Grammy, record-breaking Taylor Swift wins best album award for the fourth time

Taylor Swift makes history once again. After a string of firsts won in 2023, last night the singer became the first artist in the 66th Grammy Awards to win Best Album of the Year for the fourth time. With Midnights, which adds to the victories of Fearless (2010), 1989 (2016) and Folklore (2021), the billionaire pop star surpasses Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon and Frank Sinatra, who had stopped at three awards in this category, considered the most prestigious.

Dressed in a custom-made white Schiaparelli dress, she took the stage at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles so excited that she neglected to greet the special guest who had announced the award: Céline Dion. In a rare public appearance, the Canadian superstar, who suffers from a rare neurological disease, presented the final award of an evening dominated by women. Dion was moved to tears by the standing ovation that broke out as soon as she appeared to the notes of The Power of Love: "If I say I'm happy to be here, I say it from the bottom of my heart.

During the three-and-a-half hour ceremony presented by Trevor Noah, Swift also picked up the award for Best Pop Album of the Year, announced by U2 via a link-up from the Las Vegas Sphere. 'It's my 13th Grammy,' she began, lifting the golden gramophone. 13 is his lucky number and so the star took the opportunity to announce that the new album, Tortured Poets Department, will be released on 19 April. Two minutes after the announcement, the cover of the new LP was already all over her social profiles: a black and white photo of the singer and performer lying on an unmade bed. An hour later, the post already had more than six million likes on Instagram (and with European fans in bed) and on the singer's website there was a virtual queue of about 45 minutes to get a pre-sale copy.

The Recording Academy has voted Flowers by Miley Cyrus as the best record of the year, the accolade that evaluates the recording and production of a single. "Thank you. It won't change anything though. My life was fabulous yesterday too. Don't think it's not important, but thank you, have a good night!" the former Disney Channel's Hannah Montana - who also won for best pop solo performance - cut in. The Best Newcomer Artist of 2023, on the other hand, is the 1989 Atlanta, Georgia-born pop and R&B singer-songwriter Victoria Monét. Billie Eilish lifted the Grammy for Best Song with the piano ballad What Was I Made For?, written for the soundtrack of Barbie together with her brother Finneas. The 22-year-old artist dedicated the award to the team of the film that smashed the box office last summer. Above all, she nominated director Greta Gerwig and star Margot Robbie, who were excluded from the Oscar nominations. Tracy Chapman, who has been away from performances and concerts since 2009, moved the audience by picking up her guitar again and singing her 1988 hit Fast Car, together with Luke Combs, nominated for a cover of this song. Eyes also glazed over when another icon appeared on stage as Joni Mitchell. Seated on a throne of sorts, her hand clasped to her cane, the Big yellow taxi singer-songwriter performed one of her triumphs, Both Sides Now. Mitchell picked up the tenth Grammy of her life, but had never sung during the ceremony.