Beyoncé is the most Grammy Award winning artist of all times with 32 trophies to her name. Second came Sir Georg Solti, an orchestral and operatic conductor, i with a total of 31 Grammy Awards won for recordings of works as diverse as Bach, Bartók, and Wagner.

Grammy Awards winners - additional information

The Grammy Awards are annually awarded by members of the United States National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) in recognition of excellence in the recording arts and sciences. They are the equivalent of other annual prestigious awards in the American entertainment industry, such as the Academy Awards - OSCARS (for motion pictures), the Emmy Awards (for television) and the Tony Awards (for stage performance).

In 2018, The Grammy Awards celebrated its 60th edition and established some new industry records. Sir Georg Solti, who was the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conductor for 22 years, is the artist with most Grammy Awards won in a lifetime – 31 out of 74 nominations. Quincy Jones, prominent musician, conductor, arranger, composer, music, television and movie producer, is the most nominated artist of all time – 79 nominations, although in different capacities. Other records are less flattering for the nominees, such as that held by Morten Lindberg and Snoop Dogg, both topping a ranking of most Grammy nominations without a win. Additionally, the bluegrass-country musician Alison Krauss is the female with the most Grammy Awards – 27, followed by Beyoncé, with 22. The highest number of awards was presented in 2009, when artists and technicians were nominated in a record of 110 categories, but the number dropped since to 83 at the 2015 and 2016 editions, which were held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. A total of 84 categories were contested during the 2017 and 2018 editions of the awards.

Since the year 2000, the Latin Grammy is a separate ceremony which honors excellence in musical works recorded in either Spanish or Portuguese, notwithstanding their country of origin. Some of the artists who have received a large number of Latin Grammy Awards are Puerto Rican rap band Calle 13, Juanes, Alejandro Sanz, and Shakira. Mexico and Brazil are the countries with most Latin Grammy Awards – 136 and 135 respectively, as of 2015.

As of 2022, Jay-Z and Beyoncé had received the most nominations for a Grammy Award of all time, with 88 nominations throughout their respective careers. Jones, who came in at third place with 80 nominations, is a prominent figure in the media world and has received multiple honors and awards for his contribution to the arts during sixty years in the industry, notably for his film scores, production work and jazz composition.

Second in the list is Paul McCartney with 78 nominations, including 41 as part of The Beatles. Following McCartney is the American hip-hop artist and rapper Jay-Z. However, along with Quincy Jones the ranking also features a number of composers, including Henry Mancini, Pierre Boulez and well-known film score composer John Williams, the latter of whom received 71 nominations for his work over the course of his career in the industry.

A closer look at the work of John Williams 

John Williams is an admired and prolific composer famous for his film scores, and is the father of Joseph Williams, the singer of American rock band Toto. Williams has composed original scores for multiple blockbuster movies, ranging from American disaster film ‘Earthquake’ in 1974 to ‘Jurassic Park’ in 1993, as well as films in the Star Wars, Harry Potter and Indiana Jones franchises.

Williams has won a number of awards throughout his career, winning seven BAFTA Awards for ‘Best Film Music’, three Emmys, four Golden Globe Awards and five Academy Awards, and has been nominated for many more besides. The composer also made the list of most Grammy Award-winning individuals of all time, with 24 wins as of 2019 for films including ‘Jaws’, Schindler’s List’, ‘Saving Private Ryan’ and ‘Memoirs of a Geisha’.

How do the Grammy Awards work? 

Grammy Award nominations are made online, and a copy of nominated work is sent to the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (abbreviation: NARAS) to be reviewed by industry experts. Those able to make nominations include media companies and individuals registered with NARAS, as well as other professionals deemed to meet certain criteria. After voting has taken place, the winners are announced at the awards ceremony which is televised each year and reaches millions of people in the United States alone.

As of 2022, the two most honored albums at the Grammy Awards were “How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb” by U2 and “Supernatural” by Santana. The albums, released in 2004 and 1999, respectively, had each received nine awards as of 2022.

Grammy Awards

The Grammy Awards are an annual awards ceremony honoring outstanding achievements in the music industry. Held since 1959 and broadcast live from the Beverly Hills Hotel in California, the show has been garnering the attention of music lovers from around the world for over half a century. In 2012, the televised event was watched by roughly 39 million people in the United States, but since then, the number of Grammy Awards viewers has steadily decreased. Meanwhile, 2012 was also the year that male and female categories were merged, and the overall number of Grammy Awards categories was cut from 109 to 78.

Who has won the most Grammy Awards?

Over the past six decades, several hundred artists from various music genres have been nominated for a Grammy Award. While the list of nominees is reshuffled every year, some names have become permanent fixtures of the event: Quincy Jones and Jay-Z have both received a total of 80 nominations during their careers, making them the artists with the most Grammy nominations of all time. Quincy Jones also ranks second behind Hungarian composer Georg Solti for the most Grammy Award wins in the history of the telecast.

Alison Krauss, a bluegrass-country musician, is the country artist with the most Grammy Award wins of all time with 27 awards in total. Krauss also won further awards with band Union Station. Other well-known country musicians to make the ranking included Dixie Chicks, Emmylou Harris, and Vince Gill, the latter of whom had won 21 Grammys throughout his career so far as of the date of study.

As of February 2022, Puerto Rican stepbrothers Eduardo Cabra and René Pérez Joglar were the individuals who had won the most Latin Grammys ever, with 28 and 27 awards, respectively. Out of that total, 22 Latin Grammys were given to their band, Calle 13. On stage, Joglar and Cabra also call themselves Residente and Visitante, Spanish for “home” and “guest” teams in a match. The Dominican musician Juan Luis Guerra also received 27 awards. The only women to make it to the top 10 were Mexican folk singer Natalia Lafourcade with 14 Latin Grammys and Colombian pop star Shakira, with 13. Caetano Veloso – the only Brazilian in this ranking – also received 13 trophies. As of 2021, Hungarian-born British orchestral and operatic conductor Georg Solti (1912-1997) was the most Grammy Award-winning individual of all time with 24 trophies.

The rhythm of a billionaire market Created in 2000, the Latin Grammy Awards honor works in languages like Portuguese and Spanish released in the Iberian Peninsula, the United States, and of course in Latin America. The latter is home to a vibrant recording industry. It was estimated that, in 2021, the music segment in Latin America would generate 1.74 billion U.S. dollars in revenue, an increase of 6.7 percent compared to the previous year. The largest countries in the area lead the regional market: in 2019, Brazil and Mexico accounted for 40 and 23 percent of the Latin American music industry revenue, respectively.

EGOTs: talents beyond the Grammys Latin America still lacks, however, an equivalent to EGOT – the acronym for artists who won the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards. Joining this selective group of performers requires an extraordinary set of skills on stage and the ability to promote them among fellow artists. Even amid the actors with the most Oscar nominations, the only one who got the closest to becoming an EGOT was Laurence Olivier (1907-1989). He won almost all the trophies. The exception was, precisely, the Grammy.

The statistic shows the countries with the most Latin Grammy Awards as of 2015. Artists from Mexico have received 136 Latin Grammys so far, which places the country at the top of this ranking.

In 2025, **** million Americans watched the Grammy Awards ceremony. This figure marked a decrease from the previous year, and represented the fourth-lowest TV audience since the 2000 ceremony. Throwback to the Grammys’ glory days The Grammy Awards have suffered viewer losses for the better part of a decade. The show's rankings last peaked in 2012, when an estimated 39 million people tuned in to watch Music's Biggest Night. After that, the format failed to draw the same impressive audience numbers as it did in the early 2010s. But what made the 54th annual Grammy Awards so special? For one, the event incorporated various musical tributes to Whitney Houston, who had died the day before the show. On top of that, the ceremony was hosted by LL Cool J, who was the first Grammys host in seven years. Spotlight on other awards ceremonies The Grammys are not the only awards ceremony that has lost viewers and relevance over the past decade. Even the Oscars, Hollywood's most prestigious celebration, have recently failed to draw television viewers' attention. In 2024, the number of Academy Awards viewers stood at **** million, and even though this figure marked a significant improvement compared to the previous years, the audience was still only half as big as it was back in 2015. A similar downward trend also unfolded at the Golden Globes, where the number of TV viewers dropped to *** million in 2025.

This statistic displays the number of victories of Spanish artists in the Latin Grammy Awards from 2000 to 2020. The highest number of victories during the study period was reached in 2004 with a total of **** Latin Grammys. That year, Alejandro Sanz won "Record of the Year" and "Album of the Year" for his album "No es lo mismo". In 2019, Spanish artists won a total of **** Latin Grammys.

During the time period from 2013 to 2025, **** percent of nominees for the Grammy Awards in the category “Best New Artist" were female, making it one of the more gender-balanced categories. “Songwriter of the Year” stands out as the only category where women outnumber men, with **** percent of nominees being female. In contrast, “Producer of the Year” remains the most male-dominated category, with just ******percent of nominees being women.

The highest-rated Grammy Award telecast occurred in 1971 when the show garnered a **** rating with a ** percentage share. That year Simon and Garfunkel's "Bridge over Troubled Water" won several categories, including the honor of Album of the Year. Ratings have been falling in previous years and it seems unlikely that the awards show's ratings could once again reach the figures it achieved back in the ***** and ***, with the 2020 ceremony pulling in just *** percent of the ** to ** demographic.

When the Grammy Awards were introduced in 1959, 28 different categories were available in which to win an award. In 2009, the number reached its highest level with 110 categories, and during the 2024 Grammys, awards were presented in 94 categories. Grammy Awards categories - additional information The first edition of the Grammy Awards (originally called the Gramophone Award) was held on May 4, 1959 simultaneously on both American coasts: one ceremony took place in the Grand Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton, in Los Angeles, while another function was held in New York City. On January 28, 2018 the award show held its 60th edition. The Grammys are awarded by members of the United States National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) in recognition of excellence in the recording arts and sciences. Since the year 2000, the Latin Grammy Awards is a separate ceremony, which honors excellence in musical works recorded in either Spanish or Portuguese, notwithstanding their country of origin. The number of categories has fluctuated since the first edition of the Grammys, reflecting changes in the music industry in terms of technologies and trends. In the first edition, only 28 Grammy categories were presented, such as Best Vocal Performance, Best Jazz Performance, Best Comedy Performance and Best Recording for Children. Nowadays the Grammys recognizes music videos, films, and remixed recordings as well as traditional formats.

The statistic presents the result of a survey on who should win the Song of the Year at the Grammy Awards in 2019. During the survey, ** percent of respondents stated that they did not know they thought should win, or had no opinion on the topic. However, the most popular song was 'Shallow' by Lady Gaga, with ** percent of survey respondents stated that they would vote for this song in the Grammy Awards.

The statistic presents the result of a survey on who should win Best New Artist at the Grammy Awards in 2019. During the survey, 51 percent of respondents stated that they did not know they thought should win, or had no opinion on the topic. However, the most favorable artist was Luke Combs, with 13 percent of survey respondents stated that they would vote for Combs to win Best New Artist in the Grammy Awards.

Multiple Universal Music Group artists received several nominations for the 2024 Grammy Awards, including Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, boygenius, Jon Batiste and Olivia Rodrigo who received six nominations each. SZA, who is signed to Top Dawg, ranked first with nine nominations, followed by Jack Antonoff with seven.

As of December 2022, Colombian singer Shakira was the most popular singer on Facebook with over 100 million fans on the social media platform. With 13 wins, Shakira also ranks among the most Latin Grammy Award-winning individuals of all time. In contrast, Beyoncé was ranked tenth with 61 million Facebook fans - however, the singer has won 24 Grammy Awards and is one of the commercially most successful performers worldwide.

Data from 2025 showed that Germany, the UK, Spain, and France were some of the countries with the highest numbers of TV viewers of the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC), with millions of people watching the competition. Eurovision Song Contest The Eurovision Song Contest, formerly known as the Eurovision Grand Prix, is an international song competition that has been held annually since 1956. While only a handful of countries participated at first, the list of frequent contenders has grown ever since. As of 2025, Germany has had the most participations in the Eurovision Song Contest, followed by France, the UK, and Belgium. And while Ireland only made its debut on the European singing stage in 1965, it remains the country with the most Eurovision wins to date, along with Sweden. The rise and fall of televised music shows The Eurovision is one of many televised music events that has seen viewer counts plummet over the past few years. Audiences no longer seem to be interested in sitting through hours of speeches and commercial breaks, and for those who are generally interested in the coverage, the internet provides a much more flexible solution. The downward trend in viewership is particularly noticeable across music award shows such as the Grammys. While the 54th edition of the awards, held in 2012, was watched by around ** million people across the United States, the number of Grammy viewers has since dropped to a fraction of its former size. An estimated **** million people watched the ceremony in 2025, the fourth-lowest number in the history of the telecast.

In September 2024, around **** million people watched the Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony in the United States. This figure marked a growth from the all-time low in viewership recorded in the delayed 2023 awards. The Emmys were at their most popular between the early ***** and early *****. Emmy ratings hit record low The **** Primetime Emmy Awards drew the smallest audience in the history of the telecast. It was the first time that the viewership of television’s biggest night dropped below **** million viewers – a threshold that not even the hybrid ceremony of 2020 had previously undercut. For comparison, over ** million viewers tuned in to watch the live event in 1994 and 2000, highlighting how drastically audience interest has declined since then. Another factor contributing to the show’s poor performance in 2024 was its Monday nighttime slot, which conflicted with an NFL playoff game. Spotlight on other awards shows The Emmys are not the only awards ceremony to have lost viewers and relevance over the past few years. Even the Oscars, Hollywood’s most renowned celebration, have failed to draw audiences’ attention recently. In 2024, the number of Academy Awards viewers stood at **** million, and even though this figure marked a visible upswing from the previous years, the audience was still only half the size it used to be back in 2015. A similar downward trend has also been unfolding at the Grammys. Around **** million viewers tuned in to watch the show in 2024, whereas this number used to surpass ** million in the early *****.

In 2024, Tyla, the South African singer was nominated for *** South Africa Music Awards and won the categories for best pop album, newcomer of the year, female artist of the year and best international act. The pop singer's most celebrated achievement was winning her first nomination for the best African music performance at the Grammys.

In 2019, the music album with the most unit sales in the United States was 'Lover' by Taylor Swift, far outperforming all other records in the list with almost 1.1 million copies sold that year. Second was 'When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?' by Billie Eilish with 594.6 thousand sales, followed by 'Happiness Begins' by the Jonas Brothers.

Other artists with best-selling albums in 2018

The ranking also includes albums by artists who proved extremely popular in 2019 such as Ariana Grande, Khalid, and Post Malone. The three artists also featured in the list of top-selling music albums based on total streams.

Other well-known artists like Harry Styles, BTS, and the the Backstreet Boys made the top ten, selling between 300 and more than 450 thousand albums each in 2019. Again though, among music fans the presence of these names on the ranking will be unremarkable and, frankly, expected. A name which may come as a surprise is Tool, whose album ‘Fear Inoculum’ sold over 344 thousand copies. The album marked the rock band's first release since 2006, and received widespread critical acclaim upon its release and performed well in the charts in its opening week. Songs 'Fear Inoculum' and '7empest' were both nominated for Grammys in 2019, the latter of which had a runtime of more than 15 minutes, making it the longest track on the album.