Grammys 2026 live updates: All the award wins as Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Bruno Mars, Sabrina Carpenter perform
1m ago / 11:48 PM EST
These artists became first-time Grammy winners
Tonight's show gave a number of winners their first-ever Grammy Awards, including Jelly Roll, who won in three categories, and Kehlani, who won two awards.
Olivia Dean and Lola Young also became first-time Grammy winners with one award apiece.
9m ago / 11:40 PM EST
And that's a wrap
The Grammy Awards typically go well past their allotted 3½ hours. But tonight, the show concluded just six minutes late.
Nice work, Trevor Noah and co.
9m ago / 11:39 PM EST
The biggest winners at tonight's Grammys
Here's who won big at the 68th Grammy Awards:
- Kendrick Lamar: 5
- Jelly Roll: 3
- Lady Gaga: 3
- Bad Bunny: 3
- Kehlani: 2
- Leon Thomas: 2
10m ago / 11:39 PM EST
Bad Bunny dedicates his award to those who left their country to 'follow their dreams'
Bad Bunny was emotional as he headed to the stage to accept the album of the year award.
“I want to dedicate this award to all the people that had to leave their homeland, their country, to follow their dreams,” he said in his acceptance speech.
“DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS” is the first Spanish-language album to win in the category since the Grammys began 68 years ago.
The Puerto Rican artist, who won three Grammys tonight, will headline next weekend's Super Bowl halftime show.
16m ago / 11:33 PM EST
Album of the year winner
"DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS," Bad Bunny
17m ago / 11:32 PM EST
There you are, Harry Styles
Just days after many of his fans failed to score tickets to his 2026 tour (which is hitting only seven cities), Harry Styles appeared at the Grammys to present the final award of the night: album of the year.
In 2023, he won in the coveted category. The One Direction alum released his new single, "Aperture," last month, his first song in nearly three years.
The song "Where is my husband!" by Raye played as he walked onstage.
"A truly great album can change the way you see everything; an artist can take you on a journey as you discover the world together," he said before announcing the nominees.
22m ago / 11:27 PM EST
Clipse and Pharrell Williams wrap up final performance of the night
Fake snow (this is L.A., after all) rained onstage as Clipse and Pharrell Williams sang "So Far Ahead" with the gospel choir Voices of Fire.
It was the final performance of the evening.
25m ago / 11:24 PM EST
We're in the homestrech
We have the rest of this Clipse, Pharrell Williams and Voices of Fire performance, and one award to go.
But there are only six minutes left on the Grammys clock. Will we make it out in time?
27m ago / 11:22 PM EST
Ariana Grande celebrates Grammy win in Instagram story
"Wicked" star Ariana Grande, who was noticeably absent from this year's ceremony, responded to her win with Cynthia Erivo for best pop duo/group performance for "Defying Gravity."
On Instagram she wrote: "this is so special ... congratulations to the incredible @cynthiaerivo. I love you & am so grateful to share this"
The Grammy win comes following a complete shutout at the Oscars for the sequel to the popular musical "Wicked: For Good."
28m ago / 11:20 PM EST
Cher got a little confused onstage
The music icon was called back to the stage by host Trevor Noah to present the Grammy for record of the year.
But then, while she was announcing the winner, she had a little mishap before she said the right name.
Despite the confusion, Cher fans know our icon can do no wrong. It looked like the winners onstage, including Kendrick Lamar and SZA, were fine with it, too.
Later, as the winners left the stage, Noah joked, "I love live television."
32m ago / 11:17 PM EST
Record of the year winner
"luther," Kendrick Lamar With SZA. Jack Antonoff, Scott Bridgeway, M-Tech, roselilah, Sounwave & Kamasi Washington, producers; Jack Antonoff, Ray Charles Brown Jr., Hector Castro, Oli Jacobs, Jack Manning, Sean Matsukawa, Dani Perez, Tony Shepperd, Laura Sisk & Johnathan Turner, engineers/mixers; Ruairi O’Flaherty, mastering engineer
32m ago / 11:17 PM EST
A fitting tribute to lost legends
The Grammys ceremony paid full respect to the artists we lost in the past year, with members of Guns N’ Roses and the Red Hot Chili Peppers joining Post Malone in a blistering tribute to Ozzy Osbourne and the rarely-seen-nowadays Lauryn Hill leading an emotional, polished, gospel-style tribute to D’Angelo and Roberta Flack.
As my colleague Nicole Acevedo notes, it might well have been the best In Memoriam segment an awards show has ever produced.
After Reba McEntire — performing at the Grammys for the first time in her decadeslong career — honored lost luminaries with her newest single, “Trailblazer,” the segment moved into extended remembrances of Osbourne and Flack. Rather than run through a medley, Duff McKagan, Alex Watt, Chad Smith, Slash and Malone powered through a full performance of “War Pigs,” the anti-war anthem from Osbourne’s second album with Black Sabbath.
Then came a deft transition to first D’Angelo and then Flack, in a meticulously produced medley of hits: Hill leading her duet with D’Angelo, “Nothing Even Matters,” followed by Lucky Daye performing “Brown Sugar.” Raphael Saadiq and Anthony Hamilton performed "Lady," and Leon Thomas did “Devil’s Pie.” That segment ended with Transition and Vanguard BGVS doing “Another Life,” Bilal singing the officially untitled song known as “How Does It Feel” and Jon Batiste tying things together with “Africa.”
The transition to Flack was seamless: Hill, showing up in full voice and charisma, and Batiste performed “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” Batiste and Leon Bridges did “Compared to What,” Lalah Hathaway and October London performed “The Closer I Get to You” and John Legend and Chaka Khan did “Where Is the Love.”
The tribute ended with “Feel Like Makin’ Love,” and Hill was joined by Wyclef Jean for Flack’s immortal “Killing Me Softly with His Song,” brought to a rousing end in a gospel-drenched performance by the entire ensemble.
34m ago / 11:15 PM EST
Cher says 'never give up on your dream no matter what happens'
The iconic artist, wearing all black, took the stage to accept a special lifetime achievement award.
Cher said she knew what she wanted to be when she was 5 years old, and she was famous by 19. But her career had many highs and lows.
"I kind of thought I had it made. It didn't occur to me how rough my career was going to be and my life was going to be," she said. "I'm not saying. 'Oh, poor me' ... but I really was on the top or the bottom; I was either a loser or winning an Oscar."
She joked that in the early ’80s, "it got so bad" that she had to go to Las Vegas or "the Elephant Graveyard back in those days." After she recorded "Believe," her fate changed again.
"The only thing I really want you to take away with you ... never give up on your dreams, no matter what happens."
40m ago / 11:09 PM EST
That may have been the best In Memoriam performance ever
Who wasn't clapping in their living room to the Fugees version of "Killing Me Softly" as part of their Roberta Flack tribute?
The medley that started with Reba McEntire singing, moving over to a rock 'n' roll tribute to Ozzy Osbourne by Post Malone, Chad Smith, Duff McKagan, Slash and Andrew Watt and finishing off with Lauryn Hill leading a soulful tribute to D'Angelo and Flack that was by far best memoriam in Grammy history.
Or at least that's what the NBC News Grammys live blogging crew thinks.
47m ago / 11:02 PM EST
John Legend and Lalah Hathaway join In Memoriam tribute to Roberta Flack
After honoring D’Angelo, Lauryn Hill launched into a tribute to singer and pianist Roberta Flack, kicking off with “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.” Lalah Hathaway and John Legend joined in for “The Closer I Get to You” and “Feel Like Makin’ Love.”
Flack, known for her genre-melding ballads, died last year at 88, a few years after announcing her diagnosis of Lou Gehrig’s disease.
52m ago / 10:57 PM EST
Lauryn Hill opens tribute performance in honor of D’Angelo
Hill began singing “Nothing Even Matters” before she was joined by Lucky Daye to perform “Brown Sugar.”
Raphael Saadiq & Anthony Hamilton, Leon Thomas, Bilal and Jon Batiste then joined Hill to perfom a medley of “Lady,” “Devils Pie,” “Another Life,” “Untitled (How Does It Feel)” and “Africa.”
D’Angelo, a Grammy-winning R&B and soul star, died at age 51 in October after his pancreatic cancer diagnosis. He and Hill are among the artists credited with helping popularize neo-soul — a genre of modern R&B and soul flavored with hip-hop, funk, rock and other influences.
58m ago / 10:51 PM EST
Ozzy Osbourne honored during In Memoriam tribute
Post Malone — along with Andrew Watt, Chad Smith, Duff McKagan and Slash — performed a tribute to Ozzy Osbourne, performing “War Pigs” by Black Sabbath to honor the iconic heavy metal band’s late vocalist.
Osbourne died in July at age 76, just weeks after he had reunited with his original Black Sabbath bandmates Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward for a final show.
2h ago / 10:44 PM EST
Reba McEntire makes Grammys performance debut for In Memoriam segment
Believe it or not, tonight was Reba McEntire’s first time performing at the awards show, according to host Trevor Noah. McEntire, whose career has spanned decades, has won three Grammys.
