Grammy Awards 2006
The 48th Grammy Awards · Held February 8, 2006 · 72 categories · everything in 2006
Album of the Year
- Winner How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
- Nominee Chaos and Creation in the Backyard · Paul McCartney
- Nominee Late Registration · Kanye West
- Nominee Love. Angel. Music. Baby. · Gwen Stefani
- Nominee The Emancipation of Mimi · Mariah Carey
Record of the Year
- Winner Boulevard of Broken Dreams · Green Day, Green Day
- Nominee Feel Good Inc. · Gorillaz, De La Soul
- Nominee Gold Digger · Kanye West
- Nominee Hollaback Girl · Gwen Stefani
- Nominee We Belong Together · Mariah Carey
Song of the Year
- Winner Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own · U2
- Nominee Bless the Broken Road · Marcus Hummon
- Nominee Devils & Dust · Bruce Springsteen
- Nominee Ordinary People · Will Adams, John Legend
- Nominee We Belong Together · J. Austin, Mariah Carey, Jermaine Dupri, M. Seal
Best New Artist
- Winner John Legend
- Nominee Ciara
- Nominee Fall Out Boy
- Nominee Keane
- Nominee Sugarland
Best Alternative Music Album
- Winner Get Behind Me Satan · The White Stripes
- Nominee Funeral · Arcade Fire
- Nominee Guero · Beck
- Nominee Plans · Death Cab For Cutie
- Nominee You Could Have It So Much Better · Franz Ferdinand
Best Bluegrass Album
Best Comedy Album
- Winner Never Scared · Chris Rock
Best Contemporary Blues Album
- Winner Cost of Living · Delbert McClinton
Best Contemporary Instrumental Album
- Winner At This Time · Burt Bacharach
- Nominee Belladonna · Daniel Lanois
- Nominee Bloom · Eric Johnson & Alien Love Child
- Nominee Flipside · Jeff Lorber
- Nominee Naked Guitar · Earl Klugh
Best Contemporary Jazz Album
- Winner The Way Up · Pat Metheny Group
Best Contemporary R&B Album
- Winner The Emancipation of Mimi · Mariah Carey
- Nominee Destiny Fulfilled · Destiny's Child
- Nominee O · Omarion
- Nominee Touch · Amerie
- Nominee Turning Point · Mario
Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album
- Winner Purified · CeCe Winans
Best Contemporary World Music Album
- Winner Eletracústico · Gilberto Gil
Best Country Album
- Winner Unionhouse Branch · Alison Krauss
Best Country Instrumental Performance
- Winner Unionhouse Branch · Alison Krauss
Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
- Winner Restless · Alison Krauss
Best Country Song
- Winner Bless the Broken Road · Marcus Hummon
Best Dance/Electronic Recording
- Winner Galvanize · The Chemical Brothers, Q-Tip
- Nominee Daft Punk Is Playing at My House · LCD Soundsystem
- Nominee Guilt Is A Useless Emotion · New Order
- Nominee I Believe In You · Kylie Minogue
- Nominee Say Hello · Deep Dish
- Nominee Wonderful Night · Fatboy Slim, Lateef
Best Female Country Vocal Performance
- Winner The Connection · Emmylou Harris
Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
- Winner Since U Been Gone · Kelly Clarkson
- Nominee Good Is Good · Sheryl Crow
- Nominee Hollaback Girl · Gwen Stefani
- Nominee I Will Not Be Broken · Bonnie Raitt
- Nominee It's Like That · Mariah Carey
Best Female R&B Vocal Performance
- Winner We Belong Together · Mariah Carey
- Nominee 1 Thing · Amerie
- Nominee Free Yourself · Fantasia Barrino
- Nominee Unbreakable · Alicia Keys
- Nominee Wishing on a Star · Beyoncé
Best Folk Album
- Winner Fair & Square · John Prine
- Nominee Chávez Ravine · Ry Cooder
- Nominee Devils & Dust · Bruce Springsteen
- Nominee The Outsider · Rodney Crowell
- Nominee Why Should the Fire Die? · Nickel Creek
Best Gospel Choir or Chorus Album
- Winner One Voice · Saints Unified Voices
Best Hard Rock Performance
- Winner B.Y.O.B. · System of a Down
- Nominee Doesn't Remind Me · Audioslave
- Nominee Little Sister · Queens of the Stone Age
- Nominee The Hand That Feeds · Nine Inch Nails
- Nominee Tin Pan Valley · Robert Plant
Best Hawaiian Music Album
Best Jazz Instrumental Album
Best Jazz Performance
- Winner Why Was I Born? · Sonny Rollins
Best Jazz Vocal Album
- Winner Good Night, and Good Luck. · Dianne Reeves
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
- Winner Overtime · Dave Holland
Best Latin Jazz Album
- Winner Listen Here! · Eddie Palmieri
Best Latin Pop Album
- Winner Escucha · Laura Pausini
Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album
- Winner Fijación Oral Vol. 1 · Shakira
Best Male Country Vocal Performance
- Winner You'll Think of Me · Keith Urban
Best Male Pop Vocal Performance
- Winner From the Bottom of My Heart · Stevie Wonder
- Nominee Fine Line · Paul McCartney
- Nominee Lonely No More · Rob Thomas
- Nominee Sitting, Waiting, Wishing · Jack Johnson
- Nominee Walk On By · Seal
Best Male R&B Vocal Performance
- Winner Ordinary People · John Legend
- Nominee Creepin' · Jamie Foxx
- Nominee Let Me Love You · Mario
- Nominee So What the Fuss · Stevie Wonder
- Nominee Superstar · Usher
Best Melodic Rap Performance
- Winner Numb/Encore · Jay-Z, Linkin Park
- Nominee 1, 2 Step · Ciara, Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott
- Nominee Be · Common, John Legend, Kanye West
- Nominee Rich Girl · Gwen Stefani, Eve
- Nominee Soldier · Destiny's Child, T.I., Lil Wayne
Best Metal Performance
- Winner Before I Forget · Slipknot
- Nominee Determined · Mudvayne
- Nominee Mein Teil · Rammstein
- Nominee The Great Satan · Ministry
- Nominee What Drives the Weak · Shadows Fall
Best Mexican/Mexican-American Album
- Winner México En La Piel · Luis Miguel
Best Native American Music Album
Best New Age, Ambient or Chant Album
- Winner Silver Solstice · Paul Winter Consort
- Nominee Montana – A Love Story · George Winston
- Nominee Music in the Key of Om · Jack DeJohnette
- Nominee People of Peace · R. Carlos Nakai
- Nominee Sacred Journey of Ku-Kai · Kitarō
Best Polka Album
- Winner Shake, Rattle and Polka! · Jimmy Sturr, his Orchestra
- Nominee Polka Pizzazz
- Nominee Solecktions
- Nominee Time Out for Polkas and Waltzes · Walter Ostanek
- Nominee Under the Influence
Best Pop Instrumental Performance
- Winner Caravan · Les Paul
- Nominee Agave · Daniel Lanois
- Nominee Gelo na Montanha · Herbie Hancock, Trey Anastasio
- Nominee In Our Time · Burt Bacharach, Chris Botti
- Nominee T-Jam · George Duke
Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals
- Winner This Love (Live) · This Love, Maroon 5
- Nominee Don't Lie · The Black Eyed Peas
- Nominee More Than Love · Los Lonely Boys
- Nominee Mr. Brightside · The Killers
- Nominee My Doorbell · The White Stripes
Best Pop Vocal Album
- Winner Breakaway · Kelly Clarkson
- Nominee Chaos and Creation in the Backyard · Paul McCartney
- Nominee Extraordinary Machine · Fiona Apple
- Nominee Love. Angel. Music. Baby. · Gwen Stefani
- Nominee Wildflower · Sheryl Crow
Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album
- Winner Lifesong · Casting Crowns
Best R&B Album
- Winner Get Lifted · John Legend
- Nominee A Time to Love · Stevie Wonder
- Nominee Free Yourself · Fantasia Barrino
- Nominee Illumination · Earth, Wind & Fire
- Nominee Unplugged · Alicia Keys
Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals
- Winner So Amazing · Beyoncé, Stevie Wonder
- Nominee Cater 2 U · Destiny's Child
- Nominee How Will I Know · Stevie Wonder
- Nominee If This World Were Mine · Alicia Keys, Jermaine Paul
- Nominee So High · John Legend, Lauryn Hill
Best R&B Song
- Winner We Belong Together · Mariah Carey, Jermaine Dupri, M. Seal, J. Austin
- Nominee Cater 2 U · Rodney Jerkins, Beyoncé, Kelendria Rowland, Robert Waller, Michelle Williams
- Nominee Free Yourself · Craig Brockman, Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott
- Nominee Ordinary People · Will Adams, John Legend
- Nominee Unbreakable · Garry Glenn, Alicia Keys, Kanye West
Best Rap Album
- Winner Late Registration · Kanye West
- Nominee Be · Common
- Nominee Encore · Eminem
- Nominee The Cookbook · Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott
- Nominee The Massacre · 50 Cent
Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group
- Winner Don't Phunk With My Heart · The Black Eyed Peas
- Nominee Encore · Eminem, Dr. Dre, 50 Cent
- Nominee Hate It or Love It · The Game, 50 Cent
- Nominee The Corner · Common, The Last Poets
- Nominee Wait (The Whisper Song) · Ying Yang Twins
Best Rap Solo Performance
- Winner Gold Digger · Kanye West
- Nominee Disco Inferno · 50 Cent
- Nominee Mockingbird · Eminem
- Nominee Number One Spot · Chris "Ludacris" Bridges
- Nominee Testify · Common
- Nominee U Don't Know Me · T.I.
Best Rap Song
- Winner Diamonds from Sierra Leone · D. Harris, Kanye West
- Nominee Candy Shop · 50 Cent, Scott Storch
- Nominee Don't Phunk With My Heart · Will Adams, Printz Board, Fergie
- Nominee Hate It or Love It · 50 Cent, A. Lyon, The Game
- Nominee Lose Control · Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, Ciara, G. Isaacs III
Best Reggae Album
- Winner Welcome to Jamrock · Damian Marley
- Nominee Black Gold & Green · Third World
- Nominee Clothes Drop · Shaggy
- Nominee Our Music · Burning Spear
- Nominee The Trinity · Sean Paul
Best Rock Album
- Winner How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb · U2
- Nominee A Bigger Bang · The Rolling Stones
- Nominee In Your Honor · Foo Fighters
- Nominee The Painter · Neil Young
- Nominee X&Y · Coldplay
Best Rock Gospel Album
- Winner Until My Heart Caves In · Audio Adrenaline
Best Rock Instrumental Performance
- Winner 69 Freedom Specials · Les Paul
- Nominee Beat Box Guitar · Adrian Belew
- Nominee Birds of Prey · Stewart Copeland
- Nominee Lotus Feet · Steve Vai
- Nominee Mercy · Joe Perry
Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
- Winner Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own · U2
- Nominee All These Things That I've Done · The Killers
- Nominee Best of You · Foo Fighters
- Nominee Do You Want To · Franz Ferdinand
- Nominee Speed Of Sound · Coldplay
Best Rock Song
- Winner City of Blinding Lights · Paul Hewson, Adam Clayton, The Edge, Larry Mullen Jr.
- Nominee Best of You · Foo Fighters
- Nominee Beverly Hills · Rivers Cuomo
- Nominee Devils & Dust · Bruce Springsteen
- Nominee Speed Of Sound · Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland, Will Champion, Chris Martin
Best Salsa/Merengue Album
- Winner Son Del Alma · Willy Chirino
Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance
- Winner Devils & Dust · Bruce Springsteen
- Nominee Revolution · Eric Clapton, Eric Clapton
- Nominee Shine It All Around · Robert Plant
- Nominee The Painter · Neil Young
- Nominee This Is How a Heart Breaks · Rob Thomas
Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album
- Winner Rock of Ages...Hymns & Faith · Amy Grant
Best Spoken Word Album
- Winner Dreams from My Father · Barack Obama
Best Spoken Word Album for Children
Best Tejano Album
- Winner Chicanisimo · Little Joe y la Familia
Best Traditional Blues Album
- Winner 80 · B. B. King
Best Traditional Folk Album
- Winner Fiddler's Green · Tim O'Brien
- Nominee Cajun Mardi Gras! · Jo-El Sonnier
- Nominee Come On Back · Jimmie Dale Gilmore
- Nominee Live From Dublin: A Tribute To Derek Bell · The Chieftains
- Nominee Live In The UK · Tom Paxton
Best Traditional Gospel Album
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
- Winner The Art of Romance · Tony Bennett
- Nominee Isn't It Romantic: The Standards Album · Johnny Mathis
- Nominee It's Time · Michael Bublé
- Nominee Moonlight Serenade · Carly Simon
- Nominee Thanks for the Memory: The Great American Songbook, Volume IV · Rod Stewart
Best Traditional R&B Performance
- Winner A House Is Not a Home · Aretha Franklin
Best Traditional World Music Album
Best Tropical Latin Album
- Winner Bebo De Cuba · Bebo Valdes
Best Urban/Alternative Performance
- Winner Welcome to Jamrock · Damian Marley