Adele, Mumford & Sons and Gotye were among the big winners at The Grammy Awards in Los Angeles last night (10th February).
For the second consecutive year the biggest prize of the evening – Album of the Year – went to a British artist with Mumford & Sons’ ‘Babel’ following in the hallowed footsteps of Adele’s ‘21’.
Gotye’s ‘Somebody That I Used To Know’ took the prestigious Record of the Year gong, fun.’s ‘We Are Young’ was named Song of the Year while Adele took home the Best Pop Solo Performance honour for ‘Set Fire to the Rain’.
Other big winners of the night included Skrillex, The Black Keys, Usher, Kanye West, Drake, Taylor Swift, Rihanna and Calvin Harris.
There was also some controversy when Chris Brown refused to stand up to congratulate Frank Ocean on his Best Urban Contemporary Album following their altercation in an LA record studio car park two weeks ago.
Taylor Swift opened the ceremony with other performers at The Staples Center including Rihanna, Sting and Bruno Mars, Elton John and Ed Sheeran, Justin Timberlake, The Black Keys, Fun., Kelly Clarkson, Mumford & Sons, Frank Ocean, Carrie Underwood, Jack White and The Lumineers.
The key winners are as follows:
Album of the Year
Mumfords and Sons – Babel
Record of the Year
Gotye feat. Kimbra – “Somebody That I Used to Know”
Song of the Year
fun. feat Janelle Monáe – “We Are Young”
Best New Artist
fun.
Best Pop Solo Performance
Adele – “Set Fire to the Rain (Live)”
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
Gotye feat. Kimbra – “Somebody That I Used to Know”
Best Pop Vocal Album
Kelly Clarkson – Stronger
Best Dance Recording
Skrillex feat. Sirah – “Bangarang”
Best Dance/Electronica Album
Skrillex – Bangarang
Best Rock Performance
The Black Keys – “Lonely Boy”
Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance
Halestorm – “Love Bites (So Do I)”
Best Rock Song
The Black Keys – “Lonely Boy”
Best Rock Album
The Black Keys – El Camino
Best Alternative Music Album
Gotye – Making Mirrors
Best R&B Performance
Usher – “Climax”
Best Urban Contemporary Album
Frank Ocean – channel ORANGE
Best R&B Song
Miguel – “Adorn”
Best R&B Album
Robert Glasper Experiment – Black Radio
Best Traditional R&B Performance
Beyoncé – “Love on Top”
Best Rap Performance
Kanye West and Jay-Z – “Paris”
Best Rap/Sung Collaboration
Kanye West and Jay-Z feat. Frank Ocean and The-Dream – “No Church in the Wild”
Best Rap Song
Kanye West and Jay-Z – “Niggas in Paris”
Best Rap Album
Drake – Take Care
Best Americana Album
Bonnie Raitt – Slipstream
Best Blues Album
Dr. John – Locked Down
Best Reggae Album
Jimmy Cliff – Rebirth
Best Comedy Album
Jimmy Fallon – Blow Your Pants Off
Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Best Song Written for Visual Media
Taylor Swift and The Civil Wars – “Safe and Sound” from The Hunger Games
Best Recording Package
Björk – Biophilia
Producer of the Year, Non-Classical
Dan Auerbach
Best Short Form Music Video
Rihanna feat. Calvin Harris – “We Found Love”