Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Grammy Awards 2016: List of Winners!

After a star-studded, musical marathon of an event at L.A.’s Staples Center, the 2016 Grammy Awards are officially etched in history.


Who were the big winners at the 58th annual event, celebrating all things music and the best that the recording industry has to offer?


Check out the full list of winners from the 2016 Grammy 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 artist

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 jazz instrumental album

Joey Alexander, My Favorite Things

Terence Blanchard feat. The E-Collective, Breathless

Robert Glasper & The Robert Glasper Trio, Covered: Recorded Live at Capitol Studios

Jimmy Greene, Beautiful Life

Winner: John Scofield, Past Present

Best gospel album

Karen Clark Sheard, Destined to Win (Live)

Dorinda Clark-Cole, Living It

Tasha Cobbs, One Place Live

Winner: Israel & Newbreed, Covered: Alive Is Asia [Live] (Deluxe)

Jonathan McReynolds, Life Music: Stage Two

Best contemporary christian music album

Jason Crabb, Whatever the Road

Lauren Daigle, How Can It Be

Matt Maher, Saints and Sinners

Winner: Tobymac, This Is Not a Test

Chris Tomlin, Love Ran Red

Best musical theater 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 americana album

Brandi Carlile, The Firewatcher’s Daughter

Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell, The Traveling Kind

Winner: Jason Isbell, Something More Than Free

The Mavericks, Mono

Punch Brothers, The Phosphorescent Blues

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

Best country solo performance

Cam, Burning House

Winner: Chris Stapleton, Traveller

Carrie Underwood, Little Toy Guns

Keith Urban, John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16

Lee Ann Womack, Chances Are

Best compilation soundtrack for visual media

Empire: Season 1

Fifty Shades of Grey

Winner: Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me

Pitch Perfect 2

Selma

Best song written for visual media

Earned It (Fifty Shades Of Grey), The Weeknd

Winner: Glory, Common & John Legend

Love Me Like You Do, Ellie Goulding

See You Again, Wiz Khalifa feat. Charlie Puth

Til It Happens to You, Lady Gaga

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