These Are the Youngest Artists to Ever Be Nominated for a Grammy Award

Hazel Monét

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.

DeLeon Sheffield

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.

Michael Jackson

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.

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.

Zac and Taylor Hanson

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.

LeAnn Rimes

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.)

Luis Miguel

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.

Justin Bieber

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.

Lorde

“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.

Nick and Joe Jonas

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.

Britney Spears

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.

Taylor Swift

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.

Halle Bailey

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.

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.”

Olivia Rodrigo

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.

Justin Timberlake

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.

Jordin Sparks

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.”

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.

Rihanna

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.