53rd Annual Grammy Awards: Winners, Performances & Major Upsets

Arrival at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards, originally uploaded by Yaghyah.

PICTURE ABOVE: LADY GAGA makes her entrance in an egg like Incubator, symbolic to her first live performance of her new single & album title: Born This Way

An interesting Night at the Grammys it was, some shockers, some awards expected, but im sure the biggest shock was that Justin Bieber walked away with nothing after Esperanza Spalding beat him by winning the Best New Artist Award. Eminem too who initially had 10 nominations only walked away with TWO awards.

Some of the biggest winners of this prestigous event was Lady GaGa & Jay - Z who both walked away with three awards each. Other winners included Muse, who won Best Rock Album, as well as Bruno Mars with Best male pop vocal performance, & Michael Bublé with Best traditional pop vocal album.

Congratulations to all the Winners. The full list follows.

Album of the year –

Arcade Fire, The Suburbs

Record of the year –

Lady Antebellum, Need You
Now

Song of the year –

Need You Now (Lady
Antebellum, performers)

Best new artist –

Esperanza Spalding

Best female pop vocal performance –

Lady Gaga,
Bad Romance

Best male pop vocal performance –

Bruno Mars,
Just the Way You Are

Best pop vocal album –

Lady Gaga, The Fame
Monster

Best traditional pop vocal album –

Michael Buble,
Crazy Love

Best electronic/dance album –

La Roux, La Roux

Best solo rock vocal performance –

Paul
McCartney, Helter Skelter

Best hard rock performance –

Them Crooked
Vultures, New Fang

Best metal performance –

Iron Maiden, El Dorado

Best rock song –

Angry World (Neil Young)

Best rock album –
Muse, The Resistance

Best alternative music album –

The Black Keys,
Brothers

Best female R&B vocal performance –

Fantasia,
Bittersweet

Best male R&B vocal performance –

Usher, There
Goes My Baby

Best urban/alternative performance –

Cee Lo
Green, F*** You

Best R&B song –

Shine (John Legend and the
Roots)

Best contemporary R&B album –

Usher,
Raymond v Raymond

Best rap solo performance –

Eminem, Not Afraid


Best rap song –

Empire State of Mind (Jay–Z and
Alicia Keys, performers)

Best rap album –

Eminem, Recovery

Best female country vocal performance –

Miranda
Lambert, The House That Built Me

Best male country vocal performance –

Keith
Urban, Til Summer Comes Around

Best country song –

Need You Now (Lady
Antebellum, performers)

Best country album –

Lady Antebellum, Need You
Now
Best contemporary jazz album –

The Stanley
Clarke Band, The Stanley Clarke Band

Best Americana album –

Mavis Staples, You Are
Not Alone

Best contemporary blues album –

Buddy Guy,
Living Proof

Best contemporary folk album –

Ray LaMontagne
and the Prairie Dogs, God Willin' & the Creek
Don't Rise

Best classical album: Verdi:

Requiem (Ildar
Abdrazakov, Olga Borodina, Barbara Frittoli &
Mario Zeffiri; Chicago Symphony Orchestra;
Chicago Symphony Chorus)

Video: Performance by Justin Bieber, Usher & Jayden Smith at last nights awards.



Thats all for today!