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 won his first ever Grammys at the ceremony - song of the year and
best pop solo performance for his hit, Thinking Out Loud.
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Lady Gaga performed a tribute to David Bowie, singing a medley of his songs.
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.
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John
Legend, Demi Lovato, Meghan Trainor and Tyrese Gibson performed with Lionel
Richie to honour the former Commodores singer.
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Twelve-year-old
Joey Alexander, a jazz pianist was this year's youngest Grammy nominee
and received a standing ovation from the crowd.
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