The Stones just keep on rolling.
After a few weeks of cryptic teases, the legendary rock group officially announced Foreign Tongues, their 25th studio album — their first since 2023’s Hackney Diamonds — along with the first single, “In the Stars.”
And if you’re thinking that new music from the Rolling Stones is literally old news, you may want to take a closer look at their Grammys history.
For being rock royalty, the Rolling Stones are woefully under-awarded at the Grammys. Since forming in 1962, the group has netted a shocking 13 nominations. Somehow, even worse, they’ve only won four times. For the more statistically inclined music nerds out there, that’s an average of one Grammy every 16 years!
Believe it or not, the band was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1986, nearly a decade before they won a single competitive award.
Now, yes, the Stones appropriately won the first-ever Grammy for Best Rock Album, which was only introduced in 1995, with their record Voodoo Lounge. But their first nomination came all the way back in 1979, so there were plenty of snubs on the way to that historic victory.
But since those first two Grammys in 1995, the Rolling Stones have only collected two more golden gramophones. They took home Best Traditional Blues Album in 2018 for their second-most recent album, Blue & Lonesome, which was comprised entirely of covers. They won again in 2025, that time scoring their second win for Best Rock Album with Hackney Diamonds.
So despite decades of rough showings at the Grammys, the Stones are now technically following up a record that won them Best Rock Album with Foreign Tongues. Say what you will about the Recording Academy’s taste in rock, but there’s no denying that the selections tend to favor legacy artists. And with the Stones at the second-most-recent winners of Best Rock Album, a slot for Foreign Tongues seems all but guaranteed.
