Disney Channel Stars Who Have Seen GRAMMY Success: Sabrina Carpenter, Miley Cyrus & More

When Sabrina Carpenter won her first GRAMMYs in February, the victories capped off a breakthrough year that cemented her as one of pop's new superstars. But they also continued a major winning streak for Disney Channel alums.

Since the 2000 GRAMMYs — where former "The All-New Mickey Mouse Club" castmates Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake were all nominated, with Aguilera taking home Best New Artist — stars who started on the Disney Channel have accrued 25 wins and 117 nominations collectively. The past five years have been particularly fruitful thanks to Carpenter, Miley Cyrus, Coco Jones, and Olivia Rodrigo.

Along with Carpenter's two wins at the 2025 GRAMMYs (Best Pop Vocal Album for Short n' Sweet and Best Pop Solo Performance for "Espresso"), Cyrus received her third golden gramophone for her Beyoncé collaboration "II MOST WANTED," which was crowned Best Country Duo/Group Performance. Cyrus' first wins came at the 2024 GRAMMYs, where Jones also took home her first; two years prior, Rodrigo took the 2022 GRAMMYs by storm with three wins, including Best New Artist.

The trend could continue at the 2026 GRAMMYs, too, as a number of Disney alums have released new music this year. Selena Gomez unveiled her collaborative project with fiancé (and superproducer) Benny Blanco, I Said I Love You First, in March; Jones' Why Not More? arrived in April; and Cyrus dropped Something Beautiful in May. And August has seen a new single from Demi Lovato ("Fast"), a new album from the Jonas Brothers (Greetings From Your Hometown), and Carpenter's highly anticipated follow-up to the GRAMMY-winning Short n' Sweet, Man's Best Friend, arrives on Aug. 29.

Below, check out all of the former Disney Channel stars who have seen GRAMMY success.

Christina Aguilera

5 wins, 21 nominations

The first Disney Channel alum to earn a GRAMMY victory, "All-New Mickey Mouse Club" member Christina Aguilera was crowned Best New Artist at the 2000 GRAMMYs — where fellow castmate Britney Spears was nominated in the same Category.

Two years later, she won Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals alongside Lil' Kim, Mýa, and P!nk for their Moulin Rouge hit "Lady Marmalade," which they performed at the ceremony. Her favorite GRAMMY performance, however, was her stirring rendition of "Beautiful" at the 2004 GRAMMYs, where she won Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for the song. She went on to win the award again three years later for "Ain't No Other Man." As of press time, her most recent win was for "Say Something," her collaboration with A Great Big World, which was voted Best Pop Duo/Group Performance at the 2015 GRAMMYs.

Sabrina Carpenter

2 wins, 6 nominations

While Carpenter's first official Disney role was in 2013, when she was cast in "Girl Meets World," she clearly had her sights set on the Disney family, entering (and nearly winning) The Next Miley Cyrus Project singing competition in 2010. Also appearing in Disney's Adventures in Babysitting in 2016, Carpenter launched her music career with the company, releasing her first four studio albums with Hollywood Records.

Once she released Emails I Can't Send with Island Records in 2022, Carpenter's career as a singer/songwriter was on another trajectory. As of press time, all of her GRAMMY nominations spawned from its follow-up, 2024's Short n' Sweet, which earned her six nods.

Carpenter was nominated for Best New Artist, while the album was up for Album Of The Year; singles "Espresso" and "Please Please Please" received Record and Song Of The Year nominations, respectively. She ultimately won for Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Pop Solo Performance, the latter for "Espresso."

Chloe x Halle

5 nominations

Sisters Chloe and Halle Bailey — known together as R&B duo Chloe x Halle — perhaps aren't as closely associated with Disney as some of the other names here, but their first involvement with the company came over a decade ago. Shortly after appearing as choir members in Let It Shine, they won Radio Disney's Next Big Thing in December 2012.

In the years since, they've released two EPs, one mixtape and two studio albums, receiving five GRAMMY nominations in the process. They were up for Best New Artist and Best Contemporary Album for their debut LP, The Kids Are Alright, at the 2019 GRAMMYs, where they also paid tribute to Donny Hathaway with a performance of "Where Is The Love." In 2021, they received another three nominations for their second album, Ungodly Hour, and two tracks from the set, "Do It" and "Wonder What She Thinks of Me."

Halle — whose association with Disney continued into adulthood after she played Ariel in the live-action The Little Mermaid in 2023 — also earned a GRAMMY nomination as a solo act. Her debut solo single, "Angel," earned a nod for Best R&B Song at the 2024 GRAMMYs.

Miley Cyrus

3 wins, 9 nominations

Miley Cyrus was just 13 when she auditioned for "Hannah Montana," and the Disney sitcom quickly turned her into a teen idol. She began her music career in character before branching out under her own name with 2008's aptly titled Breakout. Though she scored a number of hits with her first few albums — including the instantly iconic anthem "Party In The U.S.A." — it wasn't until 2015 that Cyrus received her first GRAMMY nomination, a Best Pop Vocal Album nod for her 2013 set, Bangerz.

In 2022, she earned an Album Of The Year nomination for her contribution to Lil Nas X's MONTERO ("Am I Dreaming"), and two years later, she scored her first Album Of The Year nom for her own album, Endless Summer Vacation — which led her to GRAMMY gold.

Cyrus received six nominations at the 2024 GRAMMYs, taking home Best Pop Solo Performance and Record Of The Year for Endless Summer Vacation's lead single, "Flowers." She got to celebrate the former with a triumphant performance of the smash hit, during which she proclaimed, "I just won my first GRAMMY!"

In 2025, Cyrus won her third GRAMMY, this time in the Best Country Duo/Group Performance Category, for her Beyoncé collaboration "II MOST WANTED" from COWBOY CARTER.

Selena Gomez

2 nominations

One of Disney's flagship stars in the late 2000s due to her role in "Wizards of Waverly Place" and a string of guest roles and movies, Selena Gomez also began her music career with Hollywood Records, first fronting pop-rock band Selena Gomez & the Scene from 2008-2012. She released her first solo album, 2013's Stars Dance, with the label before moving to Interscope Records, her current label home, in 2014.

Before earning her first GRAMMY nominations, Gomez received a Leading Ladies of Entertainment Award at the Latin GRAMMY Awards in 2020. Fittingly, her first GRAMMY nomination came from her first Spanish-language project.

Gomez's EP Revelación earned a Best Latin Pop Album nomination at the 2022 GRAMMYs. The following year, she received an Album Of The Year nomination for Coldplay's Music of the Spheres, as she featured on the single "Let Somebody Go."

Jonas Brothers

2 nominations

After releasing their first album with Columbia Records, the Jonas Brothers signed to Hollywood Records in 2007. That same year, they appeared alongside Cyrus in both an episode of "Hannah Montana" and on the Best of Both Worlds Tour. By 2008, they were Disney Channel superstars in their own right, having their own reality TV show ("Jonas Brothers: Living the Dream") before co-starring with Lovato in the DCOM sensation Camp Rock.

Following that success, the Jonas Brothers' first GRAMMY nomination came in 2009 — the same year their Disney Channel sitcom "Jonas" premiered — for Best New Artist. Over a decade later, Joe, Kevin and Nick received their second GRAMMY nod with their chart-topping comeback single, "Sucker," which was up for Best Pop/Duo Group Performance at the 2020 GRAMMYs.

Coco Jones

1 win, 7 nominations

Like Sabrina Carpenter, Coco Jones' GRAMMY success was more than a decade in the making. In 2010, she was runner-up in Radio Disney's Next Big Thing singing contest; by June 2012, she'd appeared on the Disney Channel show "So Random!," signed with Hollywood Records, and earned a lead role in the Disney Channel Original Movie (DCOM) Let It Shine.

Following a recurring role in another Disney Channel show called "Good Luck Charlie," Jones pursued an independent music career and non-Disney acting roles. 2022 marked a breakthrough year for Jones because of a role on "Bel-Air" and her single "ICU" — and the latter of which became a GRAMMY-winning hit.

"ICU" won Best R&B Performance at the 2024 GRAMMYs, where Jones was nominated for five awards, including Best R&B Album for her EP What I Didn't Tell You (Deluxe) and Best New Artist. She earned two more nominations at the 2025 GRAMMYs, Best R&B Performance and Best R&B Song for "Here We Go (Uh Oh)," the lead single from her debut album, Why Not More?

Demi Lovato

2 nominations

Demi Lovato first joined the Disney Channel family when she landed a role in the short show "As the Bell Rings" in 2007. It was her lead role alongside the Jonas Brothers in 2008's Camp Rock, however, that brought her global fame. A year later, she became the titular character in the popular sitcom "Sonny with a Chance."

Like Gomez — a childhood friend of Lovato's, with whom she starred in the 2009 DCOM Princess Protection Program — the "Fast" singer has been nominated for two GRAMMYs. Her first nomination came in 2017, when her album Confident was up for Best Pop Vocal Album, and the second came two years later, for the song "Fall In Line," a collaboration with fellow Disney alum Christina Aguilera.

Olivia Rodrigo

3 wins, 14 nominations

Olivia Rodrigo's first Disney Channel breakthrough was on the comedy series "Bizaardvark," in which she starred as the guitar-playing Paige Olvera. But it was her role in "High School Musical: The Musical: The Series" that truly launched her in 2019, particularly due to her original song "All I Want," which she wrote by herself.

Signing with Geffen Records a year later, Rodrigo rose to global fame with her single "drivers license" in 2021. The record-breaking song — and its parent album, SOUR — helped Rodrigo win three golden gramophones at the 2023 GRAMMYs: Best Pop Solo Performance, Best Pop Vocal Album, and the coveted Best New Artist.

Rodrigo's second album, GUTS, earned her a further six nominations in 2024, including Album Of The Year as well as Record and Song Of The Year for lead single "Vampire." As of press time, her most recent nomination was for "Can't Catch Me Now," her original song from "The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes," which was up for Best Song Written For Visual Media at the 2025 GRAMMYs.

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Britney Spears

1 win, 8 nominations

After appearing on "The All-New Mickey Mouse Club" the same time as Timberlake and Aguilera, Britney Spears stormed onto the music scene with "...Baby One More Time." The song was nominated for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 2000 GRAMMYs, where she was also up for Best New Artist.

Earning another four nominations from 2001-2003, Spears' first win came in 2005 thanks to another massive hit, "Toxic," which won Best Dance Recording. Spears' most recent nomination is also in that Category, as she received a nod for "Womanizer" in 2010.

Justin Timberlake

10 wins, 40 nominations

Before joining *NSYNC as a teen, Justin Timberlake began his career on TV. After appearing on "Star Search," he was then a Mouseketeer on "The All-New Mickey Mouse Club" from 1993 to 1994.

His first eight GRAMMY nominations came alongside his *NSYNC bandmates, but his first wins came once he launched his solo career in 2002. At the 2004 GRAMMYs, his debut solo album, Justified, won Best Pop Vocal Album, and the single "Cry Me a River" won Best Male Pop Vocal Performance.

Timberlake's second solo album, 2006's FutureSex/LoveSounds, helped him win two awards apiece at the 2007 and 2008 GRAMMYs. At the former, "SexyBack" and "My Love" (feat T.I.) won Best Dance Recording and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration, respectively; at the latter, "LoveStoned/I Think She Knows" won Best Dance Recording and "What Goes Around... Comes Around" won Best Male Pop Vocal Performance.

In 2014, Timberlake won a further three golden gramophones for his third album, The 20/20 Experience – The Complete Experience, and in 2017, his global smash from Trolls, "Can't Stop the Feeling!," earned his first GRAMMY for Best Song Written for Visual Media. He was nominated in the same Category at the 2025 GRAMMYs for another Trolls song, "Better Place" from Trolls Band Together — something of a full-circle moment for the singer, as it marked the first new *NSYNC song in over 20 years.