The 2024 Grammy Awards topped its Best New Artist on Sunday, February 4, giving song fans one to wait for future years.

Victoria Monét won the distinction, which acknowledges an artist who has had a leap forward yr with a notable affect at the tune industry. Other nominees in the category integrated Gracie Abrams, Fred once more.., Ice Spice, Jelly Roll, Coco Jones, Noah Kahan, and The War and Treaty.

“Thank you to the champagne servers tonight, that’s my first thank you,” Monét, 34, joked throughout her speech prior to attending to her critical shout-outs. “Thank you to the Recording Academy vote casting participants, this is as a result of you guys. You pressed that button, you were for your emails, thank you so much.”

Monét additionally thanked her mom and devoted her award to the entire dreamers available in the market. She noted that the success was once a 15-year pursuit and compared her adventure to the growth of a plant. Monét defined that she started her occupation as an unbiased artist but didn’t find luck till her current manager discovered her demo and signed her to a different label.

Monét ended her speech by way of gushing about her fellow nominees.

“I’d love to thank all of the different nominees within the category because best is subjective, proper? … I feel we’re the entire best,” she shared. “When you look at what best means introspectively, I’d like to mention that is what rings true.”

The lineup was once stacked, with out a evident frontrunner within the field. Monét landed essentially the most overall nods of any artist in the category, with seven. In addition to Best New Artist, she was up for Record of the Year, Best R&B Performance, Best Traditional R&B Performance, Best R&B Song, Best R&B Album and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, making her the one act on the listing to receive a nomination in any other mainstream category. The simplest artist to obtain more nods than Monét at the 2024 rite used to be SZA, with nine.

“It appears like a long time coming,” Monét told Billboard in November 2023 of her Best New Artist nomination. “It’s the sort of nice validation of all the sacrifices, the exhausting work and the ‘no’s’ that I received.”

Jones followed Monét with four further nominations, together with Best R&B Performance, Best Traditional R&B Performance, Best R&B Song and Best R&B Album. Ice trailed with three extra nods for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance, Best Rap Song and Best Song Written for Visual Media. Fred used to be up for two further awards for Best Dance/Electronic Recording and Best Dance/Electronic Music Album.

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Jelly Roll and The War and Treaty each and every received one more nomination for Best Country Duo/Group Performance and Best American Roots Song, respectively.

While Kahan and Abrams both accomplished business luck up to now 12 months, they had been only recognized in the Best New Artist category.

Some of the most well liked acts in track historical past have received the accolade since it was first handed out in 1959. The Beatles, Bette Midler, Cyndi Lauper, Mariah Carey, Christina Aguilera, Alicia Keys, John Legend, Carrie Underwood, Adele, Sam Smith, Chance the Rapper and Dua Lipa are amongst those that took house the award in previous a long time. More just lately, Billie Eilish, Megan Thee Stallion, Olivia Rodrigo and Samara Joy won the dignity within the years between 2020 and 2023.

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