Grammy Award

Gramophone
Current: 66th Annual Grammy Awards
2003 Technical Grammy Award
Awarded for	Outstanding achievements in the music industry
Country	United States
Presented by	The Recording Academy
First awarded	May 4, 1959; 65 years ago (1959-05-04) (as Gramophone Award)
Website	grammy.com
Television/radio coverage
Network	NBC (1959–1970) ABC (1971–1972) CBS (1973–present)

The Grammy Awards (first named the Gramophone Awards and often called just Grammys), are awards given yearly by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding work in the music and spoken recording industry. The Grammys have 128 categories with 16 genres. The Grammys are awarded once each year and are a major televised event. The award show has its shares of criticism as being biased.

The name "Grammy" comes from the word "gramophone". A gramophone was an old machine that played music on records.^[1]

The British equivalent is the Brit Awards. The Canadian equivalent is the Juno Awards.

Georg Solti has won 31 Grammy Awards, more than any other person.^[2]

• Album of the Year
• Record of the Year
• Song of the Year
• Best New Artist

• Official site

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