Snoop Dogg

Believe it or not, Snoop Dogg has been nominated an incredible 17 times, and yet he’s never won a Grammy. In fact, he is tied for the record of the most nominations without triumphing once. The man has been a mainstay in hip-hop for decades now, and he’s released some of the coolest, the catchiest and the downright best the genre has ever heard, and yet he doesn’t have any gramophones awards to show for it!

He has been up for a prize both thanks to his own work, as well as for songs and albums he was featured on — he was even nominated for Album of the Year as a guest vocalist on Katy Perry’s Teenage Dream (remember “California Gurls”?), but alas, no wins...yet!

Sara Bareilles

The queen of piano-pop is a critical favorite, and she creates exactly the kind of music that Grammy voters typically love to reward, but yet she’s never collected an award. She has been nominated six times, with one of those being a shocking nom for the highly coveted Album of the Year, though she didn’t end up on top.

Earlier this year, Bareilles was also nominated for a Tony Award for writing the music for the musical Waitress. Just as has been the case time and time again at the Grammys, she went home an honored nominee, but not a winner.