List Of The Top GRAMMY Winners Of All Time

With a total of 83 categories celebrating the best of pop, rock, R&B, jazz, classical, Spoken Word, Musical Theater, and Music For Visual Media, among others, thousands of music creators have been recognized by the GRAMMYs since its inception in 1957.
The prestige of one GRAMMY win can catapult an artist’s career to the next level, but there are some who have amassed more than 10, 20 and even 30 career GRAMMY wins. Ever wonder who these elite GRAMMY winners are? Look no further. We’ve compiled a list of the top 20 GRAMMY winners of all time.
To find out if there are any changes to this list, tune in to the 58th Annual GRAMMY Awards on Monday, Feb. 15 from 8–11:30 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.
GEORG SOLTI, 31
Not only does the late conductor Georg Solti hold the record for the most GRAMMY Awards won in any genre with 31, he has the most wins in the Classical Field. Solti’s last win was for Best Opera Recording for Wagner: Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg for 1997.
QUINCY JONES, 27
Quincy Jones’ GRAMMY career as an artist/arranger/producer spans more than 10 Fields, from Children’s to Jazz, Pop, Rap, R&B, and more. He is also one of only 15 artists to receive the GRAMMY Legend Award.
ALISON KRAUSS, 27
Alison Krauss holds the distinction as the female artist with the most GRAMMYs, and the most awards in the Country Field. Krauss shares 14 of her wins with her backing band of nearly 30 years, Union Station.
PIERRE BOULEZ, 26
Pierre Boulez earned his GRAMMYs primarily conducting the work of renowned 20th century composers such as Bela Bartók, Alban Berg and Claude Debussy. Boulez received The Recording Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015.
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ, 25
The late virtuoso pianist/composer Vladimir Horowitz earned GRAMMYs in every decade from the 1960s to the 1990s. He was also awarded a Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1990 and has five recordings in the GRAMMY Hall Of Fame.
STEVIE WONDER, 25
No stranger to the GRAMMY stage, Stevie Wonder is the only artist in GRAMMY history to win five or more awards on three separate nights. His career and GRAMMY history were celebrated on the television special “Stevie Wonder: Songs In The Key Of Life — An All-Star GRAMMY Salute” in 2015.
CHICK COREA, 22
Musician/composer Chick Corea is currently the artist with the most jazz GRAMMY wins. Corea’s Latin jazz piano stylings, compositions and arrangements have also earned him four Latin GRAMMY Awards.
U2, 22
Led by frontman Bono, U2 hold the record for most GRAMMY wins by a rock act. Their most recent wins came in 2005, including Album Of The Year for How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb.
JOHN WILLIAMS, 22
John Williams has cashed in cinema soundtrack classics such as Jaws, Star Wars and Schindler’s List for a place among the GRAMMY elite. Of his 22 GRAMMY wins, Williams has earned 11 in the Music For Visual Media Field.
JAY Z, 21
Tied for the most GRAMMY wins by a rap artist, Jay Z has wins in each of the four Rap Field categories. Hova’s blueprint for GRAMMY success includes collaborations with other artists such as Beyoncé (“Drunk In Love”), Rihanna (“Umbrella”) and Justin Timberlake (“Holy Grail”).
KANYE WEST, 21
Kanye West is neck-and-neck with Jay Z for top GRAMMY-winning rap artist, but he has often competed against himself. For example, he had two nominations (and a win) each for Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song for 2012, Best Rap Album for 2011, and Best Rap Song and Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group for 2007. West currently has four 58th GRAMMY nominations.
BEYONCÉ, 20
Who run the world? Beyoncé. The 20-time GRAMMY winner holds the second most wins by a female artist and is tied with Adele at six for most GRAMMY wins in one night by a female. Aside from her wins, Queen Bey has amassed 53 GRAMMY nominations, more than any other female artist.
VINCE GILL, 20
Singer/songwriter Vince Gill has earned each of his GRAMMY wins in the Country Field, the most of any male artist. He also holds the distinction of garnering the most GRAMMYs in the 1990s (14), winning one or more GRAMMYs in every year of the decade.
HENRY MANCINI, 20
The composer behind TV and film themes such as “Peter Gunn” and “The Pink Panther Theme,” the late Henry Mancini made early GRAMMY history with a then-record five wins in one night in 1961. Mancini’s popular “Moon River” and later “Days Of Wine And Roses” each won both Record and Song Of The Year.
PAT METHENY, 20
Pat Metheny is all that jazz. The guitarist earned his first GRAMMY for Best Jazz Fusion Performance, Vocal Or Instrumental for Offramp for 1982. He has earned GRAMMYs in four consecutive decades since, most recently in 2012 as the Pat Metheny Unity Band for Unity Band for Best New Age Album.
AL SCHMITT, 20
Working on projects by artists Ray Charles, Natalie Cole, Chick Corea, and Paul McCartney, among others, Al Schmitt won his 20 GRAMMYs as an engineer/mixer. Schmitt has also earned two Latin GRAMMYs and he received the Recording Academy Trustees Award in 2006.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, 20
In addition to GRAMMY wins in every decade from the ’80s through ’00s, Bruce Springsteen has seen his albums Born To Run and Born In The U.S.A. inducted into the GRAMMY Hall Of Fame. In 2013 the quintessential rocker was honored as the MusiCares Person of the Year.
ARETHA FRANKLIN, 18
Aretha Franklin reigns as the queen of R&B. She has 18 GRAMMY wins to date, five recordings in the GRAMMY Hall Of Fame, a Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award (1994) and a GRAMMY Legend Award (1991).
PAUL MCCARTNEY, 18
Winning Best New Artist with the Beatles for 1964, Paul McCartney has gone on to earn 18 career GRAMMYs as an artist, composer and arranger. While most of McCartney’s GRAMMY history lies in pop and rock, he earned two 58th GRAMMY nominations for Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance for Kanye West’s “All Day” with Theophilus London and Allan Kingdom.
JIMMY STURR, 18
Out of the 25 GRAMMYs ever awarded for polka, Jimmy Sturr earned 18 of them, including 13 wins for Best Polka Album. He will likely remain the highest GRAMMY-winning polka artist in history (given the discontinuation of the category), and was “Born To Polka.”

Source: The Grammy