{"id":858673,"date":"2026-09-24T07:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T07:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/858673\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T07:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T07:06:11","slug":"who-won-agt-21-the-finale-results-spoilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/858673\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Won AGT 21? The Finale Results (SPOILERS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read no further if you don&#8217;t want to find out who won Season 21 of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc.com\/nbc-insider\/show\/americas-got-talent\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">America&#8217;s Got Talent<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How to Watch<\/p>\n<p>Watch America&#8217;s Got Talent\u00a0Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET on NBC and next day on Peacock.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"button--hero notl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.peacocktv.com\/stream-tv\/americas-got-talent?cid=2411evginsdredinbcrownedi27515&amp;utm_campaign=2411evginsdredi&amp;utm_source=insdredi_nbcupt_st-sv&amp;utm_medium=own_edi_awa_artl&amp;utm_term=insidereditorialreaders&amp;utm_content=americasgottalent\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stream Now on <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/peacock-logo-color-black (1).png\" alt=\"peacock logo\"\/> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The competition was fierce, but ultimately America and Judges <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc.com\/nbc-insider\/people\/howie-mandel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Howie Mandel<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc.com\/nbc-insider\/people\/mel-b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mel B<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc.com\/nbc-insider\/people\/sofia-vergara\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sof\u00eda Vergara<\/a> \u2014 plus Host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc.com\/nbc-insider\/people\/terry-crews\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terry Crews<\/a> \u2014 all saw this Act&#8217;s undeniable star potential. The $1 million grand prize has officially been awarded, and after months of competition, the crown went to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Who won America&#8217;s Got Talent Season 21?<\/p>\n<p>Nene Royal is the lucky Act crowned the winner of this year&#8217;s AGT!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hailing from Phuket, Thailand, the 16-year-old rocker first impressed when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc.com\/nbc-insider\/nene-royal-zombie-agt-audition\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">she walked onto the stage during Round 2 of Auditions.<\/a> Her powerful punk rock cover of The Cranberries&#8217; 1994 grunge hit &#8220;Zombie&#8221; took the Judges and the internet by storm, with the performance gaining hundreds of millions of views in a matter of days across YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram. After going viral, it quickly earned the title of the most-viewed Audition of the entire season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I start playing guitar since I was 7, and my biggest dream is I really want to be superstar on tour,&#8221; Royal explained in the episode.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/nbc100-2.jpg\" width=\"190\" height=\"190\" alt=\"The NBC 100 Logo.\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\"\/>Nene Royal&#8217;s journey on AGT<\/p>\n<p>Following her impressive Audition, Mandel decided he needed to see Royal one more time before making a final decision about the Top 44. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc.com\/nbc-insider\/agt-judges-callbacks-eliminations-results-week-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">invited her to his Judges&#8217; Callbacks<\/a> round, where she easily made it through after singing Muse&#8217;s &#8220;Hysteria,&#8221; advancing to the Live Quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>For her Live Quarterfinal Act, Royal earned a standing ovation for her take on Soundgarden&#8217;s &#8220;Black Hole Sun.&#8221; The performance was so impressive, in fact, that Mel B. awarded the teen with her season&#8217;s Live Golden Buzzer, advancing her straight to the Final.<\/p>\n<p>Skipping the Live Semifinal entirely, the next time fans saw Royal perform was for her rendition of The White Stripes&#8217; iconic &#8220;Seven Nation Army.&#8221; The next night, following America&#8217;s Vote, she collaborated with Linkin Park for a special &#8220;The Emptiness Machine.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Read no further if you don&#8217;t want to find out who won Season 21 of America&#8217;s Got Talent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":858674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[36816,62406,4553,88,3601,3],"class_list":["post-858673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-americau0027s-got-talent","tag-behind-the-scenes","tag-career","tag-entertainment","tag-episodic","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}