New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Fiona Apple has received two GRAMMY Awards at the 2021 ceremony last night. She received �Best Alternative Album� for her first full-length in eight years, Fetch The Bolt Cutters [Epic Records]. This achievement comes 23 years after her last GRAMMY� win in 1998 for her song �Criminal.� She also received a second GRAMMY� Award last night for �Best Rock Performance� for her song �Shameika.�
Upon release, Fetch The Bolt Cutters debuted at #4 on the Billboard Top 200 and became her third consecutive Top 10 debut on the respective chart with one Top 10 entry for each of the last three decades�the �00s, the �10s, and now the 2020s.
It also gathered virtually unanimous critical acclaim, claiming the #1 spot on 13 �Best Album of the Year� lists, including Vulture, Pitchfork, The New York Times, The Guardian, Forbes, Stereogum, Consequence of Sound, Paste and more. It was also the best-reviewed album of the year on Metacritic with a rare 100% aggregate score. The album scored perfect reviews all around with Pitchfork ranking it a coveted 10.0 and proclaiming, �No music has ever sounded quite like it.� Meanwhile, Vulture dubbed it �the album she deserved to make all along,� and Rolling Stone summed it up succinctly as �the best work of her career.� It has also generated over 100 million total streams.
Uncompromising, unrepentant, and unrestrained,
Fiona Apple first asserted herself as an iconoclastic voice for popular music and culture at the age of 18 with the release of her triple-platinum full-length debut, Tidal. Platinum selling single �Criminal� received a 1996 GRAMMY� Award in the category of �Best Female Vocal Rock Performance.�The seven-time GRAMMY� Award nominee has sold over 5 million records worldwide and built a critically acclaimed catalog, spanning the platinum-selling When The Pawn� [1999], gold-certified Extraordinary Machine [2005], and chart-topping The Idler Wheel� [2012]. The latter debuted at #3 on the Billboard Top 200, registering her highest placement on the respective chart. It received a 2013 GRAMMY� nod in the category of �Best Alternative Album.� Not to mention, The Idler Wheel� ranked at #1 on year-end lists by Time, Stereogum, and NPR Music�s
Fresh Air and in the Top 5 of year-end lists from Consequence of Sound, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, Pitchfork, and Paste. Pitchfork also cited it among �The 100 Best Albums of the Decade So Far (2010-2014).�
Additionally, she has lent her voice to influential collaborations, including a �Bridge Over Troubled Water� with Johnny Cash, �Sally�s Song� for Tim Burton�s The
Nightmare Before Christmas, and music for films and television shows such as Showtime�s The Affair and Judd Apatow�s This Is 40.
Fiona Apple returned with Fetch The Bolt Cutters in 2020.
