Kacey Musgraves and Childish Gambino led the 61st Annual Grammy Awards with four wins each. Childish Gambino aka Donald Glover picked up the Best Music Video award for his socially-conscious single, “This Is America.” The song also won Best Rap/Sung Performance, Record of the Year and Song of the Year. Glover did not attend the show. Country star Musgraves’s four awards included Best Country Solo Performance for “Butterflies,” Best Country Song for “Space Cowboy,” Best Country Album for “Golden Hour” and Album of the Year for “Golden Hour.” After picking up the album of the year honor, Musgraves praised the other artists nominated in the category. “Winning this doesn’t make my album any better than anyone else’s,” she said. Related Story How To Watch The Grammys Online & On TV Lady Gaga followed with three awards, including the Best Pop Duo/Group Performance honor for “Shallow,” with her A Star Is Born director and co-star Bradley Cooper. Lady Gaga accepted the award for best pop duo or group performance for “Shallow.” (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP) Matt Sayles/Invision/AP The show kicked off Sunday night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles with Camila Cabello delivering a powerful performance of her hit single Havana. She was joined by Latin music superstars, J Balvin, Ricky Martin and jazz trumpeter Arturo Sandoval. During her performance, Cuban-American singer Cabello was surrounded by backup dancers and an extra who held up a newspaper with the headline “Build Bridges Not Walls,” in an apparent reference to President Donald Trump’s demand that Congress fund his border wall. Alicia Keys, who was tapped to host the ceremony, then took the stage and introduced her “sisters” — Lady Gaga, Jada Pinkett Smith, former first lady Michelle Obama and Jennifer Lopez, each of whom shared stories about music giving them strength and hope. A total of 14 of the 84 Grammys were presented during the live broadcast, which started at 8pm ET. The rest of the awards were handed out during a pre-show hosted by Shaggy, that streamed live on grammy.com. Below is the full list of winners. Best Comedy Album Equanimity & The Bird Revelation Dave Chappelle Best Musical Theater Album The Band’s Visit Best Alternative Music Album Colors Beck Best Instrumental Composition Blut Und Boden (Blood And Soil) from BlacKkKlansman Terence Blanchard Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella Stars And Stripes Forever John Daversa Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals Spiderman Theme Randy Waldman Best Recording Package Masseduction Willo Perron, art director St. Vincent Best Recording Package Squeeze Box: The Complete Works Of “Weird Al” Yankovic Meghan Foley, Annie Stoll & “Weird Al” Yankovic, art directors Best Album Notes Voices Of Mississippi: Artists and Musicians Documented By William Ferris David Evans, album notes writer (Various Artists) Best Historical Album Voices Of Mississippi: Artists And Musicians Documented By William Ferris William Ferris, April Ledbetter & Steven Lance Ledbetter, compilation producers; Michael Graves, mastering engineer (Various Artists) Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical Colors Beck Best Remixed Recording Walking Away (Mura Masa Remix) Mura Masa, Remixer HAIM Best Immersive Audio Album Eye In The Sky – 35th Anniversary Edition Alan Parsons, surround mix engineer; Dave Donnelly, PJ Olsson, & Alan Parsons, surround mastering engineers; Alan Parsons, surround producer (The Alan Parsons Project) Best Contemporary Instrumental Album Steve Gadd Band Steve Gadd Best Gospel Performance/Song Never Alone Tori Kelly & Kirk Franklin, songwriters Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song You Say Lauren Daigle, Jason Ingram & Paul Mabury, songwriters Best Roots Gospel Album Unexpected Jason Crabb Best World Music Album Freedom Soweto Gospel Choir Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media winner Black Panther Ludwig Goransson, Composer Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media The Greatest Showman The Greatest Showman Best Song Written For Visual Media Shallow Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando, & Andrew Wyatt, songwriters (Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper) Best New Age Album Opium Moon Opium Moon Best American Roots Performance The Joke Brandi Carlile Best American Roots Song The Joke Brandi Carlile, Dave Cobb, Phil Hanseroth & Tim Hanseroth, songwriters (Brandi Carlile) Best Americana Album By The Way, I Forgive You Brandi Carlile Best Bluegrass Album The Travelin’ McCourys Travelin’ McCourys Best Traditional Blues Album The Blues Is Alive And Well Buddy Guy Best Contemporary Blues Album Please Don’t Be Dead Fantastic Negrito Best Folk Album All Ashore Punch Brothers Best Children’s Album All The Sounds Lucy Kalantari & The Jazz Cats Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio, Books & Storytelling) Faith-A Journey For All President Jimmy Carter Best Latin Pop Album Sincera Claudia Brant Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album Aztlan ZOÉ Best Regional Mexican Music Album (Including Tejano) ¡Mexico Por Siempre! Luis Miguel Best Tropical Latin Album Anniversary Spanish Harlem Orchestra Best Regional Roots Music Album No ‘Ane’I Kalani Pe’a Best Music Video This Is America Childish Gambino, Hiro Murai, video director; Ibra Ake, Jason Cole & Fam Rothstein, video producers Best Music Film Quincy Quincy Jones; Alan Hicks & Rashida Jones video directors; Paula Dupre Pesmen, video producer Best Country Solo Performance Butterflies Kacey Musgraves Best Country Duo/Group Performance Tequila Dan + Shay Best Country Song Space Cowboy Luke Laird, Shane McAnally & Kacey Musgraves, songwriters (Kacey Musgraves) Best Pop Solo Performance Joanne (Where Do You Think You’re Goin’?) Lady Gaga Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album My Way Willie Nelson Best Pop Vocal Album Sweetener Ariana Grande Best Engineered Album, Classical Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 11 Shawn Murphy & Nick Squire, engineers; Tim Martyn, mastering engineer Producer Of The Year, Classical Blanton Alspaugh Best Orchestral Performance Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 11 Andris Nelsons, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra) Best Opera Recording Bates: The (R)evolution Of Steve Jobs Michael Christie, conductor; Sasha Cooke, Jessica E. Jones, Edward Parks, Garrett Sorenson & Wei Wu; Elizabeth Ostrow, producer (Santa Fe Opera Orchestra) Best Choral Performance McLoskey: Zealot Canticles Donald Nally, conductor (Doris Hall-Gulati, Rebecca Harris, Arlen Hlusko, Lorenzo Raval & Mandy Wolman; The Crossing) Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance Anderson, Laurie: Landfall Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet Best Classical Instrumental Kernis: Violin Concerto James Ehnes;Ludovic Morlot, conductor (Seattle Symphony) Best Classical Solo Vocal Album Songs Of Orpheus – Monteverdi, Caccini, D’India & Landi<doc-sep>• Our critics and writers weigh in on the best and worst moments of the 61st annual Grammy awards. • At a ceremony dominated by female performers and presenters, Kacey Musgraves won album of the year for “Golden Hour,” as well as three other awards. Cardi B became the first woman to win best rap album as a solo artist for “Invasion of Privacy.” • See the full list of winners and the red carpet looks. • Childish Gambino’s “This Is America” won four awards and Lady Gaga’s “Shallow,” from the movie “A Star Is Born,” won two. • This year’s ceremony was perhaps as notable for who didn’t show up — Kendrick Lamar, Childish Gambino, Ariana Grande — as who did. LOS ANGELES — Women took center stage at the 61st annual Grammy Awards on Sunday night, with bold performances and wins in many top categories, a year after the awards came under withering criticism for its track record in gender representation.<doc-sep>Brandi Carlile, Janelle Monae & St. Vincent also received boosts. Dolly Parton, Kacey Musgraves, H.E.R. and Brandi Carlile are among the big winners in streaming after the 61st annual Grammy Awards (Feb. 10), as the acts drew significant increases in the music that they each performed that night. In terms of on-demand U.S. streams, Parton had the biggest leap with "Red Shoes" (from the soundtrack to the 2018 Netflix film Dumplin'), which she sang during the ceremony. In the two days leading up to the Grammys vs. the day of and after the broadcast (Feb. 8-9 vs. Feb. 10-11), the track surged by 526 percent to 36,000 Feb. 10-11, according to Nielsen Music. Other Parton songs jumped in streams following her medley performance at the Grammys too. Her recording of Neil Young's "After the Gold Rush" (with Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris) gained by 263 percent (to 20,000 streams) on Feb. 10-11 (while Young's original version saw a residual 11 percent jump, and to an even higher total than Parton's: 43,000). Parton's "Here You Come Again" soared by 43 percent (151,000 streams), "Jolene" showed a 33 percent bump (379,000) and "9 to 5" was up 21 percent (324,000).<doc-sep>Fresh off her monumental win for Album of The Year at last week’s Grammys, Kacey Musgraves capped off her victory lap with some very special guests. The country singer was in Los Angeles Friday, performing songs from her award-winning album Golden Hour, when she was joined by the (spoiler alert) newly-minted winners of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 4, Monét X Change and Trinity the Tuck, for a lively rendition her hit song “High Horse” in a surprise almost as gag-worthy as last night’s double crowning. “If you’re here tonight it means you are missing out on the season finale of Season 4 of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars,” Musgraves told the crowd at L.A.’s Theatre at Ace Hotel. “And I was lucky enough to go hang out with Ru and the queens this season. Tonight we have not one but two queens!” That’s when both Monét X Change and Trinity the Tuck strutted onto the stage looking absolutely fabulous, clad in the crowns they received for winning VH1’s ultra-popular reality competition. Musgraves then congratulated both winners and presented them with some extremely sparkly scepters. Musgraves not only appeared as a guest judge earlier this season, but the moment was the latest example of her attempts to make the LGBTQ community feel more included in the world of country music. During last October’s New Yorker festival, Musgraves revealed that she was “pissed” about how uninclusive the genre can be. “Someone told me this recently, and it broke my heart: They said, ‘I’ve grown up loving country music, and I grew up gay in a small town, and country music has always felt like a big party that I wasn’t invited to,’” she said. “Oh, my god, you’re invited to my party.” According to Vulture, Musgraves also opened up about an experience she had when a close childhood friend came out to her after they graduated high school, and how that event bonded her to the LGBTQ community. “Thinking about him and all of those other kids who are, like, I love country music, why can’t I be a part of this? Why isn’t my narrative included?” she wondered. “I don’t know.” Related: Kacey Musgraves: Generation W<doc-sep>
Kacey Musgraves has had a big week: on Sunday night, she won Album of the Year at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards for her album Golden Hour. And by the middle of the week, she was already solidified as a popular a meme, thanks to her shocked reaction — caught on camera — after the winning album was announced. Musgraves, a critically-acclaimed country star, was up against stiff competition for Album of the Year, including Cardi B’s Invasion of Privacy, Kendrick Lamar’s soundtrack for the blockbuster Black Panther, Drake’s Scorpion and folk singer Brandi Carlile’s By the Way, I Forgive You. But in the end Musgraves — who also took home three other Grammys during the night, for Country Album, Country Song and Country Solo Performance — was the evening’s big winner, to her own surprise. In video of the moment, you can see Musgraves mouthing out the word “What?” repeatedly as she puts her hands up in astonishment. After tweeting out a still shot of her reaction on Tuesday, Musgraves had this to say: “Let the memes begin.” And her fans quickly took it upon themselves to follow her direction, putting together an admirable series of responses and alternative captions to her facial expression. Kacey Mugraves Winning Album of the Year Musgraves is currently riding high on her success, with her latest single “Rainbow” finally getting country radio airplay after many radio stations mostly ignored the early single options off of Golden Hour. But with all those Grammys — and a viral meme — under her belt, Musgraves is now rightly getting the country radio attention that had so far eluded her over the release of three critically-acclaimed albums. Write to Raisa Bruner at raisa.bruner@time.com.