The 58th Annual Grammy Awards were held just a couple of hours ago at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. To nobody’s surprise, Tay Tay took home her second best album honour with her bestie Ed Sheeran bagging awards for “Song of the year” as well as “Best pop solo performance”.
Meghan Trainor took home “Best new artiste” and hit us right in the feels with her emotional acceptance speech and, also, Lady Gaga knocked the socks off out feet with a fascinating tribute to her idol, the late British rock visionary David Bowie.
Show-stealers and red carpet arrivals aside, here are the winners of the awards:
Album of the year
Sound and Color, Alabama Shakes
To Pimp a Butterfly, Kendrick Lamar
Traveller, Chris Stapleton
Winner: 1989, Taylor Swift
Beauty Behind the Madness, The Weeknd
Record of the year
Really Love, D’Angelo and the Vanguard
Winner: Uptown Funk, Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars
Thinking Out Loud, Ed Sheeran
Blank Space, Taylor Swift
Can’t Feel My Face, The Weeknd
Song of the year
“Alright”, Kendrick Lamar
“Blank Space”, Taylor Swift
“Girl Crush”, Little Big Town
“See You Again”, Wiz Khalifa feat. Charlie Puth
Winner: Thinking Out Loud, Ed Sheeran
Best new artiste
Courtney Barnett
James Bay
Sam Hunt
Tori Kelly
Winner: Meghan Trainor
Best pop solo performance
Kelly Clarkson, “Heartbeat Song”
Ellie Goulding, “Love Me Like You Do”
Winner: Ed Sheeran, “Thinking Out Loud”
Taylor Swift, “Blank Space”
The Weeknd, “Can’t Feel My Face”
Best pop duo/group performance
Florence + The Machine, “Ship to Wreck”
Maroon 5, “Sugar”
Winner: Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars, “Uptown Funk”
Taylor Swift feat. Kendrick Lamar, “Bad Blood”
Wiz Khalifa feat. Charlie Puth, “See You Again”
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 (& Various Artists)
Best pop vocal album
Piece by Piece, Kelly Clarkson
How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful, Florence + The Machine
Uptown Special, Mark Ronson
Winner: 1989, Taylor Swift
Before This World, James Taylor
Best dance recording
“We’re All We Need”, Above & Beyond feat. Zoë Johnston
“Go”, The Chemical Brothers
“Never Catch Me”, Flying Lotus feat. Kendrick Lamar
“Runaway (U & I)”, Galantis
Winner: “Where Are Ü Now”, Skrillex and Diplo with Justin Bieber
Best rock performance
Winner: Alabama Shakes, “Don’t Wanna Fight”
Florence + The Machine, “What Kind Of Man”
Foo Fighters, “Something From Nothing”
Elle King, “Ex’s & Oh’s”
Wolf Alice, “Moaning Lisa Smile”
Best alternative music album
Winner: Sound & Color, Alabama Shakes
Vulnicura, Björk
The Waterfall, My Morning Jacket
Currents, Tame Impala
Star Wars, Wilco
Best urban contemporary album
The Internet, Ego Death
Kehlani, You Should Be Here
Lianne La Havas, Blood
Miguel, Wildheart
Winner: The Weeknd, Beauty Behind the Madness
Best rap album
J. Cole, 2014 Forest Hills Drive
Dr. Dre, Compton
Drake, If You’re Reading This Its Too Late
Winner: Kendrick Lamar, To Pimp a Butterfly
Nicki Minaj, The Pinkprint
Best country album
Sam Hunt, Montevallo
Little Big Town, Pain Killer
Ashley Monroe, The Blade
Kacey Musgraves, Pageant Material
Winner: Chris Stapleton, Traveller
Best musical theatre album
An American in Paris
Run Home
Winner: Hamilton
The King and I
Something Rotten
Best latin pop album
Pablo Alborán, Terral
Alex Cuba, Healer
Winner: Ricky Martin, A Quien Quiera Escuchar (Deluxe Edition)
Alejandro Sanz, Sirope
Julieta Venegas, Algo Sucede
Best dance/electronic album
Caribou, Our Love
The Chemical Brothers, Born in the Echoes
Disclosure, Caracal
Jamie XX, In Colour
Winner: Skrillex and Diplo, Skrillex and Diplo Present Jack Ü
Best contemporary instrumental album
Bill Frisell, Guitar in the Space Age!
Wouter Kellerman, Love Language
Marcus Miller, Afrodeezia
Winner: Snarky Puppy & Metropole Orkest, Sylva
Kirk Whalum, The Gospel According to Jazz, Chapter IV
Best metal performance
August Burns Red, Identity
Winner: Cirice, Ghost
Lamb of God, 512
Sevendust, Thank You
Slipknot, Custer
Best rock song
Winner: Alabama Shakes, Don’t Wanna Fight
Elle King, Ex’s & Oh’s
James Bay, Hold Back the River
Highly Suspect, Lydia
Florence + the Machine, What Kind of Man
Best rock album
James Bay, Chaos and the Calm
Death Cab for Cutie, Kintsugi
Highly Suspect, Mister Asylum
Winner: Muse, Drones
Slipknot, .5: The Gray Chapter
Best R&B performance
Tamar Braxton, “If I Don’t Have You”
Andra Day, “Rise Up”
Hiatus Kaiyote, “Breathing Underwater”
Jeremih feat. J. Cole, “Planes”
Winner: The Weeknd, “Earned It” (Fifty Shades of Grey)
Best traditional R&B performance
Faith Evans, “He Is”
Winner: Lalah Hathaway, “Little Ghetto Boy”
Jazmine Sullivan, “Let It Burn”
Tyrese, “Shame”
Charlie Wilson, “My Favorite Part of You”
Best R&B song
Miguel, “Coffee”
The Weeknd, “Earned It” (Fifty Shades of Grey)
Jazmine Sullivan, “Let It Burn”
Winner: D’Angelo and The Vanguard, “Really Love”
Tyrese, “Shame”
Best R&B album
Leon Bridges, Coming Home
Winner: D’Angelo and the Vanguard, Black Messiah
Andra Day, Cheers to the Fall
Jazmine Sullivan, Reality Show
Charlie Wilson, Forever Charlie
Best rap performance
J. Cole, “Apparently”
Drake, “Back to Back”
Fetty Wap, “Trap Queen”
Winner: Kendrick Lamar, “Alright”
Nicki Minaj feat. Drake & Lil Wayne, “Truffle Butter”
Kanye West feat. Theophilus London, Allan Kingdom & Paul McCartney, “All Day”
Best rap/sung collaboration
Big Sean feat. Kanye West & John Legend, “One Man Can Change the World”
Common & John Legend, “Glory”
Jidenna feat. Roman GianArthur, “Classic Man”
Winner: Kendrick Lamar feat. Bilal, Anna Wise & Thundercat, “These Walls”
Nicki Minaj feat. Drake, Lil Wayne & Chris Brown, “Only”
Best rap song
Kanye West feat. Theophilus London, Allan Kingdom & Paul McCartney, “All Day”
Winner: Kendrick Lamar, “Alright”
Drake, “Energy”
Common & John Legend, “Glory”
Fetty Wap, “Trap Queen”
Best country duo/group performance
Brothers Osborne, “Stay a Little Longer”
Joey + Rory, “If I Needed You”
Charles Kelley, Dierks Bentley & Eric Paslay, “The Driver”
Winner: Little Big Town, “Girl Crush”
Blake Shelton feat. Ashley Monroe, “Lonely Tonight”
Best country song
Lee Ann Womack, “Chances Are”
Tim McGraw, “Diamond Rings And Old Barstools”
Winner: Little Big Town, “Girl Crush”
Brandy Clark, “Hold My Hand”
Chris Stapleton, “Traveller”
Score soundtrack for visual media
Winner: Birdman
The Imitation Game
Interstellar
The Theory of Everything
Whiplash
Best music video
A$AP Rocky, LSD
The Dead Weather, I Feel Love
Kendrick Lamar, Alright
Winner: Taylor Swift feat. Kendrick Lamar, “Bad Blood”
Pharrell Williams, Freedom
Best music film
Foo Fighters, Sonic Highways
James Brown, Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown
Nina Simone, What Happened, Miss Simone
Roger Waters, The Wall
Winner: Amy Winehouse, Amy
We’ll leave you now with Tay Tay’s epic acceptance speech for “Album of The Year” aka a certain Kanye burn:
For a complete list of winners in all categories, visit the GRAMMYs’ official website.
