Who’s performing at the 2024 Grammys, including a historic U2 set
The 2024 Grammy Awards are set to kick off on Sunday, Feb. 4, with the 66th annual celebration featuring wide-ranging performances from young and seasoned superstars alike.
Grammy Legend Award recipient Billy Joel is joined by a stellar lineup of Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, Dua Lipa, Joni Mitchell and others. Meanwhile, SZA, who’s also among this year’s performers, leads the pack with a total nine nominations.
It was announced on Jan. 26 that U2 will also perform, making Grammy Award history with the first-ever broadcast performance from Sphere at The Venetian — the 360-foot-tall immersive orb and concert venue in Las Vegas.
Here’s the full list of this year’s Grammy performers:
Billy Joel
Billy Joel performs at Nissan Stadium on May 19, 2023 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images)
Joel will be releasing his first new single in almost two decades, “Turn the Lights Back On,” just days before the Grammys on Feb. 1. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer is a Grammy Award Legend, with six total wins and 23 nominations. He previously won Song of the Year for his 1977 hit “Just the Way You Are” and Album of the Year for 1978’s “52nd Street.”
SZA
Sza performs on stage during Global Citizen Festival 2022: Accra on September 24, 2022 in Accra, Ghana. (Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Global Citizen)
SZA’s nine nominations this year include Album of the Year and Best Progressive R&B Album for “SOS;” Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best R&B Performance for “Kill Bill;” and Best R&B Song for “Snooze.” The 34-year-old St. Louis native has already won a Grammy and also took home Billboard’s 2023 Woman of the Year award.
Billie Eilish
Billie Eilish performs during Music Midtown 2023 at Piedmont Park on September 16, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Nykieria Chaney/Getty Images for ABA)
The seven-time Grammy winner is expected to sing her Oscar-nominated “Barbie” hit, “What Was I Made For?” for which she is also nominated for Song of the Year and Record of the Year. When she accepted the award for Best Original Song at the Golden Globes earlier this month, Eilish said, “It was exactly a year ago almost that we were shown the movie and I was very, very miserable and depressed at the time and writing that song kind of saved me a little bit.”
Joni Mitchell
Honoree Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell performs onstage during the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song ceremony in Washington, DC, March 1, 2023. Photo by Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
The 80-year-old singer-songwriter has never performed on the Grammy Awards stage, despite winning nine Grammys over the course of her career, in addition to a 2002 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy. Mitchell is also nominated this year for her 2023 release, “Joni Mitchell at Newport [Live],” which is up for Best Folk Album.
U2
Irish rock band U2 perform during a concert at the D.Y. Patil stadium in Navi Mumbai on December 15, 2019. (Photo by Punit Paranjpe / AFP via Getty Images)
The Irish rockers are 22-time Grammy winners, and currently hold a residency at the $2.3 billion state-of-the-art Sphere, the most expensive entertainment venue in Las Vegas history. Just days ago, played their 1987 B-side “The Sweetest Thing” for the first time since 2017 during one of their shows at Sphere. They’re scheduled to perform and present an award remotely during the Grammys.
Olivia Rodrigo
Olivia Rodrigo performs onstage at iHeartRadio 102.7 KIIS FM’s Jingle Ball 2023 Presented by Capital One at The Kia Forum on December 01, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for iHeartRadio)
The 20-year-old pop star is nominated for six awards this year, including Best Pop Solo Performance, Record of the Year, and Song of the Year for her hit “Vampire;” Best Rock Song for her single “Ballad of a Homeschooled Girl;” and Best Pop Vocal Album and Album of the Year for her sophomore album, “Guts.”
Dua Lipa
Dua Lipa performs onstage during iHeartRadio 102.7 KIIS FM’s Jingle Ball 2022 Presented by Capital One at The Kia Forum on December 02, 2022 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for iHeartRadio)
Dua Lipa, who’s nominated for Song of the Year for another “Barbie” banger, “Dance the Night,” won her first Grammy in 2021 for her album “Future Nostalgia.” The London-born singer made her brief acting debut in “Barbie,” portraying a mermaid in one scene, but she’s expected to have a bigger role in the upcoming spy thriller “Argylle,” hitting theaters this Friday.
Travis Scott
Travis Scott performs during Sinan’s Art Basel Party on December 07, 2023 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Sean Zanni/Getty Images for Sinan Tuna)
During his concert in Miami on Sunday, Scott made headlines when he paused the show and told one of the janitors working for the venue that he’d pay him $5,000 to stop working and enjoy the show as a fan for the rest of the evening, according to TMZ. The 32-year-old rapper has been nominated for nine Grammy awards throughout his career, but has never won. He has a chance to change that this year as his his fourth album, “Utopia,” is nominated for Best Rap Album.
Luke Combs
Luke Combs performs onstage during the 57th Annual CMA Awards at Bridgestone Arena on November 08, 2023 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Terry Wyatt/Getty Images)
The country singer also has the potential to win his first Grammy at this year’s ceremony, as his single “Fast Car” is up for Best Country Solo Performance. A two-time Country Music Association Entertainer of the Year, Combs has plans to open a new 67,000-square-foot Nashville concert hall and sports bar, which he’s calling “Category 10,” a reference to his hit single “Hurricane.”
“The strongest a hurricane can be is a category five, so we figured we’d double it,” Combs said in an Instagram post.
Burna Boy
Burna Boy performs prior to the UEFA Champions League 2022/23 final match between FC Internazionale and Manchester City FC at Ataturk Olympic Stadium on June 10, 2023 in Istanbul, Turkey. (Photo by David Ramos/Getty Images)
The Nigerian singer-songwriter won Best World Music Album in 2021 for his fourth album “African Giant.” This year, he’s nominated for four awards: Best Melodic Rap Performance for “Sittin’ on the Top of the World;” Global Music Performance for “Alone;” Best African Music Performance for “City Boys;” and Best Global Music Album for his seventh album, “I Told Them…”