Si sono svolti la scorsa notte, all’MGM Grand Garden Arena di Las Vegas, i Grammy 2022, 64esima edizione del più prestigioso e ambito riconoscimento all’interno del music biz.
La programmazione della cerimonia era prevista, come di consueto, alla fine di gennaio, ma le preoccupazioni circa la variante Omicron del Coronavirus hanno portato l’organizzazione a posticiparla. Come di consueto, anche quella del 2022, sarà ricordata come un’annata controversa. Louis C.K. ha vinto nella categoria Best Comedy Album, Marilyn Manson e DaBaby, per via di Donda di Kanye West, erano in lizza per l’Album of the year. Riconoscimento che è finito invece nelle mani di Jon Batiste per We Are, assieme ad altri tre. Nello specifico: Best American Roots Performance, Best American Roots Song e, infine, Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media assieme a Trent Reznor e Atticus Ross per Soul.
Anche i Foo Fighters, in lutto per la perdita del batterista Taylor Hawkins, hanno portato a casa alcuni award. Medicine at Midnight è il miglior album rock e due sue canzoni, Waiting On a War e Making a Fire, sono state premiate come Best Rock Song e Best Rock Performance. A St Vincent è invece andato il riconoscimento come miglior lavoro alternative per l’album Daddy’s Home.
Tornando agli award principali, i Silk Sonic, ovvero Bruno Mars e Anderson .Paak, si sono aggiudicati il Record of the Year con il brano estratto da An Evening with Silk Sonic Leave the door Open, canzone che si è aggiudicata anche il Song Of The Year. Alla Olivia Rodrigo dei record (di stream) è andato invece il riconoscimento come migliore artista emergente (il Best New Artist), Grammy che la giovane cantante ha aggiunto ad altri due, Best Pop Solo Performance per Drivers License e Best Pop Vocal Album per il debut Sour, battendo in queste ultime categorie Billie Eilish.
Sempre sui premi di genere, tra quelli Rap / Hip Hop svetta Tyler the Creator, che con Call Me If You Get Lost si aggiudica il Best Rap Album. Kanye pure ne vince due, il primo come Best Melodic Rap Performance con il brano Hurricane con The Weeknd e Lil Baby, il secondo per Jail con Jay-Z. Anche Lamar ha vinto un Grammy per via del feat. nella canzone di Baby Keem Family Ties.
Ai Dream Theater è andato il riconoscimento per la miglior performance metal con The Alien, opener del loro ultimo lavoro A View From The Top Of TheWorld. E, infine, a Joni Mitchell, che era presente alla cerimonia, è andato l’award per Archives, Vol. 1: The Early Years (1963-1967), giudicato Best Historical Album, e a Questlove, fresco di Oscar, quello per Summer of Soul, premiato con l’award Best Music Film. Di seguito il dettaglio completo.
Album of the Year
We Are — Jon Batiste
Love for Sale — Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga
Justice (Triple Chucks Deluxe) — Justin Bieber
Happier Than Ever — Billie Eilish
Planet Her (Deluxe) — Doja Cat
Back of My Mind — H.E.R.
Montero — Lil Nas X
Sour — Olivia Rodrigo
evermore — Taylor Swift
Donda — Kanye West
Record of the Year
“Leave the Door Open” — Silk Sonic
“I Still Have Faith in You” — ABBA
“Freedom” — Jon Batiste
“I Get a Kick Out of You” — Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga
“Peaches” — Justin Bieber featuring Daniel Caesar and Giveon
“Right on Time” — Brandi Carlile
“Kiss Me More” — Doja Cat featuring SZA
“Happier Than Ever” — Billie Eilish
“Montero (Call Me by Your Name)” — Lil Nas X
“drivers license” — Olivia Rodrigo
Song of the Year
“Leave the Door Open” — Silk Sonic
“Bad Habits” — Ed Sheeran
“A Beautiful Noise” — Alicia Keys featuring Brandi Carlile
“drivers license” — Olivia Rodrigo
“Fight for You” — H.E.R.
“Happier Than Ever” — Billie Eilish
“Kiss Me More” — Doja Cat featuring SZA
“Montero (Call Me by Your Name)” — Lil Nas X
“Peaches” — Justin Bieber featuring Daniel Caesar and Giveon
“Right on Time” — Brandi Carlile
Best New Artist
Olivia Rodrigo
Arooj Aftab
Jimmie Allen
Baby Keem
FINNEAS
Glass Animals
Japanese Breakfast
The Kid LAROI
Arlo Parks
Saweetie
Best Pop Solo Performance
“Drivers License” — Olivia Rodrigo
“Anyone” — Justin Bieber
“Right on Time” — Brandi Carlile
“Happier Than Ever” — Billie Eilish
“Positions” — Ariana Grande
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
“Kiss Me More” — Doja Cat featuring SZA
“I Get a Kick Out of You” — Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga
“Lonely” — Justin Bieber and Benny Blanco
“Butter” — BTS
“Higher Power” — Coldplay
Best Pop Vocal Album
Sour — Olivia Rodrigo
Justice (Triple Chucks Deluxe) — Justin Bieber
Planet Her (Deluxe) — Doja Cat
Happier Than Ever — Billie Eilish
Positions — Ariana Grande
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
Love for Sale — Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga
‘Til We Meet Again (Live) — Norah Jones
A Tori Kelly Christmas — Tori Kelly
Ledisi Sings Nina — Ledisi
That’s Life — Willie Nelson
A Holly Dolly Christmas — Dolly Parton
Best Dance/Electronic Recording
“Alive — RÜFÜS DU SOL
“Hero” — Afrojack and David Guetta
“Loom” — Ólafur Arnalds featuring Bonobo
“Before” — James Blake
“Heartbreak” — Bonobo and Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs
“You Can Do It” — Caribou
“The Business” — Tiësto
Best Dance/Electronic Album
Subconsciously — Black Coffee
Fallen Embers — Illenium
Music Is the Weapon (Reloaded) — Major Lazer
Shockwave — Marshmello
Free Love — Sylvan Esso
Judgement — Ten City
Best Rock Performance
“Making a Fire” — Foo Fighters
“Shot in the Dark” — AC/DC
“Know You Better (Live from Capitol Studio A)” — Black Pumas
“Nothing Compares 2 U” — Chris Cornell
“OHMS” — Deftones
Best Rock Song
“Waiting on a War” — Foo Fighters
“All My Favorite Songs” — Weezer
“The Bandit” — Kings of Leon
“Distance” — Mammoth WVH
“Find My Way” — Paul McCartney
Best Rock Album
Medicine at Midnight — Foo Fighters
Power Up — AC/DC
Capitol Cuts — Live From Studio A — Black Pumas
No One Sings Like You Anymore Vol. 1 — Chris Cornell
McCartney III — Paul McCartney
Best Alternative Music Album
Daddy’s Home — St. Vincent
Shore — Fleet Foxes
If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power — Halsey
Jubilee — Japanese Breakfast
Collapsed in Sunbeams — Arlo Parks
Best Metal Performance
“The Alien” — Dream Theater
“Genesis” — Deftones
“Amazonia” — Gojira
“Pushing the Tides” — Mastodon
“The Triumph of King Freak (A Crypt of Preservation and Superstition)” — Rob Zombie
Best R&B Performance
“Leave the Door Open” — Silk Sonic
“Pick Up Your Feelings” — Jazmine Sullivan
“Lost You” — Snoh Aalegra
“Peaches” — Justin Bieber featuring Daniel Caesar and Giveon
“Damage” — H.E.R.
Best Traditional R&B Performance
“Fight for You” — H.E.R.
“I Need You” — Jon Batiste
“Bring It on Home to Me” — BJ the Chicago Kid, PJ Morton, and Kenyon Dixon featuring Charlie Bereal
“Born Again” — Leon Bridges featuring Robert Glasper
“How Much Can a Heart Take” — Lucky Daye featuring YEBBA
Best R&B Song
“Leave the Door Open” — Silk Sonic
“Damage” — H.E.R.
“Good Days” — SZA
“Heartbreak Anniversary” — Giveon
“Pick Up Your Feelings” — Jazmine Sullivan
Best Progressive R&B Album
Table for Two — Lucky Daye
New Light — Eric Bellinger
Something to Say — Cory Henry
Mood Valiant — Hiatus Kaiyote
Dinner Party: Dessert — Terrace Martin, Robert Glasper, 9th Wonder, and Kamasi Washington
Studying Abroad: Extended Stay — Masego
Best R&B Album
Heaux Tales — Jazmine Sullivan
Temporary Highs in the Violet Skies — Snoh Aalegra
We Are — Jon Batiste
Gold-Diggers Sound — Leon Bridges
Back of My Mind — H.E.R.
Best Rap Performance
“Family Ties” — Baby Keem featuring Kendrick Lamar
“Up” — Cardi B
“M Y .L I F E” — J. Cole featuring 21 Savage and Morray
“Thot Shit” — Megan Thee Stallion
Best Melodic Rap Performance
“Hurricane” – Kanye West featuring The Weekend and Lil Baby
“P R I D E. I S. T H E. DEVIL” — J. Cole featuring Lil Baby
“Need to Know” — Doja Cat
“Industry Baby” — Lil Nas X featuring Jack Harlow
“WUSYANAM” — Tyler, the Creator featuring YoungBoy Never Broke Again and Ty Dolla $ign
Best Rap Song
“Jail” — Kanye West featuring JAY-Z
“Bath Salts” — DMX featuring JAY-Z and Nas
“Best Friend” — Saweetie featuring Doja Cat
“Family Ties” — Baby Keem featuring Kendrick Lamar
“M Y .L I F E” — J. Cole featuring 21 Savage and Morray
Best Rap Album
Call Me If You Get Lost — Tyler, the Creator
The Off-Season — J. Cole
King’s Disease II — Nas
Donda — Kanye West
Best Música Urbana Album
El Último Tour Del Mundo — Bad Bunny
Afrodisíaco — Raw Alejandro
Jose — J Balvin
KG0516 — Karol G
Mendó — Alex Cuba
Sin Miedo (Del Amor y Otros Demonios) 8 — Kali Uchis
Best Folk Album
They’re Calling Me Home — Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi
One Night Lonely (Live) — Mary Chapin Carpenter
Long Violent History — Tyler Childers
Wednesday (Extended Edition) — Madison Cunningham
Blue Heron Suite — Sarah Jarosz
Best Americana Album
Native Son— Los Lobos
Downhill from Everywhere — Jackson Browne
Leftover Feelings — John Hiatt with The Jerry Douglas Band
Outside Child — Allison Russell
Stand for Myself — Yola
Best American Roots Performance
“Cry” — Jon Batiste
“Love and Regret” — Billy Strings
“I Wish I Knew Hot It Would Feel to Be Free” — The Blind Boys of Alabama and Béla Fleck
“Same Devil” — Brandy Clark featuring Brandi Carlile
“Nightflyer” — Allison Russell
Best American Roots Song
“Cry” — Jon Batiste and Steve McEwan
“Avalon” — Rhiannon Giddens with Frencesco Turrisi
“Call Me a Fool” — Valerie June featuring Carla Thomas
“Diamond Studded Shoes” — Yola
“Nightflyer” — Allison Russell
Best Country Album
Starting Over — Chris Stapleton
Skeletons — Brothers Osborne
Remember Her Name — Mickey Guyton
The Marfa Tapes — Miranda Lambert, Jon Randall, and Jack Ingram
The Ballad of Dood & Juanita — Sturgill Simpson
Best Country Solo Performance
“You Should Probably Leave” — Chris Stapleton
“Forever After All” — Luke Combs
“Remember Her Name” — Mickey Guyton
“All I Do Is Drive” — Jason Isbell
“Camera Roll” — Kacey Musgraves
Best Country Song
“Cold” — Chris Stapleton
“Better Than We Found It” — Maren Morris
“Camera Roll” — Kacey Musgraves
“Country Again” — Thomas Rhett
“Fancy Like” — Walker Hayes
“Remember Her Name” — Mickey Guyton
Best Comedy Album
Sincerely Louis CK — Louis C.K.
The Comedy Vaccine — Lavell Crawford
Evolution — Chelsea Handler
Thanks for Risking Your Life — Lewis Black
The Greatest Average American — Nate Bargatze
Zero Fucks Given — Kevin Hart
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Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media
Soul — Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor, and Atticus Ross
The Queen’s Gambit — Carlos Rafael Rivera
Bridgerton — Kris Bowers
Dune — Hans Zimmer
The Mandalorian: Season 2 — Vol. 2 (Chapters 13-16) — Ludwig Göransson
Best Song Written for Visual Media
“All Eyes on Me” (from Inside) — Bo Burnham
“Agatha All Along” (from WandaVision: Episode 7) — Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez featuring Kathryn Hahn, Eric Bradley, Greg Whipple, Jasper Randall, Gerald White
“All I Know So Far” (from P!nk: All I Know So Far) — P!nk
“Fight for You” (from Judas and the Black Messiah) — H.E.R.
“Here I Am (Singing My Way Home)” (from Respect) — Jennifer Hudson
“Speak Now” (from One Night in Miami…) — Leslie Odom, Jr
Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media
The United States vs. Billie Holiday
Cruella
Dear Evan Hansen
In the Heights
One Night in Miami…
Respect
Schmigadoon! Episode 1
Best Music Film
Summer of Soul — Various Artists
Inside — Bo Burnham
David Byrne’s American Utopia — David Byrne
Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles — Billie Eilish
Music, Money, Madness… Jimi Hendrix in Maui — Jimi Hendrix
Best Music Video
“Freedom” — Jon Batiste
“Shot in the Dark” — AC/DC
“I Get a Kick Out of You” — Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga
“Peaches” — Justin Bieber featuring Daniel Caesar
“Happier Than Ever” — Billie Eilish
“Montero (Call Me by Your Name)” — Lil Nas X
“Good for You” — Olivia Rodrigo
Producer of the Year, Non-Classical:
Jack Antonoff
Rogét Chahayed
Mike Elizondo
Hit-Boy
Ricky Reed