{"id":249350,"date":"2026-01-17T09:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T09:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/249350\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T09:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T09:55:10","slug":"artists-who-took-the-longest-to-follow-up-an-album-of-the-year-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/249350\/","title":{"rendered":"Artists Who Took the Longest to Follow Up an Album of the Year-Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBruno Mars<\/a> and Harry Styles<\/a> recently announced their first new studio albums since they each won the Grammy for album of the year. Mars\u2019 The Romantic, his follow-up to 24K Magic, is due Feb. 27. Styles\u2019 Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally, his follow-up to Harry\u2019s House, is due one week later.<\/p>\n

\n\tStyles will have had a gap of three years, nine months and 15 days between studio albums, not inordinately long by current standards. Mars will have had a gap of nine years, three months and 10 days between solo studio albums. That\u2019s a long gap but it\u2019s not the record for the longest wait for a studio follow-up to a Grammy-winning album of the year.<\/p>\n

\n\tWe have prepared a list of all artists who had gaps of four years or more between the release of their album that won album of the year and their studio follow-up. Four years is officially \u201ca long time.\u201d It\u2019s an entire presidential administration. To illustrate that point, Barack Obama<\/a> was president when Mars\u2019 last solo studio album was released. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBefore we get to our list, some notes: Two duos, Simon & Garfunkel <\/a>and Daft Punk<\/a>, broke up after winning the Grammy for album of the year and never released a studio-follow-up. S&G won for Bridge Over Troubled Water (release date: Jan. 26, 1970). Daft Punk won for Random Access Memories (release date: May 17, 2013).<\/p>\n

\n\tJohn Lennon<\/a> was killed three weeks after the release of Double Fantasy, his Grammy-winning collab with Yoko Ono<\/a> (release date: Nov. 17, 1980), so it turned out to be his final studio album released in his lifetime. Ray Charles<\/a> died two months before the release of his final studio album, Genius Loves Company (release date: Aug. 31, 2004).<\/p>\n

\n\tIncredibly, Lauryn Hill <\/a>has yet to release her studio follow-up to The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (release date: Aug. 25, 1998), which won the 1999 Grammy for album of the year. Should she ever release another studio album, she will take the top spot on this list.<\/p>\n

\n\tArtists used to release albums at a much faster pace. Just six months elapsed between the release of Barbra Streisand<\/a>\u2018s Grammy-winning The Barbra Streisand Album in February 1963 and the release of her follow-up, The Second Barbra Streisand Album, that August. That was the norm in the 1960s, and into the early \u201870s. Carole King<\/a> released Music, her follow-up to the Grammy-winning Tapestry, in December 1971, just 10 months after its era-defining predecessor. Artists still sometimes release follow-ups that quickly, but nowadays, it\u2019s very much the exception to the rule. Taylor Swift <\/a>released Evermore, her follow-up to the Grammy-winning Folklore, less than six months after the first album.<\/p>\n

\n\tHere are the artists who had a gap of four years or more between the release of the album that won album of the year and their studio follow-up. Paul Simon<\/a> and Adele<\/a> are each listed twice, which tells you two things \u2013 they both are Grammy favorites, to have won album of the year multiple times. And they both believe in taking their time. The artists are listed in ascending order, with the longest gap at the bottom.<\/p>\n


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\tPaul Simon: 4 years, 1 month, 22 days<\/p>\n

\n\tAlbum of the year winner: Graceland (Aug. 25, 1986)<\/p>\n

\n\tStudio follow-up: The Rhythm of the Saints (Oct. 16, 1990)<\/p>\n

\tU2: 4 years, 3 months, 6 days<\/p>\n

\n\tAlbum of the year winner: How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (Nov. 22, 2004)<\/p>\n

\n\tStudio follow-up: No Line on the Horizon (Feb. 27, 2009)<\/p>\n

\tMichael Jackson: 4 years, 9 months, 3 days<\/p>\n

\n\tAlbum of the year winner: Thriller (Nov. 29, 1982)<\/p>\n

\n\tStudio follow-up: Bad (Aug. 31, 1987)<\/p>\n

\tPhil Collins: 4 years, 9 months, 3 days<\/p>\n

\n\tAlbum of the year winner: No Jacket Required (Feb. 18, 1985)<\/p>\n

\n\tStudio follow-up: \u2026But Seriously (Nov. 20, 1989)<\/p>\n

\tAdele: 4 years, 9 months, 28 days<\/p>\n

\n\tAlbum of the year winner: 21 (Jan. 24, 2011)<\/p>\n

\n\tStudio follow-up: 25 (Nov. 20, 2015)<\/p>\n

\tPaul Simon: 4 years, 10 months, 7 days<\/p>\n

\n\tAlbum of the year winner: Still Crazy After All These Years (Oct. 6, 1975)<\/p>\n

\n\tStudio follow-up: One-Trick Pony soundtrack (Aug. 12, 1980)<\/p>\n

\tQuincy Jones: 5 years, 11 months, 18 days<\/p>\n

\n\tAlbum of the year winner: Back on the Block (Nov. 21, 1989)<\/p>\n

\n\tStudio follow-up: Q\u2019s Jook Joint (Nov. 7, 1995)<\/p>\n

\tAdele: 6 years, 0 months, 0 days<\/p>\n

\n\tAlbum of the year winner: 25 (Nov. 20, 2015)<\/p>\n

\n\tStudio follow-up: 30 (Nov. 19, 2021)<\/p>\n

\tWhitney Houston: 6 years, 0 months, 1 day<\/p>\n

\n\tAlbum of the year winner: The Bodyguard soundtrack (Nov. 17, 1992)<\/p>\n

\n\tStudio follow-up: My Love Is Your Love (Nov. 17, 1998)<\/p>\n

\tBruno Mars: 9 years, 3 months, 10 days<\/p>\n

\n\tAlbum of the year winner: 24K Magic (Nov. 18, 2016)<\/p>\n

\n\tStudio follow-up: The Romantic (Feb. 27, 2026)<\/p>\n

\tRobert Plant & Alison Krauss: 14 years, 0 months, 28 days<\/p>\n

\n\tAlbum of the year winner: Raising Sand (Oct. 23, 2007)<\/p>\n

\n\tStudio follow-up: Raise the Roof (Nov. 19, 2021)<\/p>\n

\tThe Chicks: 14 years, 1 month, 25 days<\/p>\n

\n\tAlbum of the year winner: Taking the Long Way (May 23, 2006)<\/p>\n

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