Sources: The Daily Telegraph
The Recording Academy of the United States announces five new Grammy Award categories for 2027, including Best Asian Pop Music Performance, and revises eligibility rules for Best New Artist, increasing the maximum number of prior submissions from three to four. 2026-06-16
Former AC-DC drummer Phil Rudd pleads guilty to threatening to kill and drug possession charges in Tauranga, New Zealand. 2015-04-21
Authorities in New Zealand drop the charge against AC-DC drummer Phil Rudd of attempting to procure murder. 2014-11-7
Musical innovator and fourteen-time Grammy Award winning producer Phil Ramone dies at the age of 79. 2013-03-30
Fires rage through Dakar after Senegal's top court rules that President Abdoulaye Wade can run for a third term in office next month and prevents his best-known opponent, Grammy Award-winning musician Youssou N'Dour, from running against him. 2012-01-28
The venue for an AC-DC concert upsets WWF Austria environmentalists in Wels who fear it will "smash" endangered species. 2010-02-21
Pop singer Beyoncé Knowles wins the most awards at the 52nd Grammy Awards, winning six of her ten nominations including Song of the Year for "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)", and becoming the first woman to win six awards in the same night. 2010-02-1
Seven performers, including Michael Jackson, Bobby Darin and Loretta Lynn, are awarded Lifetime Achievement Awards. 2010-02-1