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The biggest night in music took place on Sunday, as the 2026 Grammy Awards were hosted for the sixth time by Trevor Noah at the Crypto.com Arena in LA. This marked the last year CBS will air the awards ceremony, as it moves to ABC in 2027.

Bad Bunny won the top award of the evening, taking home the album of the year prize for Debí Tirar Más Fotos. Harry Styles presented him with the award after he made history as the first Spanish-language album of the year winner.

“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.

Bad Bunny also won the Grammy for best música urbana album. As soon as he took to the stage to accept that award, he said, “ICE OUT. We’re not savages, we’re not animals, we are humans and we are Americans.”

The Debí Tirar Más Fotos musician continued, saying, “The hate gets more powerful with more hate. The only thing that is more powerful than hate is love. So please, we need to be different. If we fight, we have to do it with love.”

The Recording Academy spread the love this year, with awards going to many different artists during the ceremony. Lady Gaga won best pop vocal album for Mayhem, while Lola Young pulled off an upset and took home the award for best pop solo performance for her song “Messy.” Young was so shocked that she ran onstage without having prepared a speech, and accidentally cursed on mic as she accepted her award.

Meanwhile, Billie Eilish won song of the year for her track “Wildflower” from the album Hit Me Hard and Soft. She took to the stage with her brother and collaborator FINNEAS, where she said in her acceptance speech, “No one is illegal on stolen land.”

Record of the year went to “luther” by Kendrick Lamar and SZA. Cher presented the award, mistakenly saying that it was won by Luther Vandross. When Lamar took the stage to accept the award, he made sure to thank Vandross. Earlier in the night Lamar also walked away with a win for best rap album for GNX.

As for performances, Bruno Mars started off the evening singing his nominated hit song “APT.” with ROSÉ. Later on in the show, he also performed his new smash hit “I Just Might.”

Despite going home empty-handed, Sabrina Carpenter gave an entertaining performance of her nominated song “Manchild.” Dressed as a pilot, she performed on a set that resembled an airport, with a full-size plane and all. She arrived to the stage on a moving luggage carousel and even took to an airport intercom midway through the song, telling the audience, “Hey Grammys, how ya doing? It’s your captain, Sabrina, speaking. If you came here tonight for a little validation, stand up and I want you to put your hands together!”

Olivia Dean lit up the stage to sing her hit “Man I Need” from The Art of Loving, before she won the award for best new artist. All of the other best new artist nominees also gave performances, including KATSEYE, The Marías, Addison Rae, sombr, Leon Thomas, Alex Warren and Young.

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Billie Eilish and Lola Young were among the winners at the 2026 Grammys.

Eilish won song of the year for “Wildflower,” and used her speech to criticize U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.

“No one is illegal on stolen land,” Eilish said.

Young took home best pop solo performance for “Messy.”

“I don’t have any speech prepared,” a surprised Young said as she took the stage. “Obviously I don’t, it’s messy, do you know what I mean?”

Young was also nominated for best new artist, and performed “Messy” as part of a medley featuring every one of the best new artist nominees, including sombr and The Marías. The best new artist award ultimately went to Oliva Dean.

The Grammys will air on ABC in 2027.

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The 68th annual Grammy Awards, hosted by Trevor Noah, aired live from the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on CBS Sunday, Feb. 1.

The 2027 Grammy Awards will air on ABC.

Here are the winners in the major categories announced during the broadcast:

Album of the year
Debí Tirar Más Fotos, Bad Bunny

Song of the year
“Wildflower,” Billie Eilish

Record of the year
“Luther,” Kendrick Lamar with SZA

Best new artist
Olivia Dean

Best rap album
GNX, Kendrick Lamar

Best música urbana album
Debí Tirar Más Fotos, Bad Bunny

Best contemporary country album
Beautifully Broken, Jelly Roll

Best pop vocal album
Mayhem, Lady Gaga

Best pop solo performance
“Messy,” Lola Young

Dr. Dre Global Impact Award
Pharrell Williams

See the rest of the winners here.

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The late Ozzy Osbourne was celebrated with a musical tribute at the 2026 Grammy Awards Sunday night.

During the in memoriam portion of the evening, Guns N’ Roses members Slash and Duff McKagan, Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith and producer Andrew Watt teamed up to perform the Black Sabbath classic “War Pigs,” with music star Post Malone handling the vocals.

Many of these artists had a connection to Ozzy, with Guns N’ Roses and Smith playing 2025’s Back to the Beginning concert, which took place two weeks before Ozzy’s death and marked his final live concert.

Watt produced Ozzy’s final two solo albums, 2020’s Ordinary Man and 2022’s Patient Number 9. Slash, McKagan, Smith and Malone also contributed to those albums. Ozzy also performed alongside Malone at the 2019 American Music Awards.

The Ozzy tribute wasn’t Watt’s only Grammy performance. Earlier in the evening he joined Lady Gaga for her performance of “Abracadabra,” which featured former Foo Fighters and current Nine Inch Nails drummer Josh Freese.

The 2026 Grammy Awards took place Sunday at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles and aired on CBS. The 2027 Grammy Awards will air on ABC.

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Megadeth is certainly going out with a bang.

The thrash veterans’ final album has debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200, giving Dave Mustaine and company their first-ever leader on the all-genre chart. The self-titled record moved a total of 73,000 equivalent album units, 69,000 of which were traditional album sales, marking Megadeth’s biggest sales week since releasing Risk in 1999.

“After 40 years of delivering Megadeth music, playing shows around the world, I have nothing but gratitude at this moment,” Mustaine says in a statement. “Finding out that our last Megadeth record is also our first #1 only further validates my will to go out on top.”

The album Megadeth includes a version of “Ride the Lightning,” originally by Mustaine’s former band, Metallica.

Along with releasing their final album, Megadeth plans to embark on a multiyear farewell tour. Dates so far include a North American run with Iron Maiden launching in August.

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The winners in the rock, alternative and metal categories for the 2026 Grammys were announced Sunday during the pre-show Premiere Ceremony. 

Yungblud‘s cover of Black Sabbath‘s “Changes,” which he performed at the 2025 Back to the Beginning concert, won best rock performance. Yungblud accepted the award alongside the late Ozzy Osbourne‘s widow, Sharon Osbourne.

Nine Inch Nails‘ “As Alive as You Need Me to Be,” which they recorded for the movie Tron: Ares, won best rock song.

Turnstile, who made history as the first artist to be nominated across the rock, alternative and metal categories in a single year, took home the prize for best rock album with NEVER ENOUGH and best metal performance with “BIRDS.”

Spiritbox performed their best metal performance-nominated song “Soft Spine” during the ceremony.

The Cure‘s “Alone” won best alternative music performance, while their album Songs of a Lost World won best alternative music album, marking their first-ever Grammy wins. The members could not accept the award in person due to attending the funeral for late bandmate Perry Bamonte, who died in December.

Tame Impala was also an early winner, earning best dance/electronic recording for “End of Summer.”

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Red Hot Chili Peppers have released a statement regarding the newly announced Netflix documentary, The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

The film, set to premiere on March 20, is said to focus on the early days of the Peppers, and specifically the artistic vision of original guitarist Hillel Slovak, who died in 1988. It includes interviews with RHCP frontman Anthony Kiedis and bassist Flea, as well as “others close to Slovak,” according to the doc’s description.

In a statement posted to the band’s Instagram, the “Californication” outfit stresses that the film is meant to be focused on Slovak, and it is not a Red Hot Chili Peppers project.

“About a year ago, we were asked to be interviewed for a documentary about Hillel Slovak,” the post reads. “He was a founding member of the group, a great guitarist, and friend. We agreed to be interviewed out of love and respect for Hillel and his memory.”

“However, this documentary is now being advertised as a Red Hot Chili Peppers documentary, which it is not,” the statement continues. “We had nothing to do with it creatively. We have yet to make a Red Hot Chili Peppers documentary.”

The band concludes, “The central subject of this current Netflix special is Hillel Slovak and we hope it sparks interest in him and his work.”

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The announcement that Foo Fighters would be performing in tribute to Mariah Carey at the MusiCares Person of the Year gala may have seemed like an odd pairing. Unless, of course, you know about Carey’s secret grunge album.

Back in 1995, an alt-rock record titled Someone’s Ugly Daughter was released by a band called Chick. While nobody knew it at the time, the album featured anonymous contributions by Carey, who later revealed her involvement in the project in her 2020 memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey. 

During the Person of the Year gala, which took place Friday in Los Angeles and honored Carey’s career achievements and philanthropic work, Foo Fighters finally brought songs from Someone’s Ugly Daughter to the live stage, including the tracks “Hermit” and “Love Is a Scam.”

For their performance, Dave Grohl and company were joined by Taylor Momsen of The Pretty Reckless on lead vocals. You can watch footage from the show via Momsen’s Instagram Stories.

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Who would’ve thought Mariah Carey‘s never-released grunge album would be part of her tribute at this year’s MusiCares Person of the Year gala?

At the Friday night event in Los Angeles artists from multiple genres lined up to pay tribute to Mimi, who was being honored not just for her musical achievements but for her philanthropy.  They sang songs from throughout her career, but most surprising were performances of songs from her secret 1995 album Someone’s Ugly Daughter, which she recorded under the name Chick.

According to Rolling Stone, those songs, including “Demented” and “Love Is a Scam,” were performed by Foo Fighters teaming with The Pretty Reckless singer Taylor Momsen, while Mariah smiled and sang along.

The night’s other performers included Jennifer Hudson doing “I Don’t Wanna Cry,” “My All” and “Vision of Love;” Laufey doing “It’s Like That;” Kesha singing “Obsessed;” Maggie Rogers singing “Honey;” Teddy Swims singing “Without You;” Charlie Puth and John Legend teaming for “I Still Believe” and “Hero,” and Adam Lambert performing “I Can’t Let Go.”

Other performers included Busta Rhymes, Billy Porter, Chanté Moore and Jermaine Dupri, while non-musical tributes were offered by SZA, Stevie Wonder, Babyface and Richard Marx.  The night ended with Jon Batiste leading an all-star singalong of “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” which Mariah joined as well.

According to People, in her acceptance speech, Mariah said, “Standing here tonight surrounded by so many friendly and familiar faces — people I’ve worked with, people I’ve long admired, and even people I thought I’d never see again — [there’s] so much love, so much music, it’s overwhelming in the best possible way. It really is unbelievable.”

“Receiving this honor is one of the most profound moments of my life and career, and that’s kind of a big deal,” she added.

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