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While JAY-Z entered Sunday as the top nominee, it was Bruno Mars and Kendrick Lamar who left the night's biggest winners. But with 80-plus awards to hand out, there were plenty of victors. Check out all the winners below. (And remember the winners from 2017 here.)

Watch the Grammy Performances: Lady Gaga | Kendrick Lamar | Little Big Town | Sam Smith | Pink | Sting & Shaggy | DJ Khaled, Rihanna & Bryson Tiller | Maren Morris, Brothers Osborne & Eric Church | Kesha | Childish Gambino | Elton John & Miley Cyrus | Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee | Jon Batiste & Gary Clark Jr. | Ben Platt & Patti LuPone | Bruno Mars & Cardi B | Logic, Alessia Cara & Khalid | Chris Stapleton & EmmyLou Harris | SZA | U2

GENERAL FIELD

Album of the Year:

"Awaken, My Love!" — Childish Gambino

4:44 — Jay-Z

DAMN. — Kendrick Lamar

Melodrama — Lorde

24K Magic — Bruno Mars -- WINNER

Record of the Year:

"Redbone" — Childish Gambino

"Despacito" — Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee featuring Justin Bieber

"The Story Of O.J." — Jay-Z

"HUMBLE." — Kendrick Lamar

"24K Magic" — Bruno Mars -- WINNER

Song of the Year:

"Despacito" — Ramón Ayala, Justin Bieber, Jason "Poo Bear" Boyd, Erika Ender, Luis Fonsi & Marty James Garton, songwriters (Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee Featuring Justin Bieber)

"4:44" — Shawn Carter & Dion Wilson, songwriters (Jay-Z)

"Issues" — Benny Blanco, Mikkel Storleer Eriksen, Tor Erik Hermansen, Julia Michaels & Justin Drew Tranter, songwriters (Julia Michaels)

"1-800-273-8255" — Alessia Caracciolo, Sir Robert Bryson Hall II, Arjun Ivatury & Khalid Robinson, songwriters (Logic Featuring Alessia Cara & Khalid)

"That’s What I Like" — Christopher Brody Brown, James Fauntleroy, Philip Lawrence, Bruno Mars, Ray Charles McCullough II, Jeremy Reeves, Ray Romulus & Jonathan Yip, songwriters (Bruno Mars) -- WINNER

Best New Artist:

Alessia Cara -- WINNER

Khalid

Lil Uzi Vert

Julia Michaels

SZA

POP FIELD

Best Pop Solo Performance:

"Love So Soft" — Kelly Clarkson

"Praying" — Kesha

"Million Reasons" — Lady Gaga

"What About Us" — P!nk

"Shape Of You" — Ed Sheeran -- WINNER

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance:

"Something Just Like This" — The Chainsmokers & Coldplay

"Despacito" — Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee Featuring Justin Bieber

"Thunder" — Imagine Dragons

"Feel It Still" — Portugal. The Man -- WINNER

"Stay" — Zedd & Alessia Cara

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album:

Nobody But Me (Deluxe Version) — Michael Bublé

Triplicate — Bob Dylan

In Full Swing — Seth MacFarlane

Wonderland — Sarah McLachlan

Tony Bennett Celebrates 90 — (Various Artists) Dae Bennett, Producer -- WINNER

Best Pop Vocal Album:

Kaleidoscope EP — Coldplay

Lust for Life — Lana Del Rey

Evolve — Imagine Dragons

Rainbow — Kesha

Joanne — Lady Gaga

÷ (Divide) — Ed Sheeran -- WINNER

DANCE/ELECTRONIC FIELD

Best Dance Recording:

"Bambro Koyo Ganda" — Bonobo Featuring Innov Gnawa

"Cola" — Camelphat & Elderbrook

"Andromeda" — Gorillaz Featuring DRAM

"Tonite" — LCD Soundsystem -- WINNER

"Line Of Sight" — Odesza Featuring WYNNE & Mansionair

Best Dance/Electronic Album:

Migration — Bonobo

3-D The Catalogue — Kraftwerk -- WINNER

Mura Masa — Mura Masa

A Moment Apart — Odesza

What Now — Sylvan Esso

CONTEMPORARY INSTRUMENTAL FIELD

Best Contemporary Instrumental Album:

What If — The Jerry Douglas Band

Spirit — Alex Han

Mount Royal — Julian Lage & Chris Eldridge

Prototype — Jeff Lorber Fusion -- WINNER

Bad Hombre — Antonio Sanchez

ROCK FIELD

Best Rock Performance:

"You Want It Darker" — Leonard Cohen -- WINNER

"The Promise" — Chris Cornell

"Run" — Foo Fighters

"No Good" — Kaleo

"Go To War" — Nothing More

Best Metal Performance:

"Invisible Enemy" — August Burns Red

"Black Hoodie" — Body Count

"Forever" — Code Orange

"Sultan’s Curse" — Mastodon -- WINNER

"Clockworks" — Meshuggah

Best Rock Song:

"Atlas, Rise!" — James Hetfield & Lars Ulrich, songwriters (Metallica)

"Blood In The Cut" — JT Daly & Kristine Flaherty, songwriters (K.Flay)

"Go To War" — Ben Anderson, Jonny Hawkins, Will Hoffman, Daniel Oliver, David Pramik & Mark Vollelunga, songwriters (Nothing More)

"Run" — Foo Fighters, songwriters (Foo Fighters) -- WINNER

"The Stage" — Zachary Baker, Brian Haner, Matthew Sanders, Jonathan Seward & Brooks Wackerman, songwriters (Avenged Sevenfold)

Best Rock Album:

Emperor Of Sand — Mastodon

Hardwired…To Self-Destruct — Metallica

The Stories We Tell Ourselves — Nothing More

Villains — Queens Of the Stone Age

A Deeper Understanding — The War On Drugs -- WINNER

ALTERNATIVE FIELD

Best Alternative Music Album:

Everything Now — Arcade Fire

Humanz — Gorillaz

American Dream — LCD Soundsystem

Pure Comedy — Father John Misty

Sleep Well Beast — The National -- WINNER

R&B FIELD

Best R&B Performance:

"Get You" — Daniel Caesar Featuring Kali Uchis

"Distraction" — Kehlani

"High" — Ledisi

"That’s What I Like" — Bruno Mars -- WINNER

"The Weekend" — SZA

Best Traditional R&B Performance:

"Laugh And Move On" — The Baylor Project

"Redbone" — Childish Gambino -- WINNER

"What I’m Feelin'" — Anthony Hamilton Featuring The Hamiltones|

"All The Way" — Ledisi

"Still" — Mali Music

Best R&B Song:

"First Began" — PJ Morton, songwriter (PJ Morton)

"Location" — Alfredo Gonzalez, Olatunji Ige, Samuel David Jiminez, Christopher McClenney, Khalid Robinson & Joshua Scruggs, songwriters (Khalid)

"Redbone" — Donald Glover & Ludwig Goransson, songwriters (Childish Gambino)

"Supermodel" — Tyran Donaldson, Terrence Henderson, Greg Landfair Jr., Solana Rowe & Pharrell Williams, songwriters (SZA)

"That’s What I Like" — Christopher Brody Brown, James Fauntleroy, Philip Lawrence, Bruno Mars, Ray Charles McCullough II, Jeremy Reeves, Ray Romulus & Jonathan Yip, songwriters (Bruno Mars) -- WINNER

Best Urban Contemporary Album:

Free 6LACK — 6LACK

"Awaken, My Love!" — Childish Gambino

American Teen — Khalid

Ctrl — SZA

Starboy — The Weeknd -- WINNER

Best R&B Album:

Freudian — Daniel Caesar

Let Love Rule — Ledisi

24K Magic — Bruno Mars -- WINNER

Gumbo — PJ Morton

Feel the Real –Musiq Soulchild

RAP FIELD

Best Rap Performance:

"Bounce Back" — Big Sean

"Bodak Yellow" — Cardi B

"4:44" — Jay-Z

"HUMBLE." — Kendrick Lamar -- WINNER

"Bad And Boujee" — Migos Featuring Lil Uzi Vert

Best Rap/Sung Performance:

"PRBLMS" — 6LACK

"Crew" — Goldlink Featuring Brent Faiyaz & Shy Glizzy

"Family Feud" — Jay-Z Featuring Beyoncé

"LOYALTY." — Kendrick Lamar Featuring Rihanna -- WINNER

"Love Galore" — SZA Featuring Travis Scott

Best Rap Song:

"Bodak Yellow" — Dieuson Octave, Klenord Raphael, Shaftizm, Jordan Thorpe, Washpoppin & J White, songwriters (Cardi B)

"Chase Me" — Judah Bauer, Brian Burton, Hector Delgado, Jaime Meline, Antwan Patton, Michael Render, Russell Simins & Jon Spencer,

songwriters (Danger Mouse Featuring Run The Jewels & Big Boi)

"HUMBLE." — Duckworth, Asheton Hogan & M. Williams II, songwriters (Kendrick Lamar) -- WINNER

"Sassy" — Gabouer & M. Evans, songwriters (Rapsody)

"The Story Of O.J." — Shawn Carter & Dion Wilson, songwriters (Jay-Z)

Best Rap Album:

4:44 — Jay-Z

DAMN. — Kendrick Lamar -- WINNER

Culture — Migos

Laila’s Wisdom — Rapsody

Flower Boy — Tyler, The Creator

COUNTRY FIELD

Best Country Solo Performance:

"Body Like A Back Road" — Sam Hunt

"Losing You: –Alison Krauss

"Tin Man" — Miranda Lambert

"I Could Use A Love Song" — Maren Morris

"Either Way" — Chris Stapleton -- WINNER

Best Country Duo/Group Performance:

"It Ain’t My Fault" — Brothers Osborne

"My Old Man" — Zac Brown Band

"You Look Good" — Lady Antebellum

"Better Man" — Little Big Town -- WINNER

"Drinkin’ Problem" — Midland

Best Country Song:

"Better Man" — Taylor Swift, songwriter (Little Big Town)

"Body Like A Back Road" — Zach Crowell, Sam Hunt, Shane McAnally & Josh Osborne, songwriters (Sam Hunt)

"Broken Halos" — Mike Henderson & Chris Stapleton, songwriters (Chris Stapleton) -- WINNER

"Drinkin’ Problem" — Jess Carson, Cameron Duddy, Shane McAnally, Josh Osborne & Mark Wystrach, songwriters (Midland)

"Tin Man" — Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert & Jon Randall, songwriters (Miranda Lambert)

Best Country Album:

Cosmic Hallelujah — Kenny Chesney

Heart Break — Lady Antebellum

The Breaker — Little Big Town

Life Changes — Thomas Rhett

From a Room: Volume 1 — Chris Stapleton -- WINNER

NEW AGE FIELD

Best New Age Album:

Reflection — Brian Eno

SongVersation: Medicine — India.Arie

Dancing On Water — Peter Kater -- WINNER

Sacred Journey Of Ku-Kai, Volume 5 — Kitaro

Spiral Revelation — Steve Roach

JAZZ FIELD

Best Improvised Jazz Solo:

"Can’t Remember Why" — Sara Caswell, soloist

"Dance Of Shiva" — Billy Childs, soloist

"Whisper Not" — Fred Hersch, soloist

"Miles Beyond" — John McLaughlin, soloist -- WINNER

"Ilimba" — Chris Potter, soloist

Best Jazz Vocal Album:

The Journey — The Baylor Project

A Social Call — Jazzmeia Horn

Bad Ass and Blind — Raul Midón

Porter Plays Porter — Randy Porter Trio With Nancy King

Dreams and Daggers — Cécile McLorin Salvant -- WINNER

Best Jazz Instrumental Album:

Uptown, Downtown — Bill Charlap Trio

Rebirth — Billy Childs -- WINNER

Project Freedom –Joey DeFrancesco & The People

Open Book — Fred Hersch

The Dreamer Is the Dream — Chris Potter

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album:

MONK’estra Vol. 2 — John Beasley

Jigsaw — Alan Ferber Big Band

Bringin’ It — Christian McBride Big Band -- WINNER

Homecoming — Vince Mendoza & WDR Big Band Cologne

Whispers on the Wind — Chuck Owen And The Jazz Surge

Best Latin Jazz Album:

Hybrido – From Rio To Wayne Shorter — Antonio Adolfo

Oddara — Jane Bunnett & Maqueque

Outra Coisa – The Music Of Moacir Santos — Anat Cohen & Marcello Gonçalves

Típico — Miguel Zenón

Jazz Tango — Pablo Ziegler Trio -- WINNER

GOSPEL/ CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN MUSIC FIELD

Best Gospel Performance/Song:

"Too Hard Not To" — Tina Campbell

"You Deserve It" — JJ Hairston & Youthful Praise Featuring Bishop Cortez Vaughn

"Better Days" — Le’Andria

"My Life" — The Walls Group

"Never Have To Be Alone" — CeCe Winans -- WINNER

Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song:

"Oh My Soul" — Casting Crowns

"Clean" — Natalie Grant

"What A Beautiful Name" — Hillsong Worship -- WINNER

"Even If" — MercyMe

"Hills And Valleys" — Tauren Wells

Best Gospel Album:

Crossover: Live From Music City — Travis Greene

Bigger Than Me — Le’Andria

Close — Marvin Sapp

Sunday Song — Anita Wilson

Let Them Fall in Love — CeCe Winans -- WINNER

Best Contemporary Christian Music Album:

Rise — Danny Gokey

Echoes (Deluxe Edition) — Matt Maher

Lifer — MercyMe

Hills and Valleys — Tauren Wells

Chain Breaker — Zach Williams -- WINNER

Best Roots Gospel Album:

The Best Of the Collingsworth Family – Volume 1 — The Collingsworth Family

Give Me Jesus — Larry Cordle

Resurrection — Joseph Habedank

Sing It Now: Songs of Faith & Hope — Reba McEntire -- WINNER

Hope for All Nations — Karen Peck & New River

LATIN FIELD

Best Latin Pop Album:

Lo Único Constante — Alex Cuba

Mis Planes Son Amarte — Juanes

Amar Y Vivir En Vivo Desde La Ciudad De México, 2017 — La Santa Cecilia

Musas (Un Homenaje Al Folclore Latinoamericano En Manos De Los Macorinos) — Natalia Lafourcade

El Dorado — Shakira -- WINNER

Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album:

Ayo — Bomba Estéreo

Pa’ Fuera — C4 Trío & Desorden Público

Salvavidas De Hielo — Jorge Drexler

El Paradise — Los Amigos Invisibles

Residente — Residente -- WINNER

Best Regional Mexican Music Album (Including Tejano):

Ni Diablo Ni Santo — Julión Álvarez Y Su Norteño Banda

Ayer Y Hoy — Banda El Recodo De Cruz Lizárraga

Momentos — Alex Campos

Arriero Somos Versiones Acústicas — Aida Cuevas -- WINNER

Zapateando En El Norte — Humberto Novoa, producer (Various Artists)

Best Tropical Latin Album:

Albita — Albita

Art of the Arrangement — Doug Beavers

Salsa Big Band — Rubén Blades Con Roberto Delgado & Orquesta -- WINNER

Gente Valiente — Silvestre Dangond

Indestructible — Diego El Cigala

AMERICAN ROOTS MUSIC FIELD

Best American Roots Performance:

Killer Diller Blues — Alabama Shakes -- WINNER

Let My Mother Live — Blind Boys Of Alabama

Arkansas Farmboy — Glen Campbell

Steer Your Way — Leonard Cohen

I Never Cared For You — Alison Krauss

Best American Roots Song:

"Cumberland Gap" — David Rawlings

"I Wish You Well" — The Mavericks

"If We Were Vampires" — Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit -- WINNER

"It Ain’t Over Yet" — Rodney Crowell Featuring Rosanne Cash & John Paul White

"My Only True Friend" –Gregg Allman

Best Americana Album:

Southern Blood — Gregg Allman

Shine On Rainy Day — Brent Cobb

Beast Epic — Iron & Wine

The Nashville Sound — Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit -- WINNER

Brand New Day — The Mavericks

Best Bluegrass Album:

Fiddler’s Dream — Michael Cleveland

Laws Of Gravity — The Infamous Stringdusters -- WINNER (TIE)

Original — Bobby Osborne

Universal Favorite — Noam Pikelny

All The Rage – In Concert Volume One [Live] — Rhonda Vincent And The Rage -- WINNER (TIE

Best Traditional Blues Album:

Migration Blues — Eric Bibb

Elvin Bishop’s Big Fun Trio — Elvin Bishop’s Big Fun Trio

Roll And Tumble — R.L. Boyce

Sonny & Brownie’s Last Train — Guy Davis & Fabrizio Poggi

Blue & Lonesome — The Rolling Stones -- WINNER

Best Contemporary Blues Album:

Robert Cray & Hi Rhythm — Robert Cray & Hi Rhythm

Recorded Live In Lafayette — Sonny Landreth

TajMo — Taj Mahal and Keb' Mo' -- WINNER

Got Soul — Robert Randolph & The Family Band

Live From The Fox Oakland — Tedeschi Trucks Band

Best Folk Album:

Mental Illness — Aimee Mann -- WINNER

Semper Femina — Laura Marling

The Queen Of Hearts — Offa Rex

You Don’t Own Me Anymore — The Secret Sisters

The Laughing Apple — Yusuf / Cat Stevens

Best Regional Roots Music Album:

Top Of the Mountain — Dwayne Dopsie And The Zydeco Hellraisers

Ho’okena 3.0 — Ho’okena

Kalenda — Lost Bayou Ramblers -- WINNER

Miyo Kekisepa, Make A Stand [Live] — Northern Cree

Pua Kiele — Josh Tatofi

REGGAE FIELD

Best Reggae Album:

Chronology — Chronixx

Lost In Paradise — Common Kings

Wash House Ting — J Boog

Stony Hill — Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley -- WINNER

Avrakedabra — Morgan Heritage

WORLD MUSIC FIELD

Best World Music Album:

Memoria De Los Sentidos — Vicente Amigo

Para Mi — Buika

Rosa Dos Ventos — Anat Cohen & Trio Brasileiro

Shaka Zulu Revisited: 30th Anniversary Celebration — Ladysmith Black Mambazo -- WINNER

Elwan — Tinariwen

CHILDREN’S FIELD

Best Children’s Album:

Brighter Side — Gustafer Yellowgold

Feel What U Feel — Lisa Loeb -- WINNER

Lemonade — Justin Roberts

Rise Shine #Woke — Alphabet Rockers

Songs Of Peace & Love For Kids & Parents Around The World — Ladysmith Black Mambazo

SPOKEN WORD FIELD

Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Storytelling):

Astrophysics For People In A Hurry — Neil Degrasse Tyson

Born To Run — Bruce Springsteen

Confessions Of A Serial Songwriter — Shelly Peiken

Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In (Bernie Sanders) — Bernie Sanders And Mark Ruffalo

The Princess Diarist — Carrie Fisher -- WINNER

COMEDY FIELD

Best Comedy Album:

The Age Of Spin & Deep In The Heart Of Texas — Dave Chappelle -- WINNER

Cinco — Jim Gaffigan

Jerry Before Seinfeld — Jerry Seinfeld

A Speck Of Dust — Sarah Silverman

What Now? — Kevin Hart

MUSICAL THEATER FIELD

Best Musical Theater Album:

Come From Away — Ian Eisendrath, August Eriksmoen, David Hein, David Lai & Irene Sankoff, producers; David Hein & Irene Sankoff, composers/lyricists (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

Dear Evan Hansen — Ben Platt, principal soloist; Alex Lacamoire, Stacey Mindich, Benj Pasek & Justin Paul, producers; Benj Pasek & Justin Paul, composers/lyricists (Original Broadway Cast Recording) -- WINNER

Hello, Dolly! — Bette Midler, principal soloist; Steven Epstein, producer (Jerry Herman, composer & lyricist) (New Broadway Cast Recording)

MUSIC FOR VISUAL MEDIA FIELD

Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media:

Baby Driver — (Various Artists)

Guardians Of the Galaxy Vol. 2: Awesome Mix Vol. 2 — (Various Artists)

Hidden Figures: The Album — (Various Artists)

La La Land — (Various Artists) -- WINNER

Moana: The Songs — (Various Artists)

Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media:

Arrival — Jóhann Jóhannsson, composer

Dunkirk — Hans Zimmer, composer

Game Of Thrones: Season 7 — Ramin Djawadi, composer

Hidden Figures — Benjamin Wallfisch, Pharrell Williams & Hans Zimmer, composers

La La Land — Justin Hurwitz, composer -- WINNER

Best Song Written For Visual Media:

"City Of Stars" — Justin Hurwitz, Benj Pasek & Justin Paul, songwriters (Ryan Gosling & Emma Stone)

"How Far I’ll Go" — Lin-Manuel Miranda, songwriter (Auli’i Cravalho) -- WINNER

"I Don’t Wanna Live Forever (‘Fifty Shades Darker’)" — Jack Antonoff, Sam Dew & Taylor Swift, songwriters (Zayn & Taylor Swift)

"Never Give Up" — Sia Furler & Greg Kurstin, songwriters (Sia)

"Stand Up For Something" — Common & Diane Warren, songwriters (Andra Day Featuring Common)

COMPOSING/ ARRANGING FIELD

Best Instrumental Composition:

"Alkaline" — Pascal Le Boeuf, composer (Le Boeuf Brothers & JACK Quartet)

"Choros #3" — Vince Mendoza, composer (Vince Mendoza & WDR Big Band Cologne)

"Home Free (For Peter Joe)" — Nate Smith, composer (Nate Smith)

"Three Revolutions" — Arturo O’Farrill, composer (Arturo O’Farrill & Chucho Valdés) -- WINNER

"Warped Cowboy" — Chuck Owen, composer (Chuck Owen And The Jazz Surge)

Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella:

"All Hat, No Saddle" — Chuck Owen, arranger (Chuck Owen And The Jazz Surge)

"Escapades For Alto Saxophone And Orchestra From Catch Me If You Can" — John Williams, arranger (John Williams) -- WINNER

"Home Free (For Peter Joe)" — Nate Smith, arranger (Nate Smith)

"Ugly Beauty/Pannonica" — John Beasley, arranger (John Beasley)

"White Christmas" — Chris Walden, arranger (Herb Alpert)

Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals:

"Another Day Of Sun" — Justin Hurwitz, arranger (La La Land Cast)

"Every Time We Say Goodbye" — Jorge Calandrelli, arranger (Clint Holmes Featuring Jane Monheit)

"I Like Myself" — Joel McNeely, arranger (Seth MacFarlane)

"I Loves You Porgy/There’s A Boat That’s Leavin’ Soon For New York" — Shelly Berg, Gregg Field, Gordon Goodwin & Clint Holmes, arrangers (Clint Holmes Featuring Dee Dee Bridgewater And The Count Basie Orchestra)

"Putin" — Randy Newman, arranger (Randy Newman) -- WINNER

PACKAGE FIELD

Best Recording Package:

El Orisha De La Rosa — Claudio Roncoli & Cactus Taller, art directors (Magín Díaz) -- WINNER (TIE)

Mura Masa — Alex Crossan & Matt De Jong, art directors (Mura Masa)

Pure Comedy (Deluxe Edition) — Sasha Barr, Ed Steed & Josh Tillman, art directors (Father John Misty) -- WINNER (TIE)

Sleep Well Beast — Elyanna Blaser-Gould, Luke Hayman & Andrea Trabucco-Campos, art directors (The National)

Solid State — Gail Marowitz, art director (Jonathan Coulton)

Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package:

Bobo Yeye: Belle Epoque In Upper Volta — Tim Breen, art director (Various Artists)

Lovely Creatures: The Best Of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds (1984 – 2014) — Tom Hingston, art director (Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds)

May 1977: Get Shown The Light — Masaki Koike, art director (Grateful Dead)

The Voyager Golden Record: 40th Anniversary Edition — Lawrence Azerrad, Timothy Daly & David Pescovitz, art directors (Various Artists) -- WINNER

Warfaring Strangers: Acid Nightmares — Tim Breen, Benjamin Marra & Ken Shipley, art directors (Various Artists)

NOTES FIELD

Best Album Notes:

Arthur Q. Smith: The Trouble With The Truth — Wayne Bledsoe & Bradley Reeves, album notes writers (Various Artists)

Big Bend Killing: The Appalachian Ballad Tradition — Ted Olson, album notes writer (Various Artists)

The Complete Piano Works Of Scott Joplin — Bryan S. Wright, album notes writer (Richard Dowling)

Edouard-Léon Scott De Martinville, Inventor Of Sound Recording: A Bicentennial Tribute — David Giovannoni, album notes writer (Various Artists)

Live At The Whisky A Go Go: The Complete Recordings — Lynell George, album notes writer (Otis Redding) -- WINNER

Washington Phillips And His Manzarene Dreams — Michael Corcoran, album notes writer (Washington Phillips)

HISTORICAL FIELD

Best Historical Album:

Bobo Yeye: Belle Epoque In Upper Volta — Jon Kirby, Florent Mazzoleni, Rob Sevier & Ken Shipley, compilation producers; Jeff Lipton & Maria Rice, mastering engineers (Various Artists)

The Goldberg Variations – The Complete Unreleased Recording Sessions June 1955 — Robert Russ, compilation producer; Matthias Erb, Martin Kistner & Andreas K. Meyer, mastering engineers (Glenn Gould)

Leonard Bernstein – The Composer — Robert Russ, compilation producer; Martin Kistner & Andreas K. Meyer, mastering engineers (Leonard Bernstein)

Sweet As Broken Dates: Lost Somali Tapes From The Horn Of Africa — Nicolas Sheikholeslami & Vik Sohonie, compilation producers; Michael Graves, mastering engineer (Various Artists)

Washington Phillips And His Manzarene Dreams — Michael Corcoran, April G. Ledbetter & Steven Lance Ledbetter, compilation producers; Michael Graves, mastering engineer (Washington Phillips)

PRODUCTION, NON-CLASSICAL FIELD

Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical:

Every Where Is Some Where — Brent Arrowood, Miles Comaskey, JT Daly, Tommy English, Kristine Flaherty, Adam Hawkins, Chad Howat & Tony Maserati, engineers; Joe LaPorta, mastering engineer (K.Flay)

Is This The Life We Really Want? — Nigel Godrich, Sam Petts-Davies & Darrell Thorp, engineers; Bob Ludwig, mastering engineer (Roger Waters)

Natural Conclusion — Ryan Freeland, engineer; Joao Carvalho, mastering engineer (Rose Cousins)

No Shape — Shawn Everett & Joseph Lorge, engineers; Patricia Sullivan, mastering engineer (Perfume Genius)

24K Magic — Serban Ghenea, John Hanes & Charles Moniz, engineers; Tom Coyne, mastering engineer (Bruno Mars) -- WINNER

Producer Of the Year, Non-Classical:

Calvin Harris

Greg Kurstin -- WINNER

Blake Mills

No I.D.

The Stereotypes

Best Remixed Recording:

"Can’t Let You Go (Louie Vega Roots Mix)" — Louie Vega, remixer (Loleatta Holloway)

"Funk O’ De Funk (SMLE Remix)" — SMLE, remixers (Bobby Rush)

"Undercover (Adventure Club Remix)" — Leighton James & Christian Srigley, remixers (Kehlani)

"A Violent Noise (Four Tet Remix)" — Four Tet, remixer (The xx)

"You Move (Latroit Remix)" — Dennis White, remixer (Depeche Mode) -- WINNER

SURROUND SOUND FIELD

Best Surround Sound Album:

Early Americans — Jim Anderson, surround mix engineer; Darcy Proper, surround mastering engineer; Jim Anderson & Jane Ira Bloom, surround producers (Jane Ira Bloom) -- WINNER

Kleiberg: Mass For Modern Man — Morten Lindberg, surround mix engineer; Morten Lindberg, surround mastering engineer; Morten Lindberg, surround producer (Eivind Gullberg Jensen & Trondheim Symphony Orchestra And Choir)

So Is My Love — Morten Lindberg, surround mix engineer; Morten Lindberg, surround mastering engineer; Morten Lindberg, surround producer (Nina T. Karlsen & Ensemble 96)

3-D The Catalogue — Fritz Hilpert, surround mix engineer; Tom Ammermann, surround mastering engineer; Fritz Hilpert, surround producer (Kraftwerk)

Tyberg: Masses — Jesse Brayman, surround mix engineer; Jesse Brayman, surround mastering engineer; Blanton Alspaugh, surround producer (Brian A. Schmidt, Christopher Jacobson & South Dakota Chorale)

PRODUCTION, CLASSICAL FIELD

Best Engineered Album, Classical:

Danielpour: Songs Of Solitude & War Songs — Gary Call, engineer (Thomas Hampson, Giancarlo Guerrero & Nashville Symphony)

Kleiberg: Mass For Modern Man — Morten Lindberg, engineer (Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Trondheim Vokalensemble & Trondheim Symphony Orchestra)

Schoenberg, Adam: American Symphony; Finding Rothko; Picture Studies — Keith O. Johnson & Sean Royce Martin, engineers (Michael Stern & Kansas City Symphony)

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5; Barber: Adagio — Mark Donahue, engineer (Manfred Honeck & Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra) -- WINNER

Tyberg: Masses — John Newton, engineer; Jesse Brayman, mastering engineer (Brian A. Schmidt, Christopher Jacobson & South Dakota Chorale)

Producer Of the Year, Classical:

Blanton Alspaugh

Manfred Eicher

David Frost -- WINNER

Morten Lindberg

Judith Sherman

CLASSICAL FIELD

Best Orchestral Performance:

Concertos For Orchestra — Louis Langrée, conductor (Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra)

Copland: Symphony No. 3; Three Latin American Sketches — Leonard Slatkin, conductor (Detroit Symphony Orchestra)

Debussy: Images; Jeux & La Plus Que Lente — Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor (San Francisco Symphony)

Mahler: Symphony No. 5 — Osmo Vänskä, conductor (Minnesota Orchestra)

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5; Barber: Adagio — Manfred Honeck, conductor (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra) -- WINNER

Best Opera Recording:

Berg: Lulu — Lothar Koenigs, conductor; Daniel Brenna, Marlis Petersen & Johan Reuter; Jay David Saks, producer (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra)

Berg: Wozzeck — Hans Graf, conductor; Anne Schwanewilms & Roman Trekel; Hans Graf, producer (Houston Symphony; Chorus Of Students And Alumni, Shepherd School Of Music, Rice University & Houston Grand Opera Children’s Chorus) -- WINNER

Bizet: Les Pêcheurs De Perles — Gianandrea Noseda, conductor; Diana Damrau, Mariusz Kwiecień, Matthew Polenzani & Nicolas Testé; Jay David Saks, producer (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus)

Handel: Ottone — George Petrou, conductor; Max Emanuel Cencic & Lauren Snouffer; Jacob Händel, producer (Il Pomo D’Oro)

Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel — Valery Gergiev, conductor; Vladimir Feliauer, Aida Garifullina & Kira Loginova; Ilya Petrov, producer (Mariinsky Orchestra; Mariinsky Chorus)

Best Choral Performance:

Bryars: The Fifth Century — Donald Nally, conductor (PRISM Quartet; The Crossing) -- WINNER

Handel: Messiah — Andrew Davis, conductor; Noel Edison, chorus master (Elizabeth DeShong, John Relyea, Andrew Staples & Erin Wall; Toronto Symphony Orchestra; Toronto Mendelssohn Choir)

Mansurian: Requiem — Alexander Liebreich, conductor; Florian Helgath, chorus master (Anja Petersen & Andrew Redmond; Münchener Kammerorchester; RIAS Kammerchor)

Music Of the Spheres — Nigel Short, conductor (Tenebrae)

Tyberg: Masses — Brian A. Schmidt, conductor (Christopher Jacobson; South Dakota Chorale)

Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance:

Buxtehude: Trio Sonatas, Op. 1 — Arcangelo

Death & The Maiden — Patricia Kopatchinskaja & The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra -- WINNER

Divine Theatre – Sacred Motets By Giaches De Wert — Stile Antico

Franck, Kurtág, Previn & Schumann — Joyce Yang & Augustin Hadelich

Martha Argerich & Friends – Live From Lugano 2016 — Martha Argerich & Various Artists

Best Classical Instrumental Solo:

Bach: The French Suites — Murray Perahia

Haydn: Cello Concertos — Steven Isserlis; Florian Donderer, conductor (The Deutsch Kammerphilharmonie Bremen)

Levina: The Piano Concertos — Maria Lettberg; Ariane Matiakh, conductor (Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin)

Shostakovich: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 — Frank Peter Zimmermann; Alan Gilbert, conductor (NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester)

Transcendental — Daniil Trifonov -- WINNER

Best Classical Solo Vocal Album:

Bach & Telemann: Sacred Cantatas — Philippe Jaroussky; Petra Müllejans, conductor (Ann-Kathrin Brüggemann & Juan de la Rubia; Freiburger Barockorchester)

Crazy Girl Crazy – Music By Gershwin, Berg & Berio — Barbara Hannigan (Orchestra Ludwig) -- WINNER

Gods & Monsters — Nicholas Phan; Myra Huang, accompanist

In War & Peace – Harmony Through Music — Joyce DiDonato; Maxim Emelyanychev, conductor (Il Pomo D’Oro)

Sviridov: Russia Cast Adrift — Dmitri Hvorostovsky; Constantine Orbelian, conductor (St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra & Style Of Five Ensemble)

Best Classical Compendium:

Barbara — Alexandre Tharaud; Cécile Lenoir, producer

Higdon: All Things Majestic, Viola Concerto & Oboe Concerto — Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor; Tim Handley, producer -- WINNER

Kurtág: Complete Works For Ensemble & Choir — Reinbert de Leeuw, conductor; Guido Tichelman, producer

Les Routes De L’Esclavage — Jordi Savall, conductor; Benjamin Bleton, producer

Mademoiselle: Première Audience – Unknown Music Of Nadia Boulanger — Lucy Mauro; Lucy Mauro, producer

Best Contemporary Classical Composition:

Danielpour: Songs Of Solitude — Richard Danielpour, composer (Thomas Hampson, Giancarlo Guerrero & Nashville Symphony)

Higdon: Viola Concerto — Jennifer Higdon, composer (Roberto Díaz, Giancarlo Guerrero & Nashville Symphony) -- WINNER

Mansurian: Requiem — Tigran Mansurian, composer (Alexander Liebreich, Florian Helgath, RIAS Kammerchor & Münchener Kammerorchester)

Schoenberg, Adam: Picture Studies — Adam Schoenberg, composer (Michael Stern & Kansas City Symphony)

Zhou Tian: Concerto For Orchestra — Zhou Tian, composer (Louis Langrée & Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra)

MUSIC VIDEO/FILM FIELD

Best Music Video:

"Up All Night" — Beck

"Makeba" — Jain

"The Story Of O.J." — Jay-Z

"Humble." — Kendrick Lamar -- WINNER

"1-800-273-8255" — Logic Featuring Alessia Cara & Khalid

Best Music Film:

One More Time With Feeling — Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Long Strange Trip — (The Grateful Dead)

The Defiant Ones — (Various Artists) -- WINNER

Soundbreaking — (Various Artists)

Two Trains Runnin' — (Various Artists)</s>New York, United States | AFP | Retro R&B star Bruno Mars was the surprise big winner Sunday at the Grammy Awards, with a clean sweep of the top awards including Album, Record and Song of the Year, and six overall.

“24K Magic” — the Hawaii-born artist’s third studio album, which generated hits including the title track — won for Album of the Year in a category that had included a record three hip-hop nominees including Jay-Z’s “4:44” and Kendrick Lamar’s “DAMN.”

“Look at me, Pop, look at me! I’m at the Grammys right now!” Mars said in accepting the award for Record of the Year for the title track, a party anthem.

He won Song of the Year for “That’s What I Like,” a steamy ode to making love in high style.

“24K Magic” came four years after Mars became an arena-packing superstar with his album “Unorthodox Jukebox,” in which he adapted a retro blend of funk, rock and soul for 21st century audiences.

For “24K Magic,” Mars followed much the same formula but brought in more R&B with steamy, sensual tracks accompanying his infectious dance numbers.

It is the first time that the 32-year-old singer has won the US music industry’s most prestigious award, Album of the Year, although he contributed as a songwriter and producer on last year’s winner, English balladeer Adele’s “25.”

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This post was syndicated from The Independent Uganda:. Click here to read the full text on the original website.</s>The 32-year-old 24K Magic entertainer took home the Album of the Year Grammy Award at the 2018 Grammy Awards held at Madison Square Garden on Sunday (January 28) in New York City.

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“Those songs were written with nothing but joy,” Bruno said of his album.

Bruno also won for Record of the Year with the album’s title track, as well as Song of the Year with “That’s What I Like.” In addition, he took home awards for Best R&B Performance, Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, Best R&B Album and Best R&B Song!

All in all, Bruno won each of the seven awards for which he was nominated at the ceremony. Congratulations!</s>Bruno Mars took home the Grammy for record of the year on Sunday night.

Mars beat out Childish Gambino’s “Redbone,” Jay-Z’s “The Story of O.J.,” Kendrick Lamar’s “HUMBLE.,” and Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee featuring Justin Bieber’s “Despacito.”

“24K Magic” is also nominated for album of the year, the last award to be announced at the Grammys.

Record of the year recognizes the best artist performance, while also honoring the work of producers, recording engineers, mixers, and mastering engineers.

“Despacito” was considered the favorite going into the Grammys, after taking over the American airwaves and pop culture with its Puerto Rican influence. The song spent 16 weeks at the top of Billboard’s Hot 100 chart, tying for the longest run in history, and became the most-streamed song of all time, with more than 4.6 billion plays worldwide. The music video also generated more than 4.5 billion views on YouTube.

Last year’s record of the year honor went to Adele for “Hello,” one of the five Grammys she won for her third album, “25.”

The award marks Mars’ fifth Grammy from 2018 alone and ninth Grammy in total. He also won song of the year, best R&B performance, and best R&B song for “That’s What I Like,” and best R&B album for “24K Magic.” His other Grammys include last year’s album of the year for “25,” and record of the year and best pop duo/group performance for “Uptown Funk” in 2016. He also won the best pop vocal album for “Unorthodox Jukebox” in 2014.</s>Bruno Mars has picked up the award for Song of the Year at the 2018 Grammys for his song “That’s What I Like.”

The 32-year-old singer was joined on stage by his collaborators to accept the award at Madison Square Garden on Sunday (January 28) in New York City.

The other songs nominated in the category included Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee, and Justin Bieber‘s “Despacito,” Jay-Z‘s “4:44,” Julia Michaels‘ “Issues,” and Logic, Alessia Cara, and Khalid‘s “1-800-273-8255.”

Bruno is up for a bunch of awards tonight, including Album of the Year for 24K Magic and Record of the Year for “24K Magic.” He already has picked up Best R&B Album for 24K Magic and Best R&B Song for “That’s What I Like.”

Bruno was joined in the audience at the show by his longtime girlfriend!</s>Oh, Grammys, you’ve outdone yourselves yet again.

Never content to rest on its laurels, the Recording Academy reached heretofore-unseen levels of blasphemy last night when it awarded the three highest awards of the evening — Song, Record and Album of the Year — to Bruno Mars. You could practically hear the air leave the room as Mars sauntered onstage to collect his Album of the Year trophy for 24K Magic, beating out hip-hop masterworks like Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN. and Jay-Z’s 4:44, as well as Childish Gambino’s retro-funk opus Awaken, My Love! and Lorde’s alt-pop thriller Melodrama. It was a disappointing, regressive end to an awards show whose hip-hop heavy ballot suggested that perhaps, after 60 years, the Grammys would finally acknowledge the shifting tides of contemporary popular music and award the artists who broke the most ground in the past year.

But they didn’t. Instead, the Grammys played it safe and pandered to pop’s lowest common denominator — and in hindsight, it couldn’t have happened any other way.

You’d be hard-pressed to find a single year since 1959 in which the Grammys have bestowed their most prestigious award upon the album that actually earned the most critical acclaim and shifted the cultural conversation most heavily. The Academy has always favored — in the words of Kurt Cobain — radio-friendly unit shifters over genuine artistic statements. They’re quick to celebrate middling releases by legacy acts in the twilight of their career or contemporary artists whose music hearkens to a bygone era, and they’re quick to snub artists who boldly alter the trajectory of popular music.

A quick glance at recent Album of the Year winners confirms this. In the past decade alone, Beyoncé has lost three times: to Taylor Swift in 2010, to Beck in 2015 and to Adele in 2017. Lamar just struck out for the third time as well: To Pimp a Butterfly lost to Swift’s 1989 in 2016, and Good Kid, M.A.A.D City lost to Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories in 2014. Mumford & Sons’ Babel trumped Frank Ocean’s Channel Orange in 2013, and Herbie Hancock’s River: The Joni Letters shut out Kanye West’s Graduation and Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black in 2008. Perhaps most impressively, in 2009 Robert Plant and Alison Krauss’s Raising Sand snatched the crown over Radiohead’s In Rainbows, Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter III and Coldplay’s Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends.

For 60 years, the Academy has made no effort to hide its propensity for palatable, whitewashed pop music and “statement albums” by rock’s old guard. In that regard, perhaps they deserve half a point (a quarter?) for awarding Album of the Year to a Latino artist this time around. But from an artistic standpoint, it’s a baffling decision on par with the biggest Grammy blunders of yesteryear.

Clocking in at a brisk 33 minutes, 24K Magic is less an album than an overlong EP consisting of three blockbuster singles and six tracks of lite-R&B fluff with production that would’ve made Quincy Jones blush back in 1982. To his credit, Mars throws himself into each track with gusto, a consummate showman and dynamite vocalist till the bitter end. Still, there’s no shaking the fact that 24K Magic is a forgettable, risk-free batch of songs masquerading as a prestige pop album. In other words, it was the only valid choice for Album of the Year.

In the past 12 hours, music critics have flooded Twitter with hot takes about Lamar being robbed of his much-deserved Album of the Year nod, and why 24K Magic’s victory over DAMN. represents the nadir of vapid, apolitical pop music at a time when artists ought to be using their platforms to speak out. I agree with them. But there’s also a palpable irony to the fact that, by nearly every quantifiable metric, DAMN. was a greater commercial success than 24K Magic. Lamar’s first-week sales nearly tripled those of Mars, and DAMN. topped the Billboard 200 albums chart while 24K Magic came in second to Metallica's Hardwired... to Self-Destruct. DAMN.’s biggest single, the chart-topping “HUMBLE.," also outpaces Mars’ “That’s What I Like” on Spotify by nearly 80 million streams. Furthermore, DAMN. topped several music publications’ year-end lists, while most critics recognized 24K Magic for what it is: slightly above-average retro-pop.

But hey, who am I to judge? The Grammy gods have spoken, and all the griping in the world won’t make the popular vote any more valuable. Lamar will continue to enrapture the music-listening public with his groundbreaking, politically charged records and award show performances, and something tells me he won’t lose sleep over DAMN. being excluded from the same hallowed club as Santana’s Supernatural and Toto IV. He’s better off leaving the accolades to Mars and letting the Academy continue to pat itself on the back for upholding pop music’s most antiquated ideals. After all, that’s what they like.</s>Kendrick Lamar came into today's 60th annual Grammy awards as the odds-on favorite to take home some of the top awards, including Album of the Year (DAMN.). He's already nabbed three--as has fellow superstar Bruno Mars--in the recently-concluded Premiere Ceremony, where 75 of the 84 golden gramophones are handed out ahead of the final nine, which will be unveiled starting at 7:30pm.

Lamar has won all three of his awards so far thanks to one song--"HUMBLE."--earning nods for Best Rap Performance, Best Rap Song and Best Music Video. He's still up for Record of the Year ("HUMBLE."), BestRap/Sung Performance ("LOYALTY." feat. Rihanna), Best Rap Album (DAMN.) and Album of the Year (DAMN.)

"It's really about failure, not being in fear of that," Lamar told FORBES late last year. "Once you tackle that and block that idea, and you know it's okay to actually make a mistake or to fail at something, you get back up and try it again."

Mars, meanwhile, has already won for Best R&B Performance and Best R&B Song ("That's What I Like"), as well as Best R&B Album (24K Magic). His engineers on 24K Magic also took home a nod for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical.

James Fauntleroy, who co-wrote "That's What I Like," praised Mars for giving him "freedom to push the envelope," making his comments to a group of reporters in the Madison Square Garden media room after taking home the Best R&B Song award.

Mars can win up to two more Grammys tonight: he's in the running for Record of the Year ("24K Magic") and Album of the Year (24K Magic). That puts him in a familiar place.

“I feel like I’m just getting started,” Mars told me in 2014, speaking on his burgeoning career. "I haven't even really scratched the surface yet."

One might say the same about Mars' evening thus far.</s>NEW YORK -- Sound engineer Charles Moniz picked up his third career Grammy Award on Sunday afternoon, with a chance for another two prizes later in the night.

The Burlington, Ont.-raised musician shared a production award for best engineered album, non-classical for his work on Bruno Mars' "24K Magic."

His fellow engineers on the record accepted the honour, saying Moniz was busy preparing for the Grammys telecast later in the evening, where he is nominated for both record and album for work on "24K Magic."

The Canadian engineer already has two Grammys on his mantel. He previously won for work on Adele's album "25" and Mark Ronson's megahit "Uptown Funk."

The majority of the Grammys are being handed out in a pre-telecast ceremony hosted by Paul Shaffer and streamed live on the Grammys website.</s>You might call Bruno Mars a streaky Grammy winner. After earning golden gramophones for just two of his first nineteen nominations, he won all three of his nods in 2016 and 2017--before going a perfect six-for-six at tonight's 60th annual ceremony at Madison Square Garden in New York.

Mars quickly took home three Grammys in the early going: Best R&B Performance and Best R&B Song (for "That's What I Like"), as well as Best R&B Album (24K Magic). He finished up with a clean sweep of the major categories--Record of the Year ("24K Magic"), Song of the Year ("That's What I Like") and Album of the Year (24K Magic).

“This is special, man," Mars said onstage. "I got a lot of guys in this building that I still idolize today."

The Grammy victories cap another excellent album cycle for Mars, who earned $39 million in 2017, but his major category wins came as something of a surprise to industry watchers. Record of the Year seemed like a lock to go to "Despacito"; Song of the Year appeared to be a tossup between the Luis Fonsi-Daddy Yankee hit and Logic's "1-800-273-8225"; Album of the Year looked like it would be Kendrick Lamar's DAMN.

Yet Mars snagged all three of the top awards. It's possible that the likes of Lamar and Jay-Z split the hip-hop vote, though it's not entirely clear why "Despacito," the only song of its ilk in the major categories--and the most viewed YouTube video of all time--got shut out.

It's been quite a journey for Mars. At the end of the aughts, he was still a struggling songwriter for whom wealth was but a distant dream--one he mused about in "Billionaire," the Forbes-namedropping hit he penned with Travis McCoy.

“I wouldn’t have to worry about, you know, ‘I can’t afford to get breakfast, so I’ll wait until lunchtime to eat,’” he said, explaining the song’s origins to me several years ago. “If I was a billionaire, none of that would matter. I’d be eating diamond cereal.”

He may not yet boast a ten-figure fortune, but he can probably afford some diamond cereal--and he's got a whole set of new golden hardware from which to consume it.

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Bruno Mars wins three of the Big Four awards with Song of the Year for "That's What I Like", Record of the Year for "24K Magic" and Album of the Year for 24K Magic.