“Music’s biggest night” had a lot to offer this year.
The 62nd annual Grammy Awards united dozens of the world’s current biggest musicians along with some of the industry’s current key players on Sunday night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Calif.
Though the event came only hours after the tragic death of five-time NBA champion Kobe Bryant, host Alicia Keys powered through tears as the Recording Academy’s 2020 chosen host.
She crushed a number of gripping performances, including a heartfelt tribute to the fallen basketball player with Boyz II Men, before inviting a variety of artists to present the ceremony’s major award winners.
‘Record of the Year’ and ‘Song of the Year’ went to Billie Eilish for Bad Guy, and she also took home the top prize of ‘Album of the Year’ for When We All Fall Asleep Where Do We Go. Both awards were also given to her older brother Finneas.
Because of this, she dethroned Taylor Swift as youngest album of the year award winner. Swift earned the accolade in 2010 for Fearless.
Though neither of them won, Canadians were made proud by chart-topping artists Michael Bublé and Shawn Mendes, who each picked up a nomination for the show: Bublé for ‘Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album’ and Mendes for ‘Best Pop Duo/Group Performance’.
Late American rap icon Nipsey Hussle posthumously won ‘Best Rap Performance’ for Racks in the Middle while also being honoured in DJ Khaled’s acceptance speech after winning the award for ‘Best Rap/Sung Performance’, which featured him.
Eilish, 18 along with her producer brother, won not only her first three Grammy Awards, but two others as well. She took home both the ‘Best New Artist’ and ‘Best Pop Vocal Album’ awards, while Finneas, 22, won the non-classical awards for ‘Producer of the Year’ and ‘Best Engineered Album’.
These awards made the sibling duo the evening’s overall winners, with five awards each. In the end, Lizzo, who was nominated for eight individual awards, took the bronze medal after winning three golden gramophone statues.
Among other presenters and performers this year were Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne, Lil Nas X, BTS, Camila Cabello, Demi Lovato and Usher — who paid a career-spanning tribute to late-rock icon, Prince.
Here is the list of major category winners:
Album of the Year
** WINNER ** When We All Fall Asleep Where Do We Go — Billie Eilish
i,i — Bon Iver
Norman F—ing Rockwell! — Lana Del Rey
I Used to Know Her — H.E.R.
7 — Lil Nas X
Cuz I Love You — Lizzo
Father of the Bride — Vampire Weekend
Record of the Year
** WINNER ** Bad Guy — Billie Eilish
Hey Ma — Bon Iver
7 rings — Ariana Grande
Hard Place — H.E.R.
Talk — Khalid
Old Town Road — Lil Nas X
Truth Hurts — Lizzo
Sunflower — Post Malone ft. Swae Lee
Song of the Year
** WINNER ** Bad Guy — Billie Eilish
Always Remember Us This Way — Lady Gaga
Bring My Flowers Now — Tanya Tucker
Hard Place — H.E.R.
Lover — Taylor Swift
Norman F—ing Rockwell! — Lana Del Rey
Someone You Loved — Lewis Capaldi
Truth Hurts — Lizzo
Best New Artist
** WINNER ** Billie Eilish
Black Pumas
Lil Nas X
Lizzo
Maggie Rogers
Rosalía
Tank and the Bangas
Yola
Best Pop Vocal Album
** WINNER ** When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go — Billie Eilish
The Lion King: The Gift — Beyoncé
Thank U, Next — Ariana Grande
No. 6 Collaborations Project — Ed Sheeran
Lover — Taylor Swift
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
** WINNER ** Look Now — Elvis Costello & The Imposters
Sì — Andrea Bocelli
Love — Michael Bublé
A Legendary Christmas — John Legend
Walls — Barbra Streisand
Best Pop Solo Performance
** WINNER ** Truth Hurts — Lizzo
Spirit — Beyoncé
Bad Guy — Billie Eilish
7 Rings — Ariana Grande
You Need to Calm Down — Taylor Swift
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
** WINNER ** Old Town Road — Lil Nas X ft. Billy Ray Cyrus
Boyfriend — Ariana Grande ft. Social House
Sucker — Jonas Brothers
Sunflower — Post Malone and Swae Lee
Señorita — Camila Cabello ft. Shawn Mendes
Best R&B Album
** WINNER ** Venture — Anderson .Paak
1123 — BJ The Chicago Kid
Painted — Lucky Daye
Ella Mai — Ella Mai
Paul — PJ Morton
Best R&B Performance
** WINNER ** Come Home — Anderson .Paak ft. Andre 3000
Love Again — Daniel Caesar ft. Brandy
Couldn’t Been Her — H.E.R. ft. Bryson Tiller
Exactly How I Feel — Lizzo ft. Gucci Mane
Roll Some Mo — Lucky Daye
Best Traditional R&B Performance
** WINNER ** Jerome — Lizzo
Time Today — BJ The Chicago Kid
Steady Love — India.Arie
Real Games — Lucky Daye
Built for Love — PJ Morton & Jazmine Sullivan
Best R&B Song
** WINNER ** Say So — Pj Morton ft. Jojo
Could’ve Been — H.E.R. ft. Bryson Tiller
Look at Me Now — Emily King
No Guidance — Chris Brown ft. Drake
Roll Some Mo — Lucky Daye
Best Rap Album
** WINNER ** Igor — Tyler, the Creator
Revenge of the Dreamers III — Dreamville
Championships — Meek Mill
I Am > I Was — 21 Savage
The Lost Boy — YBN Cordae
Best Rap Performance
** WINNER ** Racks in the Middle — Nipsey Hussle ft. Roddy Ricch and Hit-boy
Middle Child — J. Cole
Suge — DaBaby
Down Bad — Dreamville ft. J.I.D, Bas, J. Cole, Earthgang and Young Nudy
Clout — Offset ft. Cardi B
Best Rap/Sung Performance
** WINNER ** Higher — DJ Khaled ft. Nipsey Hussle and John Legend
Drip Too Hard — Lil Baby and Funna
Panini — Lil Nas X
Ballin — Mustard ft. Roddy Ricch
The London — Young Thug ft. J. Cole and Travis Scott
Best Rap Song
** WINNER ** A Lot — 21 Savage ft. J. Cole
Bad Idea — Ybn Cordae ft. Chance The Rapper
Gold Roses — Rick Ross ft. Drake
Racks in the Middle — Nipsey Hussle ft. Roddy Ricch and Hit-boy
Suge — DaBaby
Best Rock Album
** WINNER ** Social Cues — Cage The Elephant
Amo — Bring Me The Horizon
In the End — The Cranberries
Trauma — I Prevail
Feral Roots — Rival Sons
Best Rock Performance
** WINNER ** This Land — Gary Clark Jr.
Pretty Waste — Bones UK
History Repeats — Brittany Howard
Woman — Karen O and Danger Mouse
Too Bad — Rival Sons
Best Rock Song
** WINNER ** This Land — Gary Clark Jr.
Fear Inoculum — Tool
Give Yourself a Try — The 1975
Harmony Hall — Vampire Weekend
History Repeats — Brittany Howard
Best Alternative Music Album
** WINNER ** Father of the Bride — Vampire Weekend
U.F.O.F. — Big Thief
Assume Form — James Blake
i,i — Bon Iver
Anima — Thom Yorke
Best Metal Performance
** WINNER ** 7empest — Tool
Astorolus – The Great Octopus — Candlemass ft. Tony Iommi
Humanicide — Death Angel
Bow Down — I Prevail
Unleashed — Killswitch Engage
Best Country Album
** WINNER ** While I’m Livin’ — Tanya Tucker
Desperate Man — Eric Church
Stronger Than the Truth — Reba McEntire
Interstate Gospel — Pistol Annies
Center Point Road — Thomas Rhett
Best Country Solo Performance
** WINNER ** Ride Me Back Home — Willie Nelson
All Your’n — Tyler Childers
Girl Goin’ Nowhere — Ashley McBryde
God’s Country — Blake Shelton
Bring My Flowers Now — Tanya Tucker
Best Country Duo/Group Performance
** WINNER ** Speechless — Dan + Shay
Brand New Man — Brooks & Dunn ft. Luke Combs
I Don’t Remember Me (Before You) — Brothers Osborne
The Daughters — Little Big Town
Common — Maren Morris ft. Brandi Carlile
Best Country Song
** WINNER ** Bring My Flowers Now — Brandi Carlile, Phil Hanseroth, Tim Hanseroth and Tanya Tucker
Girl Goin’ Nowhere — Jeremy Bussey and Ashley Mcbryde
It All Comes Out in the Wash — Miranda Lambert, Hillary Lindsey, Lori Mckenna and Liz Roset
Some of It — Eric Church, Clint Daniels, Jeff Hyde and Bobby Pinson
Speechless — Shay Mooney, Jordan Reynolds, Dan Smyers and Laura Veltz
Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients
Chicago
Roberta Flack
Isaac Hayes
Iggy Pop
John Prine
Public Enemy
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
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The entire winners list can be seen on the official Grammy Awards website.