59th Annual Grammy Award Winners
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Here are the big winners of the 59th Annual Grammy Awards:

Album of the Year


  • ***WINNER: 25 — Adele
  • Lemonade — Beyoncé
  • Purpose — Justin Bieber
  • Views — Drake
  • A Sailor’s Guide to Earth — Sturgill Simpson

Record of the Year

  • ***WINNER: “Hello” — Adele
  • “Formation” — Beyoncé
  • “7 Years” — Lukas Graham
  • “Work” — Rihanna Featuring Drake
  • “Stressed Out” — Twenty One Pilots

Song of the Year

  • “Formation” — Khalif Brown, Asheton Hogan, Beyoncé Knowles and Michael L. Williams II, songwriters (Beyoncé)
  • ***WINNER: “Hello” — Adele Adkins and Greg Kurstin, songwriters (Adele)
  • “I Took a Pill in Ibiza” — Mike Posner, songwriter (Mike Posner)
  • “Love Yourself” — Justin Bieber, Benjamin Levin and Ed Sheeran, songwriters (Justin Bieber)
  • “7 Years” — Lukas Forchhammer, Stefan Forrest, Morten Pilegaard and Morten Ristorp, songwriters (Lukas Graham)

Best New Artist

  • Kelsea Ballerini
  • The Chainsmokers
  • ***WINNER: Chance the Rapper
  • Maren Morris
  • Anderson Paak

Best Pop Vocal Album

  • ***WINNER: 25 — Adele
  • Purpose — Justin Bieber
  • Dangerous Woman — Ariana Grande
  • Confident — Demi Lovato
  • This Is Acting — Sia

Best Pop Solo Performance

  • ***WINNER: “Hello” — Adele
  • “Hold Up” — Beyonce
  • “Love Yourself” — Justin Bieber
  • “Piece by Piece (Idol Version)” — Kelly Clarkson
  • “Dangerous Woman” — Ariana Grande

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance

  • “Closer” — The Chainsmokers Featuring Halsey
  • “7 Years” — Lukas Graham
  • “Work” — Rihanna Featuring Drake
  • “Cheap Thrills” — Sia Featuring Sean Paul
  • ***WINNER: “Stressed Out” — Twenty One Pilots

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album

  • Cinema — Andrea Bocelli
  • Fallen Angels — Bob Dylan
  • Stages Live — Josh Groban
  • ***WINNER: Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin — Willie Nelson
  • Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway — Barbra Streisand

Best Dance Recording

  • “Tearing Me Up” — Bob Moses
  • ***WINNER: “Don’t Let Me Down” — The Chainsmokers Featuring Daya
  • “Never Be Like You” — Flume Featuring Kai
  • “Rinse & Repeat” — Riton Featuring Kah-Lo
  • “Drinkee” — Sofi Tukker

Best Dance/Electronic Album

  • ***WINNER: Skin — Flume
  • Electronica 1: The Time Machine — Jean-Michel Jarre
  • Epoch — Tycho
  • Barbara Barbara, We Face a Shining Future — Underworld
  • Louie Vega Starring … XXVIII — Louie Vega

Best Contemporary Instrumental Album

  • Human Nature — Herb Alpert
  • When You Wish Upon a Star — Bill Frisell
  • Way Back Home: Live From Rochester, NY — Steve Gadd Band
  • Unpsoken — Chuck Loeb
  • ***WINNER: Culcha Vulcha — Snarky Puppy

Best Rock Performance

  • “Joe (Live From Austin City Limits)” — Alabama Shakes
  • “Don’t Hurt Yourself” — Beyoncé Featuring Jack White
  • ***WINNER: “Blackstar” — David Bowie
  • “The Sound of Silence” — Disturbed
  • “Heathens” — Twenty One Pilots

Best Metal Performance

  • “Shock Me” — Baroness
  • “Slivera” — Gojira
  • “Rotting in Vain” — Korn
  • ***WINNER: “Dystopia” — Megadeth
  • “The Price Is Wrong” — Periphery

Best Rock Song

  • ***WINNER: “Blackstar” — David Bowie, songwriter (David Bowie)
  • “Burn the Witch” —Radiohead, songwriters (Radiohead)
  • “Hardwired” — James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich, songwriters (Metallica”Heathens” — Tyler Joseph, songwriter (Twenty One Pilots)
  • “My Name Is Human” — Rich Meyer, Ryan Meyer and Johnny Stevens, songwriters (Highly Suspect)

Best Rock Album

  • California — Blink-182
  • ***WINNER: Tell Me I’m Pretty — Cage the Elephant
  • Magma — Gojira
  • Death of a Bachelor — Panic! at the Disco
  • Weezer — Weezer

Best Alternative Music Album

  • 22, A Million — Bon Iver
  • ***WINNER: Blackstar — David Bowie
  • The Hope Six Demolition Project — PJ Harvey
  • Post Pop Depression — Iggy Pop
  • A Moon Shaped Pool — Radiohead

Best R&B Performance

  • “Turnin’ Me Up” — BJ The Chicago Kid
  • “Permission” — Ro James
  • “I Do” — Musiq Soulchild
  • “Needed Me” — Rihanna
  • ***WINNER: “Cranes in the Sky” — Solange

Best Traditional R&B Performance

  • “The Three of Me” — William Bell
  • “Woman’s World” — BJ the Chicago Kid
  • “Sleeping With the One I Love” — Fantasia
  • ***WINNER: “Angel” — Lalah Hathaway
  • “Can’t Wait” — Jill Scott

Best R&B Song


  • “Come and See Me” — J. Brathwaite, Aubrey Graham and Noah Shebib, songwriters (PartyNextDoor Featuring Drake)
  • “Exchange” — Michael Hernandez and Bryson Tiller, songwriters (Bryson Tiller)
  • “Kiss It Better” — Jeff Bhasker, Robyn Fenty, John-Nathan Glass and Natalia Noemi, songwriters (Rihanna)
  • ***WINNER: “Lake by the Ocean” — Hod David and Musze, songwriters (Maxwell)
  • “Luv” — Magnus August Høiberg, Benjamin Levin and Daystar Peterson, songwriters (Tory Lanez)

Best Urban Contemporary Album

  • ***WINNER: Lemonade — Beyoncé
  • Ology — Gallant
  • We Are King — KING
  • Malibu — Anderson Paak
  • Anti — Rihanna

Best R&B Album

  • In My Mind — BJ the Chicago Kid
  • ***WINNER: Lalah Hathaway Live — Lalah Hathaway
  • Velvet Portraits — Terrace Martin
  • Healing Season — Mint Condition
  • Smoove Jones — Mya

Best Rap Performance

  • ***WINNER: “No Problem” — Chance the Rapper Featuring Lil Wayne and 2 Chainz
  • “Panda” —Desiigner
  • “Pop Style” — Drake Featuring the Throne
  • “All the Way Up” — Fat Joe and Remy Ma Featuring French Montana and Infared
  • “That Part” — Schoolboy Q Featuring Kanye West

Best Rap/Sung Performance

  • “Freedom” — Beyoncé Featuring Kendrick Lamar
  • ***WINNER: “Hotline Bling” — Drake
  • “Broccoli” — D.R.A.M. Featuring Lil Yachty
  • “Ultralight Beam” — Kanye West Featuring Chance the Rapper, Kelly Price, Kirk Franklin and the Dream
  • “Famous” — Kanye West Featuring Rihanna

Best Rap Song

  • “All the Way Up” — Joseph Cartagena, Edward Davadi, Shandel Green, Karim Kharbouch, Andre Christopher Lyon, Reminisce Mackie and Marcello Valenzano, songwriters (Fat Joe and Remy Ma Featuring French Montana and Infared)
  • “Famous” — Chancelor Bennett, Ross Birchard, Ernest Brown, Andrew Dawson, Kasseem Dean, Mike Dean, Noah Goldstein, Kejuan Muchita, Patrick Reynolds, Kanye West and Cydel Young, songwriters (Kanye West Featuring Rihanna)
  • ***WINNER: “Hotline Bling” — Aubrey Graham and Paul Jefferies, songwriters (Drake)
  • “No Problem” — Chancelor Bennett, Dwayne Carter and Tauheed Epps, songwriters (Chance the Rapper Featuring Lil Wayne and 2 Chainz)
  • “Ultralight Beam” — Chancelor Bennett, Kasseem Dean, Mike Dean, Kirk Franklin, Noah Goldstein, Samuel Griesemer, Terius Nash, Jerome Potter, Kelly Price, Nico “Donnie Trumpet” Segal, Derek Watkins, Kanye West and Cydel Young, songwriters (Kanye West Featuring Chance the Rapper, Kelly Price, Kirk Franklin and the Dream)

Best Rap Album

  • ***WINNER: Coloring Book — Chance the Rapper
  • And the Anonymous Nobody — De La Soul
  • Major Key — DJ Khaled
  • Views — Drake
  • Blank Face LP — Schoolboy Q
  • The Life of Pablo — Kanye West

Best Country Solo Performance

  • “Love Can Go to Hell” — Brandy Clark
  • “Vice” — Miranda Lambert
  • ***WINNER: “My Church” — Maren Morris
  • “Church Bells” — Carrie Underwood
  • “Blue Ain’t Your Color” — Keith Urban

Best Country Duo/Group Performance

  • “Different for Girls” — Dierks Bentley Featuring Elle King
  • “21 Summer” — Brothers Osborne
  • “Setting the World on Fire” — Kenny Chesney and Pink
  • ***WINNER: “Jolene” — Pentatonix Featuring Dolly Parton
  • “Think of You” — Chris Young With Cassadee Pope

Best Country Song

  • “Blue Ain’t Your Color” — Clint Lagerberg, Hillary Lindsey and Steven Lee Olsen, songwriters (Keith Urban)
  • “Die a Happy Man” — Sean Douglas, Thomas Rhett and Joe Spargur, songwriters (Thomas Rhett)
  • ***WINNER: “Humble and Kind” — Lori McKenna, songwriter (Tim McGraw)
  • “My Church” — Busbee and Maren Morris, songwriters (Maren Morris)
  • “Vice” — Miranda Lambert, Shane McAnally and Josh Osborne, songwriters (Miranda Lambert)

Best Country Album

  • Big Day in a Small Town — Brandy Clark
  • Full Circle — Loretta Lynn
  • Hero — Maren Morris
  • ***WINNER: A Sailor’s Guide to Earth — Sturgill Simpson
  • Ripcord — Keith Urban