Showing posts with label Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. Show all posts

Monday, February 10, 2025

Maroon 5 and "Ratatouille" win Grammys 2008



Maroon 5, which had three Grammy nominations, won Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals for their single, Makes Me Wonder at the 50th annual ceremony held February 10, 2008. Their album It Won't Be Soon Before Long was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album.  The album's producer Mike Elizondo was nominated for Producer of the Year, Non Classical.

Pixar Animation's Ratatouille won Best Score Soundtrack Album for composer Michael Giacchino.  It was his third nomination and first Grammy win.

Christina Aguilera's single Candyman was nominated for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, but lost to Amy Winehouse.



Monday, May 20, 2024

The Police release "Every Breath You Take" 1983



The Police released their huge-selling Every Breath You Take May 20, 1983.  It was the biggest single in the US and Canada in 1983, and topped the Billboard Hot 100 for eight weeks, The Police's only #1 on that chart.

It won three Grammy Awards at the 26th ceremony, winning Song of the Year, Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Groups with Vocals, and Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.

In 1999, BMI listed it as one of the Top 100 songs of the century. Rolling Stone magazine listed it as #84 in the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, and #25 on the Billboard's Hot 100 All-Time Top Songs.

Saturday, January 21, 2023

"Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack reaches #1 1978


The soundtrack album from the movie Saturday Night Fever reached #1 on the Billboard 200 January 21, 1978 and stayed there for 24 weeks.  It generated three singles from the Bee Gees and one from Yvonne Elliman.  It is the second biggest-selling soundtrack of all time.  It won the Grammy for Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group in 1979.  It won an American Music Award for Favorite Soul/R&B album in 1979.  

The album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2004 and, in 2014, was added to the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry for being culturally significant.

Sunday, April 11, 2021

The Pointer Sisters release "Jump (For My Love)" 1984


My girls the Pointer Sisters released Jump (For My Love) April 11, 1984, the third single from their album Break Out.  It was the best-selling American dance single of 1984 and became an international hit.  It won a Grammy Award in 1985 for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. 

It was on April 11, 2006 that we lost June. :(

Rest in Power, Rest in Peace, June!