. She is the first woman to win the award two and three times and the only main credited artist to win four times. She won in
2010,
2016,
2021 and
2024. She is the most nominated female act with 7 nominations. was the first two-time winner and three-time winner. He won in
1960,
1966 and
1967. He is the most nominated artist in this category with 8 nominations. won in
1974,
1975 and
1977. won twice as the main credited artist, in
1976 and
1987. is the only group act to win twice, in
1988 and
2006. won in
2012 and
2017.
Serban Ghenea (as engineer/mixer) is the most frequent winner in this category with five awards.
Taylor Swift (as performer);
John Hanes (as engineer/mixer); and
Tom Coyne and
Randy Merrill (as mastering engineers) have won the award four times. They are followed by
Frank Sinatra,
Stevie Wonder, and
Paul Simon (as performers);
Jack Antonoff,
David Foster,
Daniel Lanois,
Phil Ramone, and
Ryan Tedder (as album producers);
Tom Elmhirst and
Mike Piersante and Laura Sisk (as engineers/mixers); and
Bob Ludwig (as mastering engineer) with three victories each. Coyne, Ghenea, Hanes, and Ludwig are the only people to win the award in three consecutive years.
Paul McCartney leads all performers with nine nominations: five as a member of
The Beatles, three for solo albums, and one as a member of
Wings. McCartney's former bandmate
George Harrison has a total of eight nominations: five as a member of The Beatles, one for a solo album, one for a live album with friends, and one as a member of the
Traveling Wilburys. Sinatra leads solo performers with eight nominations: seven for solo albums and one for a duet album.
Taylor Swift has the most nominations amongst female artists with seven, followed by
Barbra Streisand with six. The first woman to win the award was
Judy Garland in 1962, for
Judy at Carnegie Hall. Taylor Swift is the first solo female artist to win the award two, three, and four times.
Adele has won twice as main credited artist, and
Lauryn Hill,
Norah Jones, and
Alison Krauss also won two times each, first as lead artists for their respective albums,
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill,
Come Away with Me, and
Raising Sand (Krauss' collaboration album with
Robert Plant); Hill won her second Album of the Year as a producer of her collaboration on
Santana's
Supernatural (featured artists on non-soundtrack albums did not share in the award before 2008), while Jones won again as a featured artist on
Herbie Hancock's
River: The Joni Letters, and Krauss won again having been a featured artist on the
O Brother, Where Art Thou? – Soundtrack.
Billie Eilish is the youngest main credit artist to win in the category, winning for her debut album
When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? in 2020 at the age of 18.
The Peasall Sisters, Sarah, Hannah, and Leah, are the category's youngest credited winners, winning for their contributions to the
O Brother, Where Art Thou? – Soundtrack at ages 13, 9, and 7 respectively. Leah Peasall is the youngest winner of any Grammy in any category. The youngest person to make an appearance on an Album of the Year is Stevie Wonder's daughter Aisha Morris, who appeared as an infant for "
Isn't She Lovely?" on the album
Songs in the Key of Life.
Christopher Cross and Billie Eilish are the only artists to receive Grammys for Album of the Year as well as
Record of the Year,
Song of the Year, and
Best New Artist, each winning all four "general field" categories in a single ceremony year. Adele was the first artist to win awards for Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist on separate occasions. Five artists have won both Album of the Year and Best New Artist in the same year:
Bob Newhart (
The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart in 1961), Lauryn Hill (
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill in 1999), and Norah Jones (
Come Away with Me in 2003) along with Christopher Cross (
Christopher Cross in 1981) and Billie Eilish (
When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? in 2020) mentioned above. Frank Sinatra's
Come Dance with Me! was the first album by a
traditional pop artist to win,
Stan Getz's &
João Gilberto's
Getz/Gilberto was the first by
jazz artists, The Beatles' ''
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'' was the first by
rock and roll artists,
Glen Campbell's
By the Time I Get to Phoenix was the first by a
country artist, Lauryn Hill's
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill was the first by a
hip hop artist, Santana's
Supernatural was the first by a Hispanic artist,
Arcade Fire's
The Suburbs was the first by
indie rock artists, and
Daft Punk's
Random Access Memories was the first by
electronic music artists.
Un Verano Sin Ti and
Debí Tirar Más Fotos by
Bad Bunny are the only Spanish-language albums to be nominated, with the latter being the first Spanish-language album to win. Only Frank Sinatra and Stevie Wonder have won in two consecutive years as main artists: Sinatra won in 1966 (
September of My Years) and 1967 (
A Man and His Music) and Wonder won in 1974 (
Innervisions) and 1975 (''
Fulfillingness' First Finale''). Lauryn Hill and
Bruno Mars have also won in consecutive years, with one win credited as producer rather than artist. Hill won as a producer in 2000 after winning in 1999 as artist and producer.
Bruno Mars won as a producer in 2017 before winning as both artist and producer in 2018. The Beatles were the first and only artists to date to receive Album of the Year nominations in five consecutive years (1966–1970). Frank Sinatra was the first to receive four nominations in consecutive years, 1959–1961 (two nominations at the first ceremony in 1959), receiving 3 more consecutive nominations for 1966–1968. Barbra Streisand (1964–1967) and
Kendrick Lamar (2016–2019) also received nominations in four consecutive years while
Lady Gaga (2010–2012) was nominated in three consecutive years.
Kendrick Lamar is the only performer with Album of the Year nominations for five consecutive studio albums, for
Good Kid, M.A.A.D City,
To Pimp a Butterfly,
Damn.,
Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers and
GNX.
Beyoncé,
Billy Joel and
Taylor Swift follow with four nominations; while
The Beatles,
Stevie Wonder,
Steely Dan,
Bonnie Raitt,
Dixie Chicks,
Kanye West,
Lady Gaga,
Adele and
Billie Eilish each received nominations for three consecutive studio albums.
Stevie Wonder and
Adele are the only artists to win the award for consecutive studio albums in this category, winning for
Innervisions and ''
Fulfillingness' First Finale and Songs in the Key of Life; and 21 and 25'', respectively.
Quincy Jones, Lauryn Hill and Bruno Mars are the only performers to win the award both as main-credit artists and as record producers, winning as lead artists for their albums
Back on the Block,
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill and
24K Magic, and as producers for
Thriller by
Michael Jackson,
Supernatural by Santana, and
25 by Adele, respectively. Mars' work on the album 25 is credited under his production team name
The Smeezingtons. To date, there have been four "live" albums to win the award:
Judy at Carnegie Hall,
The Concert for Bangladesh, and two
MTV Unplugged albums (
Eric Clapton's and
Tony Bennett's), which were performed in front of a small live audience. One television soundtrack recording,
The Music from Peter Gunn, has won. Two comedy albums have also won this category:
The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart and
The First Family.
Artists and bands with multiple wins Eight artists have received the award more than once (either as a main-credit artist, duo or band; not counting wins solely as a producer, mixer or engineer).
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