Elsewhere, Kendrick Lamarr didn't have too bad a night of it, either
The
58th Grammy Awards ceremony took place at the Staples Centre in Los Angeles last night. The
Grammys have just two dance music-specific categories - Best Dance
Recording and Best Dance/Electronic Album - and this year, both went
to Skrillex and Diplo's Jack Ü project.
Their
album Skrillex And Diplo Present Jack Ü took the Best
Dance/Electronic Album prize, beating Caribou's Our Love, The
Chemical Brothers' Born In The Echoes, Disclosure's Caracal and Jamie
xx's In Colour. Best Dance Recording was awarded to the Justin
Bieber-featuring single Where Are Ü Now, also from the album, which
saw off competition from Above & Beyond, The Chemical Brothers ft
Q-Tip, Flying Lotus ft Kendrick Lamar and Galantis.
Diplo
(on his own) was also nominated in the Producer Of The Year
(Non-Classical) category, but didn't win. The Record Of The Year
award went to Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars for Uptown Funk, while Dave
Audé's remix of Uptown Funk won the Best Remixed Recording
(Non-Classical) award.
Over
in the urban categories, meanwhile, Kendrick Lamar (who had more
nominations than anyone else this year, with his name in the hat for
no fewer than 11 awards) went home with four awards: Best Rap Album
for To Pimp A Butterfly, Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song for
Alright and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for These Walls.
D'Angelo
& The Vanguard won Best R&B Song for Really Love and Best R&B
Album for Black Messiah, The Weeknd won Best Urban Contemporary Album
for Beauty Behind The Beast and Best R&B Performance for Earned
It, and Lalah Hathaway's Little Ghetto Boy won Best Traditional R&B
Performance.
Tags: Skrillex, Diplo, Jack Ü, Kendrick Lamar, The Weeknd, D'Angelo, Mark Ronson, Bruno Mars