💿🎶🏆 GRAMMY Award for Album of the Year - Winners

Album of the Year | 1980

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52nd Street

52nd Street is the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter Billy Joel, released on October 11, 1978, by Columbia Records. Presenting itself as the follow-up to his breakthrough studio album, The Stranger, Joel tried to give the new album a fresh sound, hiring various jazz musicians to differentiate it from his previous studio albums.

The album's title is a reference to 52nd Street, a popular street location in Midtown Manhattan for jazz musicians, beginning during the Great Depression and continuing through to the 1950s. Joel's label was headquartered within the CBS Building on West 52nd Street at the time of the album's release. The studio where recording took place, A&R Recording, was also on 52nd Street; the studio's freight elevator appears on the album cover.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/52nd_Street_(album)

Nominees :

Minute by Minute by The Doobie Brothers

https://link.deezer.com/s/30TXiia3Y1Z8C2fneOTft

The Gambler by Kenny Rogers

https://link.deezer.com/s/30TXmqYEW2gZXa50x3ONs

Bad Girls by  Donna Summer

Breakfast in America by Supertramp

https://link.deezer.com/s/30TXp5FjsvqFcusCYG8Bu

Album of the Year | 1981

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Christopher Cross

Christopher Cross is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Christopher Cross, released on December 27, 1979, by Warner Bros. Records. Produced by Michael Omartian and recorded in July 1979, the album was one of the first in popular music to be digitally recorded, utilizing the 3M Digital Recording System.

Cited as one of the most influential soft rock albums of the late 1970s and early 1980s,[ it won five Grammy Awards at the 1981 Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist, with Cross becoming the first artist to win the four major categories in the same year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Cross_(album)

Nominees :

Glass Houses by Billy Joel

https://link.deezer.com/s/316wtZrPKVH9EeziXvp9v

The Wall by Pink Floyd

Trilogy: Past Present Future by Frank Sinatra

https://link.deezer.com/s/316ww8GSZBY5JIDFrUzCt

Guilty by Barbra Streisand

https://link.deezer.com/s/316wxeNCYharzbcsFSQpi

Album of the Year | 1982

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Double Fantasy

Double Fantasy is the fifth collaborative studio album by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and the final one before Lennon's death. Released in November 1980 on Geffen Records, the album marked Lennon's return to recording music full-time, following his five-year hiatus to raise his son Sean. Recording sessions took place at the Hit Factory in New York City between August and October 1980. The final album features songs from both Lennon and Ono, largely alternating between the two in its track listing. Other tracks recorded by Lennon from the sessions were compiled by Ono for release on Milk and Honey in 1984.

Nominees :

Mistaken Identity by Kim Carnes

https://link.deezer.com/s/31mx4UshIE00wNHRuH0fS

Breakin' Away by Al Jarreau

https://link.deezer.com/s/31mx78e4FouWICWBWuN6k

The Dude by Quincy Jones

Gaucho by Steely Dan

https://link.deezer.com/s/31mxa0facStMf0SluI4nd

Album of the Year | 1983

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Toto IV

Toto IV is the fourth studio album by American rock band Toto, released on April 8, 1982, by Columbia Records. The album's lead single, "Rosanna", peaked at number 2 for five weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, while the album's third single, "Africa", topping the Hot 100 chart, became the group's first and only number 1 hit. Both songs were hits in the UK as well, reaching number 12 and 3, respectively.The fourth single, "I Won't Hold You Back", also peaked within the top ten on the Hot 100, at number 10 and atop the Billboard Adult Contemporary charts for three weeks. It also went into the top 40 in the UK. With the success of "Africa", the album climbed back into the top 10 in early 1983 on both sides of the Atlantic.

Nominees :

American Fool by John Cougar

The Nightfly by Donald Fagen

https://link.deezer.com/s/31CFTMHlUxLSoqOjeLtxR

The Nylon Curtain by Billy Joel

https://link.deezer.com/s/31CFV3IdeSrTIzMiWnAEd

Tug of War by Paul McCartney

https://link.deezer.com/s/31CFW4rzHRVIro2R9g7Fg

Album of the Year | 1984

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Thriller

Thriller is the sixth studio album by the American singer and songwriter Michael Jackson, released on November 29, 1982, by Epic Records. It was produced by Quincy Jones, who previously worked with Jackson on his album Off the Wall (1979). Recording took place from April to November 1982 at Westlake Recording Studios in Los Angeles, California. With the ongoing backlash against disco music, Jackson moved in a new musical direction, resulting in darker themes and a mix of genres, including rock for the first time. Paul McCartney appears as the first credited featured artist on a Jackson album.

Nominees :

Let's Dance by David Bowie

https://link.deezer.com/s/31Sw5nGaHgnU4Z1LD2Gc4

An Innocent Man by Billy Joel

https://link.deezer.com/s/31Sw67JWECkrQQtQfycsB

Synchronicity by The Police

Flashdance: Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture by VA

https://link.deezer.com/s/31Sw8DN2IBnnAnCx6obmA

Album of the Year | 1985

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Can't Slow Down

Can't Slow Down is the second solo studio album by American recording artist Lionel Richie. It was released on October 14, 1983, by Motown Records.

Can't Slow Down has been certified Diamond by the RIAA, selling over 10 million copies in the United States and over 20 million copies worldwide, making it Richie's best-selling album, and one of the best-selling albums of the 1980s. Five singles were released from the album, all of which hit the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, including two that reached No. 1: "All Night Long (All Night)" and "Hello". The album subsequently won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year at the 27th Annual Grammy Awards in 1985.

Nominees :

She's So Unusual by Cyndi Lauper

https://link.deezer.com/s/328s9t0yN7HKl4YlyjWV8

Purple Rain by Prince & The Revolution

Born in the U.S.A. by Bruce Springsteen

https://link.deezer.com/s/328sc8dtM7ZeHtXzaDnCT

Private Dancer by Tina Turner

https://link.deezer.com/s/328se2GZTtML0bOmQ1r8X