has been awarded since 1998. In 2003 the award was moved from the "pop" field into a new "dance" field.
Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were presented, for works released in the previous year.
Justin Timberlake is the first and so far only artist to win in this category twice.
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| 2009 The 51st Annual Grammy Awards took place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, CA on February 8, 2009. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss were the biggest winners of the night, with five wins, including Album of the Year and Record of the Year. Lil Wayne won four awards, including Best Rap Album....
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"Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" is a song by French duo Daft Punk. The single was first released on October 13, 2001. A live version of "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" was released as a single from the album Alive 2007 on October 15, 2007...
" by Daft PunkDaft Punk is an electronic music duo consisting of French musicians Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter...
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- "Ready for the Floor
"Ready for the Floor" is the second single by Hot Chip from their 2008 album Made in the Dark. It was released on 28 January 2008 and reached number six on the UK Singles Chart.-Lyrics:...
" by Hot ChipHot Chip is a Grammy-nominated British electropop band. They have released three studio albums—Coming on Strong, The Warning, and Made in the Dark. The Warning was named Album of the Year by Mixmag and voted the fourth best album of 2006 by NME...
- "Just Dance" by Lady GaGa
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta , better known by her stage name Lady Gaga, is an American recording artist. After being signed to and quickly dropped from Def Jam Records at age 19, she began performing in the rock music scene of New York City's Lower East Side...
featuring Colby O'DonisColby O'Donis is an American pop, R&B and hip hop singer-songwriter, and actor.-Early Life:Colby O'Donis was born in Queens, New York on March 14, 1989 to Puerto Rican parents. O'Donis's talent was discovered at age 3 when he won first place at a talent show by singing a Michael Jackson song...
- "Give It 2 Me
"Give It 2 Me" is a song by American singer-songwriter Madonna from her eleventh studio album, Hard Candy. It was released on June 4, 2008, by Warner Bros. Records as the second single from the album...
" by MadonnaMadonna is an American recording artist, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan, and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977, for a career in modern dance...
- "Disturbia
"Disturbia" is a dance-pop song from the re-release of Rihanna's third album, Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded. It is the third single from the re-release, following "Take a Bow" and "If I Never See Your Face Again". The song was written by Andre Merritt, Chris Brown, and Robert Allen, and produced by...
" by RihannaRobyn Rihanna Fenty , known as Rihanna, is a Barbadian singer and model. Born in Saint Michael, Barbados, Rihanna moved to the United States at the age of 16 to pursue a recording career under the guidance of record producer Evan Rogers...
- "Black & Gold
"Black and Gold" is the lead single from Sam Sparro's eponymous first album. The song has been remixed by Max Sanna and Steve Pitron, Paul Epworth, Al Usher, Kings of the Universe, Komatic and Russ Chimes. The original version of the single was made available on iTunes on March 23, 2008, with the...
" by Sam SparroSam Sparro is an Australian-born singer-songwriter of Portuguese descent, music producer and former child actor. His stage name was derived from a family nickname, which in turn was inspired by the Australian radio mascot Sammy Sparrow...
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2008The 50th Annual Grammy Awards took place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, on February 10, 2008. Amy Winehouse was the big winner; winning a total of five awards. Herbie Hancock's River: The Joni Letters won Album of the Year, marking the first time in 43 years that a jazz album...
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"LoveStoned" by Justin Timberlake Justin Randall Timberlake is an American pop musician. He has won six Grammy Awards as well as two Emmy Awards. He got his big break when he appeared as a contestant on Star Search, and went on to star in the Disney Channel television series The New Mickey Mouse Club, where he met future bandmate...
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"Do It Again "Do It Again" is a song by the English electronic music duo The Chemical Brothers and is the fifth track on their 2007 studio album We Are the Night. The song also features Ali Love and was released as the first single from that album in early June 2007 . It reached its highest chart position in...
" by The Chemical BrothersThe Chemical Brothers are the English electronic music duo Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons...
"D.A.N.C.E."D.A.N.C.E." is the second single by Justice, and the first from their album †. It includes an edit and extended versions of "D.A.N.C.E", a rougher mix in the style of their earlier releases, "B.E.A.T", and the track "Phantom" which was previously issued in limited quantities twice on 12" vinyl...
" by JusticeJustice is a French electronic music duo consisting of Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay . The duo is one of the most successful groups on Ed Banger Records and is managed by the label's head, Pedro Winter...
"Love Today"Love Today" is the Grammy-nominated third single released by London-based singer Mika, taken from his album Life in Cartoon Motion.It was released in the United Kingdom on 16 April 2007 as a digital download, with the official CD release on 23 April 2007 and it has since peaked at number 6.The...
" by MikaMika , sometimes stylised MIKA, , is a London-based, Grammy-nominated and BRIT Award-winning singer-songwriter, who has a recording contract with Casablanca Records and Universal Music...
"Don't Stop the Music"Don't Stop the Music" is a dance song performed by Barbadian pop singer Rihanna from her third studio album, Good Girl Gone Bad. It was the third single from the album in most of Europe, the second single in Germany and Spain and the fourth single in the rest of the world...
" by RihannaRobyn Rihanna Fenty , known as Rihanna, is a Barbadian singer and model. Born in Saint Michael, Barbados, Rihanna moved to the United States at the age of 16 to pursue a recording career under the guidance of record producer Evan Rogers...
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"SexyBack "SexyBack" is a song by American singer–songwriter Justin Timberlake from his second studio album, FutureSex/LoveSounds . It was released on July 7, 2006, by Jive Records as the lead single from the album...
" by Justin TimberlakeJustin Randall Timberlake is an American pop musician. He has won six Grammy Awards as well as two Emmy Awards. He got his big break when he appeared as a contestant on Star Search, and went on to star in the Disney Channel television series The New Mickey Mouse Club, where he met future bandmate...
and TimbalandTimothy Zachery Mosley , better known by his stage name Timbaland, is an American Grammy Award-winning record producer, singer and rapper. Timbaland has produced albums and singles for a number of artists from the mid-1990s to the present day..Timbaland's first full credit production work was in...
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"Suffer Well "Suffer Well" is the third single off the album Playing the Angel by Depeche Mode, and their forty-third single overall. It was released in the UK on 27 March 2006. Like "A Pain That I'm Used To", it has been released in the US via digital downloads . It is the first Depeche Mode single whose...
" by Depeche ModeDepeche Mode are an English electronic band who formed in 1980, in Basildon, Essex. The group's original line-up consisted of Dave Gahan , Martin Gore , Andrew Fletcher and Vince Clarke...
"Ooh La La" by GoldfrappGoldfrapp is a British electronic music group. The band was formed in 1999 in London, England, and consists of Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory ....
"Get Together" by MadonnaMadonna is an American recording artist, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan, and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977, for a career in modern dance...
"I'm with Stupid" by Pet Shop BoysPet Shop Boys are an British electronic dance music duo, consisting of Neil Tennant, who provides main vocals, keyboards and occasionally guitar and Chris Lowe on keyboards and occasionally on vocals....
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"Galvanize "Galvanize" is the first single from The Chemical Brothers' 2005 album Push the Button. It was released a week before the album's release and peaked at #3 in the UK charts . It won the Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording in February 2006. That same month, an Anheuser-Busch television commercial...
" by The Chemical BrothersThe Chemical Brothers are the English electronic music duo Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons...
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"Say Hello "Say Hello" is a 2005 single by the house music duo Deep Dish. It was originally included on the group's 2005 album, George Is On.The song became another popular hit for the group, topping the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart in the US and peaking at #14 on the UK Singles Chart. It also became a...
" by Deep DishDeep Dish is a duo of DJ and house music producers consisting of Iranian-American members Ali "Dubfire" Shirazinia and Sharam Tayebi. Based in Washington, DC Shirazinia and Tayebi are well known for providing house or dance remixes of tracks of famous stars such as Madonna, Cher and Gabrielle, and...
"Wonderful Night"Wonderful Night" is the name of a song by Fatboy Slim from his album Palookaville. It features Lateef the Truth Speaker on the vocal track. The song is often played at Staples Center immediately after Los Angeles Clippers home wins and at Madison Square Garden during the second half of New York...
" by Fatboy SlimNorman Quentin Cook , also known by the stage name Fatboy Slim, is a British DJ, big beat musician, record producer and pioneer of the electronic dance genre which achieved mainstream popularity in the 1990s...
"Daft Punk Is Playing at My House"Daft Punk Is Playing at My House" is the fifth single from LCD Soundsystem, released on February 21, 2005. The accompanying music video paid tongue-in-cheek homage to Spike Jonze's and Michel Gondry's music videos for Daft Punk's "Da Funk" and "Around the World," respectively...
" by LCD SoundsystemLCD Soundsystem is the musical side project of producer James Murphy, co-founder of dance-punk label DFA Records. The music of LCD Soundsystem is a mix of dance music and punk, along with elements of disco and other styles...
"I Believe in You"I Believe in You" is a pop-dance song performed by Australian singer Kylie Minogue and written by Minogue and Scissor Sisters members Jake Shears and Babydaddy...
" by Kylie MinogueKylie Ann Minogue, OBE is an Australian pop singer, songwriter, and actress. After beginning her career as a child actor on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing her career as a recording artist in 1987...
"Guilt Is a Useless Emotion" by New OrderNew Order were an English musical group formed in 1980 by Bernard Sumner , Peter Hook and Stephen Morris . New Order were formed in the wake of the demise of their previous group Joy Division, following the suicide of vocalist Ian Curtis...
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"Toxic"Toxic" is a Grammy Award-winning dance-pop song written by Bloodshy & Avant, Cathy Dennis, and Henrik Jonback for Britney Spears' fourth studio album In the Zone . It was released as the album's second single in early 2004 . The song was originally offered to Kylie Minogue but she turned it down...
" by Britney SpearsBritney Jean Spears is an American singer and entertainer. Born in Mississippi and raised in Louisiana, Spears first appeared on national television in 1992 as a contestant on the Star Search program, and went on to star in Disney Channel's television series The New Mickey Mouse Club from 1993 to...
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"Good Luck "Good Luck" is a song performed by UK electronica duo Basement Jaxx, featuring vocals from Lisa Kekaula of the Bellrays. It was released in January 2004 and reached number 12 on the UK Singles Chart, number 2 on the Hot Dance Club Play in the US, and number 22 on the ARIA Charts...
" by Basement JaxxBasement Jaxx are a UK house music duo. The duo consists of Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe. They first rose to popularity in the late 1990s.-History:...
and Lisa KekaulaLisa Kekaula is the lead singer of American "rock 'n' soul" band The Bellrays. She has also featured on two singles by British house music band Basement Jaxx, most famously Good Luck, the track "Realizer" from the 2004 disc Legion of Boom by The Crystal Method, and "Talkin' in My Sleep" from The...
"Get Yourself High"Get Yourself High" is a 2003 single by The Chemical Brothers. It features Canadian rapper k-os and appeared as a bonus track on their collection Singles 93-03. A music video directed by Joseph Kahn, featuring a digitally enhanced version of an old martial arts film called 2 Champions of...
" by The Chemical BrothersThe Chemical Brothers are the English electronic music duo Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons...
"Slow"Slow" is an electropop song written by Australian singer–songwriter Kylie Minogue, Mr. Dan, and Emilíana Torrini for Minogue's ninth studio album, Body Language . It was produced by Sunnyroads and received a positive reception from music critics...
" by Kylie MinogueKylie Ann Minogue, OBE is an Australian pop singer, songwriter, and actress. After beginning her career as a child actor on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing her career as a recording artist in 1987...
"Comfortably Numb"Comfortably Numb" is a song by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, which was released on the 1979 double album The Wall. It was also released as a single in the same year, with "Hey You" as the B-side...
" by Scissor SistersThe Scissor Sisters are a Grammy Award-nominated American band that formed in 2001. Their style draws from disco, glam rock, pop and the club scene of New York City.The group take their name from a sexual position between women known as tribadism...
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"Come Into My World" by Kylie MinogueKylie Ann Minogue, OBE is an Australian pop singer, songwriter, and actress. After beginning her career as a child actor on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing her career as a recording artist in 1987...
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"Love One Another "Love One Another" is the last American single by American singer-actress Cher from her twenty-fifth studio album, Living Proof. It was released in 2003 by Warner Bros, and WEA.-Song information:...
" by CherCher is an American pop singer-songwriter, actor, director and record producer. She has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globe Awards and a People's Choice Award for her work in film, music and television.Cher began her career at the age of seventeen and came to...
"Easy" by Groove ArmadaGroove Armada are a big beat duo Andy Cato and Tom Findlay from England. They are now primarily based in London, and continue to produce and record music as well as hosting semi-regular club nights in London and an annual London festival under the Lovebox banner.The group has collaborated with a...
"Die Another Day"Die Another Day" is the theme to the James Bond film of the same name recorded by Madonna. The single was released in late 2002, marking Madonna's 20th career anniversary, and peaked at number eight in the United States and #3 in the United Kingdom selling 167,863 copies, making it the most...
" by MadonnaMadonna is an American recording artist, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan, and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977, for a career in modern dance...
"Breathe"Breathe" is the title of the debut single by the French dance music group Télépopmusik. It features guest vocals by singer Angela McCluskey and appears on the group's 2001 album Genetic World....
" by TelepopmusikTélépopmusik is a French electronic music trio, composed of Fabrice Dumont , Stephan Haeri , and Christophe Hetier....
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"Days Go By "Days Go By" is a song by the band Dirty Vegas from their eponymous album. The song became a radio hit in 2002, peaking at #14 in the U.S., and received the Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording. "Days Go By" received significant public exposure in a commercial for the 2003 Mitsubishi Eclipse...
" by Dirty VegasDirty Vegas is a Grammy Award-winning British house music trio made up of Ben Harris and Paul Harris on instruments and production and Steve Smith on vocals, that was formed in 2001...
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"Gotta Get Thru This" by Daniel Bedingfield Daniel John Bedingfield is a New Zealand-born, British singer-songwriter. He is the brother of pop singer Natasha Bedingfield and Nikola Rachelle.-Music career:...
"Superstylin'" by Groove ArmadaGroove Armada are a big beat duo Andy Cato and Tom Findlay from England. They are now primarily based in London, and continue to produce and record music as well as hosting semi-regular club nights in London and an annual London festival under the Lovebox banner.The group has collaborated with a...
"Love at First Sight" by Kylie MinogueKylie Ann Minogue, OBE is an Australian pop singer, songwriter, and actress. After beginning her career as a child actor on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing her career as a recording artist in 1987...
"Hella Good"Hella Good" is a song written by Gwen Stefani, Tony Kanal, and The Neptunes for No Doubt's fifth studio album Rock Steady . The song draws influence from electro, rock, and funk music...
" by No DoubtNo Doubt is an American rock band from Anaheim, California, founded in 1986. The ska-pop sound of their first album, No Doubt , failed to make waves...
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"All for You "All for You" is a song by American R&B-pop singer Janet Jackson from her seventh studio album, All for You . Released as the album's lead single in March 2001, the song went on to top the Billboard Hot 100 for seven weeks, and also reached the top five and the top ten of the majority of the charts...
" by Janet JacksonJanet Damita Jo Jackson is an American recording artist and actress. Born in Gary, Indiana, and raised in Encino, Los Angeles, California, she is the youngest child of the Jackson family of musicians...
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"One More Time "One More Time" is a song by Daft Punk first released as a single on November 13, 2000 and later included in the 2001 album Discovery. The song's vocal performance by Romanthony is heavily auto-tuned and compressed. As part of the album, the track is featured in the introduction to the film...
" by Daft PunkDaft Punk is an electronic music duo consisting of French musicians Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter...
"I Feel Loved"I Feel Loved" is Depeche Mode's thirty-seventh UK single, released on 30 July 2001 in the UK and 31 July in the US. It is the second single for the album Exciter....
" by Depeche ModeDepeche Mode are an English electronic band who formed in 1980, in Basildon, Essex. The group's original line-up consisted of Dave Gahan , Martin Gore , Andrew Fletcher and Vince Clarke...
"Out of Nowhere" by Gloria EstefanGloria Estefan is a Grammy Award-winning Cuban-American singer and songwriter. She is in the top 100 best selling music artists with over 90 million albums sold worldwide, 26.5 million of those in the United States alone...
"Angel" by Lionel Ritchie |
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"Who Let the Dogs Out? "Who Let the Dogs Out?" is a song written and originally recorded by Anslem Douglas for Trinidad and Tobago's Carnival season of 1998. It was heard and taped on a float by hairdresser Keith from the London salon Smile, who played it to Jonathan King, who recorded it and released it under the name...
" by Baha MenBaha Men is the name of a pop group from Nassau, Bahamas that plays a modernized style of Bahamian music called Junkanoo. The group's debut, Junkanoo, was released in 1992, and was very traditional in its sound...
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"Blue (Da Ba Dee)"Blue " is a dance-pop song by Italian eurodance group Eiffel 65 from their debut album Europop ....
" by Eiffel 65Eiffel 65 was a Grammy-nominated Italian electronic dance three-piece group, formed in the late 1990s and best known for their international hit "Blue ". Their other hit singles include "Move Your Body" and "Too Much of Heaven", all of which appeared on their album Europop, released in late 1999...
"Be with You"Be With You" is a dance/pop song performed by singer Enrique Iglesias. It was co-written by Iglesias and, produced by Mark Taylor and Brian Rawling, the team responsible for Cher's hit song "Believe". Iglesias once stated that he initially came up with the lyrics of the song while taking a break...
" by Enrique IglesiasEnrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler , better known as Enrique Iglesias, is a Spanish singer, songwriter and actor....
"Let's Get Loud"Let's Get Loud" is the fifth and final single from Jennifer Lopez's debut album, On the 6 . Released in Europe and Australia only in 2000, the single was not able to enter the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, though it did manage to chart on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play at number thirty-nine...
" by Jennifer LopezJennifer Lynn Lopez , often nicknamed J.Lo, is an American actress, singer, record producer, dancer, fashion designer and television producer. She is the richest person of Latin American descent in Hollywood according to Forbes, and the most influential Hispanic entertainer in the U.S...
"Natural Blues"Natural Blues" is a song by electronic musician Moby released as the fifth single from his 1999 studio album Play. It is essentially a retitled remix of the originally a cappella song "Trouble So Hard" by American folk singer Vera Hall and her cousin Dock Reed...
" by MobyRichard Melville Hall , better known by his stage name Moby, is an American DJ, singer-songwriter, and musician....
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"Believe "Believe" is a Grammy Award-winning global number one, multi-platinum dance song which served as the worldwide lead single for American singer Cher's twenty-third studio album Believe...
" by CherCher is an American pop singer-songwriter, actor, director and record producer. She has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globe Awards and a People's Choice Award for her work in film, music and television.Cher began her career at the age of seventeen and came to...
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"Don't Let This Moment End "Don't Let This Moment End" is a song by Gloria Estefan, released as the second single in the United States, the third in the United Kingdom, and her fourth globally, from her eighth album Gloria!.-Song history:...
" by Gloria EstefanGloria Estefan is a Grammy Award-winning Cuban-American singer and songwriter. She is in the top 100 best selling music artists with over 90 million albums sold worldwide, 26.5 million of those in the United States alone...
"Praise You"Praise You" is a song by dance/electronic musician Norman Cook, also known as Fatboy Slim, from his second studio album You've Come a Long Way, Baby. The track was released as the third single from the album in 1999...
" by Fatboy SlimNorman Quentin Cook , also known by the stage name Fatboy Slim, is a British DJ, big beat musician, record producer and pioneer of the electronic dance genre which achieved mainstream popularity in the 1990s...
"Waiting for Tonight"Waiting for Tonight" is a song originally recorded by American female pop trio 3rd Party for their 1997 album Alive. American singer Jennifer Lopez recorded a version for her debut album, On the 6 , and the song became the third single from the album and also the most famous version of the song so...
" by Jennifer LopezJennifer Lynn Lopez , often nicknamed J.Lo, is an American actress, singer, record producer, dancer, fashion designer and television producer. She is the richest person of Latin American descent in Hollywood according to Forbes, and the most influential Hispanic entertainer in the U.S...
"I Will Go with You (Con Te Partirò)"I Will Go with You " is a song recorded by American singer Donna Summer in 1999 for her album Live & More Encore, the track being one of two new studio recordings included on the live album....
" by Donna SummerDonna Summer is an American singer and songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of music, earning the title "The Queen of Disco"....
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