The group won for "Leave the Door Open," accepting the trophy from Oscar and Grammy winner Questlove.
Silk Sonic has won the Song of the Year award at the 2022 Grammy Awards. Oscar and Grammy winner Questlove presented the honours.
In his acceptance speech, band member Bruno Mars thanked the album's collaborators, while co-writer Durnst Emil dedicated the award to his recently deceased mother.
Silk Sonic started the awards show with a live performance of their track "777". "Leave the Door Open" paired with Jazmine Sullivan's "Pick Up Your Feelings" has already won Best R&B Performance, and has additionally been nominated for Record of the Year.
Song of the Year is a Songwriter's Award given by the Recording Academy to authors of their choice for Best-Written Song of the Year. Last year's winner H.ER. He was nominated for the same award this year - for "I Can't Breathe".
Other nominated songs tonight are Ed Sheeran's "Bad Habits" (writers Fred Gibson, Johnny McDaid and Ed Sheeran), Alicia Keys and Brandi Carlyle's "A Beautiful Noise", Olivia Rodrigo's "Drivers License" (Daniel Nigro and Olivia Rodrigo) , were HER. "Fight for You" (Durst Emil II, HER and Tiara Thomas), Billie Eilish's "Happier Than Ever" (Billie Eilish O'Connell and Phineas O'Connell), Doja Cat and SZA's "Kiss Me More" (Rosette) Chayd), Amala Zandile Dlamini, Lukasz Gottwald, Carter Lang, Gerard A. Powell II, Solana Roe and David Sprecher), Justin Bieber's "Peaches" (Louis Bell, Justin Bieber, Givon Dezman Evans, Bernard Harvey, Felisha "Fury" King, and Matthew Sean Lyon) and Brandi Carlyle's "Right on Time" (Brandy Carlyle, Dave Cobb, Phil Hansroth and Tim Hansroth).
The Grammys increased the number of nominees in this category as well as the other three general area categories from eight nominees to 10 contenders this year.