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When the album was nominated for several Grammys in February 1991, O'Connor shocked the industry. Not only did the artist bail on attending the celebrated event, she also refused to accept any awards if she won (which she did for Best Alternative Music Performance).
Sinead O'Connor has always been an artist who refuses to beat to the sound of anyone else's drum. The Irish singer is a maverick in the truest sense of the word, and O'Connor proved this in 1991 when she turned down an award from the Grammys.
As of this writing, Sinead O'Connor remains the first and only artist to flat-out refuse a Grammy. Nothing compares 2 U, indeed.
Jimi Hendrix doesn't have a Grammy, but he does have a lifetime achievement award. His only nomination was in 1970 for his rendition of "Star Spangled Banner," but sadly Jimi Hendrix died that same year without winning the Grammy.
8-year-old Leah Peasall, who won in 2002 after being featured on the "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" soundtrack, holds the record as the youngest-ever Grammy winner. Blue Ivy Carter, at 9, became the second-youngest in 2021.
Sell A Grammy, Break A Law
It's illegal to sell a Grammy since the statues legally belong to the National Academy of Recording Arts & Science. This might explain why more one-hit wonder Grammys aren't floating around on Ebay.
Formally, there are no cash prizes associated with winning a Grammy award and even selling the statue is against the rules of the Recording Academy, the organization that presents the awards.
BTS at SoFi Stadium in 2021. For a third year in a row, K-pop superstars BTS were shut out at the Grammy Awards.
However, on November 20, 1990, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences revoked the award after producer Frank Farian admitted the duo did not sing at all on their album, Girl You Know It's True. As of the 2021 ceremony, this is the only time where a Grammy has been revoked.
BTS fails to win Grammy for pop duo/group performance, and K-pop fans are not pleased. No one should ever be too surprised to lose a Grammy to a collaboration by Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande.
FINAL VOTING TO SELECT GRAMMY WINNERS
All ballots, including those from special committees, are tabulated confidentially by an independent accounting firm. Results of the final voting are not known until the day of the GRAMMY Awards, when Deloitte delivers sealed envelops with names of the winners.
It's official: Beyoncé has made GRAMMY history. Her win for Best Dance/Electronic Album for 'RENAISSANCE' put her GRAMMY total at 32, the most of all time.
First, Nicki responded to a fan on Twitter who wondered why she had never won a Grammy. Then, the multi-talented rapper addressed it on an episode of Queen Radio. Nicki went on to say that she was bullied by the Grammys and by Ken in particular. She also explained why she didn't want to call off the Grammy performance.
Every Grammy Award is made by one man, John Billings, out of his shop in Colorado. The trophies are actually made of a zinc alloy, which Billings dubbed Grammyum, and then plated in gold. Based on the cost of materials, each award is estimated to be worth $15.
Do artists get money for winning a Grammy? The short answer is no: Artists, producers, and/or songwriters do not get a check or monetary amount for winning an award. But what they do get, however, is a whole lot of recognition, and they'll forever be known as "the Grammy award-winning singer _____."
Sir Georg Solti, an orchestral and operatic conductor, is the most Grammy Award-winning individual of all time with a total of 31 Grammy Awards won for recordings of works as diverse as Bach, Bartók, and Wagner.
CBS has aired the Grammys for more than 40 years, and has an agreement with The Recording Academy to broadcast the live event annually until the year 2021. In its previous deal, CBS's licensing fee paid the Academy $20 million dollars every year for the telecast, and the current agreement is reportedly worth even more.
The Grammy Awards are annually presented in the United States by the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (NARAS).
Norah Jones first emerged on the world stage with the 2002 release of Come Away With Me which grew into a global phenomenon, sweeping the 2003 Grammy Awards. Since then, Jones has become a nine-time Grammy winner. She has sold 50 million albums and her songs have been streamed six billion times worldwide.
In 2012, Adele won a total of 6 Grammy Awards in one night. She is here standing as a symbol of female empowerment in music.
Eilish has received multiple accolades, including seven Grammy Awards, two American Music Awards, two Guinness World Records, three MTV Video Music Awards, three Brit Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and an Academy Award.
Georg Soltí: 31 Grammys
British-Hungarian conductor Georg Soltí kept the Grammy win record at 31 awards for 25 years. The renowned orchestral leader won his last Grammy in 1998 — just months after he died in September of 1997 at age 84 — for his recording of Richard Wagner's opera Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg.
While Swift is no stranger to taking home a Grammy or two throughout her career (she currently has 11), the songwriter has been nominated but never won the Song of the Year category yet.