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Jon Batiste and Silk Sonic Top 2022 Grammys With 4 Wins Each

Jon Batiste hauled home four trophies at the 64th Grammys, including Album of the Year for ‘We Are’. He went into the night with 11 nominations and ended up with Album of the Year, Video of the year.
Right behind Batiste was the duo Silk Sonic, who took the night’s two other big categories: Record and Song of the Year, both for “Leave the Door Open” as well as Best R&B Performance (in a tie with Jazmine Sullivan) and Best R&B Song.
Olivia Rodrigo was named Best New Artist and also won Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Pop Solo Performance.
Other big winners included Chris Stapleton, who won for Best Country Album, Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance.
FULL WINNERS LIST
Album of the Year
We Are
Jon Batiste
Record of the Year
“Leave the Door Open”
Silk Sonic
Song of the Year
“Leave the Door Open”
Silk Sonic
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
Kiss Me More
Doja Cat Featuring SZA
Best Pop Vocal Album
Sour
Olivia Rodrigo
Best R&B Album
Heaux Tales
Jazmine Sullivan
Best Rap Performance
Family Ties
Baby Keem Featuring Kendrick Lamar
Best New Artist
Olivia Rodrigo
Best Country Album
Starting Over
Chris Stapleton
Song of the Year
Leave the Door Open
Brandon Anderson, Christopher Brody Brown, Dernst Emile II & Bruno Mars, songwriters (Silk Sonic)
Producer of the Year
Jack Antonoff
Best Comedy Album
Sincerely
Louis C.K.
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
Love For Sale
Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga
Best Pop Solo Performance
driver’s license
Olivia Rodrigo
Best Jazz Vocal Album
Songwrights Apothecary Lab
Esperanza Spaulding
Best Rap Song
Jail
Dwayne Abernathy, Jr., Shawn Carter, Raul Cubina, Michael Dean, Charles M. Njapa, Sean Solymar, Kanye West & Mark Williams
Best Melodic Rap Performance
Hurricane
Kanye West Featuring The Weeknd & Lil Baby
Best Progressive R&B Album
Table for two
Lucky Daye
Best R&B Song
Leave the Door Open
Silk Sonic
Best Traditional R&B Performance
Fight for You
H.E.R.
Best R&B Performance – TIE
Leave the Door Open
Silk Sonic
and
Pick Up Your Feelings
Jasmine Sullivan
Best Alternative Music Album
Daddy’s Home
St. Vincent
Best Rock Album
Medicine at Midnight
Foo Fighters
Best Rock Song
Waiting on a War
Foo Fighters
Best Metal Performance
The Alien
Dream Theater
Best Rock Performance
Making a Fire
Foo Fighters
Best Contemporary Classical Composition
Shaw: Narrow Sea
Caroline Shaw
Best Classical Compendium
Woman Warriors – Voices of Change
Amy Andersson, conductor; Amy Andersson, Mark Mattson & Lolita Ritmanis
Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
Mythologies
Sangeeta Kaur & Hila Plitmann
Best Classical Instrumental Performance, Solo
Alone Together
Jennifer Koh
Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
Beethoven: Chello Sonatas
Yo Yo Ma
Best Choral Performance
Mahler: Symphony No. 8
Gustavo Dudamel
Best Opera Recording
Glass: Akhnaten
Producer of the Year, Classical
Judith Sherman
Best Engineered Classical Album
Chanticleer Sings Christmas
Leslie Ann Jones and Michael Romanowski
Best Spoken Word Album
Carry On: Reflections for a New Generation From John Lewis
Don Cheadle
Best Contemporary Instrumental Album
Tree Falls
Taylor Eigsti
Best Tropical Latin Album
Salswing!
Rubén Blades y Roberto Delgado & Orquesta
Best Regional Mexican Music Album
A Mis 80s
Vicente Fernandez
Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album
Origen
Juanes
Best Música Urbana Album
El Ultimo Tour Del Mundo
Bad Bunny
Best Latin Pop Album
Mendó
Alex Cuba
Best Roots Gospel Album
My Savior
Carrie Underwood
Best Contemporary Christian Music Album
Old Church Basement
Elevation Worship & Maverick City Music
Best Gospel Album
Believe For It
CeCe Winans
Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song
Believe For It
CeCe Winans; Dwan Hill, Kyle Lee, CeCe Winans & Mitch Wong
Best Gospel Performance/Song
Never Lost
CeCe Winans
Best Music Film
Summer of Soul
Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, video director; David Dinerstein, Robert Fyvolent & Joseph Patel, video producers
Best Music Video
Freedom
Jon Batiste
Best Immersive Audio Album
Alicia
George Massenburg & Eric Schilling, immersive mix engineers; Michael Romanowski, immersive mastering engineer; Ann Mincieli, immersive producer
Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical
Passenger
Mike Shinoda
Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
Love For Sale
Dae Bennett, Josh Coleman & Billy Cumella, engineers; Greg Calbi & Steve Fallone, mastering engineers
Best Historical Album
Joni Mitchell Archives, Volume 1: The Early Years
Patrick Milligan & Joni Mitchell, compilation producers; Bernie Grundman, mastering engineer
Best Album Notes
The Complete Louis Armstrong Columbia and RCA Victor Studio Sessions
Ricky Riccardi
Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package
All Things Must Pass
Darren Evans, Dhani Harrison & Olivia Harrison
Best Recording Package
Pakelang
Li Jheng Han and Yu Wei
Best Dance/Electronic Music Album
Subconsciously
Black Coffee
Best Dance/Electronic Recording
Alive
Rüfüs Du Sol
Best Raggae Album
Beauty in the Silence
Soja
Best Regional Roots Album
Kau Ka Pe’a
Kalani Pe’a
Best Contemporary Blues Album
662
Christone “Kingfish” Ingram
Best Traditional Blues Album
I Be Trying
Cedric Burnside
Best Bluegrass Album
My Bluegrass Heart
Béla Fleck
Best Americana Album
Native Sons
Los Lobos
Best American Roots Performance
Cry
Jon Batiste
Best Country Song
Cold
Dave Cobb, J.T. Cure, Derek Mixon & Chris Stapleton
Best Country Duo/Group Performance
Younger Me
Brothers Osborne
Best Country Solo Performance
You Should Probably Leave
Chris Stapleton
Best Improvised Jazz Solo
Humpty Dumpty (Set 2)
Chick Corea, soloist
Best Latin Jazz Album
Mirror Mirror
Eliane Elias With Chick Corea and Chucho Valdés
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
For Jimmy, Wes And Oliver
Christian McBride Big Band
Best Jazz Instrumental Album
Skyline
Ron Carter, Jack DeJohnette & Gonzalo Rubalcaba
Best New Age Album
Divine Tides
Stewart Copeland & Ricky Kej
Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals
The Edge of Longing
Vince Mendoza
Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella
Meta Knight’s Revenge
Charlie Rosen and Jake Silervman
Best Instrumental Composition
Eberhard
Lyle Mays
Best Global Music Album
Mother Nature
Anjelique Kidjo
Best Global Musical Performance
Mohabbat
Arooj Aftab
Best Immersive Album
Soundtrack Of The American Soldier
Leslie Ann Jones, immersive mix engineer; Michael Romanowski, immersive mastering engineer; Dan Merceruio, immersive producer (Jim R. Keene & The United States Army Field Band)
Best Song Written for Visual Media
All Eyes on Me
Bo Burnham
Bo Burnham, video director; Josh Senior, video producer
Best Musical Theater Album
The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical
Composers/Lyricists Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear
Producer Emily Bear
Best Composition Soundtrack Album For Visual Media
The United States vs. Billy Holiday
Andra Day
Compilation Producer Salaam Remi
Music Supervisor Lynn Fainchtein
Best Score Soundrack Album For Visual Media – TIE
Caros Raphael Rivera
The Queen’s Gambit
and
Jon Batiste, Atticus Ross and Trent Reznor
Soul
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Lil Durk Drops Anxiously Awaited New Album, ‘Almost Healed’

After increasing excitement to a boiling point, Chicago hip-hop trailblazer and multiplatinum superstar Lil Durk unleashes his anxiously awaited eighth full-length offering and one of the year’s most anticipated albums, Almost Healed, out now. Stream Almost Healed on all DSPs HERE.
Superstar icon Alicia Keys notably stars in the music video for “Therapy Session/Pelle Coat,” which just premiered. Watch it HERE. The visual features her in emotionally charged and thought-provoking moments alongside Lil Durk. It marks their first collaboration together.
Tense production underlines his reflective rhymes as the accompanying visual explores his relationship with the streets and faith through a series of arresting vignettes. It instantly captivates—like everything he does.
Almost Healed pops off as his most personal, engaging, and enigmatic project to date. Laced with bold bangers and introspective anthems alike, it highlights his undeniable melodies and incisive bars at the forefront. He not only shines solo on the likes of “Never Again,” but he also distinguishes himself as the rare chameleonic force who can collaborate with country superstar Morgan Wallen on “Stand By Me” or the late Juice WRLD on “Cross The Globe.”
He may be Almost Healed, but he still takes no prisoners lyrically…
Check out the full tracklisting below.
Fittingly, he set the stage for the project with the single “All My Life” [feat. J. Cole]. Upon arrival, it bowed at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100, arriving his first Top 5! It has already reeled in over 80 million worldwide streams and over 20 million YouTube views on the accompanying music video in just under three weeks!
In support of Almost Healed, Durk launches one of the year’s most anticipated jaunts—the Sorry For The Drought Tour. He will be joined by special guests Kodak Black, NLE Choppa, and DD Osama in select cities. Produced by Live Nation, the 27-city tour kicks off on July 28 at MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheater in Tampa making stops across the U.S. in Brooklyn, Chicago, Los Angeles and more before wrapping up in Phoenix at Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre on September 7.
The 2023 tour run comes after his successful ‘The 7220 Tour’ which hit North America in 2022 featuring special guests Doodie Lo & Booka600. Last year, Lil Durk owned the charts with the platinum-certified 7220, which crashed the Billboard 200 as his first #1 debut on the chart and boasted “AHHH HA,” “What Happened To Virgil” [feat. Gunna], and the cross-genre smash “Broadway Girls” [feat. Morgan Wallen].
Get tickets for the Sorry For The Drought Tour at Ticketmaster.com and A
Experience Almost Healed now! It’s Durk’s year…
TRACKLISTING:
1. Therapy Session
2. Pelle Coat
3. All My Life (feat. J. Cole)
4. Never Again
5. Put Em On Ice
6. Big Dawg (feat. Chief Wuk)
7. Never Imagined (feat. Future)
8. Sad Songs
9. Before Fajr
10. War Bout It (feat. 21 Savage)
11. You Got Em
12. Grandson (feat. Kodak Black)
13. 300 Urus
14. Same Side (feat. Rob49)
15. B12
16. At This Point We Stuck
17. Cross The Globe (feat. Juice WRLD)
18. Dru Hill
19. Belt 2 Ass
20. Stand By Me (feat. Morgan Wallen)
21. Moment of Truth
SORRY FOR THE DROUGHT 2023 TOUR DATES:
Fri Jul 28 – Tampa, FL – MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheater
Sat Jul 29 – Atlanta, GA – Lakewood Amphitheatre ^&
Sun Jul 30 – Charlotte, NC – PNC Music Pavilion
Tue Aug 01 – Virginia Beach, VA – Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater at Virginia Beach
Thu Aug 03 – Camden, NJ – Freedom Mortgage Pavilion
Fri Aug 04 – Baltimore, MD – CFG Bank Arena ^
Sat Aug 05 – Brooklyn, NY – Barclays Center
Sun Aug 06 – Boston, MA – Xfinity Center
Tue Aug 08 – Newark, NJ – Prudential Center
Wed Aug 09 – Toronto, ON – Budweiser Stage ^
Fri Aug 11 – Chicago, IL – United Center
Sun Aug 13 – Indianapolis, IN – Ruoff Music Center
Tue Aug 15 – Detroit, MI – Pine Knob Music Theatre
Wed Aug 16 – Cleveland, OH – Blossom Music Center
Fri Aug 18 – St. Louis, MO – Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
Sat Aug 19 – Kansas City, MO – T-Mobile Center
Mon Aug 21 – Houston, TX – Toyota Center
Tue Aug 22 – New Orleans, LA – Smoothie King Center
Wed Aug 23 – Austin, TX – Moody Center
Fri Aug 25 – Albuquerque, NM – Isleta Amphitheater
Sat Aug 26 – Denver, CO – Ball Arena ^&
Tue Aug 29 – Seattle, WA – Climate Pledge Arena
Wed Aug 30 – Portland, OR – RV Inn Styles Resort Amphitheater
Fri Sep 01 – Oakland, CA – Oakland Arena
Sat Sep 02 – San Diego, CA – North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre ^&
Wed Sep 06 – Los Angeles, CA – Kia Forum
Thu Sep 07 – Phoenix, AZ – Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre
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