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The first Grammy Awards ceremony was held on the 4th of May, 1959, simultaneously at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, and the Park Sheraton Hotel in New York City, with 28 awards presented. The awards honored musical achievements from the year 1958.
Beyonce holds the record for the most Grammy wins by any individual artist, with 35 Grammy Awards. U2 holds the record for most wins by a group, with 22 Grammy Awards.
Grammy trophies are made and assembled by hand at Billings Artworks in Ridgway, Colorado. The trophies are made from Grammium, a proprietary zinc alloy trademarked by Billings, and are gold-plated to depict a gilded gramophone.
The name Grammy came from a mail-in contest, with the earliest winning postmark submitted by Jay Danna of New Orleans, Louisiana. The name is an abbreviated reference to the gramophone, the audio device invented by Emile Berliner. An earlier working title for the award was the "Eddie", in honor of Thomas Edison.
Three artists have won all four General Field awards: Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist. Christopher Cross won all four in 1981, and Billie Eilish won all four in 2020, becoming the youngest artist to do so at age 18. Adele collected her four wins across three separate ceremonies in 2009, 2012, and 2017.
The Recording Academy announced on the 30th of October, 2024, that the Grammy Awards would move from CBS to ABC, Disney+, and Hulu under a ten-year deal with the Walt Disney Company. The 2027 ceremony will mark the first Grammy broadcast on ABC since 1972, after more than five decades on CBS.