammy Awards won by a male artistStevie Wonder has won a total of 22 Grammys Awards.
[edit] Most Grammy Awards won by a female artistAlison Krauss as a solo artist, producer, collaborator (with Union Station) has won 26 Grammy Awards.[3]
[edit] Most wins of the Grammy for Best Male Rock Vocal PerformanceLenny Kravitz has won the Best Male Rock Vocal Performance award 4 times consecutively (1999, 2000, 2001, 2002) while being nominated a further multiple times in the mentioned category. [edit] Most Grammy Awards won by a groupU2 has won 22 Grammy Awards in their career, more than any other recording group or band.
[edit] Most Grammys Won by a ProducerQuincy Jones with 27 awards holds the record for most Grammys won by a music producer.
[edit] Most Grammys won by an Engineer or MixerAl Schmitt with 17 Grammy awards has won more Grammys than any other engineer or mixer. [edit] Most wins of the Grammy for Best Female R&B Vocal PerformanceAretha Franklin has won the Best Female R&B Vocal Performance Grammy a record 18 times, 8 of them consecutively. [edit] Youngest winnersLeAnn Rimes is the youngest person to win a Grammy, at 14 years old.[4] She was also the first country artist to win the Best New Artist Grammy.[5]
[edit] Most honored albumsSantana's Supernatural and U2's How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb holds the record for most honored album having won nine awards. Supernatural won nine awards in 2000 and How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb won three in 2005 and six in 2006 giving it a total of nine.
[edit] Most Album of the Year WinsThe record for most Album of the Year wins is three. Several artists and producers have won the award three times.
[edit] Single ceremony[edit] Most Grammys won in one nightThe Record for Most Grammys won in one night 8 which is tied between Michael Jackson in 1984 and Santana in 2000.
[edit] Most Grammys won by a group in one nightIn 2000 Santana was awarded a total of 8 awards. They won the awards for Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals, Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals, Best Pop Instrumental Performance, Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals, Best Rock Instrumental Performance and Best Rock Album. They tied Michael Jackson for the most Grammy wins in one night. [edit] Most Grammys won by a record producer in one nightThe most Grammys won by a record producer in one night is five. At the 49th Annual Grammy Awards in 2007 Rick Rubin won Record of the Year, Album of the Year and Best Country Album for the Dixie Chicks. He was awarded best Rock Album for the Red Hot Chili Peppers and he also won Producer of the Year, Non Classical. [edit] Most Grammys won by a male solo artist in one nightThe Record for Most Grammys won in one night by a male solo artist Michael Jackson who in 1984 won 8 awards.
[edit] Most Grammys won by a female solo artist in one nightThe most Grammys won by a female solo artist in one night is five, which has been accomplished by Six different artists. They have all won awards in the General Field (Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Best New Artist) with the exception of Beyonce.
[edit] Artists to have won all the General Field Awards at a single ceremonyChristopher Cross (1981) is the only artist to receive all four General Field awards in one night. He won the Record of the Year ("Sailing"), Album of the Year ("Christopher Cross"), Song of the Year ("Sailing"), and Best New Artist Grammys in a single ceremony.[6] No other artist has won all four general field awards, even over a period of multiple Grammy Award ceremonies. It is often incorrectly reported that Norah Jones won the "Big Four" in 2003 (45th Grammy Awards). She was named Best New Artist, her album Come Away with Me was Album of the Year, and "Don't Know Why", from the aforementioned album, was Record of the Year and Song of the Year. However, Jones is not the official recipient of the Song of the Year Award because the award is credited to the original composer. "Don't Know Why" was written by Jesse Harris.[7] [edit] Most awards won by an album in one nightThe most awards awarded to an album in one night is nine. In 2000 Santana's Supernatural was awarded nine awards. It won Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Pop Performance by a duo or Group With Vocals, Best Pop Collaboration with vocals, Best Pop Instrumental Performance, Best Rock Performance by a Duo or group with Vocals, Best Rock Instrumental Performance and Best Rock Album. [edit] Most posthumous awards won in one nightRay Charles holds the record for most posthumous awards won in one night. He won five awards in 2005 including Album of the Year. [edit] Nominations[edit] Most NominationsQuincy Jones holds the record for the most Grammy nominations with 79.[8] [edit] Youngest NomineeDeleon Richards is the youngest person ever to be nominated for a Grammy.[9] DeLeon was 9 years old when nominated. [edit] Nominations in the most categoriesBéla Fleck has been nominated in more categories than any other musician, namely country, pop, jazz, bluegrass, classical, folk, and spoken word, as well as composition and arranging. [edit] Most nominations without winningBrian McKnight holds the record for most Grammy nominations without winning, with sixteen.
[edit] Most Nominations in One Night without winningIndia.Arie received seven nominations in 2002 winning none. She lost Song of the Year, Best New Artist, Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, Best R&B Song & Best R&B Album to Alicia Keys. She lost Record of the Year to U2 and Album of the Year to O Brother, Where Art Thou?. [edit] References
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