Bad Bunny won album of the year at the 68th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday night for DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, APA reports, citing The Hollywood Reporter.
The Puerto Rican artist, who was visibly emotional over the award, gave most of his speech in Spanish. The album became the first Spanish-language album ever to win the award. Earlier in the show, also won the award for best música urbana album. Bad Bunny, who is set to perform at next Sunday’s Super Bowl halftime show, started that speech by saying “ICE out” and made a plea for love over hate.
Record of the year went to “luther” by Kendrick Lamar with SZA. Lamar aso won the award for best rap album, for GNX. He broke Jay-Z’s record as the rapper with the most career Grammy wins on Sunday night.
Olivia Dean took home the award for best new artist.
“Wildflower” by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell won the award for song of the year, with Eilish one of the many artists who blasted ICE during an acceptance speech. Jelly Roll won best contemporary country album for Beautifully Broken, and Lady Gaga took home the award for best pop vocal album for MAYHEM.
A total of 95 awards were presented in two ceremonies, starting with the Premiere Ceremony at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. Most of the trophies were handed out during the Premiere Ceremony, which was broadcast live on live.grammy.com and the Recording Academy’s YouTube channel.
The winners in the remaining categories were announced during the live primetime telecast, airing on CBS and Paramount+ Premium. Trevor Noah hosted that ceremony for a sixth consecutive (and final) year from L.A.’s Crypto.com Arena.
This year, the Recording Academy announced two new categories: best traditional country album and best album cover. (The previous best country album category was renamed best contemporary country album, and the best recording package and best boxed or special limited-edition package categories were combined into a single category, best recording package.)
Gaga and Carpenter performed during the primetime ceremony, along with Justin Bieber, Rosé, Bruno Mars, Clipse, Pharrell Williams (who also received the Dr. Dre Global Impact Award), Tyler, the Creator and more. In addition, all of the best new artist nominees — Olivia Dean, Leon Thomas, Alex Warren, Katseye, Addison Rae, Sombr, Lola Young and The Marias — performed during a special best new artist segment. In a surprise moment, Cher was presented with a lifetime achievement award before presenting the Grammy for record of the year (which she seemed to forget she was supposed to do, starting to walk offstage before being called back by host Trevor Noah.)
The show also featured tributes to Ozzy Osbourne, D’Angelo and Roberta Flack. The Osbourne tribute featured performances by Post Malone, Slash, Duff McKagan, Chad Smith and Andrew Watt, while Lauryn Hill performed in honor of D’Angelo and Flack. Reba McEntire, Brandy Clark and Lukas Nelson also took the stage for a larger “In Memoriam” tribute to those who recently died in the music industry. Bruce Springsteen narrated a video tribute to Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, while Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead and Sly Stone of Sly and the Family Stone also were remembered in video tributes.
Among the presenters were Carole King, Chappell Roan, Charli xcx, Doechii, Harry Styles, Jeff Goldblum, Karol G, Lainey Wilson, Marcello Hernández, Nikki Glaser, Q-Tip, Queen Latifah and Teyana Taylor.
Earlier, the Premiere Ceremony got underway with an opening number performance featuring Grace Potter, Israel Houghton, Lila Iké, Maggie Rose and Trombone Shorty. Host Darren Criss later took to the stage to share a few words and hand out the first awards of the night.
“I am deeply honored to serve as your host for this year’s Grammy Premiere Ceremony. As an artist, of course, I’m sure as many of you will agree, this room does mean a whole lot to me,” Criss said. “It represents the talents and the craft and the passion and dedication that happens behind the curtain, off the earphones. It’s all the stuff, the hours that no one sees, the risks that we take and the undying belief that music really matters, whether it impacts millions or transforms just a single moment that can change one life. So being here with you, among the folks who write it, play it, produce it, live it, all of that, it’s incredibly meaningful.”
Some early winners included Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande for best pop duo/group performance for “Defying Gravity,” Doechii for best music video for “Anxiety,” Golden” from KPop Demon Hunters for best song written for visual media and Lady Gaga for best dance pop recording for “Abracadabra.”
Leon Thomas later earned the award for best R&B album for MUTT, Kendrick Lamar and SZA for best melodic rap performance “luther,” Shaboozey and Jelly Roll for best country duo/group performance for “Amen” and Joni Mitchell for best historical album for Joni Mitchell Archives – Volume 4: The Asylum Years — 1976-1980. Comedian Nate Bargatze also won’t the Grammy for best comedy album.
The film Sinners won best compilation soundtrack for visual media and best score soundtrack for visual media (includes film and television).
Iconic filmmaker Steven Spielberg also secured his status as an EGOT winner on Sunday after winning his first Grammy Award for producing the Music By John Williams doc that won the best music film category.
Other Premiere Ceremony performances included Zara Larsson with her hit song “Midnight Sun,” Spiritbox with “Soft Spine,” Tasha Cobbs Leonard with “Church” and Criss and Helen J Shen with the song “Never Fly Away” from the Tony-winning Broadway musical Maybe Happy Ending.
The Grammys were produced by Fulwell 73 Productions for the Recording Academy. Ben Winston, Raj Kapoor, Jesse Collins and Noah were executive producers.
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