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Jon Batiste Wins Album of the Year for ‘We Are’ at 2022 Grammys

Jon Batiste took home the award for Album of the Year at the 2022 Grammys. His latest LP We Are won over albums by Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga (Love For Sale), Justin Bieber (Justice), Doja Cat (Planet Her), Billie Eilish (Happier Than Ever), H.E.R (Back of My Mind), Lil Nas X (Montero), Olivia Rodrigo (Sour), Taylor Swift (evermore), and Kanye West (Donda).

Batiste led this year’s nominations with a total of 11 nods. He also ended up winning Best Music Video (for ‘Freedom’), Best American Roots Performance (for ‘Cry’), and Best American Roots Song (for ‘Cry’), as well as Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media (for Soul). Check out the full list of winners here.

Watch Lady Gaga Perform ‘Love for Sale’ and ‘Do I Love You’ at 2022 Grammys

Lady Gaga appeared at the 2022 Grammys tonight, performing two songs from her and Tony Bennett’s 2021 collaborative album Love for Sale: ‘Love for Sale’ and ‘Do I Love You’. Bennett, who retired from performing last year at 95 years old, introduced the performance with a pre-recorded video segment. Watch it below.

Gaga and Bennett were up for five awards tonight, including Album of the Year. Ahead of Gaga’s performance, she and Bennett had won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album. Find the full list of winners here.

Olivia Rodrigo Wins Best New Artist at 2022 Grammys

Olivia Rodrigo won Best New Artist at the 2022 Grammys tonight, shortly after delivering a performance of her smash hit ‘drivers License’. The award was presented by previous Best New Artist winners Dua Lipa and Megan Thee Stallion. Arooj Aftab, Jimmie Allen, Baby Keem, Finneas, Glass Animals, Japanese Breakfast, the Kid Laroi, Arlo Parks, and Saweetie were also nominated this year. Check out the updating list of winners here.

Watch Billie Eilish Perform ‘Happier Than Ever’ at 2022 Grammys

Billie Eilish appeared at the 2022 Grammy Awards, performing her single ‘Happier Than Ever’ while wearing a Taylor Hawkins T-shirt in tribute to the late Foo Fighters drummer. The performance started out in a set that looked like a bedroom before Eilish joined her brother Finneas on the roof of the stage structure. Watch it below.

Billie Eilish is nominated for seven Grammy Awards tonight, including Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and Record of the Year for her sophomore album Happier Than Ever and its title track.

Watch BTS Perform ‘Butter’ at 2022 Grammys

BTS performed the 2022 Grammys tonight, delivering a rendition of their chart-topping single ‘Butter’. The performance began with Jin operating computers while other members of the boy band hid amongst audience members, with V taking a mysterious card from behind Olivia Rodrigo’s ear. Watch it happen below.

‘Butter’ is nominated for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance this year. Check out the updating list of Grammy winners here.

Watch Olivia Rodrigo Perform ‘drivers license’ at 2022 Grammys

Olivia Rodrigo gave her debut performance at the 2022 Grammys in Las Vegas tonight (April 3), performing a rendition of ‘drivers license’. Check it out below.

Olivia Rodrigo is nominated in six categories at this year’s awards, including Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album for Sour. ‘drivers license’ is up for Record of the Year and Song of the Year; the song took home the award for Best Pop Solo Performance.

Jack Antonoff Wins Producer of the Year at 2022 Grammys

Jack Antonoff took home the award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical at the 2022 Grammys. The producer was recognized for his work on Taylor Swift’s ‘Gold Rush’, Lana Del Rey’s Chemtrails Over the Country Club, St. Vincent’s Daddy’s Home, Lorde’s Solar Power, Clairo’s Sling, and Bleachers’ Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night. It’s Antonoff’s first win after being nominated three consecutive times for the award. Hit-Boy, Ricky Reed, Mike Elizondo, and Rogét Chahayed were also nominated this year. Check out the updating list of winners here.

Anotnoff previously won Album of the Year twice for his work on Taylor Swift’s folklore and 1989, and is nominated for the award again this year for his work on Swift’s evermore. Antonoff’s other Grammy wins include Best Rock Song for St. Vincent’s ‘Masseduction’, and, with his band Fun., Best New Artist and Song of the Year for ‘We Are Young’.

St. Vincent Wins Best Alternative Music Album at 2022 Grammys

St. Vincent has won the 2022 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album for Daddy’s Home. The album won over Fleet Foxes’ Shore, Halsey’s If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power, Japanese Breakfast’s Jubilee, and Arlo Parks’ Collapsed in Sunbeams. Check out the updating list of winners here.

This marks St. Vincent’s third Grammy win. Annie Clark previously won Best Alternative Music Album in 2015 for St. Vincent. She also won Best Rock Song in 2019 for ‘Masseduction’.

‘Summer of Soul’ Wins Best Music Film at 2022 Grammys

Summer of Soul, Questlove’s film about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, has won Best Music Film at the 64th annual Grammy Awards. The documentary won over Bo Burnham’s Inside, David Byrne’s American Utopia, Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles, and Music, Money, Madness… Jimi Hendrix in Maui. Check out the updating list of 2022 Grammy winners here.

Last week, Summer of Soul took home the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. The film also won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award and Best Documentary at the 2022 Independent Spirit Awards.

Arooj Aftab Wins Best Global Music Performance at the 2022 Grammys

Arooj Aftab has won her first-ever Grammy, taking home the award for her rendition of ‘Mohabbat’ at the 64th Grammys. The Brooklyn-based Pakistani composer won over Femi Kuti (‘Pà P’ Pà”), Wizkid and Tems (‘Essence’), Angélique Kidjo and Burna Boy (‘Do Yourself’) and Yo-Yo Ma and Angélique Kidjo (‘Blewu’). Keep up with the updating list of winners here.

“I think I’m gonna faint. Wow, thank you so much. I feel like this category in and of itself has been so insane,” Aftab said in her acceptance speech. “Burna Boy, Wizkid, Femi Kuti, Angélique Kidjo – should this be called Best World Music Performance? I feel like it should be called ‘yacht party category.’” She continued, “Anyway, thank you so much to everyone who helped me make this record, all my incredible collaborators, for following me and making this music I made about everything that broke me and put me back together. Thank you for listening to it and making it yours.”

Aftab is also up for Best New Artist category this year. Check out our Artist Spotlight interview with Arooj Aftab.