Best New Artist<\/strong><\/h3>\nVictoria Mon\u00e9t was honored with the Best New Artist award<\/strong>, celebrating her significant rise in the music scene and marking her as a future icon in the making\u200b.<\/p>\nSong of the Year<\/strong><\/h3>\nBillie Eilish’s “What Was I Made For?” from the motion picture Barbie, penned by Billie Eilish O\u2019Connell and Finneas O\u2019Connell, won Song of the Year<\/strong>, celebrating its lyrical depth and musical innovation.<\/p>\nSZA: A Triple Win<\/strong><\/h3>\nSZA secured three Grammy awards<\/strong>, including Best R&B Song for “Snooze,” Best Progressive R&B Album for “SOS,” and Best Pop Duo\/Group Performance with Phoebe Bridgers for “Ghost in the Machine,” showcasing her versatility and talent across genres\u200b.<\/p>\nBest Rap Performance and Album<\/strong><\/h3>\nKiller Mike was awarded Best Rap Performance<\/strong> for “Scientists & Engineers,” featuring Andr\u00e9 3000, Future, and Eryn Allen Kane. He also won Best Rap Album for “Michael,” marking a standout year for the artist\u200b.<\/p>\nStandout Country, Rock, and More<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n- Best Country Album:<\/strong> Lainey Wilson for “Bell Bottom Country.”<\/li>\n
- Best Rock Album:<\/strong> Paramore with “This Is Why”\u200b\u200b.<\/li>\n
- Best Alternative Music Performance:<\/strong> Paramore for “This Is Why”\u200b.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Technical and Production Excellence<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe Grammys also honored technical excellence and artistic achievement in production<\/strong>, engineering, composition, and arrangement across various categories, showcasing the behind-the-scenes talent that brings music to life. Elaine Martone won Producer of the Year, Classical, while the award for Best Engineered Album, Classical, went to “Contemporary American Composers” by David Frost & Charlie Post, engineers\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b.<\/p>\nA Night of Firsts and Records<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe 2024 Grammys were not just about celebrating the year’s best music but also about marking new milestones and setting records<\/strong>. Taylor Swift’s win for Album of the Year with “Midnights” added another chapter to her history-making career, while other artists across genres from pop to country, R&B, and beyond showcased the diversity and richness of the music industry today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":10028,"featured_media":169973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[398],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169971"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}