Grammy Awards

According to early ratings, the 2022 Grammy Awards spiraled to another near-record low with just 8.93 million viewers.

Rapper and fashion mogul Kanye West — who is up for five 2022 Grammy Awards — has been banned from performing at this year’s Grammys due to his “concerning online behavior.”

LOS ANGELES — The 2022 Grammy Awards will shift to an April show in Las Vegas after recently postponing the ceremony due to rising COVID-19 cases because the omicron variant.

The Grammy Awards 2022 has been postponed due to the Omicron variant of the Chinese coronavirus, making it the second year in a row that the Grammys have been postponed over the pandemic.

Four-time Grammy winner Drake and his management asked the Recording Academy to withdraw his two nominations.

Comedians Dave Chappelle and Louis C.K. defied the cancel mob to score Grammy nominations on Tuesday, as Grammy voters ignored woke controversies to honor both for their work in the past year.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Grammys will stick to its word with the public release of the full inclusion rider to ensure equity and inclusion in hiring on all levels of production for next year’s ceremony.

Mere months after the woke, Trevor Noah-hosted Grammys telecast produced the worst ratings on record, organizers of the Grammys are doubling down on woke, announcing Wednesday that they’ll require producers to recruit and hire more “diverse” candidates backstage and in front of the camera ahead of the 2022 awards show.

Cameroonian singer Denica claims far-left model Chrissy Teigen became aggressive with her at the 2016 Grammy Awards, shoving her twice at the event. The news follows the fallout from Teigen’s past behavior and mounting allegations of bullying. 

The leftist cancel culture has been out to destroy actor-comedian Bill Burr after he cracked anti-woke jokes at Sunday’s historically low rated Grammy Awards. But Burr’s wife shared a pointed message for one of her husband’s critics, who suggested that their marriage is a “sign of racism.” 

The Grammy Awards saw its ratings take a nosedive by more than 50 percent on Sunday, signaling the likelihood of another ratings fiasco for the recording industry’s biggest night, according to an early numbers report.

Samaria Rice — the mother of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy who was shot and killed by a police officer in Cleveland, Ohio, in 2014 — blasted the Marxist political organization Black Lives Matter following the BLM-fueled Grammy Awards on Sunday night.

Comedian Bill Burr used his appearance at the Grammy Awards on Sunday to make anti-woke wisecracks aimed at overly sensitive feminists and leftists.

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow won a Grammy Award on Sunday evening in the Best Spoken Word Album category for the audiobook recording of her latest book, Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth.

LOS ANGELES — I have covered the Grammy Awards for the Associated Press for 15 years. But this strange year feels like the first time.

Three Grammy nominees are taking the unusual step of rejecting their nominations to protest the lack of racial minorities in the children’s album category, saying in an interview that “to have an all-white slate of nominees seemed really tone deaf.”

The Interim President of The Recording Academy has apologized after asking actress-comedian Tiffany Haddish to host the ceremony without offering to pay her hair, makeup, wardrobe costs.

Atlanta — Grammy-winning hip hop recording artist Lecrae joined forces with non-profit organization Thursday to assemble and distribute portable hand-washing stations throughout Atlanta in areas with a high density of homeless people.

LOS ANGELES  — The Recording Academy on Monday fired Deborah Dugan, its former president who called into question the integrity of the Grammy Awards nominations process and said she was sexually harassed by a top lawyer for the organization, which she called a boys’ club that coddled and favored powerful men.

What should have been a night filled with fun, joy, celebration, and yes, sex, is instead a sexless night of hectoring, bigotry against traditional Americans, and hate.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs called out the Grammy Awards for dissing rap and R&B stars in its major categories in a blazing speech that earned him a standing ovation from Beyoncé, Jay-Z and several other music industry players.

The 2020 Grammy Awards on Sunday night opened with a tribute to NBA legend Kobe Bryant, with Alicia Keys and R&B group Boyz II Men honoring Bryant and the eight others killed in a helicopter crash in California on Sunday morning.

LOS ANGELES — Former Grammys CEO Neil Portnow said Wednesday that a rape allegation against him aired by his successor in a complaint against the Recording Academy is “false and outrageous.”

Hollywood’s long-standing love affair with the Obama’s continued in full force Wednesday with Former First Lady Michelle Obama receiving a Grammy Award nomination for her spoken word album Becoming,  the audio version of her bestselling memoir published last year.

The singer Mon Laferte bared her breasts Thursday on the red carpet of the Latin Grammy Awards in Las Vegas, protesting police brutality amid ongoing civil unrest in her native Chile.

The ratings for the 2019 Grammy Awards are almost as disastrous as last year, which hit a record low in the all-important 18-49 age demographic.

Former Democratic President Jimmy Carter won his second Grammy Award for a spoken word album Sunday night.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rap artists and women have felt shunned by the Grammy Awards in recent years. But this year, they both took center stage.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Grammy Awards kicked off Sunday with a group of powerful women, including Michelle Obama and Lady Gaga, describing the role of music in their lives — a display that came a year after female voices were somewhat muted at the 2018 ceremony.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — The audience at Clive Davis’ white-hot gala included Barbra Streisand, Joni Mitchell and Kareem Abdul Jabbar, but it was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who got the most requests to take a selfie.

Pop star Taylor Swift’s hard-left political activism this year couldn’t save her from an embarrassing Grammy snub, with her album Reputation not getting nominated for Best Album.

NEW YORK (AP) — The music of “Black Panther,” with Kendrick Lamar in its starring role, officially owns the 2019 Grammy Awards, where women are heavily represented in the major four categories following a year where their presence was barely felt.

The 60th annual Grammy Awards may have turned out to be a flop with Americans, but the red carpet arrivals and performance ensembles by some of the music industry’s biggest names were hardly boring.

While the 60th Grammy Awards heavily promoted gender politics, from stars wearing white roses as a show of solidarity with the #MeToo and Time’s Up anti-sexual harassment movements to the pro-Dreamers speech from singer Camila Cabello to singer Janelle Monae’s “Time’s Up” speech, only one female performer took home a major award.

Ratings for Sunday’s politically-charged 60th annual Grammy Awards broadcast on CBS dropped dramatically from a year ago, reportedly reaching ‘an all-time low.’

The 60th Grammy Awards went full anti-President Donald Trump on Sunday as the awards show host James Corden enlisted singers Cher and John Legend, rappers Snoop Dogg and Cardi B, music producer DJ Khaled, and failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to read excepts from Michael Wolff’s White House tell-all Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.

During the 60th Annual Grammy Awards, Eric Church, Maren Morris, and the Brothers Osborne sang Eric Clapton’s “Tears in Heaven” as a tribute to concertgoers killed at music venues during 2017.

Singer Camila Cabello took to the Grammy Awards stage to deliver a pro-illegal immigration message, saying American was ‘built by DREAMers.’

Rapper Kendrick Lamar took the stage Sunday night at the 60th annual Grammy Awards and made a political declaration during his Best Rap Album acceptance speech.

The 60th annual Grammy Awards kicked off Sunday night with a politically-charged musical performance by California rapper Kendrick Lamar who sang his hit song “XXX,” as waving American flag filled giants screens above him and military fatigue-clad background dancers marched behind him.