She made the whole place shimmer.
Taylor Swift has officially become the first-ever artist to win four Album of the Year awards after her historic win during the 2024 Grammy Awards on Sunday for “Midnights.”
“I would love to tell you that this is the best moment in my life,” a stunned Swift, 34, told the screaming audience during the ceremony, held at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.
“But I feel this happy when I finished a song or when I cracked the code to a bridge that I love or when I’m shot-listing a music video, or when I’m rehearsing with my dancers or my band or getting ready to go to Tokyo to play a show.”
“For me,” the “Karma” singer continued, “the award is the work. All I want to do is keep being able to do this. I love it so much. It makes me so happy. It makes me unbelievably blown away that it makes some people happy who voted for this award too.
“Thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to do what I love so much,” the “Lavender Haze” singer concluded before adding “Mind-blown.”
Swift, who was nominated a whopping six times this year including for Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance, has broken the three-way stalemate between Frank Sinatra, Paul Simon and Stevie Wonder, each of whom only won three of the coveted gramophones.
The “Cruel Summer” singer, who attended the award ceremony without her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, began her Album of the Year journey in 2009 when she won the award for her second album, “Fearless,” beating out several top-tier competitors.
The album, the first of her discography to be re-recorded, also picked up the award for Best Country Album that year.
The songstress, 34, famously lost the Album of the Year award in 2014 because some objected that “Red” straddled the line between country and pop and was not a cohesive album.
In the “You Belong With Me” singer’s documentary “Miss Americana,” the singer said the loss prompted her to focus more on the “pop” side of the industry, thus paving the way for her comeback album, “1989.”
Swift’s dedication to reinvention paid off after she went for gold again in 2016 with her pop album “1989” and secured a win for the music video of “Bad Blood,” featuring rapper Kendrick Lamar.
Shockingly, Swift’s album “Reputation,” released in 2018, received only one nomination for Pop Vocal album, which ended up going to “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?” by Billie Eilish.
Despite having several hits in her first post-Scooter Braun album “Lover,” the “Shake It Off” songstress only secured a handful of nominations for the 2019 album.
Returning to the Grammys in 2021 with her COVID-19 album “Folklore,” the Pennsylvania native received three nominations, including Album of the Year — which she won.
