Grammy Awards 1997
The 39th Grammy Awards · Held February 26, 1997 · 61 categories · everything in 1997
Album of the Year
- Winner Falling Into You · Céline Dion
- Nominee Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness · The Smashing Pumpkins
- Nominee Odelay · Beck
- Nominee The Score
- Nominee Waiting to Exhale Soundtrack
Record of the Year
- Winner Change the World · Eric Clapton, Eric Clapton
- Nominee 1979 · The Smashing Pumpkins
- Nominee Because You Loved Me from Up Close and Personal · Céline Dion
- Nominee Give Me One Reason · Tracy Chapman
- Nominee Ironic · Alanis Morissette
Song of the Year
- Winner Change the World · Gordon Kennedy, Wayne Kirkpatrick, Tommy Sims
- Nominee Because You Loved Me from Up Close and Personal · Diane Warren
- Nominee Blue · Bill Mack
- Nominee Exhale (Shoop Shoop) · Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds
- Nominee Give Me One Reason · Tracy Chapman
Best New Artist
- Winner LeAnn Rimes
- Nominee Garbage
- Nominee Jewel
- Nominee No Doubt
- Nominee Tony Rich
Best Alternative Music Album
- Winner Odelay · Beck
- Nominee Boys for Pele · Tori Amos
- Nominee Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness · The Smashing Pumpkins
- Nominee New Adventures in Hi-Fi · R.E.M
- Nominee The Burdens of Being Upright · Tracy Bonham
Best Bluegrass Album
Best Comedy Album
Best Contemporary Blues Album
- Winner Just Like You · Keb' Mo'
Best Contemporary Jazz Album
- Winner High Life · Wayne Shorter
Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album
- Winner Whatcha Lookin' 4 · Kirk Franklin
Best Country Album
- Winner The Road to Ensenada · Lyle Lovett
Best Country Instrumental Performance
- Winner Jam Man · Chet Atkins
Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
- Winner My Maria · Brooks & Dunn
Best Country Song
- Winner Blue · Bill Mack, LeAnn Rimes
Best Female Country Vocal Performance
- Winner Blue · LeAnn Rimes
Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
- Winner Un-Break My Heart · Toni Braxton
- Nominee Because You Loved Me from Up Close and Personal · Céline Dion
- Nominee Get Out of This House · Shawn Colvin
- Nominee Reach · Gloria Estefan
- Nominee Who Will Save Your Soul · Jewel
Best Female R&B Vocal Performance
- Winner You're Makin' Me High · Toni Braxton
- Nominee Exhale (Shoop Shoop) · Whitney Houston
- Nominee Not Gon' Cry · Mary J. Blige
- Nominee Sittin' Up in My Room · Brandy Norwood
- Nominee You Put a Move on My Heart · Tamia
Best Female Rock Vocal Performance
- Winner If It Makes You Happy · Sheryl Crow
- Nominee Burning Down the House · Bonnie Raitt
- Nominee Give Me One Reason · Tracy Chapman
- Nominee Mother Mother · Tracy Bonham
- Nominee Spider Web · Joan Osborne
Best Folk Album
- Winner The Ghost of Tom Joad · Bruce Springsteen
Best Global Music Album
- Winner Santiago · The Chieftains
Best Gospel Choir or Chorus Album
- Winner Just a Word · Shirley Caesar
Best Hard Rock Performance
- Winner Bullet with Butterfly Wings · The Smashing Pumpkins
- Nominee Again · Alice in Chains
- Nominee Bulls on Parade · Rage Against the Machine
- Nominee Pretty Noose · Soundgarden
- Nominee Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart · Stone Temple Pilots
Best Jazz Instrumental Album
- Winner Tales From the Hudson · Michael Brecker
Best Jazz Performance
- Winner Cabin Fever · Michael Brecker
Best Jazz Vocal Album
- Winner New Moon Daughter · Cassandra Wilson
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
Best Latin Jazz Album
- Winner Portraits of Cuba · Paquito D'Rivera
Best Latin Pop Album
- Winner Enrique Iglesias · Enrique Iglesias
Best Male Country Vocal Performance
- Winner Worlds Apart · Vince Gill
Best Male Pop Vocal Performance
- Winner Change the World · Eric Clapton, Eric Clapton
- Nominee Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First) · John Cougar
- Nominee Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot · Sting
- Nominee Let's Make a Night to Remember · Bryan Adams
- Nominee Nobody Knows · Tony Rich
Best Male R&B Vocal Performance
- Winner Your Secret Love · Luther Vandross
- Nominee A Change Is Gonna Come · Al Green, Al Green
- Nominee Lady · D'Angelo
- Nominee Like a Woman · Tony Rich
- Nominee New World Order · Curtis Mayfield
Best Male Rock Vocal Performance
- Winner Where It's At · Beck
- Nominee Ain't Gone 'n' Give Up on Love · Eric Clapton, Eric Clapton
- Nominee Cry Love · John Hiatt
- Nominee Dead Man Walkin' from Dead Man Walking · Bruce Springsteen
- Nominee The Only Thing That Looks Good on Me Is You · Bryan Adams
Best Metal Performance
- Winner Tire Me · Rage Against the Machine
- Nominee Hands of Death (Burn Baby Burn) · Rob Zombie, Alice Cooper
- Nominee I'm Your Boogie Man · White Zombie
- Nominee Shoots and Ladders · Korn
- Nominee Suicide Note Pt. I · Pantera
Best Mexican/Mexican-American Album
- Winner Un Millón de Rosas · La Mafia
Best Musical Album for Children
Best New Age, Ambient or Chant Album
- Winner The Memory of Trees · Enya
Best Polka Album
- Winner Polka! All Night Long · Jimmy Sturr
Best Pop Instrumental Performance
- Winner The Sinister Minister · Béla Fleck & The Flecktones, Béla Fleck, the Flecktones
- Nominee Kiss Lonely Goodbye (Harmonica with Orchestra) · Stevie Wonder
- Nominee Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness · The Smashing Pumpkins
- Nominee Mission: Impossible · Lalo Schifrin, London Philharmonic Orchestra
- Nominee Theme from Mission: Impossible · Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen Jr.
Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals
- Winner Free as a Bird · The Beatles
- Nominee As Long as It Matters · Gin Blossoms
- Nominee Fire on the Mountain · The Neville Brothers
- Nominee Peaches · The Presidents of the United States of America
- Nominee When You Love a Woman · Journey
- Nominee When You Wish Upon A Star from Pinocchio · Take 6
Best Pop Vocal Album
- Winner Falling Into You · Céline Dion
- Nominee A Few Small Repairs · Shawn Colvin
- Nominee Mercury Falling · Sting
- Nominee New Beginning · Tracy Chapman
- Nominee Secrets · Toni Braxton
Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album
Best R&B Album
- Winner Words · Tony Rich
- Nominee Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite · Maxwell
- Nominee Moving On · Oleta Adams
- Nominee New World Order · Curtis Mayfield
- Nominee Peace Beyond Passion · Meshell Ndegeocello
Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals
- Winner Killing Me Softly with His Song · Fugees
- Nominee Don't Let Go (Love) · En Vogue
- Nominee Never Miss the Water · Chaka Khan, Meshell Ndegeocello
- Nominee Slow Jams · Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, Tamia, Portrait, Barry White
- Nominee Stomp · Luke Cresswell, Everett Bradley, Melle Mel, Coolio, Yo-Yo, Chaka Khan, Charlie Wilson, Shaquille O'Neal, Luniz
Best R&B Song
- Winner Exhale (Shoop Shoop) · Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds
- Nominee Sittin' Up in My Room
- Nominee You Put a Move on My Heart · Rod Temperton
- Nominee You're Makin' Me High · Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, Toni Braxton, Bryce Wilson
- Nominee Your Secret Love · Luther Vandross, Reed Vertelney
Best Rap Album
- Winner The Score · Fugees
- Nominee All Eyez On Me · 2Pac
- Nominee Beats, Rhymes and Life · A Tribe Called Quest
- Nominee Gangsta's Paradise · Coolio
- Nominee Mr. Smith · LL Cool J
Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group
- Winner Tha Crossroads · Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
- Nominee 1nce Again · A Tribe Called Quest
- Nominee California Love · 2Pac, Dr. Dre, Roger Troutman
- Nominee Champagne · Salt-N-Pepa
- Nominee How Do U Want It · 2Pac, K-Ci & JoJo
Best Rap Solo Performance
- Winner Hey Lover · LL Cool J
- Nominee 1, 2, 3, 4 (Sumpin' New) · Coolio
- Nominee If I Ruled the World (Imagine That) · Nas
- Nominee Rock With You · Heavy D & the Boyz
- Nominee Woo Hah!! Got You All in Check · Busta Rhymes
Best Reggae Album
Best Rock Album
- Winner Sheryl Crow · Sheryl Crow
- Nominee Broken Arrow · Neil Young, Crazy Horse
- Nominee Crash · Dave Matthews Band
- Nominee Road Tested · Bonnie Raitt
- Nominee Tragic Kingdom · No Doubt
Best Rock Gospel Album
- Winner Jesus Freak · dc Talk
Best Rock Instrumental Performance
- Winner SRV Shuffle · Vaughan Brothers, Eric Clapton, Eric Clapton, Robert Cray, Robert Cray Band, Buddy Guy, Dr. John, B. B. King, Art Neville, Bonnie Raitt, Jimmie Vaughan, the Lower 911
- Nominee (You're) My World · Joe Satriani
- Nominee Green Onions · Booker T. & the M.G.'s
- Nominee Pavilion · Eric Johnson, Eric Johnson & Alien Love Child
- Nominee Respect the Wind · Edward, Alex Van Halen
Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
- Winner So Much to Say · Dave Matthews Band
- Nominee 1979 · The Smashing Pumpkins
- Nominee 6th Avenue Heartache · The Wallflowers
- Nominee Stupid Girl · Garbage
- Nominee Wonderwall · Oasis
Best Rock Song
- Winner Give Me One Reason · Tracy Chapman
- Nominee 6th Avenue Heartache · Jakob Dylan
- Nominee Cry Love · John Hiatt
- Nominee Stupid Girl · Garbage
- Nominee Too Much · Dave Matthews Band
- Nominee Wonderwall · Noel Gallagher
Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album
Best Spoken Word Album
- Winner It Takes a Village · Hillary Rodham Clinton
Best Spoken Word Album for Children
- Winner Stellaluna · Steven Heller, David Holt
Best Traditional Blues Album
- Winner Deep in the Blues · James Cotton
Best Traditional Folk Album
- Winner Pete · Pete Seeger
Best Traditional Gospel Album
- Winner Face to Face · Cissy Houston
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
- Winner Here's to the Ladies · Tony Bennett
- Nominee Dedicated to Nelson · Rosemary Clooney
- Nominee Gently · Liza Minnelli
- Nominee I'll Be Your Baby Tonight · Bernadette Peters
- Nominee Stardust · Natalie Cole
Best Tropical Latin Album
- Winner La Rosa de los Vientos · Rubén Blades