- There have been 67 album of the year winners since the first Grammys ceremony in 1959.
- Taylor Swift made history in 2024 as the first person to win album of the year four times.
- Beyoncé took home the night’s top prize for the first time in her career at the 2025 Grammys.
Every nominee at the Grammy Awards hopes to clinch the top prize of the night: album of the year.
The coveted prize has previously gone to Hollywood icons like Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand, and The Beatles, and is always the last award of the night to be announced.
At the 67th Annual Grammy Awards, which was held on Sunday in Los Angeles, Beyoncé won for her album “Cowboy Carter.” It marked Beyoncé’s first win in the category, despite being the most nominated and most decorated Grammy winner of all time.
In 2024, Taylor Swift took the prize and made history as the first person to win album of the year four times. She previously tied with Stevie Wonder, Frank Sinatra, and Paul Simon, who all hold three album of the year wins.
There was strong competition in the category this year. Grammy darlings Swift, Billie Eilish, and Beyoncé, as well as pop superstars Sabrina Carpenter and Charli XCX, whose hit songs “Espresso” and “360” dominated pop culture this summer, were all nominated. Another nominee, Chappell Roan, has had a standout year, with six Grammy nominations to show for it.
Rounding out the category was the multi-talented André 3000 and Jacob Collier, whom BI’s Callie Ahlgrim called “dark horses in a pop-heavy album of the year contest.”
Here’s every winner of album of the year throughout history.
