Four artists moved up the list based on their wins at the 2026 ceremony.
Kendrick Lamar accepts the Best Rap Album award for “GNX” onstage during the 68th GRAMMY Awards at Crypto.com Arena on February 01, 2026 in Los Angeles, California.
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At the 68th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday (Feb. 1), Kendrick Lamar set a new record as the rapper with the most career awards. He won four Grammys on the night, which upped his career Grammy total to 26. The old record was held by Jay-Z with 25 Grammys, followed by Ye with 24.
Lamar has made a fast climb through the Grammy ranks: He won his first Grammys in 2015. At that point, Jay and Ye had each won 21 Grammys.
At this year’s ceremony, Lamar won record of the year and best melodic rap performance, both for “Luther,” his megahit collab with SZA; best rap song as a co-writer of “tv off” and best rap performance as a featured artist on Clipse’s “Chains & Whips.”
Three other artists who had won 20 or more Grammys also added to their Grammy totals this year. The late jazz fusion pianist, composer, bandleader, Chick Corea won his 29th Grammy – best jazz performance for “Windows – Live,” a collab with Christian McBride and Brian Blade. Legendary composer John Williams won his 27th – best music film for Music By John Williams. And engineer Serban Ghenea won his 24th – as the mixer of Lady Gaga’s “Abracadabra,” which was voted best dance pop recording.
No artists broke into the 20+ Grammy club this year.
Here’s a complete list of everyone who has won 20 or more Grammys in competition. The years shown are the year of the awards ceremony (starting in 1971, the year of the first live telecast). At the end of each entry, we make note of any special merit awards these people have received from the Recording Academy. (Those awards are not included in the tally of competitive awards won.)
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Kirk Franklin, 20
Image Credit: Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images First win: The gospel singer, choir director and record producer won best contemporary soul gospel album for Whatcha Lookin’ 4 in 1997.
Most recent win: He won best gospel performance/song for “All Things” in 2024.
Most wins in one night: Franklin won three awards in 2023, including best gospel album for Kingdom Book One Deluxe.
Total nominations: 33
Note: Franklin, 56, has won more Grammys than any other gospel artist.
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Henry Mancini, 20
First wins: The late composer and conductor won two awards – album of the year and best arrangement, both for The Music From Peter Gunn – at the inaugural Grammys in 1959.
Most recent wins: Mancini won his last two Grammys in 1971, the year of the first live Grammy telecast.
Most wins in one night: In 1962, Mancini became the first person to win five awards in one night. His haul included record and song of the year and best arrangement, all for the gorgeous “Moon River.”
Total nominations: 72
Notes: Mancini died at age 70 in June 1994. He received a posthumous lifetime achievement award in 1995.
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Pat Metheny, 20
First win: In 1983, Pat Metheny Group’s Offramp won best jazz fusion performance, vocal or instrumental.
Most recent win: In 2013, Pat Metheny Unity Band’s Unity Band won best jazz instrumental album.
Most wins in one night: In 1999, he won two awards – best contemporary jazz performance for Imaginary Day and best rock instrumental performance for a track from that album.
Total nominations: 39
Notes: Metheny, 71, has won 16 of his 20 awards in jazz or jazz-fusion categories.
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Al Schmitt, 20
First win: In 1963, Schmitt won for engineering Henry Mancini’s Hatari soundtrack. (Schmitt would ultimately match that master composer in number of Grammys won.)
Most recent win: He won in 2014 as surround mix engineer on Paul McCartney’s Live Kisses, which won for best surround sound album.
Most wins in one night: In 2005, he won five prizes for his work on Ray Charles’ final studio album, Genius Loves Company.
Total nominations: 36
Notes: Schmitt won Grammys in six consecutive decades – something he has in common with one other winner. (Keep reading.) Schmitt received a trustees award (the equivalent of a lifetime achievement award for people who work mainly behind the scenes) in 2006. He died in April 2021 at age 91.
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Bruce Springsteen, 20
Image Credit: Larry Busacca/GI for NARAS First win: In 1985, after a decade of stardom, Springsteen finally won his first Grammy – best rock vocal performance, male for “Dancing in the Dark.”
Most recent win: In 2010, Springsteen won best solo rock vocal performance for “Working on a Dream.”
Most wins in one night: In 1995, Springsteen won four prizes, including song of the year, for the haunting “Streets of Philadelphia.”
Total nominations: 51
Notes: Springsteen, 76, has won more Grammys than any other rock solo artist.
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Vince Gill, 22
Image Credit: Frederick M. Brown/GI First win: In 1991, “When I Call Your Name” won best country vocal performance, male.
Most recent win: In 2021, “When My Amy Prays,” which Gill wrote about his wife Amy Grant, won best country solo performance.
Most wins in one night: Gill has never won more than two Grammys in any one year.
Total nominations: 48
Notes: Gill, 68, has won more Grammys than any other male country artist.
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U2, 22
First wins: In 1988, the Irish band won their first two Grammys – album of the year and best rock performance by a duo or group with vocal, both for The Joshua Tree.
Most recent wins: In 2006, they won five awards, again including album of the year for How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb.
Most wins in one night: That five-award sweep in 2006.
Total nominations: 46
Notes: U2 has won more Grammys than any other group or duo in history. They are the only group or duo to win album of the year twice. They are one of just three groups or duos to win record of the year twice. The others? The 5th Dimension and Simon & Garfunkel. U2 consists of Bono, 65; Adam Clayton, 65; The Edge, 64; and Larry Mullen Jr., 64.
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Serban Ghenea, 24
First win: In 2004, he won best pop vocal album as an engineer/mixer on Justin Timberlake’s Justified.
Most recent win: In 2026, he won best dance pop recording as the mixer on Lady Gaga’s “Abracadabra.”
Most wins in one night: In 2018, he swept five awards – four for his work on Bruno Mars’ 24K Magik; one for The Weeknd’s Starboy.
Total nominations: 56
Note: The Canadian engineer and mixer, who was born in Romania, has won more Grammys than any other engineer in Grammy history.
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Ye, 24
Image Credit: Kevin Winter/Getty Images First wins: In 2005, the rapper and provocateur, then known as Kanye West, won three Grammys, including best rap album for The College Dropout.
Most recent wins: In 2022, he won two awards – best rap song for “Jail,” his collab with Jay-Z, and best melodic rap performance for “Hurricane,” which featured The Weeknd and Lil Baby.
Most wins in one night: Ye swept four Grammys in both 2008 and 2012. Both of those hauls included best rap album — for Graduation and My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, respectively.
Total nominations: 76
Notes: Ye, 48, is in third place as the rapper with the most Grammys.
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Jay-Z, 25
First win: In 1999, Jay’s sophomore album, Vol. 2…Hard Knock Life, won best rap album.
Most recent win: In 2025, he won album of the year as a songwriter on wife Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter.
Most wins in one night: He won three awards in 2010, 2011 and 2013.
Total nominations: 89
Notes: Jay-Z, 56, is in second place as the rapper with the most Grammys.
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David Frost, 25
First win: In 2000, Frost won as one of two producers of Wynton Marsalis, Graham Greene & Kate Winslet’s Listen to the Storyteller, which was voted best spoken word album for children.
Most recent win: In 2024, he won three awards, including best opera recording as a producer of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus’ Blanchard: Champion.
Most wins in one night: In 2011, Frost won four awards, including best classical album and best choral performance, both for Verdi: Requiem.
Total nominations: 37
Notes: Frost has won producer of the year, classical a record-tying seven times. His father, Thomas Frost, won in that same category in 1987.
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Vladimir Horowitz, 25
First wins: In 1963, the Russian-born pianist won album of the year, classical and best classical performance – instrumental soloist or duo (without orchestra), both for Columbia Records Presents Vladimir Horowitz.
Most recent win: In 1993, he won a posthumous award for best classical performance – instrumental solo without orchestra for Horowitz – Discovered Treasures (Chopin, Liszt, Scarlatti, Scriabin, Clementi.
Most wins in one night: Horowitz never won more than two Grammys in one year.
Total nominations: 45
Notes: Horowitz was nominated at the inaugural Grammy Awards in 1959 for his album Horowitz Plays Chopin. He died in November 1989 at age 86. He received a posthumous lifetime achievement award in 1990.
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Stevie Wonder, 25
Image Credit: Bettmann/GI First wins: In 1974, Wonder won five Grammys, including album of the year for Innervisions.
Most recent win: In 2007, Wonder and Tony Bennett shared the prize for best pop collaboration with vocals for “For Once in My Life,” a song they had each recorded in the 1960s.
Most wins in one night: Wonder swept five awards in 1974, 1975 and 1977. (The photo here is from the 1975 awards, where Bette Midler presented him with album of the year for Fulfillingness’ First Finale.)
Total nominations: 75
Notes: Wonder, 75, is the only artist in Grammy history to win album of the year with three consecutive studio releases. He received a lifetime achievement award in 1996. He was just 45 at the time.
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Pierre Boulez, 26
First wins: The French composer, conductor and writer won two awards in 1968 – album of the year, classical and best opera recording, both for his work on Berg: Wozzeck.
Most recent win: In 2006, he won best small ensemble performance (with or without conductor) for Boulez: Le Marteau Sans Maître, Dérive 1 & 2.
Most wins in one night: He won three awards in 1994, including best classical album for Bartók: The Wooden Prince & Cantata Profana.
Total nominations: 67
Notes: Boulez received a lifetime achievement award in 2015. He died in January 2016 at age 90.
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Kendrick Lamar, 26
First wins: In 2015, he won best rap song and best rap performance for “I.”
Most recent wins: In 2026, he won four awards, including record of the year and best melodic rap performance, both for “Luther,” his collaboration with SZA.
Most wins in one night: In both 2016 and 2025, he won five Grammys in one night.
Total nominations: 66
Note: Lamar, 38, is the youngest member of the 20-plus Grammy club.
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John Williams, 27
First win: In 1976, he won best original score written for a motion picture or a television special for Jaws.
Most recent win: In 2026, he won best music film for Music by John Williams.
Most wins in one night: In both 1978 and 1983, Williams won three awards, for his work on the music for Star Wars and E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, respectively.
Total nominations: 77
Notes: Williams, 93, received a trustees award in 2018.
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Alison Krauss, 27
Image Credit: Kevork Djansezian/GI First win: In 1991, the title track from Krauss’ album I’ve Got That Old Feeling won best bluegrass recording.
Most recent win: In 2012, Krauss won best bluegrass album for Paper Airplane, recorded with Union Station.
Most wins in one night: Krauss won five awards in 2010 for Raising Sand, a smash collab with Robert Plant. The haul included album of the year and best contemporary folk/Americana album.
Total nominations: 46
Notes: Krauss, 54, has won slightly more than half of her 27 Grammys (14) with the ensemble Alison Krauss & Union Station.
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Quincy Jones, 28
First win: In 1964, Jones won best instrumental arrangement for his work on Count Basie’s version of the Ray Charles classic “I Can’t Stop Loving You.”
Most recent win: In 2019, Jones won best music film for Quincy.
Most wins in one night: In 1991, Jones won six prizes, including album of the year for Back on the Block.
Total nominations: 80
Notes: Jones won Grammys in six consecutive decades — a distinction he shares with Al Schmitt. Jones won a trustees award in 1989 and a Grammy legend award in 1991. He died in November 2024 at age 91.
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Chick Corea, 29
First win: In 1976, Corea and Return to Forever won best jazz performance by a group for No Mystery.
Most recent win: In 2026, Corea won his sixth posthumous Grammy — best jazz performance for “Windows (Live),” a collab with Christian McBride and Brian Blade.
Most wins in one night: Corea never won more than two awards in any one year.
Total nominations: 77
Notes: Corea died in February 2021 at age 79.
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Georg Solti, 31
Image Credit: Evening Standard/GI First win: The Hungarian-British orchestral and operatic conductor won best opera recording in 1963 for Verdi: Aida.
Most recent win: Solti won in that same category posthumously in 1998 for conducting Wagner: Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg.
Most wins in one night: Solti won four awards in 1984, including two for Mahler: Symphony No. 9 in D, which was voted best classical album and best orchestral recording. Solti was one of the night’s biggest winners, along with Michael Jackson, who took a record-setting eight awards, and Quincy Jones, who also won four. That was the highest-rated Grammy telecast in history, though, to be honest, the ratings probably had more to do with Jackson than Solti.
Total nominations: 74
Notes: Even though Solti lost his title as the person with the most Grammys, he remains the person born outside the U.S. with the most Grammys. Solti was born in Hungary. Solti received a trustees award in 1967 and a lifetime achievement award in 1996. He died in September 1997 at age 84.
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Beyoncé, 35
First wins: Beyoncé won her first two Grammys with Destiny’s Child in 2001 for “Say My Name.” The classic won best R&B song and best R&B performance by a duo or group with vocal.
Most recent wins: In 2025, she won three awards, including album of the year for Cowboy Carter.
Most wins in one night: In 2010, Beyoncé won six awards, including song of the year for “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It).”
Total nominations: A record-setting 99.
