(Taylor Swift and Colbie Caillat the 2009 Grammys. Photo: Michael Caulfield/Getty Images)
Wanna win a Grammy for album of the Year? You could knock yourself out making a great album, or you could do what 16 artists have done since 2007 — just make a guest appearance on one or more tracks on somebody else’s album. Let the other artist do the heavy lifting!
Colbie Caillat was featured on one song (“Breathe”) on Taylor Swift’s Fearless, the 2009 winner for Album of the Year. Despite that fairly minor involvement, Caillat received a Grammy for Album of the Year that is identical to Swift’s (except for the name inscribed on the nameplate, of course).
The same is true of the six artists who were featured on Herbie Hancock’s River: The Joni Letters, the 2007 winner, and nine artists who were featured on Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories, the 2013 winner.
This leads to trivia questions that would stump even a Jeopardy champion.
Name the album for which Joni Mitchell won her only Grammy for Album of the Year. Most would say Court and Spark. And Mitchell’s classic 1974 album was indeed nominated. But the correct answer is River: The Joni Letters.
Wanna win a Grammy for album of the Year? You could knock yourself out making a great album, or you could do what 16 artists have done since 2007 — just make a guest appearance on one or more tracks on somebody else’s album. Let the other artist do the heavy lifting!
Colbie Caillat was featured on one song (“Breathe”) on Taylor Swift’s Fearless, the 2009 winner for Album of the Year. Despite that fairly minor involvement, Caillat received a Grammy for Album of the Year that is identical to Swift’s (except for the name inscribed on the nameplate, of course).
The same is true of the six artists who were featured on Herbie Hancock’s River: The Joni Letters, the 2007 winner, and nine artists who were featured on Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories, the 2013 winner.
This leads to trivia questions that would stump even a Jeopardy champion.
Name the album for which Joni Mitchell won her only Grammy for Album of the Year. Most would say Court and Spark. And Mitchell’s classic 1974 album was indeed nominated. But the correct answer is River: The Joni Letters.
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