Grammys

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

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appeared in a video message at the Grammy Awards to ask for support in telling the story of Ukraine’s invasion by Russia.

The mockery of actor Will Smith following his assault against comedian Chris Rock at last week’s Oscars telecast continued on Sunday at the Grammy Awards when host Trevor Noah cracked a joke at the embattled actor’s expense.

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.”

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.

Comedian Bill Burr, who became a target of the cancel culture during the recent Grammy’s awards, says he refuses to apologize for his comedy.

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.

Actors and musicians who are “prestigious award winners” will be at the front of the immigration queue, UK Home Secretary Priti Patel said.

Canadian singer-songwriter The Weeknd is calling out the Grammys, blasting the Recording Academy as “corrupt,” and announced his decision to not submit his music to be considered for recognition despite the organization’s latest commitment to reform. 

Candace Owens says she is suing rapper Cardi B for defamation following a heated exchange on Twitter, in which the rapper posted a fake tweet depicting Owens saying that her husband cheated on her with her brother.

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.

The Grammys on Sunday featured a speech by Tamika Mallory, the left-wing activist who left the Women’s March in 2019 after being accused of antisemitism, including her support of racist and and antisemite Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.

The arrivals at the 63rd Grammy Awards were a bit of a bust, mostly because the coronavirus crisis virtue signalers have crushed the best part of these events — the red carpet.

Rapper Lil Baby turned the Grammys stage on Sunday night into a riot scene that mirrored the deadly and violent protests that gripped the nation in response to the death of George Floyd. Lil Baby’s performance of his song “The Bigger Picture” included a speech from Black Lives Matter activist Tamika D. Mallory, who looked into the camera and demanded President Joe Biden to bring “justice, equity, policy, and everything else that freedom encompasses.”

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.

“I Can’t Breathe,” inspired by the death of 46-year-old George Floyd, whose death sparked riots across the United States last year, won “Song of the Year” at the 63rd Grammy Awards.

NEW YORK (AP) — Blue Ivy Carter is an official Grammy nominee.

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.

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.

Former first lady Michelle Obama won her first Grammy Award on Sunday for the spoken word album of her bestselling memoir “Becoming.” She follows in the footsteps of her husband, former President Barack Obama, who has won twice in the same category.

The death of Kobe Bryant didn’t stop Alicia Keys — standing on stage in the Staples Center, the house that the NBA legend built — from making the Grammys about politics and dumping on President Donald Trump.

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 (AP) — The ousted Grammys CEO fired back at the Recording Academy on Tuesday, alleging that she was removed after complaining about sexual harassment and pay disparities and for calling out conflicts of interest in the nomination process for music’s most prestigious awards.

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.

Jennifer Lopez faced backlash on social media for her lead participation in a tribute recognizing a historic African-American record label.

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.

At the 2019 Grammy Awards, a couple of singers arrived in attire that screamed aloud their support for President Donald Trump among a sea of Hollywood’s most famous and outspoken liberals.

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.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Grammys producer Ken Ehrlich said the show had multiple conversations with Ariana Grande about possibly performing Sunday but the singer “felt it was too late for her to pull something together,” but Grande accused Ehrlich of lying.

Ronna McDaniel, chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, slammed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for trekking out to Hollywood for the Grammys rather than staying in Washington to do her job as speaker of the House and negotiating an immigration deal that funds President Donald Trump’s planned wall along the U.S. border with Mexico.

The Grammy Awards air February 10 — just five days before Congress faces another partial government shutdown deadline.

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.