Jay-Z and West’s “N****s in Paris,” also from their album “Watch the Throne,” was selected as best rap performance and best rap song (shared with Mike Dean and Chauncey Hollis). Ocean, who scored six nods this year, took home the first-ever best urban contemporary album award for “Channel Orange.” Ocean also took a piece of the best rap/sung collaboration award, for “No Church in the Wild,” cut with Jay-Z, Kanye West and The-Dream.
John’s “Locked Down” (named best blues album on Sunday afternoon) and Hacienda’s “Savage” and “Shakedown.” John and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band - also pulled down best rock album for their Nonesuch release “El Camino,” which has sold 1.13 million to date.Īuerbach was also named non-classical producer of the year for his work on “El Camino,” Dr. The Akron, Ohio, duo - who played their winning number at the evening ceremony with Dr. The Black Keys took home prizes for best rock performance and best rock song field with their neo-soulful “Lonely Boy,” written by singer-guitarist Dan Auerbach, drummer Patrick Carney and producer Danger Mouse (Brian Burton). The act broke out with their 2010 Glassnote release “Sigh No More,” which has rolled slowly to sales totaling 2.75 million. band’s American train tour with Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros and Old Crow Medicine Show. folk-rock act received the first Grammy of their career for “Big Easy Express,” a long-form video about the U.K. In the pre-show awards handed out Sunday afternoon, the U.K. “But I’m not bullshitting, it was an honor just to nominated.” “Last year was Adele’s year, and this year it seemed like the Black Keys’ year,” he said backstage. Marcus Mumford admitted that as the show drew to a close, band members had “resigned ourselves” going home empty-handed. The Belgian-born, Australia-based Gotye’s “Making Mirrors” was also selected as best alternative music album.Īfter multiple wins by Fun and the Black Keys, Mumford & Sons, which had six noms, pulled it out in the end with the top album prize.
I think I have written many better songs.” Kimbra added that record of the year “seems like the weightiest of all the awards, next to album of the year.”
I love that song.”ĭiscussing his haul backstage, Gotye admitted: “I didn’t expect to win in any of the categories we were nominated in. Fun, Mumford and Sons and R&B star Frank Ocean were among a handful of artists that scored double wins.įun’s “Some Nights” was pushed aside in the best pop vocal album category by Kelly Clarkson’s “Stronger.” The effusive singer said on stage, “Fun, I’ve been covering you all summer. (Adele’s roll continued this year with an award for best pop solo performance, for a live version of “Set Fire to the Rain.”) Nominations were dominated by acts so new that many had never received a nomination before this year.Īll told, garage rockers the Black Keys took home three trophies, as did Gotye, the duo of Jay-Z and Kanye West and EDM star Skrillex. Unlike the 2012 ceremony, at which pre-show favorite Adele walked away with six Grammys amid a triumph for her second album “21,” there was no clear favorite at this year’s show. The song – last year’s bestselling digital track with 6.8 million units shifted - was also tabbed as best pop duo/group recording. Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know” won record of the year for the singer, his vocal collaborator Kimbra, producer-engineer Wally De Backer and engineers Francois Tetaz and William Bowden. Vocalist Ruess, who has led the band for 12 years, quipped on stage, “This (broadcast) is in HD, you can see our faces, and we are not young.”
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