The Grammy Award For Song Of the Year

The Grammy Award for Song of the Year is an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, Awards in several categories are distributed annually by the National Acadamy of Arts and Science of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position."

The Song of the Year award is one of the four most prestigious awards in theGrammy Awards ceremony. It has been awarded since 1959. According to the 54 Grammy Awards description guide the award goes to the songwriter(s) of a song that "must contain melody and lyrics and must be either a new song or a song first achieving prominence during the eligibility year. Songs containing prominent samples or interpolations are not eligible".

Despite both the record of the Grammy awards and Song of the Year is awarded for a single or for one track from an album, this award goes only to the composer(s) of the song whereas the Record of the Year award goes to the performer and production team of the song.

Since the late 1960s other songwriter's award has been presented for genre-specific categories including countery and rap songs most recently in rap and gospel.