Watch Madonna Win Best Pop Album For 'Ray Of Light' In 1999 | GRAMMY Rewind

In 1998, art-pop queen Madonna released her seventh studio album 'Ray of Light,' four years after her prior LP, 'Bedtime Stories,' marking the longest gap between projects since her epic self-titled debut in 1983. Always the artistic chameleon, it offered a new side to the "Like a Prayer" singer, serving up an expansive, pulsing U.K. electro sound, as encapsulated on the driving title cut.
For the latest GRAMMY Rewind, watch a brunette Madonna take home Best Pop Album for the 1998 album. She accepts the award rocking a dramatic red kimono-sleeved dress and fierce red lips, along with producer William Orbit and mixer/engineer David Reitzas. Marking her successful entrance into the dance music space, title track also earned her GRAMMYs for Best Dance Recording and Best Music Video.
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#Madonna #RayOfLight

[@___kamal0902]

One of the most sophisticated pop albums of the 90s

[@Sebastian-rv1yk]

Of all times 😉

[@JM-xq2zo]

@@Sebastian-rv1yk agree❤️❤️

[@angelcabreramorales722]

Timeless álbum!

[@secrets.295]

I never get the album. To me 80s Madonna is the best. But I guess it is kinda revolutionary. Bcoz she took a big risk to popularize EDM, which at the time was only sung by one hit wonder kinda singer and later pave the way for 00s act who went for EDM

[@kailewis6520]

@@secrets.295 what does EDM mean? Sorry I’m kinda slow

[@lucgrillet5972]

Ray of Light is without a doubt one of the best albums of all time.

[@abbxeddss8926]

I agree with your thoroughly.

[@idontwanttogiveoutmyfullname]

a fucking masterpiece

[@rebelblue]

Where’s Madonna’s Grammys for her 80s work, especially Like A Prayer!? You ignored her for almost 20 years, shameful!!!

[@Reinvented04]

You’re so fucking right!

[@adamd6648]

Damn I hate the Grammies.

[@Peterrdee]

Same with Britney the poor girl should of been nominated every album tbh

[@AntiStraightMaleSociety]

@@adamd6648 scammies

[@mustafa-cx2fg]

Same with Beyoncé I'll never forgive the scammies after they snubbed her of AOTY for Lemonade. Even Adele agreed it was unfair.

[@habbogigi]

Madonna and Mariah’s career are proof the Grammys don’t mean anything, two of the most influential artist of their time and both having 10 Grammys between them...a joke

[@jhoncabrera7283]

I agree plus Whitney Houston's My Love Is Your Love album which had 5 worldwide hits was also snubbed.

[@sajecocnarf4614]

Facts.

[@cjma4832]

Agree

[@HistoryRepeatingTMU]

A bigger travesty is that Diana Ross who was the top selling female artist of the 20th century never got any Grammys except for a lifetime achievement !

[@dahlia1933]

@@jhoncabrera7283 Who cares about charts? we are talking about quality...

[@thedragonseeds518]

Thank you Grammys for reminding us how you robbed her several times.

[@allisonle8596]

Thank you!

[@Lyanno99]

such a shame that she was never nominated for like a prayer

[@robertson3620]

Agree with you. LAP is a masterpiece.

[@maddoxseudenjean]

So unfairrrrr😡

[@habbogigi]

a joke! SCAMmys

[@Reinvented04]

Strong women with opinion and not kissing anyone’s asses get punished... all the songs she wrote for movies never got nominated for the oscars... This used to be my playground... so many that even the golden globes nominated her... but in the end.... she have her fans... awards... never made her the best selling female artist on planet Earth so take that bitches 🥰😂😂😂

[@maddoxseudenjean]

@@Reinvented04 Preach sister.🧠🦾💯👸🏼👑👑

[@sushitunaegg]

She deserves a Grammy for every albums in 80s and 90s!!

[@basicelement]

Also 2000 Music & Confessions

[@sohfihamid4164]

Even for Erotica !

[@DontaeJacksonh.d]

You're right

[@rico-wood]

Exactly!

[@ronrodriguez9741]

For Music, Confessions and Madame X as well.

[@helgafever768]

Madonna invented the female pop. She's the biggest female pop star ever 💅👠

[@gato0082]

She was the first artist to do a lot of thgs, sometime her personality turn me off, ***🙊but give her props cz she did influence too much to mention here, evn artist who throw shade her way have emulated her .... 👁️💁👁️ She wz first artist to make a video where it's jus her slithering about 👀❣️📹😄🙃😛🌌🌌🌌🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠LUCKY STAR..... YEARS LATER WE WD watch D'Angelo I'm jus talkin the video... Vibe artist, sexuality, allure, music, no other ppl or scenic nuthin.... Watch them both .. Lucky star .. How do it's feel ... 🌠🌠 🕊️ 🕊️

[@JairoAgama777]

TOP !

[@lucgrillet5972]

The academy sucks. The woman who created pop as it is somehow has so little recognition. Ray of Light is an absolute masterpiece, its an insane piece of art. However, Madonnas earlier and later work are also Grammy material. Beyond that even.

[@marceloalejandrodecon9538]

By that time the "academy" had been snubbing Madonna for 17 years in a row. Unforgivable.

[@lucasbueno5594]

Ray of Light deservedly won, but she should have at least 3 Grammy’s from previous albums - Like a Prayer, Erotica and Bedtime Stories.

[@jfy1680]

One of the most influential, brave and significant artist of all time

[@rcmtarrse03p45]

Her first Grammy was for her Blonde Ambition Tour! 💛 The top touring artist of all time Madonna always make some amazing tours!

[@ginasousabranco5637]

Plus another Grammy for her Confessions Tour

[@rysachibana1486]

All the vocal trainings in Evita paid off in this album. Her range and pitch improved big time!

[@swiftieforever9793]

Queen of pop, no questions asked.

[@Ariana-nw2oh]

Is lovely peaches

[@teamdarku6944]

She has 7 Grammys, 20 MTV Video Music Awards, she is the most successful solo artist in the Billboard Hot 100 of all time, she is the artist with the most number 1 hits of all time 🥰

[@shibba2517]

Yeah and some little shit from Facebook schools me that CHER is more successful than Madonna. What a bullshit

[@Marc-zi5cq]

@@shibba2517 Cher is a legend as well but she had like 5 big solohits throughout her entire solo career. Madonna had them already on one album alone ( True blue 3#1s, 2 top 5)

[@ginasousabranco5637]

The Beatles only received 3 Grammy’s while active and 5 others career Grammy’s more recently. Elvis Presley only received 3 Grammy’s

[@walter2530]

The artist with most number 1 hits of all time in billboard hot 100 is Mariah Carey.

[@crystalmonroy9111]

@@walter2530 she’s second actually. the beatles are still #1

[@gabrieltalavera4465]

One of my top 10 albums of all time. It inspired me when I was a music major to dance and use music to deal with depression and isolation in college. Now at 40 I realized that when you are compassionate & spiritually at peace with yourself you will always feel connected and never alone. 🙏

[@ronrodriguez9741]

God bless you.

[@englandportugal91]

Madonna - Queen Of Pop!

[@Cody-jg9fj]

The “queen of pop” doesn’t spend 3 weeks on the BB200 before falling off

[@englandportugal91]

@@Cody-jg9fj Thanks for the response! Take care!

[@popatemyheart_]

That would be Gaga now

[@Reinvented04]

@@Cody-jg9fj you talking about only USA right? WHAT ABOUT THE PLANET? SHE WILL BE THE QUEEN UNTIL SOMEONE SELLS 400 MILLIONS RECORDS 😂😂😂😂 YOU ARE AN IGNORANT... TELL ME .... ALL YOUR FAVOURITES HOW MUCH THEY SELL?... YEAR AFTER YEAR... WE CAN COMPARE... BUT JUST SALES... NOT STREAM.... BECAUSE WHEN MADONNA WAS YOUNGER PEOPLE BUY RECORDS... should be compare? Madonna will destroy your faves... I don’t want to embarrass you... but reply if you have the guts 😱😂😂😂😂😂🤫🤫🤫🤫

[@Reinvented04]

@@popatemyheart_ why because she was popular? She can’t compete.... she don’t sell anymore and she still young.... get a reality check!

[@norijean3279]

Can you believe that's her actual real hair? Yes, Madonna in the 80s and 90s actually made efforts to come up with cool hairstyles for every album. And it was always her real hair. These days every pop star just puts a wig on and is good to go. Madonna's makeovers were always genuine and exciting to watch.

[@grard4141]

Best pop album ever 👑⚡️🌊👏🏼

[@landryspektor7377]

Madonna is the most successful solo artist in the Billboard Hot 100 of all time, she has 7 Grammys!

[@ginasousabranco5637]

Madonna was almost completely ignored by The Grammy’s during the first 9 years of her career having received just 4 nominations during that period: Best Pop vocal performance for Crazy for You in 1986; Best pop vocal performance for Papa Don’t Preach in 1987; Best song written for a movie for Who’s That Girl in 1988; Best Short Form Music Video for Oh Father” in 1991

[@beckdaniella1205]

When everyone were stylish in their own way, when everything was normal, when music was actually music no matter the category or genre. Pop was pop, rnb was rnb. No Instagram, no Facebook, bruh, 90's and early 2000 are everything❤️

[@MariahCareysDivaDaughter]

Right? Why can't we go back? Nowadays we have to put up with bad mainstream alternative artists and people think they are so groundbreaking, it's soooo unfair...

[@russ819]

Can yall dinosaurs stop complaining and go extinct ffs

[@londonmontgomery9342]

@@russ819 Really?

[@oliveranderson7264]

@@londonmontgomery9342 yes

[@AntiStraightMaleSociety]

@@russ819 dinosaurs 💀😂

[@giftyzanesuag2855]

Madame X deserves a Grammy, hope her Madame X Tour win a Grammy, it is the best tour of all time!!!!

[@LareinadelpopMadonna]

Those awards are currently based on popularity. They are a complete joke, there are many jobs like Madame X that are totally ignored.

[@Hassan-zc4ni]

Well Madonna doesn't need any Grammys, she was already had become the biggest female star since 1980s, even though half of the world were listening and watching her, but the shitty Grammys never cared about Madonna's music, she's the greatest female entertainer of all time.

[@deanellison9206]

Really can't see her putting a Grammy or an MTV award next to her collection of Piccasos and Legers haha

[@Reinvented04]

Yes it’s true... where are all the Grammy winners? Never achieve what Madonna did 😂😂😂

[@AntiStraightMaleSociety]

@Rose K yes look what happened to the Weeknd with his new album after hours and Katy Perry with teenage dream, Lana Del Rey and the list goes on

[@glenwarne6492]

@@AntiStraightMaleSociety Lmao imagine thinking Katy Perry deserves a grammy

[@AntiStraightMaleSociety]

@@glenwarne6492 bro your opinion is irrelevant lol

[@bubettograsso3610]

Queen of music period

[@luisfernandoburgos4565]

Her best album! 👏👏👏

[@aznwilly8013]

This album is part of my life. One of the best music Madonna has put out. It deserved all the recognition.

[@rentco1965]

Madonna should have won AOTY for Ray of Light

[@amgm1996]

no lauryn hill totally deserved it and i love madonna

[@weslyecheverria8866]

LAURYN HILL BABBBYYYY

[@rentco1965]

Arcanjo Miguel Lauryn who?

[@rentco1965]

Wesly Echeverria yeah she’s had plenty of those

[@Michael-xi9nb]

It's unfortunate that it was the same year as Lauryn Hill. Both are all-timers.

[@cdaswift9947]

Of my fave album!!!! Indeed, deserving!

[@rumamdirita5258]

Madonna is the Queen of the 80's, 90's and 00's!!!!

[@tomasperezgonzalez7055]

Madonna, Ray of light, album of the year

[@eroinverzo1102]

I just loved this ray of light album of Madonna particularly Frozen

[@__HumanNature__]

Time to release this masterpiece along with all the remixes and unreleased demos and videos on HD5.1 Blu-ray 😍

[@babybop9817]

I want the b sides tbh. There's no album like ray of light

[@jacksonatic]

And that overdue Veronica Electronica album

[@julianvago50]

When the Grammys were a true event. Give it all the real artist Madonna

[@getit5196]

2 of my favorite performers Madonna and Jennifer

[@cindyland6273]

Saw Madonna in March 2024 at the Forum in CA. She was amazing. This acceptance speech is the most humble and polite Ive ever seen her. Congrats to this singer who has entertained us for 60 years! 😍🎶🎵🎹🎤❤️

[@jheisonrincon7681]

Larga vida a la Reina del Pop Madonna💕🎶👏👏👏

[@shaheerwaseem3524]

A Masterpiece ❤️

[@englandportugal91]

So Deserving! Great Album!

[@zenzenn9789]

Queen of Pop!!!

[@grard4141]

The best álbum of the universe 🌌

[@shako0waka]

Merecía el Grammy a Disco de Año, no hubo ningún mejor album que Ray of Light ese año....!!!!!!

[@djschool7173]

Solo The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, el ganador.

[@tomasperezgonzalez7055]

No se lo dieron por que era ella, pero si es el mejor álbum de 1998 sin duda

[@tomasperezgonzalez7055]

​@@djschool7173no, es un álbum aburrido y ya pasado de moda, Ray of light sigue sonando mucho mejor y a vendido mucho más, que el bodrio de Lauren Hill

[@ArielLunaa]

@@tomasperezgonzalez7055 Cualquier pieza artística está sujeta a "pasar de moda", y ese reconocimiento fue relativo a ambos álbumes en el contexto de 1998. No era un premio relativo a aspectos musicales únicamente, en cuyo criterio ambos álbumes son respectivamente innovadores, sino como proyecto lírico también, en lo cual TMOLH tiene letras mucho más profundas e inspiradoras a lo largo del álbum. No olvidar también el contexto político en que se reconocía reivindicativamente (y con mérito) la obra de artistas afroamericanos en la década de los 90, lo cual le dio empuje un extra a Misseducation. Haber tenido una "producción electrónica de vanguardia que sigue sonando moderna en la actualidad" solo es una dimensión del cuadro.

[@M.LSilva]

Unfortunately today, this sexist and prejudiced award ignores Madonna. They did not nominate MadameX in the "Best Pop Album" or "Album of the Year" categories. Much injustice what they do with Madonna. Videos of "dark ballett" or "god control" deserved to be nominated for "video of the year" but the grammy equals mtv boycott and injustice of legendary artists and only nominates and rewards new chart artists.

[@koby_in_renaissance]

because it did not deserve to be nominated, lmao.

[@user-bg1cr5fe4x]

Peculiar Groove it did it’s so innovative

[@user-bg1cr5fe4x]

Kobe Serinas watch y’all praising the hell out of it and saying it’s ahead of its time in 10 years

[@amiehampton867]

Album is not good and not be nominated.

[@gregory7567]

Rebel heart maybe not Madame X lmao

[@thesanctuary5221]

Merece ganar mas grammy's.

[@cshlssaschalt9448]

MOST SUCCESSFUL SOLO ARTIST OF ALL TIME IN THE BILLBOARD HOT 100!!!!

[@naurking5388]

"She’s a fabulous producer. When it says ‘produced by Madonna and William Orbit’, people DON'T always give her the credit for that. But she’s as responsible as me." -William Orbit, 2021

[@cameronfeist9771]

My lovely Queen 💙

[@tera0865ab]

Like a Prayer, True Blue, Music, Bed Time Stories, Rebel Heart deserve a Grammy

[@oenrob98000]

Ray of Light is still an amazing album by today's standards 💘

[@bebaaliciacreations]

👍 Madonna, the Diva 👏Very popular, crazy and fantastic ♥️

[@Goatchild90]

Crazy that album came out in 1998. Aged like wine.

[@WasWasLo]

The best album of the 90’s!

[@blamdeeyrann4240]

Madonna 😍 , celine dion, nana mouskouri, taylor swift, whitney houston, britney spears, lady gaga, adele, katy perry, shania twain, beyonce, ariana grande, alanis morissette are the best selling female artists of all time!!!! 😍

[@cshlssaschalt9448]

BEST MADONNA!!!!!

[@greatgaga266]

@@cshlssaschalt9448 Great

[@chanupadulnuwan6964]

Shakira

[@iceman30981]

Keep releasing these please I want to watch more legendary artists won Grammys back then

[@Matuteilcapo]

QUEEN OF POP

[@landryspektor7377]

[@tuggleriguenrdnigo6268]

I 💜 Madonna very much!!!!!

[@jairofuentes7492]

Queen👑👑👑madonna

[@velasquezmari]

Still playing! This album is so amazing, never gets old!

[@umberto9963]

The queen👑

[@GlennWD]

Queen of Pop FOREVER! She will not be replaced by anyone!

[@kellyswat7836]

Her music cleanses my soul 💖

[@wendellcruuz]

Queen! ❤️

[@twins9921]

it's weird when the Grammys actually awards excellence

[@tomasperezgonzalez7055]

Ray of light, albums of the year, 👑👑👑❤️

[@rumamdirita5258]

Masterpiece album!

[@cinefiloleitor5118]

So deserver in so many levels 😍

[@nurultea2069]

Look 1:25 William with British and Madonna say he don't speak English. Kidding

[@GutoBCN]

She says ironically "he DOES speak English".

[@victormorais2330]

Thank u, u should post her performance which opened the show too

[@gato0082]

I nvr hrd the whole ALBULM, but I know there r some really nice tracks on, gonna listen again asap 👌🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎵🎶🎧🎶🎶🎶

[@brandjean7584]

Madonna 👑♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@hectormoreno46]

Wonderful album!

[@dobazajr]

This is Madonna's first Grammy televised win.

[@mpourmpoulithra2011]

queen of pop

[@greatgaga266]

Amazing album

[@yahirmm9075]

Those were great times, real pop music. Madonna ❤️❤️

[@kellyswat7836]

Amazing album 💖

[@weewee8187]

BUT u took 21 years to publish a clip of just 1min+ !!! HOW EFFICIENT & TRUST WORTHY U ARE!

[@bryonblack4040]

She won a bunch of awards that night. Full edit be great but ty for acknowledging this music and video icon, legend and trendsetter.

[@maddoxseudenjean]

QUEEN.😭🥺👸🏼THE BEST ALBUM🥺

[@adamdaaid1675]

Amazing album

[@vasiliyboor4753]

Queen 👑

[@bebaaliciacreations]

👍 Bravo for Madonna 👏

[@lexistenceestailleurs]

OMG she looks incredible here 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@Renalt]

She deserve to win the best album of the year with Ray of light and we all know it.

[@Danydanielballet]

Una increíble artista , la mejor , la reina del pop por siempre después de ella no existe nada

[@soundseeker63]

Doesn't she look fantastic here! 🤩 And OMG can you believe Ray Of Light is 25 years old already! 🤯 Time has not diminished it's impact one bit. In fact it has aged like a fine wine and remains not just HER best album, but one of THE best albums, period. A real musical journey of spectacular beauty, depth, and intelligence. The late 90s really was an excellent, exciting and eclectic time for popular music accross all the genres. I wish I could go back and do it all again!

[@Baliandtourist]

William Orbit is awesome!!!

[@lepaquet15]

Well deserved. Incredible album.

[@samanthak9078]

This whole album is magic. Amazing!

[@adamdaaid1675]

She has the most number 1 hits of all time

[@dasilvafdavid]

Great album !

[@fajarzakri5542]

Crazy to think that this is her ONLY televised Grammy win.

[@cameronfeist9771]

I 💜 her

[@raiderred803]

Queen of Music

[@Impressive1nstant]

CLASSIC MOMENT

[@TheMiraculousVillain]

This was legitimately Madonna’s comeback album

[@kevinfernandez5881]

Well Deserved!

[@adamdaaid1675]

The Queen !

[@shako0waka]

La mejor...!!!!!