Grammys 2017: Adele heads the list of winners by scooping five prizes including Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album for 25

The British singer swept the major categories
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Ben Travis13 February 2017
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Adele proved the big winner at the Grammy Awards 2017, taking a clean sweep of the major categories and receiving five trophies.

The British singer won Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album for her third album 25, while its lead single Hello was awarded Record of the Year.

She also won Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance, taking her total Grammy wins to 15.

Adele is the second woman to win Album of the Year twice, following Taylor Swift’s second win last year for 1989.

At the star-studded event in Los Angeles, the tearful star dedicated her Album of the Year award to Beyonce, who missed out with her celebrated work Lemonade.

"I can't possibly accept this award," she said.

"I'm very humble and I'm grateful and gracious but my artist of my life is Beyonce and the Lemonade album was just so monumental.

"All us artists here, we f****** adore you."

David Bowie’s final album Blackstar saw the rock icon take five posthumous awards, including Best Alternative Music Album, Best Rock Song, Best Recording Package, Best Engineered Album, and Best Rock Performance for the LP’s title track.

Chance the Rapper was named Best New Artist, and received Best Rap Album for 2016’s Coloring Book, and Best Rap Performance for his single No Problem.

Beyonce received two awards, with Lemonade being named Best Urban Contemporary Album, and single Formation receiving Best Music Video.

However, the full album video for Lemonade missed out on Best Music Film against Ron Howard’s documentary The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years.

Grammys 2017: Red Carpet Fashion

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See the full lists of winners below.

Record Of The Year:

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

Album Of The Year:

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

Song Of The Year:

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

Best New Artist:

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

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:

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

Best Pop Vocal Album:

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

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album:

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

Best Dance Recording:

  • WINNER: "Don't Let Me Down" — The Chainsmokers featuring Daya
  • "Tearing Me Up" — Bob Moses
  • "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:

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

Best Rock Performance:

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

Best Metal Performance:

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

Best Rock Song:

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

Best Rock Album:

  • WINNER: Tell Me I'm Pretty — Cage The Elephant
  • California — Blink-182
  • Magma — Gojira
  • Death Of A Bachelor — Panic! At The Disco
  • Weezer — Weezer

Best Alternative Music Album:

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

Best R&B Performance:

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

Best Traditional R&B Performance:

  • WINNER: "Angel" — Lalah Hathaway
  • "The Three Of Me" — William Bell
  • "Woman's World" — BJ The Chicago Kid
  • "Sleeping With The One I Love" — Fantasia
  • "Can't Wait" — Jill Scott

Best R&B Song:

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

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

Best Rap Performance:

  • WINNER: "No Problem" — Chance The Rapper Featuring Lil Wayne & 2 Chainz
  • "Panda" —Desiigner
  • "Pop Style" — Drake Featuring The Throne
  • "All The Way Up" — Fat Joe & Remy Ma Featuring French Montana & Infared
  • "That Part" — ScHoolboy Q Featuring Kanye West

Best Rap/Sung Performance:

  • WINNER: "Hotline Bling" — Drake
  • "Freedom" — Beyoncé Featuring Kendrick Lamar
  • "Broccoli" — D.R.A.M. Featuring Lil Yachty
  • "Ultralight Beam" — Kanye West Featuring Chance The Rapper, Kelly Price, Kirk Franklin & The-Dream
  • "Famous" — Kanye West Featuring Rihanna

Best Rap Song:

  • WINNER: "Hotline Bling" — Drake
  • "All The Way Up" — Fat Joe & Remy Ma Featuring French Montana & Infared
  • "Famous" — Kanye West Featuring Rihanna
  • "No Problem" — Chance The Rapper Featuring Lil Wayne & 2 Chainz
  • "Ultralight Beam" — Kanye West Featuring Chance The Rapper, Kelly Price, Kirk Franklin & 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:

  • WINNER: "My Church" — Maren Morris
  • "Love Can Go To Hell" — Brandy Clark
  • "Vice" — Miranda Lambert
  • "Church Bells" — Carrie Underwood
  • "Blue Ain't Your Color" — Keith Urban

Best Country Duo/Group Performance:

  • WINNER: "Jolene" — Pentatonix Featuring Dolly Parton
  • "Different for Girls" — Dierks Bentley Featuring Elle King
  • "21 Summer" — Brothers Osborne
  • "Setting The World On Fire" — Kenny Chesney & P!nk
  • "Think Of You" — Chris Young With Cassadee Pope

Best Country Song:

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

Best Country Album:

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

Best New Age Album:

  • WINNER: White Sun II — White Sun
  • Orogen — John Burke
  • Dark Sky Island — Enya
  • Inner Passion — Peter Kater & Tina Guo
  • Rosetta — Vangelis

Best Improvised Jazz Solo:

  • WINNER: "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" — John Scofield, soloist
  • "Countdown" — Joey Alexander, soloist
  • "In Movement" — Ravi Coltrane, soloist
  • "We See" — Fred Hersch, soloist
  • "I Concentrate On You" — Brad Mehldau, soloist

Best Jazz Vocal Album:

  • WINNER: Take Me To The Alley — Gregory Porter
  • Sound Of Red — René Marie
  • Upward Spiral — Branford Marsalis Quartet With Special Guest Kurt Elling
  • Harlem On My Mind — Catherine Russell
  • The Sting Variations — The Tierney Sutton Band

Best Jazz Instrumental Album:

  • WINNER: Country for Old Men — John Scofield
  • Book of Intuition — Kenny Barron Trio
  • Dr. Um — Peter Erskine
  • Sunday Night At The Vanguard — The Fred Hersch Trio
  • Nearness — Joshua Redman & Brad Mehldau

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album:

  • WINNER: Presidential Suite: Eight Variations on Freedom — Ted Nash Big Band
  • Real Enemies — Darcy James Argue's Secret Society
  • Presents Monk'estra, Vol. 1 — John Beasley
  • Kaleidoscope Eyes: Music of the Beatles — John Daversa
  • All L.A. Band — Bob Mintzer

Best Latin Jazz Album:

  • WINNER: Tribute To Irakere: Live In Marciac — Chucho Valdés
  • Entre Colegas — Andy González
  • Madera Latino: A Latin Jazz Perspective On The Music Of Woody Shaw — Brian Lynch & Various Artists
  • Canto América — Michael Spiro/Wayne Wallace La Orquesta Sinfonietta
  • 30 - Trio Da Paz

Best Gospel Performance/Song:

  • WINNER: "God Provides" — Tamela Mann; Kirk Franklin, songwriter
  • "It's Alright, It's OK" — Shirley Caesar Featuring Anthony Hamilton; Stanley Brown & Courtney Rumble, songwriters
  • "You're Bigger [Live]" — Jekalyn Carr; Allundria Carr, songwriter
  • "Made A Way [Live]" — Travis Greene; Travis Greene, songwriter
  • "Better" — Hezekiah Walker; Jason Clayborn, Gabriel Hatcher & Hezekiah Walker, songwriters

Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song:

  • WINNER: "Thy Will" — Hillary Scott & The Scott Family; Bernie Herms, Hillary Scott & Emily Weisband, songwriters Track from: Love Remains
  • "Trust In You" — Lauren Daigle; Lauren Daigle, Michael Farren & Paul Mabury, songwriters
  • "Priceless" — For King & Country; Benjamin Backus, Seth Mosley, Joel Smallbone, Luke Smallbone & Tedd Tjornhom, songwriters
  • "King of the World" — Natalie Grant; Natalie Grant, Becca Mizell & Samuel Mizell, songwriters
  • "Chain Breaker" — Zach Williams; Mia Fieldes, Jonathan Smith & Zach Williams, songwriters

Best Gospel Album:

  • WINNER: Losing My Religion — Kirk Franklin
  • Listen —Tim Bowman Jr.
  • ill This House — Shirley Caesar
  • A Worshipper's Heart [Live] —Todd Dulaney
  • Demonstrate [Live] —William Murphy

Best Contemporary Christian Music Album:

  • WINNER: Love Remains — Hillary Scott & The Scott Family
  • Poets & Saints — All Sons & Daughters
  • American Prodigal — Crowder
  • Be One — Natalie Grant
  • Youth Revival [Live] — Hillsong Young & Free

Best Roots Gospel Album:

  • WINNER: Hymns — Joey+Rory
  • Better Together — Gaither Vocal Band
  • Nature's Symphony In 432 — The Isaacs
  • Hymns And Songs Of Inspiration — Gordon Mote
  • God Don't Ever Change: The Songs Of Blind Willie Johnson — (Various Artists)

Best Latin Pop Album:

  • WINNER: Un Besito Mas — Jesse & Joy
  • Ilusión — Gaby Moreno
  • Similares — Laura Pausini
  • Seguir Latiendo — Sanalejo
  • Buena Vida — Diego Torres

Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album:

  • WINNER: iLevitable — ile
  • L.H.O.N. (La Humanidad O Nosotros) — Illya Kuryaki & The Valderamas
  • Buenaventura — La Santa Cecilia
  • Los Rakas — Los Rakas 
  • Amor Supremo — Carla Morrison

Best Regional Mexican Music Album (Including Tejano):

  • WINNER: Un Azteca En El Azteca, Vol. 1 (En Vivo) — Vicente Fernández
  • Raíces — Banda El Recodo De Cruz Lizárraga
  • Hecho A Mano — Joss Favela
  • Generación Maquinaria Est. 2006 — La Maquinaria Norteña
  • Tributo A Joan Sebastian Y Rigoberto Alfaro — Mariachi Divas De Cindy Shea

Best Tropical Latin Album:

  • WINNER: Donde Están? — Jose Lugo & Guasábara Combo
  • Conexión — Fonseca
  • La Fantasia Homenaje A Juan Formell — Formell Y Los Van Van
  • 35 Aniversario — Grupo Niche
  • La Sonora Santanera En Su 60 Aniversario — La Sonora Santanera

Best American Roots Performance:

  • WINNER: "House of Mercy" — Sarah Jarosz
  • "Ain't No Man" — The Avett Brothers
  • "Mother's Children Have A Hard Time" — Blind Boys Of Alabama
  • "Factory Girl" — Rhiannon Giddens
  • "Wreck You" — Lori McKenna

Best American Roots Song:

  • WINNER: "Kid Sister" — Vince Gill, songwriter (The Time Jumpers)
  • "Alabama at Night" — Robbie Fulks, songwriter (Robbie Fulks)
  • "City Lights" — Jack White, songwriter (Jack White)
  • "Gulfstream" — Eric Adcock & Roddie Romero, songwriters (Roddie Romero and The Hub City All-Stars)
  • "Wreck You" — Lori McKenna & Felix McTeigue, songwriters (Lori McKenna)

Best Americana Album:

  • WINNER: This Is Where I Live — William Bell
  • True Sadness — The Avett Brothers
  • The Cedar Creek Sessions — Kris Kristofferson
  • The Bird & The Rifle — Lori McKenna
  • Kid Sister — The Time Jumpers

Best Bluegrass Album:

  • WINNER: Coming Home — O'Connor Band With Mark O'Connor
  • Original Traditional — Blue Highway
  • Burden Bearer — Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver
  • The Hazel Sessions — Laurie Lewis & The Right Hands
  • North And South — Claire Lynch

Best Traditional Blues Album:

  • WINNER: Porcupine Meat — Bobby Rush
  • Can't Shake The Feeling — Lurrie Bell
  • Live At The Greek Theatre — Joe Bonamassa
  • Blues & Ballads (A Folksinger's Songbook: Volumes I & II) — Luther Dickinson
  • The Soul of Jimmie Rodgers — Vasti Jackson

Best Contemporary Blues Album:

  • WINNER: The Last Days of Oakland — Fantastic Negrito
  • Love Wins Again — Janiva Magness
  • Bloodline — Kenny Neal
  • Give It Back To You — The Record Company
  • Everybody Wants A Piece — Joe Louis Walker

Best Folk Album:

  • WINNER: Undercurrent — Sarah Jaroszh
  • Silver Skies Blue — Judy Collins & Ari Hest
  • Upland Stories — Robbie Fulks 
  • Factory Girl — Rhiannon Giddens
  • Weighted Mind — Sierra Hull

Best Regional Roots Music Album:

  • WINNER: E Walea — Kalani Pe'a
  • Broken Promised Land — Barry Jean Ancelet & Sam Broussard
  • It's A Cree Thing — Northern Cree
  • Gulfstream — Roddie Romero And The Hub City All-Stars
  • I Wanna Sing Right: Rediscovering Lomax In The Evangeline Country — (Various Artists)

Best Reggae Album:

  • WINNER: Ziggy Marley — Ziggy Marley
  • Sly & Robbie Presents... Reggae For Her – Devin Di Dakta & J.L
  • Rose Petals — J Boog
  • Everlasting — Raging Fyah
  • Falling Into Place — Rebelution
  • Soja: Live In Virginia — Soja

Best World Music Album:

  • WINNER: Sing Me Home — Yo-Yo Ma & The Silk Road Ensemble
  • Destiny — Celtic Woman
  • Walking In The Footsteps Of Our Fathers — Ladysmith Black Mambazo
  • Land Of Gold — Anoushka Shankar
  • Dois Amigos, Um Século De Música: Multishow Live — Caetano Veloso & Gilberto Gil

Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media:

  • WINNER: Miles Ahead — (Miles Davis & Various Artists)
  • Amy — (Various Artists)
  • Straight Outta Compton — (Various Artists)
  • Suicide Squad (Collector's Edition) — (Various Artists)
  • Vinyl: The Essentials Season 1 — (Various Artists)

Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media:

  • WINNER: Star Wars: The Force Awakens — John Williams, composer
  • Bridge of Spies — Thomas Newman, composer
  • Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight — Ennio Morricone, composer
  • The Revenant — Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto, composers
  • Stranger Things Volume 1 — Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein, composers
  • Stranger Things Volume 2 — Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein, composers

Best Song Written For Visual Media:

  • WINNER: "Can't Stop The Feeling!" —Justin Timberlake
  • "Heathens" —Twenty One Pilots
  • "Just Like Fire" —P!nk
  • "Purple Lamborghini" — Skrillex & Rick Ross
  • "Try Everything" —Shakira
  • "The Veil" —Peter Gabriel

Best Music Video:

  • WINNER: "Formation" — Beyoncé
  • "River" — Leon Bridges
  • "Up & Up" — Coldplay
  • "Gosh" — Jamie XX
  • "Upside Down & Inside Out" — OK Go

Best Music Film:

  • WINNER: The Beatles: Eight Days A Week The Touring Years — (The Beatles)
  • I'll Sleep When I'm Dead — Steve Aoki
  • Lemonade — Beyoncé
  • The Music Of Strangers — Yo-Yo Ma & The Silk Road Ensemble
  • American Saturday Night: Live From The Grand Ole Opry — (Various Artists)

Best Recording Package:

  • WINNER: Blackstar — Jonathan Barnbrook, art director (David Bowie)
  • Anti (Deluxe Edition) — Ciarra Pardo & Robyn Fenty, art directors (Rihanna)
  • Human Performance — Andrew Savage, art director (Parquet Courts)
  • Sunset Motel — Sarah Dodds & Shauna Dodds, art directors (Reckless Kelly)
  • 22, A Million — Eric Timothy Carlson, art director (Bon Iver)

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