Name a Grammy Album of the Year winner

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Christopher Cross— His 1981 self-titled debut swept Album, Record, Song, and Best New Artist all at once, the first act ever to take all four top Grammys in a single night.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• A Man and His Music
• Babel— Mumford and Sons, 2013.
• Back on the Block
• Blood, Sweat & Tears
• By the Time I Get to Phoenix
• Come Dance with Me!
• Fulfillingness' First Finale
• Genius Loves Company
• Getz/Gilberto— Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto, 1965. The bossa nova one.
• Judy at Carnegie Hall
• Morning Phase— Beck, 2015, the one Kanye stormed the stage over.
• Nick of Time
• River: The Joni Letters
• September of My Years
• Still Crazy After All These Years— Paul Simon, 1976.
• The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart
• The Concert for Bangladesh
• The First Family
• The Music from Peter Gunn— Henry Mancini, 1959. The very first Album of the Year.
• Two Against Nature

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• 24K Magic— Bruno Mars, 2018.
• 52nd Street
• Bridge over Troubled Water— Simon and Garfunkel, 1971.
• Come Away with Me— Norah Jones, 2003.
• Double Fantasy
• Falling into You
• Fearless— Taylor Swift, 2010.
• Golden Hour— Kacey Musgraves, 2019.
• Graceland— Paul Simon, 1987.
• How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
• Innervisions
• Jagged Little Pill— Alanis Morissette, 1996.
• MTV Unplugged
• O Brother, Where Art Thou?— The soundtrack, 2002.
• Raising Sand
• Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band— The Beatles, 1968. The one that actually won.
• Songs in the Key of Life— Stevie Wonder, 1977.
• Speakerboxxx/The Love Below— OutKast, 2004.
• Supernatural— Santana, 2000.
• Taking the Long Way
• The Barbra Streisand Album
• The Bodyguard— Whitney Houston soundtrack, 1994.
• Time Out of Mind
• Toto IV
• Unforgettable... with Love
• We Are

A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.

• 1989— Taylor Swift, 2016.
• 25— Adele again, 2017.
• Can't Slow Down
• Cowboy Carter— Beyonce, 2025, finally.
• DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS
• Faith
• Folklore— Taylor Swift, 2021.
• Harry's House
• Midnights— Taylor Swift, 2024, her record fourth.
• No Jacket Required
• Random Access Memories— Daft Punk, 2014.
• Rumours— Fleetwood Mac, 1978.
• Saturday Night Fever
• Tapestry
• The Joshua Tree— U2, 1988.
• The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
• Unplugged
• When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?

An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.

• The Suburbs— The indie-kid Album of the Year answer. You remembered the Arcade Fire upset; the Grammys remember it too.

The most common answer on the board.

• 21— Adele, 2012.
• Thriller— Michael Jackson, 1984. The plankton pick with 66 million reasons.