- The Grammy Awards are designed to honor the best and brightest artists in the music industry.
- The most coveted award is album of the year, which many legends throughout history haven’t won.
- The list includes Kendrick Lamar, Madonna, Prince, David Bowie, Marvin Gaye, and more.
Plenty of superstars have won big at the Grammy Awards since the show was launched in 1959 — from Stevie Wonder, the first Black artist to win album of the year in 1974, to Taylor Swift, who recently became the first artist to prevail four times in the prestigious category.
However, some of the most-awarded people in Grammy history have failed to win the top prize, even after one or more bids. In fact, many landmark albums were never nominated in the first place.
We compiled an (incomplete) list of iconic artists who are missing an album of the year Grammy on their trophy shelves (in no particular order).
