Most Record of the Year awards won at the Grammys

Mastering engineer Tom Coyne (USA, 1954–2017) won four Record of the Year awards, consecutively, at the Grammys: in 2015 (for Sam Smith’s “Stay with Me” (Darkchild Version)), 2016 (Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars’ “Uptown Funk!”), 2017 (Adele’s “Hello”) and 2018 (Bruno Mars’ “24K Magic”) – the last of these posthumously following his death, aged 62, on 12 April 2017.

Coyne won 10 Grammys, four posthumously, from 22 nominations. In addition to his Record of the Year success, he took home the Album of the Year prize four times, in 2012 (for Adele’s 21), 2016 (Taylor Swift’s 1989), 2017 (Adele’s 25) and 2018 (Bruno Mars’ 24K Magic), and he twice won Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, in 2018 (24K Magic) and 2019 (Beck’s Colors) – the latter proving to be the last of his 10 awards. Grammy.com described Coyne as the “go-to mastering craftsman for a variety of top-tier artists”.

In 2013, he won Record of the Year at the Latin Grammy Awards for Marc Anthony’s “Vivir Mi Vida”, and in 2015 alone he mastered four of the five top-selling albums of the year: 25, 1989, Justin Bieber’s Purpose and The Weeknd’s Beauty Behind the Madness.

Among the 2,403 releases listed in Coyne’s discography are recordings by Backstreet Boys, Erykah Badu, Beyoncé, Goo Goo Dolls, Ariana Grande, Lady Gaga, Little Mix, Metallica, Sam Smith, Britney Spears, Amy Winehouse and Wu-Tang Clan.