These Are the Youngest Artists to Ever Be Nominated for a Grammy Award
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Diana Pearl, Zoey Lyttle, Emily KrauserFebruary 1, 2026 at 3:00 AM
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LeAnn Rimes poses with her awards at the 39th annual Grammys at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Feb. 26, 1997; Taylor Swift attends the 50th annual Grammy Awards at Staples Center in Los Angeles on Feb. 10, 2008; and Olivia Rodrigo arrives at the 64th annual Grammy Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on April 3, 2022
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Who says you need a driver's license to earn a Grammy Award nomination?
Olivia Rodrigo had both when she was nominated for her first three awards at 19 — including Best Pop Solo Performance for her viral hit "drivers license," which she won. Other musicians, however, were much younger when they earned their first Grammy nods.
In fact, a handful hadn't even graduated from middle school yet — and one was a toddler! Victoria Monét's daughter, Hazel Monét, was only 2½ when she earned her first nomination alongside her mom in 2024. Though Hazel is an outlier, many notable names such as Michael Jackson, Lorde and Justin Bieber also achieved early Grammy success.
From LeAnn Rimes to Destiny's Child, here are some of the youngest stars to ever be nominated for Grammys over the years.
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Hazel Monét
Victoria Monét (left) and daughter Hazel Monét attend the premiere of 'Wicked' at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in L.A. on Nov. 9, 2024
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In 2024, Victoria's then 2½-year-old daughter, Hazel, became the youngest Grammy nominee ever when she earned a nod alongside her mother for Best Traditional R&B Performance for "Hollywood," which also featured Earth, Wind & Fire.
The "On My Mama" singer told Billboard in November 2023 that her toddler reacted to the news by "being on the phone watching Baby Shark."
"I'm so proud of her, but she has no idea," Victoria said.
Victoria won three Grammys at the 2024 awards ceremony — Best New Artist, Best R&B Album and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical — but sadly, the category Hazel was in didn't earn the mother-daughter duo a golden gramophone.
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DeLeon Sheffield
DeLeon Sheffield performs during Allstate Gospel SuperFest at the House of Hope Arena in Chicago on March 21, 2015
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Gospel singer DeLeon Sheffield (née Richards) started touring at age 5 and was only 8 when she was nominated for her first Grammy in 1985 for Best Soul Gospel Performance — Female.
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Blue Ivy Carter
Blue Ivy Carter attends an NBA game between the Los Angeles Clippers and Los Angeles Lakers at Staples Center on March 8, 2020
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Just after turning 9, Jay-Z and Beyoncé's eldest child, Blue Ivy, won Best Music Video in 2021 for her part in her mom's song "Brown Skin Girl" from the 2019 soundtrack album The Lion King: The Gift. She sang a few lines on the track and received a writing credit. Per The Hollywood Reporter, in 2020, she became the youngest recipient in BET Awards history to win a BET Her Award for her contributions to the empowering track.
In 2025, Blue Ivy earned an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance (Motion Picture) for her debut role in Disney's musical drama Mufasa: The Lion King.
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Michael Jackson
From left: Tito Jackson, Jackie Jackson, Michael Jackson, Randy Jackson and Marlon Jackson of The Jackson 5 pose backstage with Gladys Knight & The Pips during the 15th annual Grammy Awards at the Tennessee Theatre in Nashville on March 3, 1973.
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At 12 years old, the late King of Pop earned his first nomination at the 1970 ceremony for the song "ABC," which he performed with his brothers in their band The Jackson 5.
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Billy Gilman
Billy Gilman was only 12 when he made a splash in country music in 2000 with his first single, "One Voice." The song was nominated for Best Male Country Vocal Performance, and as of 2026, it remains his only Grammy nod. After Gilman's early success, he went on to compete on The Voice in 2016.
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Zac and Taylor Hanson
From left: Zac Hanson, Isaac Hanson and Taylor Hanson of Hanson attend the 'Stuck on You' premiere at Clearview Chelsea Cinema in N.Y.C. on Dec. 8, 2003
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For their earworm of a tune "MMMBop," Hanson earned two Grammy nominations at the 1998 ceremony — Best Pop Performance By a Duo or Group with Vocal and Record of the Year — which made brothers Zac Hanson, then 12, and Taylor Hanson, then 14, two of the youngest Grammy nominees ever. (Their older brother Isaac Hanson was also quite young at just 16.)
They were also up for Best New Artist, but the trio lost all three awards. That ceremony was the last time the brothers received Grammy nods. However, in May 2024, they performed at the Inaugural Grammy Hall of Fame Gala.
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LeAnn Rimes
LeAnn Rimes holds her two awards at the 39th annual Grammys at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Feb. 26, 1997 Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage
Rimes was just 14 years old when she won two Grammy Awards in 1997 — one for Best New Artist and the other for Best Female Country Vocal Performance for her 1996 song "Blue."
"No country artist had ever won Best New Artist, so everyone told me, 'Don't get your hopes up.' And then they called my name," Rimes reportedly said. "I think I shook for 20 minutes after. Everyone thought No Doubt would win, and then they called my name! I sat down, and Gwen Stefani walks by and screams, 'That's the little girl who just kicked our ass!' "
At the time, the accolades made Rimes the youngest Grammy winner in history. (Leah Peasall, then 8 years old, broke the record in 2002, along with her sisters, when the trio nabbed the Album of the Year award for their feature on the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack.)
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Luis Miguel
Luis Miguel rehearses onstage for the second annual Latin Grammy Awards at the Forum in L.A. on Sept. 10, 2001.
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Now a household name, Latin artist Luis Miguel amassed acclaim at a young age. In 1985, he won his first Grammy at age 14 for Best Mexican-American Performance for "Me Gustas Tal Como Eres," the 1984 duet with Sheena Easton. In the years since, he's earned five more Grammys out of 14 additional nominations.
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Justin Bieber
Justin Bieber arrives at the 52nd annual Grammy Awards at Staples Center in L.A. on Jan. 31, 2010 Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic
Bieber was only 16 when he nabbed his first Grammy nominations for Best New Artist and Best Pop Vocal Album for 2010's My World 2.0. The Canadian pop star didn't win either award, with Best New Artist in 2011 going to Esperanza Spalding. However, in 2016, he did take home a Grammy five years later for Best Dance Recording of "Where Are Ü Now" with Skrillex and Diplo. His second win came in 2021 for Best Country Duo/Group Performance for "10,000 Hours" with Dan + Shay.
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Lorde
Lorde poses in the press room during the 56th annual Grammy Awards at Staples Center in L.A. on Jan. 26, 2014 Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic
"Royals" hit the airwaves in 2013, when Lorde was just 16. A few months after her 17th birthday, she earned two trophies for the song at the 56th annual Grammy Awards: Best Pop Solo Performance and Song of the Year.
Lorde was also nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album for Pure Heroine and Record of the Year for "Royals." In 2018, she received one more nod for her album Melodrama.
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Nick and Joe Jonas
Nick Jonas (left) and Joe Jonas of Jonas Brothers at the 51st annual Grammy Awards at Staples Center in L.A. on Feb. 8, 2009
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Nick Jonas — the youngest Jonas Brothers bandmate, but not the youngest Jonas brother, who would be Frankie Jonas — was just 16 when the trio earned a nomination for Best New Artist at the 2009 ceremony. (They lost to Adele, which is pretty good company to be in.)
Joe Jonas, the middle Jonas Brothers, was 19 at the time, while the band's eldest member and the oldest JoBro, Kevin Jonas, was already 21. The next time the group was considered for a Grammy, Nick was 27 — they were up for Best Pop Group Performance for their hit 2019 song "Sucker." Despite their longevity in the music world, these nods have been the Jonas Brothers' only two nominations thus far.
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Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell
Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell pose in the press room with their awards during the 62nd annual Grammy Awards at Staples Center in L.A. on Jan. 26, 2020
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The brother-sister duo each broke records in 2020.
Billie Eilish, who was 17 at the time she was nominated for six awards, was the youngest artist ever to be recognized for the top four Grammy categories: Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best New Artist — and she won them all. Meanwhile, Finneas O'Connell, then 22, was the youngest producer ever to be nominated for Producer of the Year (not alongside a collaborator), according to Billboard.
Through 2026, Eilish has earned 34 total nominations and won nine.
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Britney Spears
Britney Spears arrives at the 42nd annual Grammy Awards at Staples Center in L.A. on Feb. 23, 2000
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Britney Spears was 18 when she was first nominated for a Grammy, and she sweetly brought her mom, Lynne, as her date to the 2000 ceremony. The "Oops!...I Did It Again" singer was nominated for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "...Baby One More Time," as well as Best New Artist, which she lost to Christina Aguilera.
Spears found vindication in 2005, when she earned her first and only Grammy so far for Best Dance Recording for "Toxic." In total, the pop icon has been nominated for eight Grammys over the course of her career.
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Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift arrives to the 50th annual Grammy Awards at Staples Center in L.A. on Feb. 10, 2008 Gregg DeGuire/WireImage
Now one of the biggest stars on the planet, Taylor Swift received a Best New Artist nod at just 18. Though she didn't win in the category, her first Grammy nomination in 2008 was indicative of the many more to come. In 2010, she took home four of the eight awards for which she was considered.
Through 2026, the "Ophelia" singer boasts 14 wins out of 58 Grammy nominations and holds the record for most Album of the Year wins — four! — of any artist.
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GAYLE attends the 65th annual Grammy Awards at the Crypto.com Arena in L.A. on Feb. 5, 2023
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GAYLE was 18 when she was nominated for Song of the Year in 2023 for her angsty anthem "abcdefu." The song garnered major attention after going viral on TikTok and topped the global charts, reaching No. 3 in the U.S. and No. 1 in the U.K. That same year, the Texas-born, Tennessee-raised singer was an opener on the U.S. leg of Swift's The Eras Tour.
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The Kid LAROI
The Kid LAROI attends the 64th annual Grammy Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on April 3, 2022
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At just 18 years old, Australian rapper The Kid LAROI became a contender in two Grammy categories in 2022: Best New Artist and Album of the Year for his contributions to Bieber's Justice (Triple Chucks Deluxe).
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Halle Bailey
Halle Bailey attends the 61st annual Grammy Awards at Staples Center in L.A. on Feb. 10, 2019
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Halle Bailey — who is 21 months younger than her sister and collaborator Chloe Bailey — was 18 when the musical duo was nominated for two awards at the 2019 Grammys. (Chloe was 20 at the time.)
As a group, Chloe x Halle received nods in the Best New Artist and Best Urban Contemporary Album categories. The sibling singers didn't take home the gramophone, but bigger things were just around the corner for Halle, who starred as Princess Ariel in Disney's 2023 live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid.
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Avril Lavigne
Life was anything but "complicated" when, at 18, Avril Lavigne picked up five Grammy nominations in 2002, including Best New Artist and Best Pop Vocal Album for Let Go. She didn't take home any trophies, but she did receive three more nods the following year for her hits "I'm With You" and "Losing Grip."
During an event at the Grammy Museum in 2019, Lavigne shared that she was proud of the music she wrote as a teenager, telling the Museum's artistic director Scott Goldman that she heard "variety and a lot of depth."
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Olivia Rodrigo
Olivia Rodrigo poses in the press room with her three awards during the 64th annual Grammy Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas in on April 3, 2022
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In 2022, 19-year-old Rodrigo took home three of the seven awards for which she was nominated: Best New Artist, Best Pop Vocal Album for her debut Sour and Best Pop Solo Performance for "drivers license."
She was nominated for six more awards at the 2024 ceremony, including another nod for Best Pop Solo Performance for "Vampire," but lost in every category.
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Justin Timberlake
Justin Timberlake attends the 42nd annual Grammy Awards pre-party hosted by Clive Davis in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Feb. 22, 2000
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Alongside his fellow *NSYNC bandmates, Justin Timberlake was 19 when he became a two-time Grammy nominee in 2000. The boy band's songs "Music of My Heart" and "God Must Have Spent a Little More Time on You" were up for consideration in the Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals and Best Country Collaboration with Vocals categories, respectively.
Timberlake has received a total of 39 nominations — only eight of which he shares with the other members of *NSYNC — and won 10 awards, all as a solo artist.
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Jordin Sparks
Jordin Sparks arrives at the 51st annual Grammy Awards at Staples Center in L.A. on Feb. 8, 2009 Jeff Vespa/WireImage
Jordin Sparks was 19 when she scored her first Grammy nod. In 2009, she was up for Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals for "No Air," her duet with Chris Brown. It would be more than a decade before the American Idol champion earned her second nomination for Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song for 2022's "Love Me Like I Am."
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Destiny's Child
From left: Kelly Rowland, Farrah Franklin, Beyoncé and Michelle Williams of Destiny's Child attend the 42nd annual Grammy Awards at Staples Center in L.A. on Feb. 23, 2000 SGranitz/WireImage
Before Beyoncé released her first solo album (and subsequently took over the world) in 2003, she was nominated for her first Grammy with Destiny's Child at the 2000 ceremony. Their hit "Bills, Bills, Bills" was up for Best R&B Song and Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals. At the time, each of the group's members — Beyoncé, Kelly Rowland, LaTavia Roberson and LeToya Luckett — was only 19.
Roberson and Luckett were dropped from the group in 2000, and Destiny's Child (who at that point were a trio of Beyoncé, Rowland and Michelle Williams) disbanded in 2005. Beyoncé now holds the record for the most Grammys ever won, with 35 wins out of 99 nominations as of 2026.
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Christina Aguilera
The "Genie in a Bottle" singer was only 19 when she took home the trophy for Best New Artist in 2000 — a big year for young pop stars at the Grammys! The song, which was nominated for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, also became Aguilera's first No. 1 hit. Over her career, Aguilera has been nominated for 21 Grammys and has won five.
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Rihanna
Rihanna arrives at the 49th annual Grammy Awards at Staples Center in L.A. on Feb. 11, 2007 Jesse Grant/WireImage
Another 19-year-old first-time Grammy nominee was Rihanna, who was up for four awards at the 2008 ceremony. That year, she won Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for "Umbrella" with Jay-Z, a song that had also been up for Record of the Year. Her other two nods were Best Dance Recording for "Don't Stop the Music" and Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals for "Hate That I Love You" featuring NE-YO.
Through 2026, Rihanna has won nine total awards out of 34 nominations.
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