In honor of the 57th Grammy Awards, here are 57 artists that somehow never got honored…
1. Bob Marley
2. Tupac Shakur
3. The Doors
4. Queen
5. Jimi Hendrix
6. Curtis Mayfield
7. The Who
8. Snoop Dogg
9. Björk
10. Chuck Berry
11. The Grateful Dead
12. Diana Ross
13. Nas
14. ZZ Top
15. Queens of the Stone Age
16. Katy Perry
17. One Direction
18. PSY
19. Justin Bieber
20. Janis Joplin
21. Buddy Holly
22. Notorious B.I.G.
23. (Eric B. &) Rakim
24. Rush
25. Run D.M.C.
26. Guns n’ Roses
27. Boston
28. Sam Cooke
29. Talking Heads
30. The Ramones
31. The Everly Brothers
32. Patti Smith
33. Public Enemy
34. Sly & the Family Stone
35. The Sex Pistols
36. Parliament &/or Funkadelic
37. The O’Jays
38. Creedence Clearwater Revival
39. The Stooges
40. Motley Crue
41. Kiss
42. Deep Purple
43. Journey
44. Jackson Browne
45. The Pretenders
46.Toby Keith
47. New Order
48. Depeche Mode
49. Tiesto
Update: Tiesto just won for the first time last night (see the complete winners list here).
50. The Kinks
51. Morrissey
52. The Smiths
53. ABBA
54. Dusty Springfield
55. Teddy Pendergrass
56. Oasis
57. Busta Rhymes
(And for fun, try searching a few artists on grammy.com’s ‘Past Winners’ database, here.)
Wouldn’t it be nice to have an award program that actually was based on artistic merit, rather than sales?
That’s an ignorant statement. If you knew anything about the process…
You only know what you read, and what you believe. Take it from someone who knows the behind-the-scenes.
Yea, definitely not based on sales. If anything, it makes more sense for it to be rigged in favor of the worse-selling artists, so they get a sales boost from notoriety.
Award shows are for girls n’ gays.
yes. no straight men ever win awards.
Reading is fundamental.
pathetic
58. Jackson 5
59. The Whispers
60. The Spinners
61. The Manhattans
“Artistic merit” is a matter of personal judgement. I do not anticipate agreement on that across a swath of humanity, especially over pop music.
Agreed.
Pop music is similar to other Hollywood products in that it is at least 50% marketing. The quality is irrelevant as long as it is marketed properly.
16 through 19, that’s pretty funny.
One Direction is one of the largest selling, and most popular groups of the past decade. As is Justin Bieber. More people care about them than Sam Smith (and that’s not a dig on Sam Smith, just a statement of fact).
Actually the Grammy awards aren’t based on sales. The only people who can vote are creative music professionals. But people who comment on this site probably aren’t actually one or two of those things. The professional part is hard and those who aspire and can’t be just prefer to complain rather than learn anything truthful.
It’s much easier to say the game is rigged and then bitch about it than it is to work hard and get involved
If you give enough of a shit to comment about how crap the awards are but you’ve never voted you are either unqualified to vote or you’re too lazy or arrogant to participate
Some of the artists in this list actually do have lifetime achievement grammy awards too.
The award doesn’t recognize timelessness,
It’s about what’s current and it usually takes a few years for the classics to work their way up
But all you haters and critics don’t have anything better to write about than this stuff
Go make a record and promote and build your career and learn how the process works before you dismiss it. it would be a much more rewarding use of your time n
And tiesto won a Grammy yesterday.
Your list needs some work.
I have been a professional in the music industry for now going on 50 years and been a voter member of NARAS for close to 40 years and have served on the board.
I am also a member of the Producers and Engineers Wing.
The Grammys were founded and are suppose to be for music excellence and technology but HAS become more of a popularity contest.
Sales? Well, I have seen some of the crappiest songs become big hits only because of media hype and a huge promotion budget.
I have worked with talent that was par excellent to many who have won; but never had the means to professionally promote their works or go to a music mecca to further their careers.
The Grammy Awards is an entertainment show; a good show, but it is just like the CMA, GMA, ACM and others.
Hilarious -16 thru 19. Make no mistake, these days the Grammys are a popularity/record sales contest. Shameful that many of these artist have not won.