Adele and Mumford & Sons Triumph At Grammys

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”