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.
Kanye West has accumulated his 21 Grammys in even less time than his frequent collaborator Jay-Z. He won three awards in rap and R&B categories in 2004, and then he kept winning almost every year until 2013, when he received his most recent plaudits.
Snoop Dogg has been nominated for 16 Grammys, but he has never taken home the prize. At 16 nominations, the rapper only trails McKnight by one, but the two have even more in common.
Grammys flashback: When Steely Dan beat Eminem, one of the most controversial races of the 21st century.
Taylor Swift: 11 Grammys
She did it with "1989" in 2016 too. Then in 2021, Taylor took home album of the year — yet again — for "folklore," and made history in the process. She's the only female artist to have won that coveted Grammy three times.
The record for the most Grammy Awards won in a lifetime is held by Beyoncé, an American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer, who has won 32. It was previously held by Georg Solti, a Hungarian-British conductor, who won 31.
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.
Taylor Swift - 7 Grammy Award Wins.
Cube wasn't the most commercially successful rapper, but his impact on hip-hop music can't ever be denied. Today Cube is a big Hollywood star, a name that the Grammy committee would surely recognize even if they've never given him an award.
She was the first lead artist to top the Billboard Global 200. Her accolades include a Grammy Award, eight Billboard Music Awards, six Guinness World Records, six American Music Awards, 14 BET Hip Hop Awards, and two ASCAP Songwriter of the Year awards.
The reason Cardi B didn't attend this year's Grammys is fairly simple: “I'm not going to a [sic] award [show] if I don't got a new song to perform or my album ain't out… Next year,” Cardi shared on social media, per Billboard.
Last year, Drake earned a pair of Grammy nominations in the rap categories, but he later asked the Recording Academy to rescind them, as he apparently wasn't interested in the recognition.
Alison Krauss, 27
Krauss has, for now at least, won more Grammys than any other woman in the history of the awards. She has won slightly more than half of these Grammys (14) with the ensemble Alison Krauss & Union Station.
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.
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.
Eilish is the recipient of numerous awards, including seven Grammy Awards, two American Music Awards, two MTV Europe Music Awards, three MTV Video Music Awards, an Academy Award, two Guinness World Records, one Brit Award, and three Billboard Music Awards.
Taylor Swift is certainly no stranger to The Recording Academy. Over the span of her successful career, the singer has managed to rack up 46 Grammy nominations and 12 wins.
1. Falguni Shah. The most recent Indian singer nominated for a Grammy award was Falguni Shah. Consequently, she also won it for her album A Colourful World (Best Children's Album) in 2022 making it her first-ever Grammy.
Rappers Busta Rhymes and Tupac both have at least one nomination but zero wins.
Kanye West holds the records of most wins in the category with seven, as well as most nominations for the award with sixteen. 2007 winner Ludacris. Two-time winner Pharrell Williams. Five-time winner Jay-Z.
Jay Z took home his first GRAMMY for Best Rap Album for Vol. 2 … Hard Knock Life for 1998. Currently tied with Kanye West, Jay Z holds the distinction of rapper with the most GRAMMY wins in history.