Tems, a Nigerian international sensation, took home the 67th Grammy for Best African Song Performance.
In a category full with Nigerian superstars, the artist who led the Nigerian delegation with three nominations took home the title for her track “Love Me Jeje.”
The two-time winner, who was the first Nigerian musician to win the category, had a historic night.
Kendrick Lamar’s five victories, which made him the second rapper after Chidish Gambino to win both Song of the Year and Record of the Year, are among his other noteworthy achievements.
‘Not Like US’ by Kendrick Lamar also took home the Best Rap Song, Best Rap Performance, and Best Music Video honors, bringing his total to 22 and making him the third-most Grammy-winning rapper.
After Beyonce’s “Cowboy Carter” won Album of the Year, Best Country Album, and Best Country Duo Performance, Jay Z ended his twenty-four-point tie with Kanye West.
With her three victories at the 67th Grammy Awards, Beyonce has now won 35 Grammys, setting a new record.
View the complete list of winners below.
The year’s best record
“Diffrent from Us,” Kendrick Lamar
The Year’s Best Album
Beyoncé, “Cowboy Carter,”
The year’s best song
The song “Not Like Us” was written by Kendrick Lamar.
Top New Performer
Roan Chappell
Year’s Best Non-Classical Producer
Daniel Nigro
Non-Classical Songwriter of the Year
Allen, Amy
Top Pop Solo Performance
“Espresso,” mentioned Sabrina Carpenter
Top Pop Group/Duo Performance
Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga’s “Die With a Smile”
Pop Vocal Album of the Year
Sabrina Carpenter’s “Short n’ Sweet”
Best Electronic/Dance Recording
Justice and Tame Impala’s “Neverender”
Top Dance Pop Recording
Charli, “Von Dutch” XCX
Best Dance/Electronic Album
“Brat,” Charli XCX
The Best Recording Remixed
FNZ and Mark Ronson, remixers (Sabrina Carpenter), “Espresso (Mark Ronson x FNZ Working Late Remix),”
Top Rock Performance
“The Beatles’ “Now and Then”
Top Metal Performance
“Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!)” Victor Le Masne, Marina Viotti, and Gojira
The Greatest Rock Song
Annie Clark, songwriter for “Broken Man” (St. Vincent)
Best Rock Album
“Hackney Diamonds,” The Rolling Stones
The Greatest Performance of Alternative Music
St. Vincent, “Flea”
The Best Album of Alternative Music
“Screaming from birth,” St. Vincent
Top R&B Performance
Muni Long, “Made for Me (Live on BET),”
Top Traditional R&B Performance
“You are that,” said Lucky Daye.
The Greatest R&B Song
The song “Saturn” was written by Rob Bisel, Scott Zhang, Jared Solomon, Cian Ducrot, Carter Lang, and Solána Rowe (SZA).
The Greatest Progressive R&B Record
“I’m So Happy to Have Met You,” Avery*Sunshine
“Why, Lawd?NxWorries (Knxwledge and Anderson Paak)
Top R&B Album
“Deluxe at 11:11,” Chris Brown
Top Rap Performance
“Diffrent from Us,” Kendrick Lamar
Top Melodic Rap Performance
Rapsody with Erykah Badu, “3:AM”
The Greatest Rap Song
The song “Not Like Us” was written by Kendrick Lamar.
The Best Album of Spoken Word Poetry
Tank and the Bangas, “The Heart, the Mind, the Soul”
The Greatest Jazz Performance
Sullivan Fortner and Samara Joy’s song “Twinkle Twinkle Little Me”
Top Jazz Vocal Album
“A Happy Holiday,” said Samara Joy
The Best Instrumental Jazz Album
“Remembrance,” Béla Fleck and Chick Corea
The Best Album with a Large Jazz Ensemble
Dan Pugach Big Band’s “Bianca Reimagined: Music for Paws and Persistence”
Top Latin Jazz Album
“Cubop is still alive!Reinaldo de Jesus, Willie Martinez, Camilo Molina, Luques Curtis, and Zaccai Curtis
The Greatest Alternative Jazz Record
“No More Water: James Baldwin’s Gospel,” Meshell Ndegeocello
Top Traditional Pop Vocal Album
Jones, Norah “Visions”
Top Instrumental Album of the Present Era
Taylor Eigsti’s “Plot Armor”
The Best Album for Musical Theater
“Hell’s Kitchen,” with Adam Blackstone, Alicia Keys, and Tom Kitt as producers (Alicia Keys is the composer and lyricist); Shoshana Bean, Brandon Victor Dixon, Kecia Lewis, and Maleah Joi Moon as primary vocalists (Original Broadway Cast)
Top Country Solo Performance
“A Woman Is Necessary,” Chris Stapleton
Best Group/Duo Performance in the Nation
Miley Cyrus and Beyoncé’s “II Most Wanted”
The Greatest Country Music
Songwriters Shane McAnally, Kacey Musgraves, and Josh Osborne collaborated on “The Architect” (Kacey Musgraves)
Top Country Album
Beyoncé, “Cowboy Carter,”
Top Americana Performance
“American Dreaming,” written by Sierra Ferrell
The Greatest American Roots Song
Melody Walker and Sierra Ferrell, songwriters, “American Dreaming” (Sierra Ferrell)
The Greatest Americana Album
“Flowers’ Trail,” Sierra Ferrell
The Greatest Bluegrass Record
“Live Vol. “1,” Billy Strings
The Greatest Album of Traditional Blues
The Taj Mahal Sextet, “Swingin’ Live at the Church in Tulsa”
Top Blues Album of the Present Era
“Mileage,” said Ruthie Foster.
Top Folk Album
David Rawlings and Gillian Welch in “Woodland”
The Best Album of Regional Roots Music
“Kuini,” said Kalani Pe’a
Top Gospel Song or Performance
The song “One Hallelujah” features Jonathan McReynolds and Jekalyn Carr, and the songwriters G. Morris Coleman, Israel Houghton, Kenneth Leonard, Jr., Tasha Cobbs Leonard, and Naomi Raine.
Top Performance/Song in Contemporary Christian Music
“That’s My King,” by CeCe Winans; songwriters Lloyd Nicks, Jess Russ, Taylor Agan, and Kellie Gamble
Top Gospel Recording
“Much More,” CeCe Winans
The Best Album of Modern Christian Music
“The Human Heart,” Doe
The Greatest Gospel Roots Album
“Church,” said Henry Cory
Top Latin Pop Album
Shakira’s song “Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran”
The Best Urbana Music Album
The resident said, “Las Letras Ya No Importan.”
Top Latin Rock or Alternative Record
“What is the question?Rawayana
Top Mexican Music Album (With Tejano)
Boca Chueca, Vol. “1,” Carín León
The Best Album in Tropical Latin
“Live at Gran Teatro Nacional: Alma, CorazoÁn y Salsa,” Tony Succar, Mimy Succar
Top International Musical Performance
Colora, Bemba, Sheila E. starring Mimy Succar and Gloria Estefan
The Best Performance of African Music
Tems, “Love Me JeJe”
The Greatest Album of World Music
Matt B and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s “Alkebulan II”
The Greatest Reggae Album
Various Artists’ “Bob Marley: One Love — Music Inspired by the Film (Deluxe)”
The Greatest Chant, Ambient, or New Age Album
Wouter Kellerman, Eru Matsumoto, and Chandrika Tandon’s “Triveni”
Best Album of Children’s Music
“Brillo, Brillo!”The Family Jam Band and Lucky Diaz”
The Greatest Comedy Album
Dave Chappelle, “The Dreamer”
Top Narration, Storytelling, and Audiobook Recordings
Jimmy Carter’s “Last Sundays in Plains: A Centennial Celebration”
The Greatest Visual Media Soundtrack Compilation
“Maestro: Leonard Bernstein’s Music,” London Symphony Orchestra members Bradley Cooper and Yannick Nézet-Séguin
The best soundtrack for visual media, including television and movies
Composer Hans Zimmer, “Dune: Part Two”
Top-Rated Soundtracks for Interactive Media and Video Games
Composer Winifred Phillips’ “Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord”
Top Song Composed for Visual Media
The song “It Never Went Away” from “American Symphony” was written by Jon Batiste and Dan Wilson.
The Greatest Music Video
Video directors Dave Free and Kendrick Lamar of “Not Like Us”; video producers Jack Begert, Cornell Brown, Sam Canter, Jared Heinke, Jamie Rabineau, and Anthony Saleh
Top Music Video
Matthew Heineman, director of the video for “American Symphony” (Jon Batiste); Lauren Domino, Matthew Heineman, and Joedan Okun, producers
Top Recording Package
The art directors of “Brat,” Charli XCX, Brent David Freaney, and Imogene Strauss
The Best Special Limited Edition or Boxed Package
Simon Hilton and Sean Ono Lennon, art directors for John Lennon’s “Mind Games”
Top Album Tracks
Ricky Riccardi, who wrote the album notes for King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band and other artists, “Centennial”
The Greatest Historical Record
Richard Martin is the mastering engineer and restoration engineer for King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band and other artists, while Meagan Hennessey is the producer of the compilation “Centennial.”
The Best Non-Classical Album in Terms of Engineering
“I/O,” engineers Tchad Blake, Oli Jacobs, Katie May, Dom Shaw, and Mark “Spike” Stent; mastering engineer Matt Colton (Peter Gabriel)
Classical’s Best Engineered Album
“Bruckner: Symphony No. 7; Bates: Resurrexit,” engineers Mark Donahue and John Newton; mastering engineer Mark Donahue (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Manfred Honeck)
Classical’s Producer of the Year
Martone, Elaine
Top Immersion Audio Recording
“I/O (In-Side Mix),” immersive mix engineer Hans-Martin Buff, and immersive producer Peter Gabriel (Peter Gabriel)
The Best Composition for an Instrument
Pascal Le Boeuf, composer of “Strands” (Akropolis Reed Quintet, Christian Euman, and Pascal Le Boeuf)
Best Arrangement: A Cappella or Instrumental
Jacob Collier, Tori Kelly, and John Legend, arrangers of “Bridge Over Troubled Water” (Jacob Collier starring John Legend and Tori Kelly)
Best Instruments, Vocals, and Arrangement
The arrangers of “Alma,” Sara Gazarek, Johanye Kendrick, Erin Bentlage, and Amanda Taylor (säje starring Regina Carter)
Award for Best Orchestral Performance
Conductor Gustavo Dudamel of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, “Ortiz: Revolución Diamantina”
Award for Best Opera Recording
Jason O’Connell, producer (San Francisco Symphony; San Francisco Symphony Chorus; Timo Kurkikangas); Fleur Barron, Axelle Fanyo, Nicholas Phan, and Christopher Purves; Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor; “Saariaho: Adriana Mater”
Top Choral Performance
Donald Nally, conductor of “Ochre” (The Crossing)
Best Small Ensemble/Chamber Music Performance
Caroline Shaw and Sō Percussion’s “Rectangles and Circumstance”
Top Instrumental Solo in Classical Music
“Bach: Variations of Goldberg,” Víkingur Ólafsson
The Greatest Solo Vocal Classical Album
“Beyond the Years — Unpublished Songs of Florence Price,” featuring vocalist Karen Slack and pianist Michelle Cann
The Greatest Classical Compendium
“Ortiz: Revolución Diamantina,” producer Dmitriy Lipay; conductor Gustavo Dudamel
The Greatest Modern Classical Music
Gabriela Ortiz, composer of “Ortiz: Revolución Diamantina” (Gustavo Dudamel, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Master Chorale)
Top American Roots Performance
Sierra Ferrell’s “Lighthouse”
The Greatest Rap Album
At the 67th Grammy Awards, Doechii, a Nigerian international celebrity, won Best African Song Performance for “Alligator Bites Never Heal.”
In a category full with Nigerian superstars, the artist who led the Nigerian delegation with three nominations took home the title for her track “Love Me Jeje.”
The two-time winner, who was the first Nigerian musician to win the category, had a historic night.
Kendrick Lamar’s five victories, which made him the second rapper after Chidish Gambino to win both Song of the Year and Record of the Year, are among his other noteworthy achievements.
‘Not Like US’ by Kendrick Lamar also took home the Best Rap Song, Best Rap Performance, and Best Music Video honors, bringing his total to 22 and making him the third-most Grammy-winning rapper.
After Beyonce’s “Cowboy Carter” won Album of the Year, Best Country Album, and Best Country Duo Performance, Jay Z ended his twenty-four-point tie with Kanye West.
With her three victories at the 67th Grammy Awards, Beyonce has now won 35 Grammys, setting a new record.
View the complete list of winners below.
The year’s best record
“Diffrent from Us,” Kendrick Lamar
The Year’s Best Album
Beyoncé, “Cowboy Carter,”
The year’s best song
The song “Not Like Us” was written by Kendrick Lamar.
Top New Performer
Roan Chappell
Year’s Best Non-Classical Producer
Daniel Nigro
Non-Classical Songwriter of the Year
Allen, Amy
Top Pop Solo Performance
“Espresso,” mentioned Sabrina Carpenter
Top Pop Group/Duo Performance
Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga’s “Die With a Smile”
Pop Vocal Album of the Year
Sabrina Carpenter’s “Short n’ Sweet”
Best Electronic/Dance Recording
Justice and Tame Impala’s “Neverender”
Top Dance Pop Recording
Charli, “Von Dutch” XCX
Best Electronic/Dance Album
“Brat,” Charli XCX
The Best Recording Remixed
FNZ and Mark Ronson, remixers (Sabrina Carpenter), “Espresso (Mark Ronson x FNZ Working Late Remix),”
Top Rock Performance
“The Beatles’ “Now and Then”
Top Metal Performance
“Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!)” Victor Le Masne, Marina Viotti, and Gojira
The Greatest Rock Song
Annie Clark, songwriter for “Broken Man” (St. Vincent)
The Greatest Rock Record
The Rolling Stones, “Hackney Diamonds”
The Greatest Performance of Alternative Music
St. Vincent, “Flea”
The Best Album of Alternative Music
“Screaming from birth,” St. Vincent
Top R&B Performance
Muni Long, “Made for Me (Live on BET),”
Top Traditional R&B Performance
“You are that,” said Lucky Daye.
The Greatest R&B Song
The song “Saturn” was written by Rob Bisel, Scott Zhang, Jared Solomon, Cian Ducrot, Carter Lang, and Solána Rowe (SZA).
The Greatest Progressive R&B Record
“I’m So Happy to Have Met You,” Avery*Sunshine
“Why, Lawd?NxWorries (Knxwledge and Anderson Paak)
Top R&B Album
“Deluxe at 11:11,” Chris Brown
Top Rap Performance
“Diffrent from Us,” Kendrick Lamar
Top Melodic Rap Performance
Rapsody with Erykah Badu, “3:AM”
The Greatest Rap Song
The song “Not Like Us” was written by Kendrick Lamar.
The Best Album of Spoken Word Poetry
Tank and the Bangas, “The Heart, the Mind, the Soul”
The Greatest Jazz Performance
Sullivan Fortner and Samara Joy’s song “Twinkle Twinkle Little Me”
Top Jazz Vocal Album
“A Happy Holiday,” said Samara Joy
The Best Instrumental Jazz Album
“Remembrance,” Béla Fleck and Chick Corea
The Best Album with a Large Jazz Ensemble
Dan Pugach Big Band’s “Bianca Reimagined: Music for Paws and Persistence”
Top Latin Jazz Album
“Cubop is still alive!Reinaldo de Jesus, Willie Martinez, Camilo Molina, Luques Curtis, and Zaccai Curtis
The Greatest Alternative Jazz Record
“No More Water: James Baldwin’s Gospel,” Meshell Ndegeocello
Top Traditional Pop Vocal Album
Jones, Norah “Visions”
Top Instrumental Album of the Present Era
Taylor Eigsti’s “Plot Armor”
The Best Album for Musical Theater
“Hell’s Kitchen,” with Adam Blackstone, Alicia Keys, and Tom Kitt as producers (Alicia Keys is the composer and lyricist); Shoshana Bean, Brandon Victor Dixon, Kecia Lewis, and Maleah Joi Moon as primary vocalists (Original Broadway Cast)
Top Country Solo Performance
“A Woman Is Necessary,” Chris Stapleton
Best Group/Duo Performance in the Nation
Miley Cyrus and Beyoncé’s “II Most Wanted”
The Greatest Country Music
Songwriters Shane McAnally, Kacey Musgraves, and Josh Osborne collaborated on “The Architect” (Kacey Musgraves)
Top Country Album
Beyoncé, “Cowboy Carter,”
Top Americana Performance
“American Dreaming,” written by Sierra Ferrell
The Greatest American Roots Song
Melody Walker and Sierra Ferrell, songwriters, “American Dreaming” (Sierra Ferrell)
The Greatest Americana Album
“Flowers’ Trail,” Sierra Ferrell
The Greatest Bluegrass Record
“Live Vol. “1,” Billy Strings
The Greatest Album of Traditional Blues
The Taj Mahal Sextet, “Swingin’ Live at the Church in Tulsa”
Top Blues Album of the Present Era
“Mileage,” said Ruthie Foster.
Top Folk Album
David Rawlings and Gillian Welch in “Woodland”
The Best Album of Regional Roots Music
“Kuini,” said Kalani Pe’a
Top Gospel Song or Performance
The song “One Hallelujah” features Jonathan McReynolds and Jekalyn Carr, and the songwriters G. Morris Coleman, Israel Houghton, Kenneth Leonard, Jr., Tasha Cobbs Leonard, and Naomi Raine.
Top Performance/Song in Contemporary Christian Music
“That’s My King,” by CeCe Winans; songwriters Lloyd Nicks, Jess Russ, Taylor Agan, and Kellie Gamble
Top Gospel Recording
“Much More,” CeCe Winans
The Best Album of Modern Christian Music
“The Human Heart,” Doe
The Greatest Gospel Roots Album
“Church,” said Henry Cory
Top Latin Pop Album
Shakira’s song “Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran”
The Best Urbana Music Album
The resident said, “Las Letras Ya No Importan.”
Top Latin Rock or Alternative Record
“What is the question?Rawayana
Top Mexican Music Album (With Tejano)
Boca Chueca, Vol. “1,” Carín León
The Best Album in Tropical Latin
“Live at Gran Teatro Nacional: Alma, CorazoÁn y Salsa,” Tony Succar, Mimy Succar
Top International Musical Performance
Colora, Bemba, Sheila E. starring Mimy Succar and Gloria Estefan
The Best Performance of African Music
Tems, “Love Me JeJe”
The Greatest Album of World Music
Matt B and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s “Alkebulan II”
The Greatest Reggae Album
Various Artists’ “Bob Marley: One Love — Music Inspired by the Film (Deluxe)”
The Greatest Chant, Ambient, or New Age Album
Wouter Kellerman, Eru Matsumoto, and Chandrika Tandon’s “Triveni”
Best Album of Children’s Music
“Brillo, Brillo!”The Family Jam Band and Lucky Diaz”
The Greatest Comedy Album
Dave Chappelle, “The Dreamer”
Top Narration, Storytelling, and Audiobook Recordings
Jimmy Carter’s “Last Sundays in Plains: A Centennial Celebration”
The Greatest Visual Media Soundtrack Compilation
“Maestro: Leonard Bernstein’s Music,” London Symphony Orchestra members Bradley Cooper and Yannick Nézet-Séguin
The best soundtrack for visual media, including television and movies
Composer Hans Zimmer, “Dune: Part Two”
Top-Rated Soundtracks for Interactive Media and Video Games
Composer Winifred Phillips’ “Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord”
Top Song Composed for Visual Media
The song “It Never Went Away” from “American Symphony” was written by Jon Batiste and Dan Wilson.
The Greatest Music Video
Video directors Dave Free and Kendrick Lamar of “Not Like Us”; video producers Jack Begert, Cornell Brown, Sam Canter, Jared Heinke, Jamie Rabineau, and Anthony Saleh
Top Music Video
Matthew Heineman, director of the video for “American Symphony” (Jon Batiste); Lauren Domino, Matthew Heineman, and Joedan Okun, producers
Top Recording Package
The art directors of “Brat,” Charli XCX, Brent David Freaney, and Imogene Strauss
The Best Special Limited Edition or Boxed Package
Simon Hilton and Sean Ono Lennon, art directors for John Lennon’s “Mind Games”
Top Album Tracks
Ricky Riccardi, who wrote the album notes for King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band and other artists, “Centennial”
The Greatest Historical Record
Richard Martin is the mastering engineer and restoration engineer for King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band and other artists, while Meagan Hennessey is the producer of the compilation “Centennial.”
The Best Non-Classical Album in Terms of Engineering
“I/O,” engineers Tchad Blake, Oli Jacobs, Katie May, Dom Shaw, and Mark “Spike” Stent; mastering engineer Matt Colton (Peter Gabriel)
Classical’s Best Engineered Album
“Bruckner: Symphony No. 7; Bates: Resurrexit,” engineers Mark Donahue and John Newton; mastering engineer Mark Donahue (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Manfred Honeck)
Classical’s Producer of the Year
Martone, Elaine
Top Immersion Audio Recording
“I/O (In-Side Mix),” immersive mix engineer Hans-Martin Buff, and immersive producer Peter Gabriel (Peter Gabriel)
The Best Composition for an Instrument
Pascal Le Boeuf, composer of “Strands” (Akropolis Reed Quintet, Christian Euman, and Pascal Le Boeuf)
Best Arrangement: A Cappella or Instrumental
Jacob Collier, Tori Kelly, and John Legend, arrangers of “Bridge Over Troubled Water” (Jacob Collier starring John Legend and Tori Kelly)
Best Instruments, Vocals, and Arrangement
The arrangers of “Alma,” Sara Gazarek, Johanye Kendrick, Erin Bentlage, and Amanda Taylor (säje starring Regina Carter)
Award for Best Orchestral Performance
Conductor Gustavo Dudamel of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, “Ortiz: Revolución Diamantina”
Award for Best Opera Recording
Jason O’Connell, producer (San Francisco Symphony; San Francisco Symphony Chorus; Timo Kurkikangas); Fleur Barron, Axelle Fanyo, Nicholas Phan, and Christopher Purves; Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor; “Saariaho: Adriana Mater”
Top Choral Performance
Donald Nally, conductor of “Ochre” (The Crossing)
Best Small Ensemble/Chamber Music Performance
Caroline Shaw and Sō Percussion’s “Rectangles and Circumstance”
Top Instrumental Solo in Classical Music
“Bach: Variations of Goldberg,” Víkingur Ólafsson
The Greatest Solo Vocal Classical Album
“Beyond the Years — Unpublished Songs of Florence Price,” featuring vocalist Karen Slack and pianist Michelle Cann
The Greatest Classical Compendium
“Ortiz: Revolución Diamantina,” producer Dmitriy Lipay; conductor Gustavo Dudamel
The Greatest Modern Classical Music
Gabriela Ortiz, composer of “Ortiz: Revolución Diamantina” (Gustavo Dudamel, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Master Chorale)
Top American Roots Performance
Sierra Ferrell’s “Lighthouse”
The Greatest Rap Album
“Alligator Bites Never Heal,” Doechii
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