Top Ten Music Artists Who Haven't Won a Grammy

One of the main reasons I dislike the Grammies is that they always tend to choose their winners on the basis of popularity, not talent. Here is a list of some of the greatest artists whose music has never been awarded a Grammy.

The Top Ten


A reasonable list but I would note that popularity is surely not the only reason these artists have not won Queen for example have sold more records than say Kanye West but still did not get an award.

Now they got Grammy Lifetime Achivement.

It pisses me off that these people haven't won a Grammy while awful people like Justin Bieber and Nicki Minaj have - bobbythebrony

Nicki Minaj hasn't won a Grammy yet, but anyways, I get your point. - winner333

None of Queen's albums or songs won a Grammy Award although Bohemian Rhapsody was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2004. - winner333

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See this is why I call the Grammy Awards the horse's a$$ of the lineup of famous awards shows. Because some of the most awful singers have won them and some of the best got screwed over.


Hendrix received the Lifetime Achievement Award after his death, but like Zeppelin, he never won a Grammy for any of his brilliant music. - winner333


They won the 2017 Award for Best Metal Performance ("Dystopia"), so they technically don't count anymore. Unfortunately, as they walked onstage, the house band played a crummy rendition of Metallica's Master of Puppets. Ouch. - Gg2000

It breaks my heart that my favorite thrash metal band has never won a Grammy... - winner333

They were nominated 9 times. - gemcloben


They have 4 AMAs, 4 VMAs and one WMA, but not a single Grammy. - winner333


They won a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Grammy Association in 2005, but surprisingly, none of Led Zeppelin's music has ever won them a Grammy in their entire career. The fact that Kanye West has 21 Grammies, while Zeppelin has none, is just unbelievable. - winner333

Yes They Have. They Won The Grammy For Best Rock Album In 2014 For "Celebration Day" - 12cc


The Contenders


"The Father of Rock and Roll" deserves a lot more than he has received.

18 PJ Harvey PJ Harvey Polly Jean Harvey, known as PJ Harvey, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, writer, poet, and composer.
20 The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground was an American rock band, active between 1964 and 1973, formed in New York City.
21 The Kinks The Kinks The Kinks are an English rock band formed in Muswell Hill, North London, in 1964 by brothers Ray and Dave Davies. They are regarded as one of the most important and influential rock bands of the 1960s.

Not true. They received three Grammy Awards for Best Alternative Music Album (OK Computer, Kid A, and In Rainbows). - Gg2000

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