Grammys 2016: Taylor Swift wins album of the year

D’Angelo and the Vanguard’s Black Messiah received the Best R&B Album title and its song “Really Love” was declared Best R&B Song. He ended with a map of Africa, and the city of Compton imprinted in it.

Adele sang “All I Ask”, co-written by Bruno Mars, with a piano behind her. But the audio sounded off and appeared to throw off her performance.

Former President Jimmy Carter was a notable standout on the list of Grammy winners during the pre-telecast ceremony.

The “Uptown Funk” collaborators won the Grammy award for Record of the Year, which was presented by the one and only Beyoncé.

Rising to fame as a teenage country singer, Swift on 1989 moved fully in a commercial pop direction as she worked with the hit-making Swedish production team of Max Martin and Shellback.

In 2010, Swift also made history when she won Album of the Year for Fearless, becoming the youngest artist to take the prize as the album was recorded when she was 20.

Next up was Ed Sheeran, who traded in his Song of the Year trophy for the magic-Grammy-giving flask.

Meghan Trainor won best new artist at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards on Monday night and reacted with joyful tears.

Best traditional pop vocal album: “The Silver Lining: The Songs of Jerome Kern”, Tony Bennett and Bill Charlap.

The singer, who has outsold her contemporaries by millions, is set to perform at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, along with other hitmakers such as Rihanna, Lady Gaga, the Weeknd and Taylor Swift, who will open the show. Lead singer Brittany Howard, during a performance of “Don’t Wanna Fight“, conveyed more power and emotion in just her voice than the noisy Hollywood Vampires supergroup of Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp and Joe Perry did with a mess of tattoos, flames, flashing lights and loud guitars.

– Best metal performance: “Cirice”, Ghost.

The prize for Best Album Notes generally goes to a music scholar or critic; this year, the victor was singer/songwriter Joni Mitchell, for her notes for her multi-disciplinary project Love Has Many Faces: A Quartet, A Ballet, Waiting To Be Danced, which includes 53 songs, a book of poetry and autobiographical writings, as well as reproductions of six of her paintings.

– Best rap/sung collaboration: “These Walls“, Kendrick Lamar Featuring Bilal, Anna Wise and Thundercat.

Compton native Kendrick Lamar was the top nominee heading into the Grammys with 11 nods.

Chris Stapleton, Gary Clark Jr. and Bonnie Raitt perform a tribute to B.B. King, who died in May past year.

British alternative rock outfit Muse took home the best rock album award with “Drones”.