Thread by @BensOscarMath

0/62: Here is my 62-part trivia thread on the 62nd Grammy Awards.

1/62: Here are the nominations in the four general field categories.

2/62: Artists with four or more nominations. @Lizzo leads the way with eight.

@lizzo 3/62: @PostMalone was nominated for Record of the Year two years in a row, for “Rockstar” and “Sunflower.” The most recent people to do that were @KendrickLamar and @DonaldGlover in 2018-19.

4/62: @HERmusicx was nominated for Album of the Year two years in a row, for “H.E.R.” and “I Used to Know Her.” The last solo artist to accomplish this was @LadyGaga in 2011-12, though @KendrickLamar did it the last two years counting his contribution to the Black Panther album.

5/62: “Lover” is @TaylorSwift13’s 4th Song of the Year nomination. Only four writers have more nominations in this category:
-Paul McCartney (6)
-Lionel Richie (6)
-Burt Bacharach (5)
-John Lennon (5)

@taylorswift13 6/62: @LadyGaga’s “Always Remember Us This Way” is the first song with “Remember” in the title nominated for Song of the Year.

7/62: @BillieEilish’s “Bad Guy” is the first song with “Guy” in the title nominated for Song of the Year.

8/62: This is @ArianaGrande’s and @TaylorSwift13’s 3rd nomination each for Best Pop Solo Performance. That ties @Adele, @KatyPerry, and @LadyGaga for second place, one behind @KellyClarkson’s 4 nominations.

9/62: This is @ArianaGrande’s 2nd nomination for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance (shared with @SocialHouseTC). Only @Maroon5 (4 nominations), @Coldplay (3), and @xtina (3) have more.

10/62: “Walls” is @BarbraStreisand’s 13th nomination for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album, 2nd place behind @ItsTonyBennett, yet she has never won the category.

@BarbraStreisand @itstonybennett 11/62: This is @MichaelBuble’s 9th nomination for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album, behind only @ItsTonyBennett and @BarbraStreisand (also nominated this year). Buble has 4 wins, second place behind Bennett’s 13.

12/62: @ArianaGrande, @EdSheeran, and @TaylorSwift13 are all going for their second win in Best Pop Vocal Album, which would tie the record for most wins shared by @Adele and @KellyClarkson. Ariana Grande would become the first person to win the category in consecutive years.

13/62: This is @ArianaGrande’s 4th nomination for Best Pop Vocal Album, one behind @KellyClarkson and @JTimberlake for the most all-time.

14/62: @JColeNC has multiple nominations for Best Rap Performance this year, as the primary artist on “Middle Child” and featured on @Dreamville’s “Down Bad.” The only others to have accomplished that are @KanyeWest and @Drake.

15/62: This is John Legend’s 7th nomination for Best Rap/Sung Performance (shared with @DJKhaled and @NipseyHussle for “Higher”), the most nominations in the category without a win.

16/62: Two artists who go by “Lil ____” are nominated for Best Rap/Sung Performance: @LilBaby4PF and @LilNasX. Four others have been nominated in this category in past years: @LilJon, @LilTunechi, @LilKim, and @LilYachty.

17/62: This is @BlakeShelton’s 4th nomination for Best Country Solo Performance, for “God’s Country.” That ties him with @MirandaLambert and @KeithUrban for second place, one behind @CarrieUnderwood.

18/62: @LittleBigTown is going for their 4th win for Best Country Duo/Group Performance. No one else has more than two wins in this category.

19/62: @BrothersOsborne has been nominated for Best Country Duo/Group Performance five years in a row, breaking @LittleBigTown’s record of four straight.

20/62: @DanAndShay (“Speecheless”) could become the first group to win Best Country Duo/Group Performance in back-to-back years.

@DanAndShay 21/62: @Reba McEntire scores her first Best Country Album nomination in 25 years. That’s the second-longest gap between nominations in this category, after Johnny Cash’s 33 years, though the category didn’t exist for most of Cash’s gap.

22/62: @HERmusicx and @DanielCaesar could each join Ray Charles as the only artists to win Best R&B Performance in consecutive years. Last year, those two teamed up to win for “Best Part,” but this year they’re competing against one another.

23/62: @PJMorton could join @LalahHathaway as the only people to win Best Traditional R&B Performance two years in a row.

24/62: All five nominees for Best Urban Contemporary Album – @Lizzo, @Thundercat, @JahJahMuldrow, @ThisNAO, @JessieReyez – haven’t been nominated before, the first time that’s happened since the first two years of the category.

25/62: @PJMorton is the first person in #Grammys history to be nominated for Best R&B Album in three straight years.

26/62: @MichelleObama (“Becoming”) is the second First Lady to be nominated for Best Spoken World Album, after @HillaryClinton, who was nominated twice and won for “It Takes a Village” (1997).

@MichelleObama @HillaryClinton 27/62: @DaveChappelle is going for his third straight win in Best Comedy Album, something only accomplished by Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, and Peter Schickele.

28/62: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is only the second play to be nominated for Best Musical Theater Album. The first was John Gielgud’s one-man play Ages of Man (1960).

29/62: Due to “Shallow” being released before the rest of the A Star Is Born album, the film becomes the first in history to be nominated for Best Song Written for Visual Media in consecutive years. This year, “I’ll Never Love Again” is nominated.

30/62: All nominated artists for Best Music Video are first-time nominees. The last time that happened was 2007, when @OKGo won for “Here It Goes Again.”

31/62: @AlejandroSanz could tie @JoseFeliciano for the most Latin Pop Album wins all-time if he were to win his 4th this year.

32/62: Bad Bunny is the first person to have multiple nominations for Best Latin Rock, Urban, or Alternative Album in one year.

33/62: @iLevitable could join @Calle13, @ManaOficial, and @Ozomatli as the only artists with more than one win for Best Latin Rock, Urban, or Alternative Album.

34/62: This is @MariachiDivas_ de Cindy Shea’s 6th nomination for Best Regional Mexican Music Album, the most all-time.

35/62: All five nominees for Best Rock Performance are first-time nominees in the category, which hasn’t happened since the category’s first year in 2012.

36/62: @Tool (“7empest”) is going for their third win in Best Metal Performance, which would be the second-most all-time behind @Metallica’s six.

@Tool @Metallica 37/62: @KirkFranklin (Love Theory) is going for his 4th win in Best Gospel Performance/Song. This is only the 6th year of the category in its current structure.

38/62: @BernieHerms, @EmilyWeisband, @JoelSmallbone, and @LukeSmallbone each have a chance to become the first songwriters to win Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song multiple times.

39/62: @EthanHulse joins Ben Glover (2015, 2019) and @MattMaherMusic (2016) as the only songwriters nominated multiple times in one year for Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song.

40/62: @KirkFranklin (Long Live Love) is going for his 3rd win in Best Gospel Album. No one else has more than one.

41/62: @CeCeWinans (Something's Happening! - A Christmas Album) is going for her 2nd win in Best Gospel Album, which would tie @KirkFranklin (who’s also nominated this year) for the top spot.

42/62: William Murphy and @KirkFranklin both achieved their third nominations for Best Gospel Album this year, tying Anita Wilson for the most all-time.

43/62: @TobyMac is going for his third win for Best Contemporary Christian Music Album. No one else has more than one.

44/62: @4KingAndCountry and @ChrisTomlin could both tie @TobyMac (also nominated this year) as the only artists with two wins for Best Contemporary Christian Music Album.

45/62: @RhiannonGiddens becomes the third artist with multiple nominations in the five-year-old category of Best American Roots Performance. The other two are @BlindBoys of Alabama and @AlisonKrauss.

46/62: @RosanneCash / John Leventhal (“Crossing to Jerusalem”) or Vince Gill (@VGCom, “I Don’t Wanna Ride the Rails No More”) could join @JasonIsbell as the only people with two #Grammys for Best American Roots Song.

@rosannecash @VGcom @JasonIsbell 47/62: @BobbyRushBlues and @JimmieVaughan are vying to becoming the sixth artist with multiple wins for Best Traditional Blues Album. Others:
-B.B. King (10)
-John Lee Hooker (3)
-@TheRealBuddyGuy (2)
-@EricClapton (2)
-Pinetop Perkins (2)

48/62: Patty Griffin’s (@PattyGMusic) self-titled album is the second self-titled album to be nominated for Best Folk Album. The first was Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn (@BelaFleckBanjo and @AbigailWashburn), which won the category in 2016.

49/62: New Orleans brass band @RebirthBB could join Hawaiian singer-songwriter @KalaniPeaMusic as the only multi-time winners of Best Regional Roots Music Album.

50/62: Northern Cree is the first person or group to have three career nominations for Best Regional Roots Music Album at the #Grammys.

51/62: @CasparBabypants’ “Flying High!” is the first album nominated for Best Children’s Album to include any form of the word “fly.”

52/62: This year, The Chemical Brothers (@ChemBros) tied @Madonna for the most nominations all-time for Best Dance Recording, with 5.

53/62: This is @Skrillex’s 4th nomination for Best Dance Recording. He won each of his first three nominations, making him the only person with more than two wins.

54/62: This is The Chemical Brothers’ (@ChemBros) 6th nomination for Best Dance/Electronic Album, twice as many as any other group. They’re going for their 3rd win, which would tie @Skrillex for the lead.

55/62: @FlumeMusic is up for his second Grammy for Best Dance/Electronic Album, which would tie The Chemical Brothers (@ChemBros) and Daft Punk for second place, one behind @Skrillex.

@flumemusic @ChemBros @Skrillex 56/62: Best Improvised Jazz Solo features a couple last names familiar to the category: Branford Marsalis’ (@BMarsalis) brother is three-time winner @WyntonMarsalis, and @RandyBrecker’s brother was six-time winner Michael Brecker.

57/62: This is @MiguelZenon’s 5th nomination for Best Latin Jazz Album, establishing a new record for most nominations in this category without a win.

58/62: @YujaWang receives her third nomination for Best Classical Instrumental Solo, tying @Daniil_Trifonov for the most all-time.

59/62: This is Jennifer Higdon’s 4th nomination for Best Classical Contemporary Composition, a new record. She is going for her 3rd win, which would tie Samuel Barber, John Coolidge Adams, and John Corigliano for the most all-time.

60/62: @AngeliqueKidjo is going for her third win for Best World Music Album, which would break a four-way tie with @TheRealMambazo, Ravi Shankar, and Ry Cooder.

61/62: The Grammy Awards date of January 26 is tied for the earliest in the calendar year that the Grammys have ever occurred. The 56th Grammys were held on 1/26/14, when Get Lucky won Record of the Year and Royals won Song of the Year.

62/62: That concludes my 62-part trivia thread on the 62nd Grammy Awards. Want more trivia? Follow @BensOscarMath throughout awards season!