It was a good night - a very good night, in fact - for Sam Smith at the Grammys last night, as the young singer bagged an armful of small golden gramophones for his mantelpiece.
Unfortunately that meant that our own Hozier missed out on an award for 'Take Me to Church', but his performance of both that song and 'I Put a Spell on You' with Annie Lennox went down a treat.
However, on the upside for Irish music (ahem), Aphex Twin won 'Best Dance/Electronic Album' for Syro. Since he was born in Limerick, we can claim him, right?
Other musical points of note include Beck pulling off a shock win for 'Album of the Year' with 'Morning Phase', which the tiresome Kanye West had something to say about. "I don’t even know what [Beck] said," he said after the ceremony. "I just know that, the Grammys, if they want real artists to keep coming back, they need to stop playing with us. We aren’t going to play with them no more. ‘Flawless.’ Beyoncé’s video. And Beck needs to respect artistry, he should have given his award to Beyoncé. At this point, we tired of it."
The full list of winners can be seen below.
RECORD OF THE YEAR: Sam Smith – "Stay With Me"
SONG OF THE YEAR: Sam Smith - "Stay With Me"
ALBUM OF THE YEAR: Beck - 'Morning Phase'
BEST NEW ARTIST: Sam Smith
BEST POP DUO/GROUP PERFORMANCE: A Great Big World With Christina Aguilera - "Say Something"
BEST TRADITIONAL POP VOCAL ALBUM: Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga - Cheek To Cheek
BEST POP SOLO PERFORMANCE: Pharrell Williams - "Happy"
BEST POP VOCAL ALBUM: Sam Smith - 'In The Lonely Hour'
BEST ROCK PERFORMANCE: Jack White - "Lazaretto"
BEST ROCK ALBUM: Beck - Morning Phase
BEST ROCK SONG: Paramore - "Ain't It Fun"
BEST ALTERNATIVE ROCK ALBUM: St. Vincent - St. Vincent
BEST METAL PERFORMANCE: Tenacious D - "The Last In Line"
BEST RAP PERFORMANCE: Kendrick Lamar - "I"
BEST RAP/SUNG COLLABORATION: Eminem Featuring Rihanna - "The Monster"
BEST RAP SONG: Kendrick Lamar - "I"
BEST RAP ALBUM: Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP2
BEST R&B PERFORMANCE: Beyoncé Featuring Jay Z – "Drunk In Love"
BEST TRADITIONAL R&B PERFORMANCE: Robert Glasper Experiment Featuring Lalah Hathaway & Malcolm-Jamal Warner - "Jesus Children"
BEST R&B SONG: Beyoncé Featuring Jay Z - "Drunk In Love"
BEST URBAN CONTEMPORARY ALBUM: Pharrell Williams - Girl
BEST R&B ALBUM: Toni Braxton & Babyface - Love, Marriage & Divorce
BEST CONTEMPORARY INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM: Chris Thile & Edgar Meyer - Bass & Mandolin
BEST DANCE/ELECTRONIC ALBUM: Aphex Twin - Syro
BEST DANCE RECORDING: Clean Bandit Featuring Jess Glynne - "Rather Be"
BEST COMPILATON SOUNDTRACK FOR VISUAL MEDIA: Frozen
BEST SCORE SOUNDTRACK FOR VISUAL MEDIA: The Grand Budapest Hotel
BEST SONG WRITTEN FOR VISUAL MEDIA: "Let It Go" from Frozen
BEST COUNTRY ALBUM: Miranda Lambert - Platinum
BEST COUNTRY SOLO PERFORMANCE: Carrie Underwood - "Something In The Water"
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BEST COUNTRY DUO/GROUP PERFORMANCE: The Band Perry - "Gentle On My Mind"
BEST COUNTRY SONG: Glen Campbell - "I'm Not Gonna Miss You"
BEST BLUEGRASS ALBUM: The Earls Of Leicester - The Earls Of Leicester
BEST AMERICAN ROOTS PERFORMANCE: Rosanne Cash - "A Feather's Not A Bird"
BEST AMERICAN ROOTS SONG: Rosanne Cash - "A Feather's Not A Bird"
BEST AMERICANA ALBUM: Rosanne Cash - The River & The Thread
BEST FOLK ALBUM: Old Crow Medicine Show - Remedy
BEST MUSIC VIDEO: Pharrell Williams - "Happy"
BEST MUSIC FILM: 20 Feet From Stardom
PRODUCER OF THE YEAR, NON-CLASSICAL: Max Martin
BEST INSTRUMENTAL COMPOSITION: John Williams - "The Book Thief"
BEST ARRANGEMENT INSTRUMENTAL AND A CAPELLA: Pentatonix - "Daft Punk"
BEST ARRANGEMENT, INSTRUMENTAL AND VOCALS: Billy Childs - "New York Tendaberry"
BEST RECORDING PACKAGE: Pearl Jam - Lightning Bolt
BEST BOXED OR SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION PACKAGE: The Rise & Fall Of Paramount Records, Volume One (1917-27)
BEST ALBUM NOTES: John Coltrane - Offering: Live At Temple University
BEST HISTORICAL ALBUM: Hank Williams - The Garden Spot Programs, 1950
BEST ENGINEERED ALBUM, NON-CLASSICAL: Beck - Morning Phase
BEST REMIXED RECORDING, NON-CLASSICAL: John Legend – "All Of Me (Tiesto's Birthday Treatment Remix)"
BEST SURROUND SOUND ALBUM: Beyoncé - Beyoncé
BEST REGIONAL ROOTS MUSIC ALBUM: Jo-El Sonnier - The Legacy
BEST REGGAE ALBUM: Ziggy Marley - Fly Rasta
BEST WORLD MUSIC ALBUM: Angelique Kidjo - Eve
BEST CHILDREN'S ALBUM: Neela Vaswani - I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up For Education And Changed The World
BEST MUSICAL THEATRE ALBUM: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
BEST BLUES ALBUM: Johnny Winter - Step Back
BEST SPOKEN WORD ALBUM: Joan Rivers - Diary Of A Mad Diva
BEST COMEDY ALBUM: "Weird Al" Yankovic - Mandatory Fun
BEST NEW AGE ALBUM: Ricky Kej & Wouter Kellerman - Winds Of Samsara
BEST IMPROVED JAZZ SOLO: Chick Corea - "Fingerprints"
BEST JAZZ VOCAL ALBUM: Dianne Reeves - Beautiful Life
BEST JAZZ INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM: Chick Corea Trio - Trilogy
BEST LARGE JAZZ ENSEMBLE ALBUM: Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band - Life In The Bubble
BEST LATIN JAZZ ALBUM: Arturo O'Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra - The Offense Of The Drum
Did you watch the Grammys? Any surprises in the results?
