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The Grammy Award for Album of the Year is presented by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Overview )〕 Album of the Year is the most prestigious and final award category at the Grammys having been presented since 1959. Although it was originally presented to the artist alone, the award is now presented to the main artist, the featured artist(s), the producer, the engineer and/or mixer and the mastering engineer. In 1962, the award name was extended to Album of the Year (other than classical) but, in 1965, the shorter name returned. It was not until 1968, 1969, 1999, 2011, and 2014 that the award was won by a rock, country, hip hop, indie, or electronic music album respectively. As of 2012, classical albums are eligible for this award, with the award for Best Classical Album being discontinued. ==Achievements== Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, Daniel Lanois (as record producer) and Bob Ludwig (as mastering engineer) are the biggest winners in this category with three victories each. Ludwig is the only person to win the award three consecutive years (2013–2015). Paul McCartney leads all performers with nine nominations: five as a member of The Beatles, three for solo albums, and one as a member of Wings. Sinatra leads solo performers with eight nominations, seven for solo albums and one for a duet album. McCartney and Simon are the only artists with nominations in every decade from the 1960s to the 2000s. Norah Jones holds the female artist record with the most wins in this category with four, for her own album, ''Come Away with Me'', and as a featured artist on Outkast's ''Speakerboxxx/The Love Below'', Ray Charles' ''Genius Loves Company'' and Herbie Hancock's ''River: The Joni Letters''. Natalie Cole, Lauryn Hill, Alison Krauss and Bonnie Raitt are all tied with two wins each, winning for their respective albums, ''Unforgettable... with Love'', ''The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill'', ''Raising Sand'' and ''Nick of Time'' and as featured artists (Hill on Santana's ''Supernatural'', Cole and Raitt on Ray Charles' ''Genius Loves Company'' and Krauss on the ''O Brother, Where Art Thou?'' soundtrack). To date, no woman has won the award more than once for her own albums. The youngest album artist to win is Taylor Swift, who won the award for ''Fearless'' in 2010 at the age of 20. The Peasall Sisters, Sarah, Hannah and Leah, are the category's youngest credited winners, winning for their contributions to the album ''O Brother, Where Art Thou?'' soundtrack at the ages of 13, 9, and 7 respectively. Leah Peasall is the youngest winner of any Grammy in any category.〔(Past Winners Search | GRAMMY.com )〕 The youngest person to make an appearance on an Album of the Year is Stevie Wonder's daughter Aisha Morris who appeared on "Isn't She Lovely?" off the album ''Songs in the Key of Life'' as an infant. The Beatles' ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'' was the first album by a rock and roll artist to win, Glen Campbell's ''By The Time I Get To Phoenix'' was the first by a country artist, Lauryn Hill's ''The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill'' first by a hip hop artist, Arcade Fire's ''The Suburbs'' the first Indie artist, and Daft Punk's ''Random Access Memories'' the first by an electronic music artist. Only two artists have ever been awarded the Grammy for "Album of the Year" in two consecutive years, Frank Sinatra and Stevie Wonder. Sinatra had wins in 1966 and 1967 and Wonder followed with wins in 1974 and 1975. Wonder and Sinatra both won the most Grammys for Album of the Year within a decade. Sinatra had wins in 1960, 1966 and 1967, while Wonder had wins in 1974, 1975 and 1977. Frank Sinatra, The Beatles, Barbra Streisand, and Lady Gaga are the only artists to receive three consecutive nominations in this category, with Gaga being the only solo artist to receive this nomination for her first three albums. Additionally, The Beatles hold the record for most consecutive years being nominated for Album of the Year, with five. To date, there have been two "live" albums to win the award: ''Judy at Carnegie Hall'' and ''The Concert For Bangladesh'', though two "MTV Unplugged" albums (Eric Clapton's and Tony Bennett's) have won the award as well, which were performed in front of an intimate, live audience. One television soundtrack recording was also the very first recipient: ''The Music from Peter Gunn''. Two comedy albums have also triumphed in this category: ''The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart'' and ''The First Family''. There have been three soundtrack compilation albums that have been successful, as well: ''Saturday Night Fever'', ''The Bodyguard'' and ''O Brother, Where Art Thou?''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Grammy Award for Album of the Year」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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