Grammys 2024: Taylor Swift makes history by winning Best Album

On Sunday, Midnights also won best pop vocal album, but surprisingly Swift did not take home the award for song or record of the year.

Eilish's contribution to the Barbie movie soundtrack, What Was I Made For?, beat out Swift's Anti-Hero to win song of the year this time around. The paths of SZA, Cyrus, and Olivia Rodrigo were also in contention.

Accepting the award with her brother and co-writer Finneas, Eilish told the audience: “Everyone in this category – that was an insane list of amazing people, amazing artists, amazing music. I feel crazy right now.”

The tune also won Best Song Written for Visual Media, while Barbie's album – compiled by producer Mark Ronson – won Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media.

Elsewhere, Record of the Year went to Flowers by Cyrus, which also took home Best Pop Vocal Performance.

It was the star's first ever Grammy Award, a fact she noted in her performance when she changed one of the song's lyrics to: “I just won my first Grammy!”

In her first acceptance speech, she told the story of a boy whose failed attempts to catch a butterfly ended when it stopped swinging around the net and remained still.

“And when he did that, a butterfly came and landed on the tip of his nose. And this song, 'Flowers,' is my butterfly,” Cyrus said.

SZA led the nominations with nine awards, and finished with three.

She also performed at the concert, recreating the Crazy 88 fight scene from Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill to accompany her song of the same name., Which won the title of Best R&B Song.

She was joined by a phalanx of sword-wielding female dancers who quickly dispatched hordes of men in suits – a reference to her tune's comedic tale of her ex-husband's murder.

Described as “the biggest night in music,” the Grammy Awards are the industry's most prestigious awards.

Dua Lipa opened the ceremony with a medley of sports tunes including her contribution to Barbie's album Dance the Night, which also took home the award for Song of the Year.

Rodrigo, Eilish, Burna Boy and Travis Scott were among other performers, and stars such as Beyoncé, Doja Cat and Meryl Streep were in attendance.

But the emergence of two music legends overshadowed the younger stars.

Chapman has only performed in public a handful of times since semi-retirement in 2009, but she joined country singer Luke Combs, who had a smash hit with a cover of her song Fast Car last year.

Mitchell then gave a spine-tingling, spine-tingling performance of her classic “Both Sides Now” — her first Grammys performance at the age of 80.

The Canadian singer-songwriter was previously named best pop album for a live album that marks her return to the stage in 2022 after suffering a brain aneurysm.

This was one of several awards to be given out during the four-hour “first ceremony” on Sunday afternoon.

This previous concert also saw multiple wins for Boygenius, whose debut album The Record combines 70s California rock harmonies with lyrics about love and friendship.

Kylie Minogue has won her second ever Grammy Award – Best Pop Dance Recording for the viral hit Padam Padam – two decades after her first win.

South African singer Tila made history by winning the first ever award for Best African Performance.