Puerto Rican superstar, Bad Bunny, made history at the 68th Annual Grammy Awards, becoming the first artist to win Album of the Year for a fully Spanish-language album with Debí Tirar Más Fotos (I Should Have Taken More Photos).
During his emotional acceptance speech in Spanish, he also addressed audiences in English, dedicating the award “to all the people who had to leave their homeland, their country to follow their dreams.”
Earlier in the ceremony, Bad Bunny also claimed Best Música Urbana Album and used his platform to make a political statement, declaring “ICE out” to prolonged applause.
He continued, “We’re not savage, we’re not animals, we’re not aliens. We are humans and we are Americans. Sometimes hate grows with more hate. The only thing more powerful than hate is love. So if we fight, we fight with love. We love our people. We love our family.”
Like Bad Bunny, Billie Eilish, who won Song of the Year for Wildflower, spoke out against ICE while accepting her award, telling the audience, “no one is illegal on stolen land,” and concluding with a censored expletive aimed at the agency.
Kendrick Lamar, last year’s Super Bowl halftime performer, further cemented his record as the most awarded rapper in Grammy history, winning Best Rap Album for GNX and Record of the Year alongside SZA for luther. His pre-show victories brought his total Grammy count past Jay-Z’s.
Filmmaker Steven Spielberg also joined the exclusive EGOT club, earning a Grammy for Best Music Film for the documentary Music by John Williams, co-produced with Ron Howard and others.
The show featured memorable performances from Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Sabrina Carpenter, and all eight nominees for Best New Artist, including Olivia Dean, who emerged as the winner.
Partial List of Nominees and Winners
Album of the Year
Debí Tirar Más Fotos, Bad Bunny – WINNER
SWAG, Justin Bieber
Man’s Best Friend, Sabrina Carpenter
Let God Sort Em Out, Clipse, Pusha T & Malice
Mayhem, Lady Gaga
GNX, Kendrick Lamar
MUTT, Leon Thomas
CHROMAKOPIA, Tyler, the Creator
Song of the Year
Abracadabra, Lady Gaga
Anxiety, Doechii
DtMF, Bad Bunny
Golden, KPop Demon Hunters
luther, Kendrick Lamar w/ SZA
Manchild, Sabrina Carpenter
WILDFLOWER, Billie Eilish – WINNER
Record of the Year
DtMF, Bad Bunny
Manchild, Sabrina Carpenter
Anxiety, Doechii
WILDFLOWER, Billie Eilish
Abracadabra, Lady Gaga
luther, Kendrick Lamar w/ SZA – WINNER
The Subway, Chappell Roan
APT., Rosé and Bruno Mars
Best New Artist
Olivia Dean – WINNER
Katseye
The Marías
Addison Rae
Sombr
Leon Thomas
Alex Warren
Lola Young
Best Pop Solo Performance
Daises, Justin Bieber
Manchild, Sabrina Carpenter
Disease, Lady Gaga
The Subway, Chappell Roan
Messy, Lola Young – WINNER
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
Defying Gravity, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande – WINNER
Golden, HUNTR/X: EJAE, Audrey Nuna, REI AMI
Gabriela, Katseye
APT., Rosé and Bruno Mars
30 for 30, SZA w/ Kendrick Lamar
Best Rap Album
Let God Sort Em Out, Clipse, Pusha T & Malice
Glorious, GloRilla
God Does Like Ugly, JID
GNX, Kendrick Lamar – WINNER
Chromakopia, Tyler, the Creator
Best Rap Performance
Outside, Cardi B
Chains & Whips, Clipse, Pusha T & Malice f/ Kendrick Lamar & Pharrell Williams – WINNER
Anxiety, Doechii
tv off, Kendrick Lamar f/ Lefty Gunplay
Darling, I, Tyler, the Creator f/ Teezo Touchdown
Best Contemporary Country Album
Patterns, Kelsea Ballerini
Snipe Hunter, Tyler Childers
Evangeline Vs. The Machine, Eric Church
Beautifully Broken, Jelly Roll – WINNER
Postcards From Texas, Miranda Lambert
Best Country Solo Performance
Nose on the Grindstone, Tyler Childers
Good News, Shaboozey
Bad As I Used to Be, Chris Stapleton – WINNER
I Never Lie, Zach Top
Somewhere Over Laredo, Lainey Wilson
Best Rock Album
private music, Deftones
I Quit, HAIM
From Zero, Linkin Park
NEVER ENOUGH, Turnstile – WINNER
Idols, YUNGBLUD
Best Rock Performance
U Should Not Be Doing That, Amyl and The Sniffers
The Emptiness Machine, Linkin Park
NEVER ENOUGH, Turnstile
Mirtazapine, Hayley Williams
Changes (Live From Villa Park) Back To The Beginning, YUNGBLUD f/ Nuno Bettencourt, Frank Bello, Adam Wakeman, II – WINNER
Best R&B Album
BELOVED, GIVĒON
Why Not More?, Coco Jones
The Crown, Ledisi
Escape Room, Teyana Taylor
MUTT, Leon Thomas – WINNER
Best R&B Performance
YUKON, Justin Bieber
It Depends, Chris Brown f/ Bryson Tiller
Folded, Kehlani – WINNER
MUTT (Live From NPR’s Tiny Desk), Leon Thomas
Heart Of A Woman, Summer Walker
