Throughout the thirteen-year history of the Latin Grammy Awards, multiple records have been set. This page includes competitive awards only and does not include special awards such as Lifetime Achievement awards or any other non-competitive awards presented by the Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences.
The record for the most Latin Grammys belongs to Residente and Edgar Barrera, both with 29 awards.
Residente is the most awarded male artist, with 29 accolades.
Natalia Lafourcade is the most awarded female artist, with 20 accolades.
Calle 13 is the most awarded Group, with 22 accolades.
Chitãozinho & Xororó and Jesse & Joy are the most awarded duo, both with 6 accolades.
Edgar Barrera with 29 awards has won more awards than any other producer.
Thom Russo with 11 awards, has won more than any other engineer or mixer.
Jaden, from the group Sophia, made history as the youngest Latin Grammy winner when he received the award for Best Latin Children's Album in 2022 at just 8 years old. Meanwhile, Mexican singer Yuri became the youngest artist to receive the Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, which she was honored in 2018 with at the age of 54.
Cuban born American musician Angela Alvarez was awarded Best New Artist at age 95 in 2022.
Entren Los Que Quieran by Calle 13 is the most honored album in Latin Grammy history. It won nine awards in 2011.
The Record of the Year award is given to the performers, producers, recording engineers, mixing engineers and mastering engineers for commercially released singles or tracks of new vocal or instrumental recordings in Spanish or Portuguese language. Due to the increasing musical changes in the industry, from 2012 the category includes 10 nominees. Alejandro Sanz has won the most awards in the category with five wins out of nine nominations.
The Album of the Year award is given to the performers, producers, recording engineers, mixing engineers and mastering engineers for vocal or instrumental albums with 51% of newly recorded material. Due to the increasing musical changes in the industry, from 2012 the category includes 10 nominees. Beginning in 2018, songwriters are eligible for the accolade if 33% of the playing time are written by them. Juan Luis Guerra is the performer with the most wins in the category with four awards, including one as a producer, while Allan Leschhorn has also received four awards as recording and mixing engineer.
The Song of the Year award is given to the songwriters of new songs containing at least 51% of lyrics in Spanish or Portuguese language. Instrumental songs and cover versions are not eligible. Due to the increasing musical changes in the industry, from 2012 the category includes 10 nominees. Alejandro Sanz is the most awarded songwriter in the category with four wins out of eight nominations.
There have been only two musicians who have won all four General Field awards: Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist.
In 2001, Juanes won Best New Artist. He earned the three other awards in 2003 and 2008. He's the first artist to win all four awards in the General Field.
In 2006, Calle 13 won Best New Artist. In 2009 the band won Album of the Year and Record of the Year and in 2013 the group won all three major awards in that night making them the second overall artists and the first band to achieve this milestone.
Calle 13 holds the record for most Latin Grammys won in one night with nine wins in 2011.
Jorge Drexler holds the record for most Latin Grammys won in one night by a male artist with six wins in 2022. Juanes, Juan Luis Guerra, Bad Bunny and Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso follow him with five.
Shakira and Natalia Lafourcade hold the record for most Latin Grammys won in one night by a female artist which is four.
Calle 13 with nine wins in 2011, holds the record for most wins by a group in one night.
In 2011 Calle 13's Entren Los Que Quieran won nine awards. It won Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Urban Album, Best Urban Song, Best Alternative Song, Best Tropical Song, Producer of the Year and Best Short Form Music Video.
Edgar Barrera holds the record for the most Latin Grammy nominations with 74.
J Balvin was nominated for thirteen Latin Grammy Awards in 2020. Calle 13 was nominated for ten Latin Grammy Awards in 2011. Eduardo Cabra was nominated for ten Latin Grammy Awards in 2014.
RosalÃÂa and Karol G hold the record for most Nominations in one night for a female artist with eight. RosalÃÂa was nominated for eight awards in 2022 and Karol G was nominated for eight awards in 2024.