Grammys 2024: the winners, best moments and performances - live

Miley Cyrus claimed the first award of the evening – best pop solo performance – for Flowers, arguably the biggest hit of her career to date and one of the most pervasive tracks of 2023. She notes the rain-soaked traffic – apparently she feared she would miss the show – and goes into a belabored story about a butterfly landing on a boy’s nose that is the meaning of the song to her, or something.

Trevor Noah is back and on hosting duty, playing music industry hype man for the fourth year in a row and shouting out a who’s who of attendees: Meryl Streep (running late to her seat next to Mark Ronson), 21 Savage, SZA (not here yet?) Billie Eilish, Doja Cat (now wearing a trucker hat) and Olivia Rodrigo. “I can’t wait to see what you rhyme ‘bloodsucker’ with on national TV,” Noah mused about her upcoming performance of Vampire.

Noah also noted the female-dominated Grammys this year – “Can we acknowledge for a second how women have dominated music this year?”he said, as seven of the eight album of the year nominees are women.

And he acknowledged the perpetual elephant in the room: Taylor Swift, who took her seat as Noah said her name. “As Taylor moves through the room, the local economy around those tables improves,” he joked, adding that to get back at the NFL for banking on Swift’s appearances at games, he would only cut to former football players when her name is mentioned (sorry to Terry Crews).

“my job is to keep the good vibes going tonight,” he concluded. We’ll see!

And we’re off! Host Trevor Noah acknowledged the rain in LA and then went straight to concert mode. He summarily passed the baton to a leather strap-clad Dua Lipa, who kicked off the night with a sturdy medley of Training Season, Dance the Night and Houdini in a hall of mirrors and on some intense scaffolding.

Never one to play it safe, Doja Cat – a performer and three-time nominee tonight – rocks what I presume to be (some) fake tattoos, glasses and a…purposefully very revealing bustier.

A strange and developing situation – rapper Killer Mike, a three-time winner in the pre-telecast awards, appears to have been handcuffed and escorted out of show by police.

Variety has reached out to the LAPD and Killer Mike’s team, who have yet to comment. Killer Mike already won tonight for best rap song and best rap performance for Scientists & Engineers and best rap album for Michael.

The Grammys is usually more of a star-studded concert than an awards show, and as such, the bulk of the night’s awards have already been handed out. The pre-telecast winners include Joni Mitchell for best folk album, Dave Chappelle for best comedy album, boygenius for best alternative album and Billie Eilish for best song written for visual media (for Barbie, of course).

Interestingly, the Grammys introduced three new categories this year – pop dance recording, African music performance and alternative jazz album – yet kept all of them off the telecast. The inaugural winners were Kylie Minogue (Padam Padam), Tyla (Water) and Meshell Ndegeocello, respectively.

Here’s our partial list of winners, with the full list over at the Grammys website:

In what will certainly be one of the more divisive outfits of the evening, Miley Cyrus is channeling…something with this chain-metal look (including metal panties) from Maison Margiela. Cleopatra? The 70s? The 80s? It’s, um, up for interpretation.

Former Grammys best new artist Olivia Rodrigo looks sleek and sophisticated in a vintage Versace gown from 1995 – which means the dress is older than she is, as the E! fashion team made sure to point out. The 20-year-old (!) is up for six awards for her sophomore album Guts and hit single Vampire.

Despite speculation, both the Globes and Emmys red carpets lacked any form of visible political statement. So far tonight, boygenius have arrived wearing pins asking for a ceasefire but it remains to be seen if other artists will follow. Stay tuned:

Intense, strong and dance-y

It’s a big night for Victoria Monét, one of the most-nominated artists of the evening with seven noms – including for best new artist – wearing a custom brown Versace corset gown.