Grammy Award 2015: 57th Annual Winners

The winners for the 57th Annual Grammy Awards have been announced. The 2015 Grammy Awards winners were given “an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry… It shares recognition of the music industry as that of the other performance arts: Emmy Awards (television), the Tony Awards (stage performance), and the Academy Awards (motion pictures).”

The full listing of the 2015 Grammy Awards winners:

Best New Artist
Sam Smith

Album Of The Year 
Beck, Morning Phase

Record Of The Year 
Sam Smith, “Stay With Me”

Song Of The Year 
Sam Smith, “Stay With Me”

Best Pop Solo Performance
Pharrell

Best Pop Vocal Album
Sam Smith, In The Lonely Hour

Best R&B Performance
Beyonce & Jay Z, “Drunk In Love”

Best Rock Album
Beck, Morning Phase

Best Country Album
Miranda Lambert, Platinum

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 Rock Performance
Jack White, “Lazaretto”

Best Metal Performance
Tenacious D, “The Last In Line”

Best Rock Song
Paramore, “Ain’t It Fun” Hayley Williams & Taylor York, songwriters

Best Alternative Rock Album
St. Vincent, St. Vincent

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 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 Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media
Frozen

Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media
The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Song Written for Visual Media
“Let It Go”, Frozen

Best Country Solo Performance
Carrie Underwood, “Something In The Water”

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 or A Cappella
Pentatonix, “Daft Punk”

Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals
Billy Childs, “New York Tendaberry”

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 World Music Album
Angelique Kidjo, Eve

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

Best Children’s Album
Neela Vaswani, I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up For Education And Changed The World (Malala Yousafzai)

Best Reggae Album
Ziggy Marley, Fly Rasta

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 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
Ashley Kahn, John Coltrane – Offering: Live At Temple University

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Source: Hollywoodlife