Grammys 2024 live updates | Winners, performances and highlights

It’s been a stormy weekend in Los Angeles, and while the vibes in the Crypto.com Arena were largely good, the Grammys are over.

Attendees donned rain gear before taking to the streets of downtown LA, some with trophies in hand and some merely with umbrellas.

In her home, Coco Jones has a photo of Beyoncé holding several Grammys, but with her own face replacing her idol’s.

Now, Jones can have a photo of her holding her own trophy.

The singer won her first Grammy, in the best R&B performance category, for her ballad “ICU.” She went up against some stiff competition beating out the likes of SZA and Victoria Monét, among others.

Jones first heard about her Premiere Ceremony victory on the red carpet.

“I was under the rain at the red carpet on my last stop and that’s when I heard that I won the award,” she said backstage. “I’m really soaking it in right now, looking at this award, thinking about my vision board and editing my face on Beyoncé’s picture of her holding the award. It’s totally surreal. It’s a lot to unpack on this stage.”

Jones said she’s grateful for her journey after finding stardom as a Disney child star. She struggled to maintain momentum then fell out the spotlight before she found success through her EP “What I Didn’t Tell You,” which was anchored by “ICU.”

“All of the uncertainty can really be answered by God’s timing,” she said. “I’ve at this since I was 9. And to reap the benefits at this time, makes way more sense than I could ever imagine. I’m just truly grateful for all the obstacles that made me who I am.”

The Grammys brought no sweeping winners or major losers, but top nominee SZA won just three of nine and was shut out in the major categories.

The hip-hop soul dynamo came into the ceremony with a momentum and mojo that made it appear like she might run the board the way Billie Eilish did in 2020.

But her win list was limited to two awards won before the telecast began – “Ghost In The Machine” with Phoebe Bridgers won Pop Duo/Group Performance and “SOS” won best progressive R&B album – and one on the telecast, when “Snooze” won best R&B song.

She lost to Taylor Swift for album of the year, to Miley Cyrus for record of the year and to Eilish for song of the year.

Her total – along with similar snubs two years ago – arguably had echoes of Beyoncé, who as her husband Jay-Z called out during the show, has won more Grammys than anyone while being consistently shut out of the top categories.

“I would love to tell you this is the best moment of my life, but I feel this happy when I finish a song, or when I crack the code to a bridge that I love, or when I’m shortlisting a music video, or when I’m working with my dancers,” she said as she accepted the album of the year Grammy for “Midnights.”

“For me, the award is the work,” she added. It was her record fourth album of the year win.

She also thanked Jack Antonoff, whom she described as “one of my best friends, and a once-in-a-generation producer. Earlier in the night, Antonoff matched the record for producer of the year (non-classical) wins.

Taylor Swift takes home album of the year for “Midnights.”

With it, she breaks the record for the most album of the year wins — at four. Her other album of the year wins? “Fearless,” “1989″ and “Folklore.”

She accepted the award from Celine Dion. It was her second Grammy of the night and the 14th of her career.

Celine Dion received a standing ovation when she surprised the Grammys to present album of the year.

“When I say I’m happy to be here, I really mean it from my heart,” Dion said. “Those who have been lucky enough to be here, the Grammy Awards, must not take for granted the tremendous love and joy that music brings to our lives and to people all around the world.”

Billy Joel did something fans have wished he’d do for years: He showed up with new music.

The Long Island-bred piano balladeer sang “Turn the Lights Back On,” the first fresh song from the icon since 2007.

“Time can make you blind,” he sang on the piano-led anthem, wearing sunglasses, a leather jacket and backed by violins, guitars, a sax and a cello. “Pride pride sticks out its tongue/Laughs at the portrait that we’ve become.”

It was the first time he’d performed the song live. Joel teased it Jan. 22 in a surprise statement. He wrote the song with Arthur Bacon, Wayne Hector and the track’s producer, Freddy Wexler.

He earned a standing ovation. “That was worth the wait,” host Trevor Noah said.

Joel has five competitive Grammys, is in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and was a Kennedy Center honoree. In 2014, he began a monthly residency at the 19,500-seat Madison Square Garden that has soared past 150 gigs.

Noah earlier joked about how many times the two men had sold out the Garden and Joel politely asked how many Noah had done it. Noah demurred, saying it wasn’t about the “numbers.”

Miley Cyrus took home her second Grammy of the night — and all time — with record of the year for “Flowers.”

Earlier in the night, she won the first award of the telecast for best pop solo performance, also for “Flowers.”

After Meryl Streep and Mark Ronson proclaimed her winner of record of the year, she danced with fellow nominee Billie Eilish as she made her way to the stage.

Cyrus made several swerves during her speech, saying: “My life was beautiful yesterday. So please don’t think this is important. Even though it’s very important.”

Then after giving several thank-yous, Cyrus — clad in at least her fourth outfit of the night — said, “I don’t think I’ve forgotten anyone, but I might have forgotten underwear.”

Victoria Monét has been crowned best new artist.

Monét, 34, won the category against Gracie Abrams, Fred qgain.., Noah Kahan, Ice Spice, Jelly Roll, Coco Jones and The War and Treaty.

Joined by 21 Savage and Brandy, Burna Boy took the Grammys stage to highlight African musican’s ascendance on the global stage.

Earlier in the evening, South Africa’s Tyla won the first best musical performance Grammy for “Water.”

Nigeria’s Burna Boy, who has a Grammy for 2020’s “Twice as Tall,” was among the other nominees.

“You know, there is no denying that over the past few years, Afrobeats has swept the globe. And I’m proud to say that over the past year, South Africa’s very own amapiano has truly has truly taken over music in a special way. Shout out to Tyla,” host Trevor Noah, who is from South Africa, said in introducing Burna Boy’s performance.

Music from the continent varies in styles, geography and history — there’s no one such thing as “African music.” But the new Grammy was intended to highlight regional musical traditions and recognize “recordings that utilize unique local expressions from across the African continent.”

Joni Mitchell turned the huge Crypto.com Arena into an intimate living room.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer sat in a velvet chair surrounded by candles and joined by Brandi Carlile and a chamber orchestra to perform a jazzy, meditative version of her classic “Both Sides Now.”

The performance was a more luminous version of the comeback concert she gave in 2022 at the Newport Folk Festival, 10 years after an aneurysm that threatened her life and left many thinking she would never sing again. That concert led to a live album that won her a Grammy earlier in the evening.

She mixed up the lyrics of the original to reflect the moment.

“They shake their heads and say ‘Joni you’ve changed,’” she sang. “Well something’s lost and something’s gained in living every day.’”

Jay-Z, Beyoncé and Meryl Streep were among those leaping to their feet for a standing ovation.

Billie and “Barbie” won song of the year.

Eilish and brother Finneas O’Connell won the Grammys’ biggest songwriting award for penning “What Was I Made For” from the “Barbie” soundtrack.

“Thank you to Greta Gerwig for making the best movie of the year,” Eilish said. It was her ninth Grammy.

The award is a songwriters’ award, not a performance award.

“Obviously, it’s subjective because, you know, it’s music and it’s opinion based. But you know, some things, you know, I don’t want to embarrass this young lady, but she has more Grammys than everyone and never won album of the year,” Jay-Z said, as the camera cut to his wife, Beyoncé. He was accepting the Dr. Dre Global Impact Award.

“So even by your own metrics, that doesn’t work. Think about that. The most Grammys; never won album of the year. It doesn’t work,” he said as their daughter Blue Ivy stood beside him.

“Some of you are going to go home tonight and feel like you’ve been robbed. Some of you may get robbed. Some of you don’t belong in the category. All right. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, that was it, no. When I get nervous, I tell the truth,” he said with a laugh.

Wonder praised Bennett “not just for his incredible voice” but for “his love for art, his love for peace, his love for unity, his love for civil rights.”

He then broke into “For Once in My Life,” in sync with Bennett singing on a video screen. Bennett even shouted “Stevie” while looking in Wonder’s direction. The two each had individual hits with the song decades ago, and recorded it together for Bennett’s 2006 “Duets” album.

Wonder then sang Bennett’s “The Best is Yet to Come” for a montage that included Harry Belafonte, Robbie Robertson, Jimmy Buffett and Chita Rivera.

Lennox then took over to perform Sinéad O’Connor’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” to honor more of the year’s dead, including O’Connor and Shane MacGowan. She concluded by raising a fist and declaring “Artists for cease-fire! Peace in the world!”

Jon Batiste then sang Bill Withers’ “Ain’t No Sunshine” and “Lean on Me” to honor others including executive Clarence Avant and Gordon Lightfoot.

Winfrey then paid tribute to Tina Turner, saying “even if those big wheels of time keep on turning, Tina’s voice continues to speak to all of us.”

Fantasia then took the stage to sing Turner’s “Proud Mary.”

Forget her “Reputation.” Taylor Swift has a brand-new album coming out.

Accepting the award for best pop vocal album — her 13th Grammy — Taylor said she’d been keeping a secret for two years.

“My brand new album comes out April 19. It’s called the Tortured Poets Department. I’m going to go and post the cover right now backstage,” she announced.

And so she did.

Grammy nominee Olivia Rodrigo drove a stake through “vampire” from her “GUTS” album onstage.

Standing alone against a dark backdrop tinged with red, Rodrigo belted the song with blood — or the approximation of it — smeared on her face.

“I love singing about rage,” Rodrigo told The Associated Press ahead of the show. “I think I’m a very happy kind of, you know, generally excited person. And I think that in my music and my songwriting, I can kind of express parts of myself that are not so easy to talk about in everyday life, and so rage definitely applies to that.”

“I love just having a song where I can kind of scream and get all of my emotions out. I think it’s so therapeutic,” she continued.

Lainey Wilson won the lone country award handed out during the telecast.

Miley Cyrus debuted a new voluminous hairstyle at the Grammys. Cyrus rocked the new look in homage to her idols, including Tina Turner and her godmother Dolly Parton, on Sunday. Cyrus won her first Grammy for her hit song “Flowers.”

In her third look of the night, Cyrus performed “Flowers” onstage to cheers from the audience as Kylie Minogue danced along.

Changing up the lyrics, Cyrus screamed, “I just won my first Grammy.”

Cyrus walked the red carpet in a barely there shimmering gold look before accepting her award in a glittery jumpsuit.

“I’m out of breath because I was changing, then I took a shot — and I ran here,” SZA said, accepting her Grammy for best R&B song.

She thanked Lizzo, who presented her with the award, and noted they had been friends since 2013.

“I’m just very grateful,” she said, tearing up.

“I’m not an attractive crier,” she ended with, adding a wave as she got a standing ovation from Taylor Swift and Meryl Streep.

Taylor Swift loves an Easter egg. The “Midnights” nominee donned a choker made to look like a watch. And yes, the time was set to midnight (if you turn your head sideways, you’ll see the clock pointing to 12).

Victoria Monét’s daughter Hazel had company in the cute-kid-on-the-carpet department. Kelly Clarkson’s son Remington Blackstock accompanied his mom in snazzy red duds.

Curious about the inner workings of the “Barbie” soundtrack after that Billie Eilish peformance?

SZA brought a dumpster fire to the Grammys after a year that was anything but.

On a night when she’s the top nominee and has already won two Grammys, she opened her performance in an alley setting, wearing a slung-low fedora and trench coat with flames shooting out of a dumpster.

She shed the suit and the stage set when her medley shifted to her huge hit “Kill Bill,” and was joined by vinyl-suited dancers doing stunts with swords as though they were in the song’s Quentin Tarantino film namesake.

The eight nominees for best new artist:

Killer Mike was detained at the Grammy Awards on Sunday after the rapper won three Grammy awards including his first in more than two decades.

In a video, Mike was shown handcuffed and escorted out by Los Angeles police at the Crypto.com Arena after some joyous moments for him at the Grammys’ Premiere Ceremony, where he won three awards in quick succession.

A police spokesperson didn’t offer a name or additional details, but confirmed a Black male was detained.

A representative for Mike did not immediately respond to an emailed or text request for comment.

Karol G won her the Grammy for best música urbana album.

“This is my first time at the Grammys and this is my first time holding my own Grammy,” she said as the crowd cheered.

The Colombian singer, songwriter and actor previously won five Latin Grammy Awards, including best new artist.

“I’m super happy, I’m super nervous, I’m super excited to be in front of so many legends that I admire and respect,” she said.

Tracy Chapman electrified and surprised the Grammy audience by teaming up with Luke Combs for a twangy, soulful duet of her “Fast Car.”

The single from Chapman’s self-titled 1988 debut album reached No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100, and earned her three Grammy nominations, including record of the year and song of the year.

The track is written from the point of view of a woman whose life hasn’t worked out the way she envisioned.

“You got a fast car, I want a ticket to anywhere. Maybe we make a deal. Maybe together we can get somewhere. Any place is better startin’ from zero, got nothing to lose,” she and Combs sang.

Combs had a massive hit with his cover version and the song won two awards at the CMA Awards. The country star said he was first drawn to the song while driving with his father.

The cover sparked discussions of what it takes to make a country hit — and who can make one.

Chapman rarely makes public appearances. She has only performed for the cameras three times since wrapping up her last tour in 2009.

Miley Cyrus has her first Grammy.

She won the first award handed out on the telecast — for best pop solo performance for “Flowers.”

In a career that goes back to her Hannah Montana childhood, she’s been nominated eight times, but had never won before. She has several more chances tonight, including nominations for record and song of the year.

Miley said from the stage that she “just got stuck in the rain and traffic and thought I was going to miss this moment.”

She kept presenter Mariah Carey on the stage for her speech, saying: “I could’ve missed the award, that’s fine, but not Mariah Carey.”

Cyrus donned a different dress from her carpet walk.

Dua Lipa went from construction-site chic to disco cool as she opened the Grammys telecast with a medley of her hits including “Training Season,” “Houdini.”

She and about a dozen male dancers opened the show in the middle of the floor among the nominees and other audience members. She climbed an apparatus that looked like part scaffolding, part playground equipment while the men lifted and rolled it.

She made her way to the stage where a group of female dancers joined the crew and the setup shifted to mirrored disco.

She’s up for record of the year later for “Dance the Night” from “Barbie.”

Around 10 minutes before the Grammys telecast was due to begin, Taylor Swift made her red carpet entrance, surrounded by a crowd.

AP live show host Leslie Ambriz and Gary Hamilton reported that a hush briefly fell over the carpet when she walked in.

Swift, clad in a white dress with long black gloves, posed with Lana del Rey.

South African artist Tyla may have brought the water to Los Angeles. Stars made their way onto the Grammys red carpet and under the cover of tents as the rainy weather blanketed Los Angeles.

The night began with a rare sight: tennis champion Serena Williams was flustered. “I’m a little nervous… I can’t breathe,” she said through an exasperated smile. “I’m usually really good at this.”

With music, Killer Mike says there’s no age limit – especially in hip-hop, which celebrated 50 years of existence last year.

“The only thing that limits your age is not being truthful about your age or what you’re doing,” the 48-year-old Mike said backstage after he won three awards in just a matter of minutes during the pre-telecast ceremony. He won for best rap performance, rap song and rap album.

“At 20 years old, I thought it was cool to be a drug dealer,” he said. “At 40, I started to live with the regrets and the things I’ve done. At 45, I started to rap about it. At 48, I stand here as a man full of empathy and sympathy for the things I’ve done.”

Mike’s first win came after he won for best rap performance for “Scientists & Engineers,” which also took home best rap song. The single features Andre 3000, Future and Eryn Allen Kane.
He won best rap album for “Michael.”

When he collected third award, the Atlanta-based rapper shouted out “Sweep! Atlanta, it’s a sweep!”

“For all the people out there, that think you get too old to rap, bulls—,” he said during the pre-telecast.

He doesn’t care, he said using an expletive, “
if you’re 78 rapping about how many gals you got in the nursing home, make sure we keep hip-hop alive.”

The record of the year nominee — also up for five other awards tonight — is expected to perform tonight.

Jack Antonoff just won his third straight Grammy for producer of the year (non-classical), matching a feat only pulled off once before.

Antonoff won number three for a year when he produced Taylor Swift’s album “Midnights.” He matches the three straight wins from Babyface from 1996-98.

Antonoff could win more later for his Taylor collab, and if he gets record of the year for her “Anti-Hero” he will have won all four of the biggest awards at the Grammys.

He said he made it big as a producer because “Taylor Swift kicked that ‘f———’’ door open for me” when he worked on her 2014 album “1989.”

It was the last award handed out during the Premiere Ceremony, whose livestream allows for swearing and went nearly 40 minutes longer than scheduled. The more censored network telecast starts at 8 p.m. Eastern.

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Premiere Ceremony host Justin Tranter and presenter Rufus Wainwright weren’t mispronouncing Laufey’s name when they called her “Lay-vey.”

The singer from Iceland just performed at the Grammys then won best traditional pop vocal album for “Bewitched.”

The daughter of an Icelandic father and a Chinese mother, she has said in interviews that hers is a common name in her home country – Laufey is the mother of Loki in Norse mythology – and involves two vowels that don’t really exist in English. “Lay-vay,” she says, is the best way to go.

The Blind Boys of Alabama picked up their sixth Grammy tonight.

It’s going to be a long evening.

This afternoon’s host is Justin Tranter, a much-nominated songwriter. Tranter gave out ground rules for winners, including leaping up to let everyone know you’re present (no substitutes accepted), then keeping speeches to a tight 45 seconds. The clock begins the moment winners step onto the stage.

He shared the recipe to his success with The Associated Press earlier: “I just start having a conversation with the artist,” Tranter says. “When they say something that I think is either already the song title or is at least the song topic, then it becomes a secret or not-so-secret interview. And I just keep going in on that topic.”

It is a process that has yielded smashes for such artists as Selena Gomez, Lady Gaga, Dua Lipa, Halsey, Miley Cyrus, Britney Spears, DNCE, Gwen Stefani and Fall Out Boy, triggering 50 million single sales and 50 billion streams.

Tranter is up for a songwriting Grammy this year for an astonishing range of songs, testament to an ability to talk to everyone: There’s Italian heavy metal, a rap banger, crystalline pop, introspective rock and a soaring Broadway number.

SZA and Phoebe Bridgers have won the first Grammy of the day.

They took the trophy for best pop duo or group performance for “Ghost in the Machine.”

Neither was there to claim the award, but both are big nominees – SZA leads all with nine – who will be at the main ceremony that begins in about four hours.

It was the first of more than 80 Grammys that will be handed out at the packed Premiere Ceremony.

Our AP red carpet team is back at it for the second year running. In front of the camera, you’ll find Liam McEwan for the first hour. Leslie Ambriz and Gary Hamilton will take over for the rest of the live show.

Jeff Turner and Rick Taber are behind the camera, while Ryan Pearson directs talent onsite. Brooke Lefferts in New York is producing the show.

The Premiere Ceremony is where the bulk of tonight’s Grammys will be handed out. Scores of trophies are slated to be awarded tonight and there’s simply not enough time to distribute them during the main telecast, which is packed with performances.