Taylor Swift Wins Album of the Year, Breaking a Record (2024)

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What did Taylor Swift say after winning the Album of the Year? ›

Swift expressed her gratitude and shock in the speech, stressing how, to her, making music is the real award. “For me, the award is the work,” she said. “All I want to do is keep being able to do this. I love it so much.

Swift's 2008 studio album, Fearless, was her first No. 1 album and spawned the Top 5 crossover hit "Love Story." Swift is the first and only artist to win the GRAMMY for Album Of The Year four times: Midnights (2024), Folklore (2021), 1989 (2016), and Fearless (2010).

I agree with a lot of other comments here already - midnights won based on popularity and her domination with the Eras Tour. I also think she won because she is not quiet about how much the Grammys mean to her.

In 2014, Swift's “Red” lost the award to Daft Punk's “Random Access Memories,” and in 2022 “Evermore” lost to Batiste's “We Are.” Last year, Beyoncé won her 32nd Grammy, more than any other artist in history. (Take that, Quincy Jones and Sir Georg Solti!)

Taylor won her 1st Album of the Year Grammy for her album "Fearless" at only 20 years old, making her the youngest winner of this award in history.

Taylor Swift and Lana Del Rey became friends after they separately worked with music producer Jack Antonoff.

'1989′ Swift's 2014 album, 1989′, stands out as the artist's best-selling album. In total, the album has sold over 14,332,116 copies worldwide. With classic hits like 'Style,' 'Blank Space,' and 'Bad Blood' this album dominated the charts in the year of its release.

Taylor Swift breaks Spotify records for most-streamed album, most-streamed artist in a single day.

Taylor Swift has broken Grammys records as the first artist to win the Album Of The Year award four times. She had previously been tied with Stevie Wonder, Frank Sinatra and Paul Simon.

Fritz is not alone. After Swift's "Midnights" was released, many listeners shared how the song spoke to their personal experience with pregnancy loss.

Why are there 4 versions of Midnights? ›

Molanphy argued that Midnights employed an optimal promotion for every consumption metric: the multiple CD and LP offers would boost physical sales, the limited-time download tracks would increase digital sales, and the surprise 3am Edition release would prompt higher streams.

Midnights (3am Edition) contains seven bonus tracks not included on Midnight's proper 13-song tracklist. As Swift herself explained in a Twitter post, “I think of Midnights as a complete concept album, with those 13 songs forming a full picture of the intensities of that mystifying, mad hour.

"Speak Now (Taylor's Version)" For much of Swift's career, "Speak Now" was her most underrated album.

Austin Kingsley Swift (born March 11, 1992) is an American producer, businessman, and actor who has appeared in films such as Live by Night and I.T.

We need to hear from her now. On Sunday night, while onstage at the Grammy Awards to accept the Dr. Dre Global Impact Award, Jay-Z took shots at the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences for overlooking Black artists — most notably his wife, Beyoncé.

During her acceptance speech, Swift thanked her fans and shared how grateful she is to be doing what she does. "All I want to do is keep being able to do this," Swift said. "I love it so much. It makes me so happy."

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Artists made history and made memorable moments at the 2024 GRAMMYs: women won several of the major GRAMMY categories and general dominated the night; several artists won their first-ever GRAMMY, including Miley Cyrus; and Taylor Swift became the artist with the most GRAMMY wins for Album Of The Year.

Grammy wins record-holder Beyoncé has never won Album of the Year. Beyoncé holds several Grammy records, and she even shares one with her husband, Jay-Z. But despite them all, she has never won Album of the Year. With 32 wins under her belt, Beyoncé has won the most Grammys out of any artist in history.