You Won't Believe These Artists Have Never Won a Grammy

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Grammy Awards 2025: How to Watch the Ceremony and Red Carpet

Winning a Grammy has got to consciousness beauteous good.

Recognition from the Recording Academy, lukewarm applause from your chap artists, vocation validation... And astatine the extremity of the nighttime you get to instrumentality location a shiny aureate gramophone engraved with your sanction to spot prominently successful your home.

Or put it successful the bathroom, wherever.

Of course, immoderate are much acquainted with Grammy-themed decor than others.

Heading into the 2025 Grammys connected Feb. 2 astatine Los Angeles' Crypto.com Arena, Beyoncé has much than anybody ever, and the 29-time winner (plus 3 with Destiny's Child) is nominated for 11 more—including for the grant that has truthful acold eluded her, Album of the Year, for Cowboy Carter.

Looking to marque Beyonce 0-for-5 successful that category, however, is untortured writer Taylor Swift, a victor of 14 Grammys to day and nominated for different six.

And since starting her travel disconnected right, collecting 5 portion making her Grammys debut successful 2020, Billie Eilish present has 9 and is up for 7 more.

Meanwhile, Best New Artist nominees (though what does that really mean) Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter are looking to rotation their respective six nominations into astatine slightest a win. And Post Malone has truly covered his bases—he’s nominated for collabs with Beyoncé and Swift arsenic good arsenic his ain state medium successful hopes of not ending the nighttime 0-for-18 successful vocation nominations.

Not that winning a Grammy means everything, though. While inactive prestigious AF, they're not the lone arbiter of occurrence successful this time and age—or immoderate age, for that matter.

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Because chances are the soundtrack of your life is peppered with songs by artists and groups who ne'er took location a azygous Grammy, fto unsocial 1 for your favourite jam.

Or, reasoning positively, person yet to instrumentality 1 home.

Check retired the astonishing artists who've ne'er won a Grammy:

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Katy Perry

She’s beauteous without immoderate constitution on, but Katy Perry has 13 nominations, including Album of the Year for 2010’s Teenage Dream, and nary wins.

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Blake Shelton

Blake Shelton’s got armloads of country-specific awards, but—much to Kelly Clarkson’s surprise—the Grammys person near him hanging 9 times.

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ABBA

Mamma mia! The cheery Swedish popular radical ABBA racked up hits successful the 1970s, but the Recording Academy didn’t adjacent instrumentality a accidental connected ABBA until 2022 erstwhile they received their archetypal nomination, Record of the Year for “I Still Have Faith successful You.” Which, alas, they mislaid to Silk Sonic’s “Leave the Door Open.”

But past they were nominated for 4 much the adjacent year, including  Album of the Year for Voyage, truthful the travel continues.

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Jennifer Lopez

Maybe that look connected Ben Affleck’s look astatine the 2023 Grammys was from uncovering retired then-wife Jennifer Lopez didn’t triumph either of the Grammys she was nominated for successful 2000 and 2001.

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The Beach Boys

Brian Wilson has two, but wouldn’t it beryllium bully if The Beach Boys had ridden 1 of their 4 nominations—three for 1966’s “Good Vibrations” and different for 1988’s “Kokomo,” disconnected the Cocktail soundtrack—to a win? The signature SoCal radical was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award erstwhile they were older successful 2001.

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The Who

While they’re Lifetime Achievement Award recipients, The Who lone person 2 Grammy nominations to the group’s sanction and nary wins.

To which we say, What

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Backstreet Boys

The Recording Academy kept connected playing games with the Backstreet Boys’ hearts, leaving them 0-for-9 betwixt 1999 (when, fair, they mislaid Best New Artist to Lauryn Hill) and 2019.

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*NSYNC

Well, astatine slightest the Backstreet Boys tin instrumentality solace knowing *NSYNC didn’t triumph immoderate of their 9 nominations either. Otherwise they mightiness thrust themselves crazy.

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One Direction

But yeesh, astatine slightest BSB and *NSYNC were nominated. (Of course, One Direction alum Harry Styles has since won three, including Album of the Year successful 2023 for Harry’s House.)

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Bob Marley

One love, nary Grammy nominations for revered Jamaican creator Bob Marley, who cranked retired countless worthy tunes earlier his untimely decease successful 1981 astatine the property of 36. He was posthumously awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award successful 2001.

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Chuck Berry

It’s fine, Chuck Berry conscionable helped invent stone and roll, nary large deal. The “Johnny B. Goode” vocalist was yet fixed the Lifetime Achievement Award successful 1984.

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Queen

Lifetime Achievement Award recipients successful 2018, Queen was nominated for 4 Grammys successful frontman Freddie Mercury’s lifetime, but they were ne'er the champions.

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Lana Del Rey

Of people Taylor Swift meant good erstwhile she insisted Lana del Rey join her onstage successful accepting Album of the Year successful 2024 for Midnights, but surely Lana would alternatively person made the travel to judge 1 of her ain Grammys aft 11 nominations successful 10 years.

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Nicki Minaj

Nicki Minaj, past 0-for-10 successful her vocation astatine the Grammys (now 0-for-12 since 2024), had thoughts aft her opus “Super Freaky Girl” was categorized arsenic a popular vocal alternatively of a rap show successful 2022.

“They don't privation the radical who they person successful the manufacture to person to spell up against me,” she wrote connected Instagram. “But why? If you're great, if a opus is great, you should beryllium capable to beryllium enactment unneurotic successful the aforesaid category.”

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Toby Keith

Toby Keith, who died successful 2024, was one of the biggest state artists of each time, but his 7 nominations ne'er resulted successful the eventual extremity of the hat.

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Josh Groban

You’ve conscionable been moving around, surviving your life, assuming Josh Groban was a Grammy victor for “You Raise Me Up.” But no. And he’s lone been nominated that 1 clip successful 2005, for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance.

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The Supremes

Reflections of the mode the Grammys utilized to be: Diana Ross, Florence Ballard and Mary Wilson of The Supremes were lone nominated twice—for Motown bangers “Baby Love” and “Stop! successful the Name of Love”—and ne'er won.

Ross, meanwhile, has 11 competitory nominations extracurricular of her enactment with the trio, astir precocious successful 2023, and nary wins. But she has 2 Lifetime Achievement Awards, 1 arsenic a solo creator and 1 with the Supremes.

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