The History-Making Milestone at the 2024 Grammys You Need to Know About
The 2024 Grammys were a history-making moment, as women won in every televised category for the first time.
16.9 million Americans tuned in to this past Sunday’s Grammys to watch their favorite stars perform, give acceptance speeches, and mingle with their peers. What they may not have noticed is that all the winners were women.
Female artists also dominated the nominations; Jon Batiste was the only male artist nominated for the night’s biggest categories—Song of the Year, Record of the Year, and Album of the Year. In 2022, he won five Grammys for his album We Are and his contributions to the Soul soundtrack.
Here are some of the night’s biggest winners.
Female artists win every single category in the main telecast at the #GRAMMYs for the first time ever. pic.twitter.com/gKmYqKEMV8
— Talk of the Charts (@talkofthecharts) February 5, 2024
Taylor Swift won Album of the Year for Midnights. The award placed her at fourteen wins, one above her lucky number that her Best Pop Vocal Album win reached. She also became the first person in history to win in this category four times, the other albums being Fearless, 1989, and Folklore. During her speech, she stated, “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 shot listing a music video… For me, the award is the work; all I want to do is keep being able to do this. I love it so much, it makes me so happy.”
Miley Cyrus earned Record of the Year for her song “Flowers.” Before receiving this award, she won her first Grammy earlier in the ceremony in the Best Pop Solo Performance category. She expressed her gratitude alongside a touching display of humility. “This award is amazing, but I really hope that it doesn’t change anything because my life was beautiful yesterday. Not everyone in the world will get a Grammy, but everyone in this world is spectacular.”
Billie Eilish received Song of the Year for “What Was I Made For?” written for the Barbie film released last year. “I was looking at everybody’s faces, and I leaned over, and I was like, not a chance,” she recalled as she opened her speech. Eilish took a page out of Margot Robbie’s book and drew inspiration from a Barbie doll for her performance look.
Finally, Victoria Monét took home Best New Artist. Though Monét has been in the industry for years, writing songs for artists like Ariana Grande, Selena Gomez, Chloe x Halle, and Fifth Harmony, the triple threat has fully entered the spotlight. Her debut studio album, Jaguar II won two Grammys: Best R&B Album and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical.
“I just want to say to everybody who has a dream, I want you to look at this as an example…This award was a fifteen-year pursuit,” she shared. She walked the red carpet with her boyfriend Jonathan Gaines and two-and-a-half-year-old daughter Hazel Monét Gaines, who is now the youngest Grammy nominee for her adorable contribution to the song “Hollywood” by Victoria Monét featuring Earth, Wind & Fire.
View the full list of 2024 Grammy winners here.
Isaiah is an entertainment writer for Glitter Magazine with a focus on music and film stories. He enjoys the aforementioned topics as well as performing, yoga, and fashion.
