GRAMMY 4 GLORY : Recent winners & upsets posted for easy reference

[iknowthemusic'sgood]

GLORY deserves to win Grammys next year. No doubt about it. But the Grammy's are kind of notorious for just being a popularity contest. Here's some recent winners and I've highlighted the years where an award was a surprise or upset.

It looks like Album of the Year is our best shot.

 

Best Pop Solo Performance

• 2012 - Adele, Someone Like You
• 2013 - Adele, Set Fire to the Rain (Live)
• 2014 - Lorde, Royals
• 2015 - Pharrell, Happy (Live)
• 2016 - Ed Sheeran, Thinking Out Loud

Best Pop Vocal Album

• 2009 - Duffy, Rockferry
• 2010 - The Black Eyed Peas, The E.N.D.
• 2011 - Lady Gaga, The Fame Monster
• 2012 - Adele, 21
• 2013 - Kelly Clarkson, Stronger
• 2014 - Bruno Mars, Unorthodox Jukebox
• 2015 - Sam Smith, In the Lonely Hour
• 2016 - Taylor Swift, 1989

Album of the Year

• 2009 - Robert Plant & Allison Krauss, Raising Sand
• 2010 - Taylor Swift, Fearless
• 2011 - Arcade Fire, The Suburbs
• 2012 - Adele, 21
• 2013 - Mumford & Sons, Babel
• 2014 - Daft Punk, Random Access Memories
• 2015 - Beck, Morning Phase
• 2016 - Taylor Swift, 1989

Record of the Year 

• 2009 - Allison Krauss & Robert Plant, Please Read the Letter
• 2010 - Kings of Leon, Use Somebody
• 2011 - Lady Antebellum, Need You Now
• 2012 - Adele, Rolling in the Deep
• 2013 - Gotye f. Kimbra, Somebody That I Used to Know
• 2014 - Daft Punk f. Pharrell, Get Lucky
• 2015 - Sam Smith, Stay With Me
• 2016 - Mark Ronson f. Bruno Mars, Uptown Funk

[OoopsBitch!]

Was Random Access Memories really a surprise or an upset? I thought it was completely justified

 

idk...when pop acts win it's usually because they sold a LOT. Glory is epic for me but it probably won't be one of the best selling albums (bc the gp don't know what's good) so it probably won't win a grammy. not that it matters tbh