Monday, May 25, 2026

Grammy Ratings UPDATE: Final Numbers Showed Slight Uptick from 2021 Show, Still All Time Low

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The good news is that the final Grammy ratings showed a slight uptick from the abysmal 2021 numbers.

Final numbers for Sunday put the Grammys at 9.587 million, which is a helluva lot better than the original fast overnight ratings of 7.8 million.

Those numbers were up from 8.8 million in 2021.

After 11 pm, the numbers tailed off to 8.759 million, steady with 2021.

I’m sure CBS is disappointed but the show was very good in many ways. Ben Winston knows what he’s doing. He’s also had the disadvantage of not being able to produce a regular Grammy show at the Staples Center — er, the Crypto Center. Each of his shows so far has been improvised into an unusual setting.

Cross fingers that next year the show returns to its home and big stage. Also, if it means anything, next January the Grammys will feature Adele and maybe Beyonce, and possibly Taylor Swift.

 

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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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