| HERBIEHANCOCK | American keyboardist whose album River: The Joni Letters won the 2008 Grammy Award for Album of the Year, only the second jazz album ever to win the award |
| AMY | ___ Winehouse Rehab singer who was 24 when she won the 2008 Grammy for Record of the Year |
| EARHART | Subject of the Joni Mitchell song "Amelia" |
| ADELE | One-named singer with the 2008 Grammy for Best New Artist |
| BALBASTRE | Claude -, 18th-century French composer and keyboardist whose works include Marche des Marseillois et |
| REHAB | 2008 Grammy Award for Song of the Year and Record of the Year winner by Amy Winehouse (5) |
| GOOD | "___ Morning Gorgeous" (Mary J. Blige album nominated for Album of the Year); the other two nominees were Harry Styles for "Harry's House" and Coldplay for "Music of the Spheres" (but I did fit 8 of t |
| SWIFT | Taylor whose album "Folklore" won the Grammy for Album of the Year (March, 2021) |
| FIRST | "Fulfillingness' ___ Finale" (album that won the 1975 Grammy for Album of the Year for Stevie Wonder, who turns 75 today) |
| BECK | His 2014 album "Morning Phase" won the Grammy for Album of the Year |
| RAITT | Her "Nick of Time" won the Grammy for Album of the Year |
| BEYONCESZA | These two artists (7 letters, 3 letters) tied for Album of the Year (for "Renaissance" and "SOS") at the 2023 BET Awards on Sunday |
| BOB | ___ Dylan American singer who won a Grammy for Album of the Year in 1973 |
| SIN | "Un Verano ___ Ti" (Bad Bunny album nominated for Album of the Year for the 2023 Grammys on Tuesday) |
| NEXT | Thank U ___ number-one hit album by Ariana Grande that was nominated for Album of the Year at the 62nd Grammy Awards |
| MARENMORRIS | Her Girl won the 2019 CMA for Album of the Year: 2 wds. |
| LAMAR | Kendrick whose "Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers" was nominated for Album of the Year |
| TAYLORSWIFT | Mega-popular singer won Grammy for album of the year (6,5) |
| PAULSIMON | 1980s-'90s senator... who's won three Grammys for Album of the Year |
| HER | Singer nominated for Album of the Year Grammys in 2019 and 2020 (and whose name spells a pronoun) |