Taylor Swift was the queen of the Grammys 2024, the big annual party of the music industry, which in its 66th year rewarded the success of other women, such as Miley Cyrus or Billie Eilish, who took advantage of the ‘Barbie’ phenomenon.

The queen, ruling… Taylor Swift At the 2024 Grammys, she started as the favorite to be the artist with the most nominations, and although she didn’t win them all, reached the most important category, best album of the year for ‘Midnights’. It must be said that with this award, the artist surpasses – no less – Frank Sinatra, Paul Simon and Stevie Wonder as the artist who won the main category the most times (four).

Not bad for Time magazine’s “Person of the Year 2023”, with huge popularity around the world and a veritable dollar-making machine. They say their worldwide gala grossed $1.3 billion, with Asia and all of Europe still to go in the spring. If you like music and are also a football fan, you already know that the tickets for the concert at the Bernabéu have been sold out for three years and can cost more than 6,000 euros when resold…

And in today’s music industry, the biggest stars are women, and another sample got another top prize for another of the greats, Miley Cyrus who won record of the year and best pop solo performance with ‘Flowers’. He performed it live and it was one of the best moments of the gala.

And since there are no two without three, Billie Eilish and his ‘Why was I created?’ won Song of the Year and Best Song for Visual Media. The main theme of the movie ‘Barbie’ is the repetition of awards Golden Globes 2024 as expected and points to the Oscars after the controversy over being left out of the Best Director and Best Actress nominations.

And more women. Guatemalan singer-songwriter Gaby Moreno won the award for Best Latin Pop Album with ‘X Mí (Vol. 1)’, beating Spain’s Pablo Alborán who competed with ‘La Cuarta Hoja’, Karol G won the Best Urban Music Album category and Mexico’s Natalia Lafourcade won Best Latin or Alternative Rock Album with Colombia’s Juanes. The award for the best new artist went to the American Victoria Monét. And a man, a rocker to be precise, Jon Bon Joviwas honored as ‘Person of the Year 2024’ for his legacy with the band Bon Jovi and the philanthropic work he does.

In terms of performances, in addition to Miley Cyrus, the standouts were U2 live from the Sphere tech venue in Las Vegas and the return of Tracy Chapman singing live the hit ‘Fast Car’ (which won an Emmy in its day). However, the most emotional thing about the 2024 Grammys was when Annie Lennox sang ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ live in honor of Sinéad O’Connor. His farewell, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, did not please the organizers and was a point taken from the script.

Grammys 2024, nominees and winners in major categories

The music industry doesn’t hold back, handing out awards left and right in more than 90 categories at its most important annual gala. We’ll leave you with the main ones.

Album of the year

• “Midnight,” Taylor Swift (WINNER)
• “World Music Radio,” Jon Batiste
• “Record,” boy
• “Endless Summer Vacation,” Miley Cyrus
• “You knew there was a tunnel under Ocean Blvd,” Lana Del Rey
• “Age of Pleasure,” Janelle Monáe
• “Gut,” Olivia Rodrigo
• “SOS,” SZA

Record of the year

• “Flowers,” Miley Cyrus (WINNER)
• “Worship,” Jon Batiste
• “Not strong enough,” boy
• “What was I made for?” by “Barbie,” Billie Eilish
• “On my mom,” Victoria Monét
• “Vampire,” Olivia Rodrigo
• “Anti-hero,” Taylor Swift
• “Kill Bill,” SZA

Song of the year

• “What was I made for?” by “Barbie”, Billie Eilish O’Connell & Finneas O’Connell, Composers (Billie Eilish) (WINNER)
• “A&W,” Jack Antonoff, Lana Del Rey & Sam Dew, songwriters (Lana Del Rey)
• “Anti-Hero,” Jack Antonoff & Taylor Swift, songwriters (Taylor Swift)
• “Butterfly,” Jon Batiste and Dan Wilson, songwriters (Jon Batiste)
• “Dance the Night” (from “Barbie: The Album”) Caroline Ailin, Dua Lipa, Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt, songwriters (Dua Lipa)
• “Flowers,” Miley Cyrus, Gregory Aldae Hein and Michael Pollack, songwriters (Miley Cyrus)
• “Kill Bill,” Rob Bisel, Carter Lang and Solána Rowe, songwriters (SZA)
• “Vampire,” Daniel Nigro and Olivia Rodrigo, songwriters (Olivia Rodrigo)

Best Pop Solo Performance

• “Flowers,” Miley Cyrus (WINNER)
• “Paint the Town Red,” Doja Cat
• “What was I made for?” by “Barbie,” Billie Eilish
• “Vampire,” Olivia Rodrigo
• “Anti-hero,” Taylor Swift

Best Pop Vocal Album

• “Midnight,” Taylor Swift (WINNER)
• “Chemistry,” Kelly Clarkson
• “Endless Summer Vacation,” Miley Cyrus
• “Gut,” Olivia Rodrigo
• “-” (Subtract), Ed Sheeran

Best Rock Album

• “That’s Why,” Paramore (WINNER)
• “But here we are,” Foo Fighters
• “Starcatcher,” Greta Van Fleet
• “72 Seasons,” Metallica
• “In Times New Roman…,” Queens of the Stone Age

Best Latin Pop Album

• “X Mí (Vol. 1),” Gaby Moreno (WINNER)
• “The Fourth Leaf,” Pablo Alborán
• “Beautiful Humans, Vol. 1,” AleMor
• “Blind,” Paula Arenas
• “La Neta,” Pedro Capo
• “Don Juan,” Maluma

Best Dance/Electronic Music Album

• “Current Life 3 (January 1 – September 9, 2022),” Fred Again.. (WINNER)
• “Playing Robots to Heaven,” James Blake
• “For That Beautiful Feeling,” Chemical Brothers
• “Kx5”, Kx5
• “Finding Fire,” Skrillex

Best Alternative Music Album

• “The Record” by boygenius (WINNERS)
• “Car,” Arctic Monkeys
• “You knew there was a tunnel under Ocean Blvd,” Lana Del Rey
• “Cracker Island,” Gorillaz
• “Inside the Old Year I’m Dying,” PJ Harvey

Best New Artist

• Victoria Monét (WINNER)
• Grace Abrams
• Fred again..
• Ice spice
• Jelly Roll
• Coco Jones
• Noah Kahan
• War and Treaty