Music’s greatest night time drew 15.4 million viewers on CBS Sunday night time.
That’s down 9% from final 12 months’s Grammys, which introduced in 16.9 million viewers on CBS, per Nielsen Reside + Identical Day rankings. (The 2024 Grammys marked a 34% enhance from the 12 months earlier than.)
These figures don’t embrace streaming and on-line viewership from Paramount+, CBS.com and the CBS app.
CBS claims that the music awards telecast was “probably the most social tv program ever,” racking up 102.2 million interactions on-line. Nonetheless, advertising efforts for this 12 months’s present have been scaled again as a result of wildfires in Los Angeles. Because the ceremony targeted on fundraising efforts and the resilience of the town, the Grammys raised practically $9 million to help wildfire aid efforts in California on Sunday night time, and a further $15 million over the weekend.
Sunday’s ceremony was one of the best Grammys in years, declared Selection‘s Chris Willman in his evaluate of the telecast. The present featured a wholesome dose of snubs and surprises (Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish have been shut out, Beyoncé lastly gained album of the 12 months and Kendrick Lamar took residence each tune and file of the 12 months for the larger-than-life Drake diss “Not Like Us”), in addition to spectacular performances from Doechii, Chappell Roan, Sabrina Carpenter and Charli xcx.
The ceremony additionally featured a tribute to Quincy Jones, with Herbie Hancock, Stevie Marvel, Cynthia Erivo, Lainey Wilson and Janelle Monáe (in full Michael Jackson apparel) paying homage to the late music legend. Opening the present, which highlighted the resilience of Los Angeles after the devastating wildfires, have been Dawes with a canopy of Randy Newman’s “I Love L.A.” and Billie Eilish performing “Birds of a Feather” in entrance of a display screen exhibiting the San Gabriel Mountains.
Trevor Noah hosted the Grammys for the fifth 12 months in a row. Fulwell 73 produced the present for the Recording Academy, whereas Ben Winston served as government producer alongside Raj Kapoor and Jesse Collins.
UPDATE: A earlier model of this story incorrectly listed final 12 months’s rankings as 17.1 million viewers, moderately than 16.9 million.
