{"id":350,"date":"2026-02-05T18:05:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T23:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.songfacts.com\/articles\/?p=350"},"modified":"2026-02-05T18:05:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T23:05:41","slug":"grammy-audience-decreases-again-down-1-million-viewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.songfacts.com\/articles\/grammy-audience-decreases-again-down-1-million-viewers\/","title":{"rendered":"Grammy Audience Decreases Again, Down 1 Million Viewers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Music&#8217;s biggest night is declining in popularity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Nielsen ratings, Sunday night&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.songfacts.com\/category\/songs-that-won-grammys\">68th annual Grammys broadcast<\/a> drew in 14.4 million viewers across CBS and Paramount+, down by about six percent from last year&#8217;s 15.4 million viewers and nine percent from 2024&#8217;s broadcast, which had its highest ratings since the COVID-19 pandemic with 17.09 million viewers. 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It received 74.8 million total interactions and over 302 million video views, according to Social Content Ratings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rapper Kendrick Lamar was the biggest winner of the night\u2014he was nominated for nine awards and won five, including Record of the Year and Best Melodic Rap Performance, both for &#8220;Luther,&#8221; his collaboration with SZA. Those wins mean he now has the most awards of any rapper in Grammys. history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bad Bunny also made history with his win for Album of the Year for <em>Deb\u00ed Tirar M\u00e1s Fotos<\/em>, as it was the first time a Spanish-language album has won. The win came just one week before his scheduled Super Bowl halftime show. <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/music\/awards\/grammys-winners-kendrick-lamar-bad-bunny-lady-gaga-1236642224\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Other winners included<\/a> Billie Eilish for Song of the Year and Olivia Dean for Best New Artist. 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