The 59th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony was held on February 12, 2017 in the Staples Center, Los Angeles. The nominations were announced on December 6, 2016.
Beyoncé earned the most nominations with nine while Drake, Rihanna, and Kanye West received eight nominations each while Chance the Rapper followed with seven nominations.
Tom Elmhirst won six awards from six nominations as an engineer/mixer. Adele was the biggest winner of the night among artists with five trophies, including Album of the Year for 25, Record of the Year, and Song of the Year for “Hello”
1. Twenty One Pilots Strip Down Their Pants
Boxers show. At the biggest musical award show, millions watching, Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun stood up to accept their first-ever Grammy Award (Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for “Stressed Out”) because them and their roommates watched the Grammys in their underwear years before they made it big and vowed to accept in their underwear if they ever won. Awkward right? 🙂
2. Rihanna Going Home Bare Handed
Sabotaged. The singer’s eighth album, ANTI (2016), got six nominations including Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for “Work” and Best R&B Song for “Kiss It Better.” Two other nominations were for “Too Good” and “Famous” with Drake and Kanye West respectevily. It was the most she’s ever received for a single project, and rightfully so. ANTI is Rihanna’s riskiest, most cohesive, genre-bending, experimental and fearless body of work to date. But the middle-aged white men sitting too comfortably on the Recording Academy committee couldn’t shake off their frustratingly traditional mindset and felt it wasn’t worth a GRAMMY, and Rihanna left the ceremony empty-handed.
3. Adele 25 Winning Album of The Year over Beyonce’s Lemonade
Unfair Voting system. “Lemonade” is a truly iconic visual album, something only Beyoncé could make. The disrespect she was paid at the 2017 Grammys. She also lost the best rap/sung performance for “Freedom,” and record and song of the year for “Formation” — is one of the great injustices in music history. Even that year’s album of the year winner, Adele, said that “Lemonade” should’ve won.
4. Rihanna’s ANTI not Gettinig AOTY Nomination
Negligence. The singer proved that she could make an experimental album just as successful as her previous, mainstream LPs of year’s past. ANTI is certified 3x Platinum (Eligible for 4x Platinum) by the RIAA, peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 twice and spent 33 weeks in the top 10. The album became the 7th longest-charting female albums in Billboard 200 history spending 238 weeks and counting.
Anti is more dependent on mood and texture rather than “the practised song-craft that usually knock the wind out of listeners. This album is a sprawling masterpiece of psychedelic soul that’s far more straightforward than its tangled rollout.
Lead single “Work” made history last spring when it broke The Beatles’ Billboard Hot 100 record, claiming the second-most cumulative weeks at the No. 1. At the time, it gave Rihanna a total of 60 weeks spent at No. 1 in her career.
5. Metallica’s Audio Issues
Poor management system. Lady Gaga and Metallica took the stage to perform band’s “Moth Into Flame.” The high-energy performance got off to a shaky start when lead vocalist James Hetfield‘s microphone failed to work, but Gaga, saved the day, lending her own mic to the rock icon. Toward the end of the performance Gaga dove into the audience and briefly crowd-surfed before making her way back on stage.
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