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Record Of The Year

1979 • 21st Annual GRAMMY Awards

Honoring recordings released between Aug 31, 1977 and Aug 30, 1978

1979 Winner is Billy Joel with "Just The Way You Are"

Just The Way You Are

Billy Joel

Nominees 1979

Winners

Year Winner Nomination
2026 Kendrick Lamar, SZA luther All Nominees
2025 Kendrick Lamar Not Like Us All Nominees
2024 Miley Cyrus Flowers All Nominees
2023 Lizzo About Damn Time All Nominees
2022 Silk Sonic Leave The Door Open All Nominees
2021 Billie Eilish Everything I Wanted All Nominees
2020 Billie Eilish Bad Guy All Nominees
2019 Childish Gambino This Is America All Nominees
2018 Bruno Mars 24K Magic All Nominees
2017 Adele Hello All Nominees
2016 Mark Ronson, Bruno Mars Uptown Funk All Nominees
2015 Sam Smith Stay With Me (Darkchild Version) All Nominees
2014 Daft Punk, Pharrell Williams, Nile Rodgers Get Lucky All Nominees
2013 Gotye, Kimbra Somebody That I Used To Know All Nominees
2012 Adele Rolling In The Deep All Nominees
2011 Lady Antebellum Need You Now All Nominees
2010 Kings Of Leon Use Somebody All Nominees
2009 Robert Plant, Alison Krauss Please Read The Letter All Nominees
2008 Amy Winehouse Rehab All Nominees
2007 Dixie Chicks Not Ready To Make Nice All Nominees
2006 Green Day Boulevard Of Broken Dreams All Nominees
2005 Ray Charles, Norah Jones Here We Go Again All Nominees
2004 Coldplay Clocks All Nominees
2003 Norah Jones Don't Know Why All Nominees
2002 U2 Walk On All Nominees
2001 U2 Beautiful Day All Nominees
2000 Santana, Rob Thomas Smooth All Nominees
1999 Celine Dion My Heart Will Go On (Love Theme From Titanic) All Nominees
1998 Shawn Colvin Sunny Came Home All Nominees
1997 Eric Clapton Change The World All Nominees
1996 Seal Kiss From A Rose All Nominees
1995 Sheryl Crow All I Wanna Do All Nominees
1994 Whitney Houston I Will Always Love You All Nominees
1993 Eric Clapton Tears In Heaven All Nominees
1992 Natalie Cole Unforgettable All Nominees
1991 Phil Collins Another Day In Paradise All Nominees
1990 Bette Midler Wind Beneath My Wings All Nominees
1989 Bobby McFerrin Don't Worry Be Happy All Nominees
1988 Paul Simon Graceland All Nominees
1987 Steve Winwood Higher Love All Nominees
1986 Quincy Jones We Are The World All Nominees
1985 Tina Turner What's Love Got To Do With It All Nominees
1984 Michael Jackson Beat It All Nominees
1983 Toto Rosanna All Nominees
1982 Kim Carnes Bette Davis Eyes All Nominees
1981 Christopher Cross Sailing All Nominees
1980 Doobie Brothers What A Fool Believes All Nominees
1979 Billy Joel Just The Way You Are All Nominees
1978 Eagles Hotel California All Nominees
1977 George Benson This Masquerade All Nominees
1976 Captain & Tennille Love Will Keep Us Together All Nominees
1975 Olivia Newton-John I Honestly Love You All Nominees
1974 Roberta Flack Killing Me Softly With His Song All Nominees
1973 Roberta Flack The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face All Nominees
1972 Carole King It's Too Late All Nominees
1971 Simon And Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water All Nominees
1970 5th Dimension Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures) All Nominees
1969 Simon And Garfunkel Mrs. Robinson All Nominees
1968 5th Dimension Up, Up And Away All Nominees
1967 Frank Sinatra Strangers In The Night All Nominees
1966 Herb Alpert A Taste Of Honey All Nominees
1965 Stan Getz, Astrud Gilberto The Girl From Ipanema All Nominees
1964 Henry Mancini Days Of Wine And Roses All Nominees
1963 Tony Bennett I Left My Heart In San Francisco All Nominees
1962 Henry Mancini Moon River All Nominees
1961 Percy Faith The Theme From A Summer Place All Nominees
1960 Bobby Darin Mack The Knife All Nominees
1959 Domenico Modugno Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare) All Nominees

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