{"id":450952,"date":"2026-02-03T10:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T10:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/450952\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T10:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T10:16:11","slug":"top-2026-grammy-moments-that-broke-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/450952\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 2026 Grammy moments that broke the internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From shocking slip-ups to history-making wins, the 68th Annual Grammy Awards had no shortage of moments that lit up timelines and group chats.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Whether it was a nearly naked performance, an awkward onstage mistake, or a groundbreaking victory, here are the top five moments that had the internet shook.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Justin Bieber gives an almost-bare performance\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Justin Bieber returned to the Grammy stage for the first time in four years for a stripped down performance of \u201cYUKON\u201d \u2013 literally. The Stratford-born singer performed in nothing but boxers and socks, draped with a guitar around his body.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Online, tons of people are reacting to his interesting outfit choice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been a Justin Bieber fan forever. I am very confused by the fact that he is performing in boxers,\u201d one person on X said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJustin Bieber performing in boxers was not on my bingo card,\u201d another said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cher\u2019s ROTY fumble\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pop legend Cher announced the winner for the Record of the Year. Unfortunately, the recipient she named has been dead for more than 20 years. The award was actually meant for Kendrick Lamar and SZA for their hit song \u201cLuther,\u201d but the 79-year-old singer initially called out the late singer who the song is named after and sampled of, Luther Vandross, who died in 2005.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cOh! The Grammy goes to Luther Vandross!\u201d \u2013 Cher <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GRAMMYs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">#GRAMMYs<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/G9tFB5rBHX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/G9tFB5rBHX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Phil_Lewis_\/status\/2018178761854734729?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">February 2, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Billie Eilish takes home Song of the Year for \u201cWILDFLOWER\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Billie Eilish\u2019s \u201cWILDFLOWER\u201d took home the coveted SOTY, and reaction has been mixed. The song was released as part of her 2024 album Hit Me Hard and Soft, which lost all five of its nominations at the 2025 Grammys. Weeks later, Eilish released the song as a single, making it eligible to compete (and win) in this year\u2019s season, and has now set a record for her and her brother, Finneas, for the most wins in the Song of the Year category.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow is this even possible? the album came out two years ago,\u201d one X user questioned.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMuch deserved winning after they robbed her from Best Album last year,\u201d another fan wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Billie Eilish reacting to her third Song of the Year <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GRAMMY?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">#GRAMMY<\/a> win for \u201cWILDFLOWER.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dNEWLeGjH7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/dNEWLeGjH7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pop Crave (@PopCrave) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PopCrave\/status\/2018171207393112248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">February 2, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Trevor Noah\u2019s joke about Nicki Minaj\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Comedian and Grammy host Trevor Noah\u2019s jokes about Nicki Minaj\u2019s schmoozing with U.S. President Donald Trump landed caused the entire <a href=\"http:\/\/crypto.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Crypto.com<\/a> Arena to erupt with laughter. Notably, model Chrissy Teigen, actor Jeff Goldblum, and singer Jennifer Hudson were caught chuckling in the audience, but it doesn\u2019t seem like the New York rapper is taking it lightly, with a night full of angry X posts directed at various people in the industry, including Noah.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">lol at the entire Grammys audience cheering when Trevor Noah announced that Nicki Minaj was NOT in attendance <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RNQhZPanSd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/RNQhZPanSd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Spencer Althouse (@SpencerAlthouse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpencerAlthouse\/status\/2018130516701032471?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">February 2, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Bad Bunny makes history with Album of the Year win\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A tearful Bad Bunny ran up on stage to accept his Album of the Year win for Deb\u00ed Tirar M\u00e1s Fotos, making history as the first-ever non-English album to win the award. The Puerto Rican singer took time to call out ICE and advocate for Latin people.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bad Bunny says &#8220;ICE OUT&#8221; at the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Grammys?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">#Grammys<\/a> and receives a massive standing ovation:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are not savage, we are not animals, we are not aliens, we are humans and we are Americans. The hate gets more powerful with more hate. The only thing that is more powerful than hate is love.\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IFzvguqdCR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/IFzvguqdCR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Variety (@Variety) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Variety\/status\/2018148717375943054?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">February 2, 2026<\/a><br \/>\n                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From shocking slip-ups to history-making wins, the 68th Annual Grammy Awards had no shortage of moments that lit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,50706,341],"class_list":["post-450952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-grammy-awards","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}