Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with
Vocal: “Every Breath You Take,” The Police
Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female: “Love Is a
Battlefield,” Pat Benatar
Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male: “Beat It,”
Michael Jackson
Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with
Vocal:Synchronicity, The Police
Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female:Chaka Khan,
Chaka Khan
Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male: “Billie Jean,”
Michael Jackson
Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with
Vocal: “Ain’t Nobody,” Rufus and Chaka Khan
Best R&B Song: “Billie Jean,” Michael Jackson
(songwriter and artist)
Best Country Vocal Performance, Female: “A Little
Good News,” Anne Murray
Best Country Vocal Performance, Male: “I.O.U.,”
Lee Greenwood
Best Country Performance, Duo or Group:The
Closer You Get, Alabama
Best Country Song: “Stranger in My House,”
Ronnie Milsap (songwriter)
Best Jazz Fusion Performance, Instrumental or
Vocal:Travels, Pat Metheny
Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female:The Best Is Yet
to Come, Ella Fitzgerald
Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male:Top Drawer, Mel
To r m é
Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo or Group: “Why
Not!,” The Manhattan Transfer
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist:Think
of One, Wynton Marsalis
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group:At the
Vanguard, Phil Woods Quartet
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band:All
in Good Time, Rob McConnell and the Boss
Brass
Best Video, Short Form: “Girls on Film/Hungry
Like the Wolf,” Duran Duran
Best Video Album:Duran Duran, Duran Duran*
1984
Album of the Year:Can’t Slow Down, James
Anthony Carmichael and Lionel Richie
(producers), Lionel Richie (artist)
Record of the Year: “What’s Love Got to Do with
It,” Terry Britten (producer), Tina Turner*
(artist)
Song of the Year: “What’s Love Got to Do with It,”
Graham Lyle and Terry Britten (songwriters),
Tina Turner (artist)
Best New Artist: Cyndi Lauper*
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female: “What’s
Love Got to Do With It,” Tina Turner*
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male: “Against All
Odds (Take a Look at Me Now),” Phil Collins
Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with
Vocal: “Jump (For My Love),” The Pointer
Sisters
Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female: “Better Be
Good to Me,” Tina Turner*
Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male: “Dancing in
the Dark,” Bruce Springsteen*
Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with
Vocal:Purple Rain: Music from the Motion Picture,
Prince* and the Revolution
Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female: “I Feel for
You,” Chaka Khan
Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male: “Caribbean
Queen (No More Rain on My Love),” Billy
Ocean
Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with
Vocal: “Yah Mo B There,” James Ingram and
Michael McDonald
Best R&B Song: “I Feel for You,” Prince*
(songwriter), Chaka Khan (artist)
Best Country Vocal Performance, Female: “In My
Dreams,” Emmylou Harris
Best Country Vocal Performance, Male: “That’s
the Way Love Goes,” Merle Haggard
Best Country Performance, Duo or Group:
“Mama, He’s Crazy,” The Judds
Best Country Song: “City of New Orleans,” Steve
Goodman (songwriter), Willie Nelson (artist)
Best Jazz Fusion Performance, Instrumental or
Vocal:First Circle, Pat Metheny Group
Best Jazz Vocal Performance:Nothin’ but the Blues,
Joe Williams
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist:Hot
House Flowers, Wynton Marsalis
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group:New
York Scene, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band: 88
Basie Street, Count Basie
Best Video, Short Form: “David Bowie,” David
Bowie
Best Video Album:Making Michael Jackson’s
“Thriller,”Michael Jackson*1132 Music: Grammy Awards The Eighties in America