Monday, February 22, 2016

The 58th Grammy Awards, 2016

The Grammy Awards were a week ago so here are a few of the key winners and a little overview of the night.


Album of the Year

Winner: 1989 - Taylor Swift
Sound & Color - Alabama Shakes
To Pimp A Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar
Traveller - Chris Stapleton
Beauty Behind The Madness - The Weeknd


Best New Artist

Winner: Meghan Trainor
Courtney Barnett
James Bay
Sam Hunt
Tori Kelly


Best Rock Album

Winner: Drones - Muse
Chaos And The Calm - James Bay
Kintsugi - Death Cab For Cutie
Mister Asylum - Highly Suspect
.5: The Gray Chapter - Slipknot


Best Rock Performance

Winner: Don't Wanna Fight - Alabama Shakes
What Kind Of Man - Florence & The Machine
Something From Nothing - Foo Fighters
Ex's & Oh's - Elle King
Moaning Lisa Smile - Wolf Alice


Record of the Year

Winner: Uptown Funk - Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars
Really Love - D'Angelo and the Vanguard
Thinking Out Loud - Ed Sheeran
Blank Space - Taylor Swift
Can't Feel My Face - The Weeknd


Song of the Year

Winner: Thinking Out Loud - Ed Sheeran & Amy Wadge
Alright - Kendrick Duckworth, Kawan Prather, Mark Anthony Spears & Pharrell Williams (Kendrick Lamar)
Blank Space - Max Martin, Shellback & Taylor Swift
Girl Crush - Hillary Lindsey, Lori McKenna & Liz Rose (Little Big Town)
See You Again - Andrew Cedar, Justin Franks, Charles Puth & Cameron Thomaz (Wiz Khalifa)


Best Pop Vocal Album

Winner: 1989 - Taylor Swift
Piece By Piece - Kelly Clarkson
How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful - Florence & The Machine
Uptown Special - Mark Ronson
Before This World - James Taylor


Best Pop Solo Performance

Winner: Thinking Out Loud - Ed Sheeran
Heartbeat Song - Kelly Clarkson
Love Me Like You Do - Ellie Goulding
Blank Space - Taylor Swift
Can't Feel My Face - The Weeknd


Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album

Winner: The Silver Lining: The Songs Of Jerome Kern - Tony Bennett & Bill Charlap
Shadows In The Night - Bob Dylan
Stages - Josh Groban
No One Ever Tells You - Seth MacFarlane
My Dream Duets - Barry Manilow


Best Music Video

Winner: Bad Blood - Taylor Swift Featuring Kendrick Lamar
LSD - ASAP Rocky
I Feel Love (Every Million Miles) - The Dead Weather
Alright - Kendrick Lamar
Freedom - Pharrell Williams


Best Dance Recording

Winner: Where Are U Now - Skrillex and Diplo with Justin Bieber
We're All We Need - Above & Beyond Featuring Zoe Johnston
Go - The Chemical Brothers Featuring Q-Tip
Never Catch Me - Flying Lotus featuring Kendrick Lamar
Runaway (U & I) - Galantis


Best R&B Performance

Winner: Earned It (Fifty Shades Of Grey) - The Weeknd
If I Don't Have You - Tamar Braxton
Rise Up - Andra Day
Breathing Underwater - Hiatus Kaiyote
Planes - Jeremih Featuring J. Cole


Best R&B Album

Winner: Black Messiah - D'Angelo And The Vanguard
Coming Home - Leon Bridges
Cheers To The Fall - Andra Day
Reality Show - Jazmine Sullivan
Forever Charlie - Charlie Wilson


Best Urban Contemporary Album

Winner: Beauty Behind The Madness - The Weeknd
Ego Death - The Internet
You Should Be Here - Kehlani
Blood - Lianne La Havas
Wildheart - Miguel


Best Country Album

Winner: Traveller - Chris Stapleton
Montevallo - Sam Hunt
Pain Killer - Little Big Town
The Blade - Ashley Monroe
Pageant Material - Kacey Musgraves


Best Country Song

Winner: Girl Crush - Hillary Lindsey, Lori McKenna & Liz Rose (Little Big Town)
Chances Are - Hayes Carll (Lee Ann Womack)
Diamond Rings And Old Barstools - Barry Dean, Luke Laird & Jonathan Singleton (Tim McGraw)
Hold My Hand - Brandy Clark & Mark Stephen Jones
Traveller - Chris Stapleton


Best Metal Performance

Winner: Cirice - Ghost
Identity - August Burns Red
512 - Lamb Of God
Thank You - Sevendust
Custer - Slipknot


Best Rap Album

Winner: To Pimp A Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar
2014 Forest Hills Drive - J. Cole
Compton - Dr. Dre
If You're Reading This Its Too Late - Drake
The Pinkprint - Nicki Minaj


Best Music Film

Winner: Amy - Amy Winehouse
Mr. Dynamite: The Rise Of James Brown - James Brown
Sonic Highways - Foo Fighters
What Happened, Miss Simone? - Nina Simone
The Wall - Roger Waters


Best Song written for Visual Media

Winner: Glory - Lonnie Lynn, Che Smith & John Stephens (Common and John Legend)
Earned It (Fifty Shades Of Grey) - Ahmad Balshe, Stephan Moccio, Jason Quenneville & Abel Tesfaye (The Weeknd)
Love Me Like You Do - Savan Kotecha, Max Martin, Tove Nilsson, Ali Payami & Ilya Salmanzadeh (Ellie Goulding)
See You Again - Andrew Cedar, Justin Franks, Charles Puth & Cameron Thomaz (Wiz Khalifa Featuring Charlie Puth)
Til It Happens To You - Lady Gaga & Diane Warren



Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran won his first ever Grammys at the ceremony - song of the year and best pop solo performance for his hit, Thinking Out Loud.


Lady Gaga performed a tribute to David Bowie, singing a medley of his songs.


Adele

Adele performed the track All I Ask, co-written with Bruno Mars, although she had some audio problems after a microphone fell on the piano accompanying her.
John Legend, Demi Lovato, Lionel Richie, Meghan Trainor and Tyrese
John Legend, Demi Lovato, Meghan Trainor and Tyrese Gibson performed with Lionel Richie to honour the former Commodores singer.
Joey Alexander
Twelve-year-old Joey Alexander, a jazz pianist was this year's youngest Grammy nominee and received a standing ovation from the crowd.
The Weeknd
The Weeknd collected two prizes - best urban contemporary album and best R&B performance.

Hollywood Vampires
Hollywood Vampires - a supergroup made up of members including Johnny Depp, Alice Cooper and Joe Perry - performed on TV for the first time and sang Ace of Spades in tribute to Motorhead's Lemmy.

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