Will Taylor Swift Perform at 2024 Grammys? Billboard’s Greatest Pop Star of the Year Usually Does

Telecast Date: Feb. 23, 2000

Did She Perform?: Yes

Notes: Spears, a best new artist nominee that year, performed “From the Bottom of My Broken Heart” and “…Baby One More Time.”

Telecast Date: Feb. 21, 2001

Did They Perform? Yes

Notes: The boy band performed “This I Promise You” — rather than their record of the year nominee “Bye Bye Bye” — near the top of the show, just after Madonna opened the proceedings with “Music.”

Telecast Date: Feb. 27, 2002

Did She Perform? No

Notes: While J.Lo didn’t perform that year, she had stolen the show two years earlier when she presented an award wearing a very low-cut green dress that was held together by a broach and a prayer. Bonus points if you remember the name of her co-presenter (David Duchovny) or the category they presented (best R&B album).

Telecast Date: Feb. 23, 2003

Did He Perform? Yes

Notes: Em performed “Lose Yourself” near the top of the show. The performance probably helped him clinch the Oscar one month later, when “Lose Yourself” became the first hip-hop song to win best original song. Because of different eligibility periods between the two shows, “Lose Yourself” wasn’t Grammy-eligible until the following year, when it was nominated for record and song of the year. The Grammys let him perform the smash ahead of its eligibility to get the song while it was hot — and to scoop the Oscars.

Telecast Date: Feb. 8, 2004

Did She Perform? Yes

Notes: Beyoncé opened the show in tandem with Prince. They performed his Purple Rain classics “Purple Rain,” “Baby I’m a Star” and “Let’s Go Crazy” and her recent No. 1 hit “Crazy in Love” (a record of the year nominee on the night). Later in the show, she returned to perform “Dangerously in Love 2.”

Telecast Date: Feb. 13, 2005

Did He Perform? Yes

Notes: Usher teamed with R&B GOAT James Brown to perform Usher’s “Caught Up” (a track from his album of the year nominee Confessions) and Brown’s 1970 smash “Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine.” The Godfather of Soul died less than two years later.

Telecast Date: Feb. 8, 2006

Did He Perform? Yes

Notes: West performed “Gold Digger” and “Touch the Sky” in a segment that included Jamie Foxx, who had won an Oscar a year earlier for his portrayal of Ray Charles, and the Florida A&M University Marching 100. Foxx had backed West on his smash “Gold Digger,” a Grammy nominee for record of the year. Both that song and “Touch the Sky” were featured on his album of the year nominee Late Registration.

Telecast Date: Feb. 11, 2007

Did He Perform? Yes

Notes: JT had two performance spots in the show. Early on, he performed “What Goes Around…Comes Around,” a track from his album of the year nominee FutureSex/LoveSounds. The single would be a record of the year nominee the following year. Near the end of the show, he teamed with T.I. and Robyn Troup, the winner of the “My Grammy Moment” contest, to perform Bill Withers’ 1971 classic “Ain’t No Sunshine” and his own T.I.-featuring hit “My Love” (another hit from FutureSex).

Telecast Date: Feb. 10, 2008

Did She Perform? Yes

Notes: Rihanna performed in a segment with The Time. They did RiRi’s “Umbrella” (a record and song of the year nominee) and “Don’t Stop the Music” and The Time’s 1984 hit “Jungle Love.”

Telecast Date: Feb. 8, 2009

Did He Perform? Yes

Notes: Lil Wayne performed “Tie My Hands,” a track from his album of the year nominee Tha Carter III, in a segment which also featured Robin Thicke, Terence Blanchard and Allen Toussaint. Earlier in the show , he teamed with T.I., Jay-Z, Kanye West and a very pregnant M.I.A. to perform “Swagga Like Us.” M.I.A. wasn’t featured on that record, but was in the house to perform her nominated smash “Paper Planes.”

Telecast Date: Jan. 31, 2010

Did She Perform? Yes

Notes: Gaga opened the show in tandem with Elton John. The segment featured her “Poker Face” (a record and song of the year nominee) and “Speechless” (a song from her EP The Fame Monster, an album of the year nominee the following year) and his 1971 classic “Your Song.”

Telecast Date: Feb. 13, 2011

Did She Perform? Yes

Notes: She performed “Not Like the Movies” and “Teenage Dream,” both from her album of the year nominee Teenage Dream.

Telecast Date: Feb. 12, 2012

Did She Perform? Yes

Notes: She performed “Rolling in the Deep,” the night’s record of the year winner (from album of the year winner 21). This was the highest-rated Grammy telecast in decades, due both to Adele’s huge popularity and also the tragic death the day before of Whitney Houston, whose entire career essentially unfolded on the Grammy stage.

Telecast Date: Feb. 10, 2013

Did She Perform? Yes

Notes: Rihanna teamed with Mikky Ekko to perform their hit “Stay.” Later in the show, she joined Bruno Mars, Sting and Damian and Ziggy Marley in a tribute to reggae legend Bob Marley.

Telecast Date: Jan. 26, 2014

Did She Perform? No

Notes: The Grammys were late to the Miley party. She landed her first nomination that year – best pop vocal album for Bangerz — but nothing in the Big Three categories – album, record or song of the year. The Grammys didn’t get fully on board until this year, when Cyrus was nominated in each of those categories.

Telecast Date: Feb. 8, 2015

Did She Perform? Yes

Notes: An album of the year nominee for the surprise-drop Beyoncé, the superstar performed the next-to-last song of the night, the gospel standard “Take My Hand, Precious Lord.” She had opened the previous year’s telecast, in tandem with Jay-Z, with a performance of the Beyoncé standout “Drunk in Love.”

Telecast Date: Feb. 15, 2016

Did She Perform? Yes

Notes: Swift opened the show with “Out of the Woods,” the sixth single from 1989, which later that night made her the first female artist to win album of the year twice as a lead artist.

Telecast Date: Feb. 12, 2017

Did He Perform? No

Notes: Bieber didn’t perform on the show even though he was nominated in two of the Big Four categories – album of the year for Purpose and song of the year for “Love Yourself.”

Telecast Date: Jan. 28, 2018

Did He Perform? No

Notes: Sheeran won two Grammys on the telecast, including best pop solo performance for “Shape of You.” He had performed that song on the previous year’s telecast.

Telecast Date: Feb. 10, 2019

Did He Perform? No

Notes: Drake was nominated in the top three categories for his album Scorpion and his smash hit “God’s Plan.” But here’s the thing: At the time he had to say yes or no to performing on this show, Drake had won just three Grammys — and zero in the all-genre Big Four categories — which he (understandably) felt was a low tally for an artist of his accomplishments. He won a fourth award that night for “God’s Plan” (best rap song). And he has since won a fifth for Future’s “Wait for U,” on which he was featured, along with Tems (best melodic rap performance).

Telecast Date: Jan. 26, 2020

Did She Perform? Yes

Notes: Grande performed parts of four songs in her segment – her songs “Imagine,” “7 Rings” and “Thank U, Next” (all from her album of the year nominee Thank U, Next) and a bit of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “My Favorite Things,” which was interpolated in “Rings,” also a record of the year nominee.

Telecast Date: March 14, 2021

Did They Perform? Yes

Notes: The K-pop sensations gave the next-to-last performance of the night with “Dynamite,” their first No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100.

Telecast Date: April 3, 2022

Did She Perform? No

Notes: On this telecast, Swift made history as the first woman to win album of the year three times. So why didn’t she perform? She had performed two songs from the winning album, Folklore, on the previous year’s telecast, along with one song, from her follow-up album, Evermore. Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner had joined her in the 2021 performance.

Telecast Date: Feb. 5, 2023

Did He Perform? Yes

Notes: Bunny opened the show with “El Apagón” and “Después de la Playa.” Both songs were featured on El Verano Sin Ti, which was the first Spanish-language album to receive a Grammy nod for album of the year.

Telecast Date: Feb. 4, 2024

Will She Perform? Place your bets.

Notes: Swift is nominated in each of Big Three categories. If she wins album of the year for Midnights, she’ll become the first four-time winner in the history of the category. If she wins record and/or song of the year for “Anti-Hero,” those would be her first wins in those categories.