Mumford And Sons , Fun , The Black Keys , Jay Z , Kanye West and Frank Ocean were amongst the big winners at last nights 55th Grammy Awards in LA.
Other winners on the night included Kelly Clarkson , Adele , Beyonce , Drake , Skrillex and Carrie Underwood.
Mumford And Sons won the top gong of the night , winning Album Of The Year for sophomore album Babel , the second fastest selling album of 2012 in the US.
Elsewhere , The Black Keys El Camino , earned them a staggering 4 awards. They triumphed in the Rock categories for Album , Performance and Song. Dan Auerbach was also honoured with Producer of The Year.
As expected Frank Ocean won a gong or two , although missing out on major awards such as Album and Best New Artist. However , he deservedly beat Chris Brown to scoop Best RnB Contemporary Album and his collaboration with Jay Z and Kanye West for No Church In The Wild was rewarded.
Jay Z and Kanye West dominated the Rap categories as the spectacular Niggas In Paris won Best Rap Perfromance and Best Rap Song.
Drake won Best Rap Album for Take Care.
Fun. were also big winners on the night winning the prestigous Best New Artist , beating favourite Frank Ocean and The Lumineers. Their massive , ubiquitous worldwide smash We Are Young picked up Song of The Year.
In the pop categories , it was Kelly Clarkson and Adele who added to their previous Grammys. Clarkson fended off Pink , Fun, Maroon 5 and Florence And The Machine to win Best Pop Vocal Album. Adele won yet another Grammy for Best Pop Solo Performance for Set Fire To The Rain.
Other winners included Goteye and Kimbra whose global smash Somebody That I Used To Know won Record Of The Year.
Skrillex cleaned up in the dance categories , Carrie Underwood in the country stakes , and Beyonce won yet another Grammy for Love on Top.
Hosted by LL Cool J , the Grammys saw live performances from Taylor Swift , Fun, Justin Timberlake and Jay Z , Rihanna with Bruno Mars and Sting , Kelly Clarkson , Maroon 5 with Alicia Keys and Ed Sheeran duetting with Elton John.
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