Winners At The 57th Annual Grammy Awards.
From Sam Smith emerging as the biggest winner with four awards to Beck pulling a major shocker by taking home The Album of the year to Kanye West being classic Kanye and all the rocking performances in between, the 57th annual Grammy awards which took place on Sunday night in Los Angeles was nothing short of amazing. For those who missed it, below is the full rundown of all the winners at music’s biggest night.
Best New Artist
– Sam Smith
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
A Great Big World With Christina Aguilera – “Say Something”
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
– Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga – Cheek To Cheek
Best Pop Solo Performance
: Pharrell Williams – “Happy”
Best Pop Vocal Album
: Sam Smith – In The Lonely Hour
Best Rock Performance
: Jack White – “Lazaretto”
Best Metal Performance
: Tenacious D – “The Last In Line”
Best Rock Song
: Paramore – “Ain’t It Fun” Hayley Williams & Taylor York, songwriters
Best Alternative Rock Album:
St. Vincent – St. Vincent
Best Rap Performance:
Kendrick Lamar – “I”
Best Rap/Sung Collaboration
: Eminem Featuring Rihanna – “The Monster”
Best Rap Song:
Kendrick Lamar – “I”
K. Duckworth & C. Smith, songwriters
Best Rap Album
: Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP2
Best Traditional R&B Performance
: “Jesus Children”
Robert Glasper Experiment Featuring Lalah Hathaway & Malcolm-Jamal Warner
Best R&B Song
: Beyoncé Featuring Jay Z – “Drunk In Love”
Shawn Carter, Rasool Diaz, Noel Fisher, Jerome Harmon, Beyoncé Knowles, Timothy Mosely, Andre Eric Proctor & Brian Soko, songwriters
Best Urban Contemporary Album:
Pharrell Williams – Girl
Best R&B Album
: Toni Braxton & Babyface – Love, Marriage & Divorce
Best Contemporary Instrumental Album
: Chris Thile & Edgar Meyer – Bass & Mandolin
Best Dance/Electronic Album
: Aphex Twin – Syro
Best Dance Recording:
Clean Bandit Featuring Jess Glynne – “Rather Be”
Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media:
Frozen
Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez, Tom MacDougall & Chris Montan, compilation producers
Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media
: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Alexandre Desplat, composer
Best Song Written for Visual Media:
“Let It Go” from Frozen
Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez, songwriters (Idina Menzel)
Best Country Solo Performance:
Carrie Underwood – “Something In The Water”
Best Country Duo/Group Performance
: The Band Perry – “Gentle On My Mind”
Best Country Song:
“I’m Not Gonna Miss You”
Glen Campbell & Julian Raymond, songwriters (Glen Campbell)
Best Bluegrass Album
: The Earls Of Leicester – The Earls Of Leicester
Best American Roots Performance
: Rosanne Cash – “A Feather’s Not A Bird”
Best American Roots Song:
Rosanne Cash – “A Feather’s Not A Bird”
Best Americana Album
: Rosanne Cash – The River & The Thread
Best Folk Album
: Old Crow Medicine Show – Remedy
Best Music Video:
Pharrell Williams – “Happy”
Best Music Film
: 20 Feet From Stardom
Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer & Judith Hill
Morgan Neville, video director; Gil Friesen & Caitrin Rogers, video producers
We Are From LA, video director; Kathleen Heffernan, Solal Micenmacher, Jett Steiger, video producers
Producer of the Year, Non-Classical
: Max Martin
“Bang Bang” (Jessie J, Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj)
“Break Free” (Ariana Grande Featuring Zedd)
“Dark Horse” (Katy Perry Featuring Juicy J)
“Problem” (Ariana Grande Featuring Iggy Azalea)
“Shake It Off” (Taylor Swift)
“Unconditionally” (Katy Perry)
Best Instrumental Composition:
John Williams – “The Book Thief”
Best Arrangement, Instrumental or ACappella:
Pentatonix – “Daft Punk”
Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals
: Billy Childs – “New York Tendaberry”
Best Recording Package
: Jeff Ament, Don Pendleton, Joe Spix & Jerome Turner, art directors
Pearl Jam – Lightning Bolt
Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package
: Susan Archie, Dean Blackwood & Jack White, art directors
The Rise & Fall Of Paramount Records, Volume One (1917-27)
Best Album Notes:
Ashley Kahn
John Coltrane – Offering: Live At Temple University
Best Historical Album
: Colin Escott & Cheryl Pawelski, compilation producers; Michael Graves, mastering engineer
Hank Williams – The Garden Spot Programs, 1950
Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
: Beck – Morning Phase
Tom Elmhirst, David Greenbaum, Florian Lagatta, Cole Marsden Greif-Neill, Robbie Nelson, Darrell Thorp, Cassidy Turbin & Joe Visciano, engineers; Bob Ludwig, mastering engineer
Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical: Tijs Michiel Verwest, remixer
J ohn Legend – “All Of Me (Tiesto’s Birthday Treatment Remix)”
Best Surround Sound Album
: Beyoncé – Beyoncé
Elliot Scheiner, surround mix engineer; Bob Ludwig, surround mastering engineer; Beyoncé Knowles, surround producer
Best Regional Roots Music Album:
Jo-El Sonnier – The Legacy
Best Reggae Album
: Ziggy Marley – Fly Rasta
Best World Music Album
: Angelique Kidjo – Eve
Best Children’s Album
: Neela Vaswani – I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up For Education And Changed The World (Malala Yousafzai)
Best Musical Theatre Album
: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
Jessie Mueller, principal soloist; Jason Howland, Steve Sidwell & Billy Jay Stein, producers (Carole King, composer & lyricist) (Original Broadway Cast)
Best Blues Album:
Johnny Winter – Step Back
Best Spoken Word Album:
Joan Rivers – Diary Of A Mad Diva
Best Comedy Album
: “Weird Al” Yankovic – Mandatory Fun
Best New Age Album
: Ricky Kej & Wouter Kellerman – Winds Of Samsara
Best Improved Jazz Solo:
Chick Corea – “Fingerprints”
Best Jazz Vocal Album
: Dianne Reeves – Beautiful Life
Best Jazz Instrumental Album
: Chick Corea Trio – Trilogy
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album:
Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band – Life In The Bubble
Best Latin Jazz Album
: Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra – The Offense Of The Drum
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