Grammy Awards 2024 Highlights: Taylor Swift’s Midnights named Album of the Year; Miley Cyrus’ Flowers is Record of the Year; Billie Eilish wins big

In another big win of the night, American singer-songwriter Miley Cyrus’ “Flowers” bagged the award for Record of the Year. Miley won the trophy defeating bigwigs like SZA (Kill Bill), Taylor Swift (Anti-Hero) and Billie Eilish (What Was I Made For?). Earlier in the day, the song had also earned Cyrus the award for Best Pop Solo Performance. American singer-songwriter Billie Eilish’s ballad “What Was I Made For?” from Greta Gerwig’s fantasy comedy Barbie was named the Song of the Year at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards. The song also won the award for Best Song Written for Visual Media during the ceremony.

While SZA won the Grammy for Best R&B Song for “Snooze”, Taylor Swift bagged another Grammy as her “Midnights” was named the Best Pop Vocal Album. SZA entered the ceremony with the most nominations, totalling nine. Meanwhile, singer Shankar Mahadevan and percussionist Zakir Hussain’s fusion band Shakti bagged the award for Best Global Music Album for their latest release This Moment.

This year, India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, was also nominated for an award. He was recognised for his lyrical contribution to the song “Abundance in Millets,” which features music by Falguni Shah and Gaurav Shah. However, “Abundance in Millets” lost in the Best Global Music Performance category to Zakir Hussain and others’ “Pashto”.

Before the official ceremony at 8 p.m. (local time), a pre-show premiere ceremony hosted by Justin Tranter will feature several categories. The pre-show will be live-streamed on live.Grammy.com and the Recording Academy’s YouTube channel, and on Paramount+. In India, the viewers can watch the ceremony on Grammy.com and the Recording Academy’s YouTube channel, starting at 6.30 am IST on Monday. Olivia Rodrigo, Luke Combs, Billy Joel, Burna Boy, Dua Lipa and Joni Mitchell, among others artists, are expected to perform at the event.