Most Grammys

Most Grammys in a lifetime
The record for the most Grammy Awards in a lifetime is held by Sir Georg Solti, a Hungarian-British conductor who conducted the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for twenty-two years. He personally won 31 Grammys and is listed for 38 Grammys (6 went to the engineer and 1 to a soloist); he was nominated an additional 74 times before his death in 1997.
In second place is Quincy Jones who has won a total of 27 awards. Alison Krauss is in third place having won a total of 26 awards.
Most Grammy Awards for consecutive albums
Pat Metheny and the Pat Metheny Group have won 17 Grammy Awards in total, including seven consecutive awards for seven consecutive albums.Metheny held the record for Grammy wins in the most different categories as of the 2005 Grammy Awards:
* Best Jazz Fusion Performance (1983, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1990)
* Best Instrumental Composition (1991)
* Best Contemporary Jazz Performance/Album (1993, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2003, 2005)
* Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual or Group (1998, 2000)
* Best Rock Instrumental Performance (1999)
* Best Jazz Instrumental Solo (2001)
Most Consecutive Grammy Awards for the same category
Jimmy Sturr has won 18 Grammy Awards in total, all for Best Polka Album, including three runs of four consecutive years (1995-1998, 2000-2003, and 2005-2008) and one run of 6 consecutive years (1986-1991). He has won 18 out of the 24 Best Polka Album Grammys that have been awarded since that category was added in 1985.
Most consecutive performances on albums that won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year
Session drummer Hal Blaine played on six consecutive records that won Record of the Year:
* 1966 Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass - "A Taste of Honey"
* 1967 Frank Sinatra - "Strangers in the Night"
* 1968 5th Dimension - "Up, Up and Away"
* 1969 Simon & Garfunkel - "Mrs. Robinson"
* 1970 5th Dimension - "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In"
* 1971 Simon & Garfunkel - "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
Most Grammy Awards as a male solo artist
Stevie Wonder has won a total of 21 Grammies.[citation needed] This does not include a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, which he has also received.
Most Grammy Awards as a female solo artist
Alison Krauss, as a solo artist, collaborator, producer and with Union Station has won 26 Grammy Awards.
Most wins of the Grammy for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance
Lenny Kravitz has won the Best Male Rock Vocal Performance award 4 times consecutively (1999, 2000, 2001, 2002) while being nominated a further multiple times in the mentioned category.
Most Grammy Awards as a group
U2 have won 22 Grammy Awards in their career, more than any other recording group or band.
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has won 60 Grammy awards.

Most wins of the Grammy for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance
Aretha Franklin has won the Best Female R&B Vocal Performance Grammy a record 18 times, 8 of them consecutively.
Youngest winner
LeAnn Rimes is the youngest person to win a Grammy, at 14 years old.She was also the first country artist to win the Best New Artist Grammy.
Single ceremony
Most Grammys won by a group in one night
In 2006, U2 won awards in all 5 categories it was nominated in: Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, Best Rock Song, Best Rock Album, Album of the Year, and Song of the Year. The Dixie Chicks swept the 2007 Grammys, winning 5 awards: Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Country Album, Album of the Year, and Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.
Most Grammys won by a record producer in one night

The most Grammys won by a record producer in one night is five. At the 49th Annual Grammy Awards in 2007 Rick Rubin won Record of the Year, Album of the Year and Best Country Album for the Dixie Chicks. He was awarded best Rock Album for the Red Hot Chili Peppers and he also won Producer of the Year, Non Classical.

Most Grammys won by a male solo artist in one night
The most Grammys won by a male solo artist in one night is eight, which has been accomplished by Michael Jackson in 1984 and Carlos Santana in 2000.This is also the most awards won by any artist in one year.
Most Grammys won by a female solo artist in one night
The most Grammys won by a female solo artist in one night is five, which has been accomplished by Six different artists: Lauryn Hill in 1999, Alicia Keys in 2002, Norah Jones in 2003, Beyoncé in 2004, Amy Winehouse in 2008, Alison Krauss in 2009. However, Beyoncé is the only one to do this without winning one of the four major awards.
Artists to have won the "Big Four" Grammy Awards at a single ceremony
Christopher Cross (1981) is the only artist to receive the "Big Four." He won the Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist Grammys in a single ceremony.
It is often incorrectly reported that Norah Jones won the "Big Four" in 2003 (45th Grammy Awards). She was named Best New Artist, her album Come Away with Me was Album of the Year, and "Don't Know Why", from the aforementioned album, was Record of the Year and Song of the Year. However, Jones is not the official recipient of the Song of the Year Award because the award is credited to the original composer. "Don't Know Why" was written by Jesse Harris.
Nominations
* Quincy Jones holds the record for the most Grammy nominations with 79.
* Brian McKnight holds the record for most Grammy nominations without winning, with sixteen.
* Billy Gilman is the youngest person ever to be nominated for a Grammy. In 2001 he was nominated for Best Male Country Vocal Performance, losing out to Johnny Cash.Gilman was 12 years, 273 days old when he earned the nomination.
* Béla Fleck has been nominated in more categories than any other musician, namely country, pop, jazz, bluegrass, classical, folk, and spoken word, as well as composition and arranging.