Monday, February 9, 2009

2009 Grammy Winners

The winners of the Grammy Awards 2009

Record Of The Year
-Chasing Pavements/Adele
-Viva La Vida/Cold play
-Bleeding Love/Leona Lewis
-Paper Planes/M.I.A
-Please Read The Letter/Robert Plant & Alison Krauss

Album Of The Year
-Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends/Coldplay
-Tha Carter III/Lil Wayne
-Year Of The Gentleman/Ne-Yo
-Raising Sand/Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
-In Rainbows/Radiohead

Song Of The Year
-American Boy/William Adams, Keith Harris, Josh Lopez, Caleb Speir, John Stephens, Estelle Swaray & Kanye West, songwriters (Estelle)
-Chasing Pavements/Adele Adkins & Eg White, songwriters (Adele)
-I'm Yours/Jason Mraz, songwriter (Jason Mraz)
-Love Song/Sara Bareilles, songwriter (Sara Bareilles)
-Viva La Vida/Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland, Will Champion & Chris Martin, songwriters (Coldplay)

Best New Artist
-Adele
-Duffy
-Jonas Brothers
-Lady Antebellum
-Jazmine Sullivan

Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
-Chasing Pavements/Adele
-Love Song/Sara Bareilles
-Mercy/Duffy
-Bleeding Love/Leona Lewis
-I Kissed A Girl/Katy Perry
-So What/Pink

Best Male Pop Vocal Performance
-All Summer Long/Kid Rock
-Say/John Mayer
-That Was Me/Paul McCartney
-I'm Yours/Jason Mraz
-Closer/Ne-Yo
-Wichita Lineman/James Taylor

Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals
-Viva La Vida/Coldplay
-Waiting In The Weeds/Eagles
-Going On/Gnarls Barkley
-Won't Go Home Without You/Maroon 5
-Apologize/OneRepublic

Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals
-Lesson Learned/Alicia Keys & John Mayer
-4 Minutes/Madonna, Justin Timberlake & Timbaland
-Rich Woman/Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
-If I Never See Your Face Again/Rihanna & Maroon 5
-No Air/Jordin Sparks & Chris Brown

Best Pop Vocal Album
-Detours/Sheryl Crow
-Rockferry/Duffy
-Long Road Out Of Eden/Eagles
-Spirit/Leona Lewis
-Covers/James Taylor

Best Dance Recording
-Harder Better Faster Stronger/Daft Punk
-Ready For The Floor/Hot Chip
-Just Dance/Lady Gaga & Colby O'Donis
-Give It 2 Me/Madonna
-Disturbia/Rihanna
-Black & Gold/Sam Sparro

Best Electronic/Dance Album
-New York City/Brazilian Girls
-Alive 2007/Daft Punk
-Bring Ya To The Brink/Cyndi Lauper
-X/Kylie Minogue
-Last Night/Moby
-Robyn/Robyn

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
-Still Unforgettable/Natalie Cole
-The Sinatra Project/Michael Feinstein
-Noël/Josh Groban
-In The Swing Of Christmas/Barry Manilow
-Rufus Does Judy At Carnegie Hall/Rufus Wainwright

Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance
-Gravity/John Mayer
-I Saw Her Standing There/Paul McCartney
-Girls In Their Summer Clothes/Bruce Springsteen
-Rise/Eddie Vedder
-No Hidden Path/Neil Young

Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals
-Rock N Roll Train/AC/DC
-Violet Hill/Coldplay
-Long Road Out Of Eden/Eagles
-Sex On Fire/Kings Of Leon
-House Of Cards/Radiohead

Best Rock Song
-Girls In Their Summer Clothes/Bruce Springsteen, songwriter (Bruce Springsteen)
-House Of Cards/Colin Greenwood, Jonny Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, Philip Selway & Thom Yorke, songwriters (Radiohead)
-I Will Possess Your Heart/Benjamin Gibbard, Nicholas Harmer, Jason McGerr & Christopher Walla, songwriters (Death Cab For Cutie)
-Sex On Fire/Caleb Followill, Jared Followill, Matthew Followill & Nathan Followill, songwriters (Kings Of Leon)
-Violet Hill/Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland, Will Champion & Chris Martin, songwriters (Coldplay)

Best Rock Album
-Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends/Coldplay
-Rock N Roll Jesus/Kid Rock
-Only By The Night/Kings Of Leon
-Death Magnetic/Metallica
-Consolers Of The Lonely/The Raconteurs

Best Alternative Music Album
-Modern Guilt/Beck
-Narrow Stairs/Death Cab For Cutie
-The Odd Couple/Gnarls Barkley
-Evil Urges/My Morning Jacket
-In Rainbows/Radiohead

Best Female R&B Vocal Performance
-Me, Myself And I/Beyoncé
-Heaven Sent/Keyshia Cole
-Spotlight/Jennifer Hudson
-Superwoman/Alicia Keys
-Need U Bad/Jazmine Sullivan

Best Male R&B Vocal Performance
-You're The Only One/Eric Benét
-Take You Down/Chris Brown
-Miss Independent/Ne-Yo
-Can't Help But Wait/Trey Songz
-Here I Stand/Usher

Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals
-Ribbon In The Sky/Boyz II Men
-Words/Anthony David Featuring India.Arie
-Stay With Me (By The Sea)/Al Green Featuring John Legend
-I'm His Only Woman/Jennifer Hudson Featuring Fantasia
-Never Give You Up/Raphael Saadiq Featuring Stevie Wonder & CJ Hilton

Best R&B Song
-Bust Your Windows/Salaam Remi & Jazmine Sullivan, songwriters (Deandre Way, songwriter) (Jazmine Sullivan)
-Customer/I. Barias, Raheem DeVaughn, C. Haggins, K. Oliver & J. Smith, songwriters (Raheem DeVaughn)
-Heaven Sent/Keyshia Cole, Jason Farmer & Alex Francis, songwriters (Keyshia Cole)
-Miss Independent/M.S. Eriksen, T.E. Hermansen & S. Smith, songwriters (Ne-Yo)
-Spotlight/Mikkel S. Eriksen, Tor Erik Hermansen & Shaffer Smith, songwriters (Jennifer Hudson)

Best R&B Album
-Love & Life/Eric Benét
-Motown: A Journey Through Hitsville USA/Boyz II Men
-Lay It Down/Al Green
-Jennifer Hudson/Jennifer Hudson
-The Way I See It/Raphael Saadiq

Best Contemporary R&B Album
-Growing Pains/Mary J. Blige
-Back Of My Lac'/J. Holiday
-First Love/Karina
-Year Of The Gentleman/Ne-Yo
-Fearless/Jazmine Sullivan

Best Rap Solo Performance
-Roc Boys (And The Winner Is).../Jay-Z
-A Milli/Lil Wayne
-Paris, Tokyo/Lupe Fiasco
-N.i.*.*.e.r. (The Slave And The Master)/Nas
-Sexual Eruption/Snoop Dogg

Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group
-Royal Flush/Big Boi Featuring Raekwon And Andre 3000
-Swagga Like Us/Jay-Z & T.I. Featuring Kanye West & Lil Wayne
-Mr. Carter/Lil Wayne Featuring Jay-Z
-Wish You Would/Ludacris Featuring T.I.
-Put On/Young Jeezy Featuring Kanye West

Best Rap Song
-Lollipop/D. Carter, S. Garrett, D. Harrison, J. Scheffer & R. Zamor, songwriters (Lil Wayne Featuring Static Major)
-Low/T. Dillard, M. Humphrey & T-Pain, songwriters (Flo Rida Featuring T-Pain)
-Sexual Eruption/Calvin Broadus, S. Lovejoy & D. Stewart, songwriters (Snoop Dogg)
-Superstar/Lupe Fiasco & Soundtrakk, songwriters (Lupe Fiasco Featuring Matthew Santos)
-Swagga Like Us/D. Carter, S. Carter, Clifford Harris & Kanye West, songwriters (M. Arulpragasam, N. Headon, M. Jones, J. Mellor, T. Pentz & P. Simonon, songwriters) (Jay-Z & T.I. Featuring Kanye West & Lil Wayne)

Best Rap Album
-American Gangster/Jay-Z
-Tha Carter III/Lil Wayne
-The Cool/Lupe Fiasco
-Nas/Nas
-Paper Trail/T.I.

Best Female Country Vocal Performance
-For These Times/Martina McBride
-What I Cannot Change/LeAnn Rimes
-Last Name/Carrie Underwood
-Last Call/Lee Ann Womack
-This Is Me You're Talking To/Trisha Yearwood

Best Male Country Vocal Performance
-You're Gonna Miss This/Trace Adkins
-In Color/Jamey Johnson
-Just Got Started Lovin' You/James Otto
-Letter To Me/Brad Paisley
-Troubadour/George Strait

Best Country Song
-Dig Two Graves/Ashley Gorley & Bob Regan, songwriters (Randy Travis)
-I Saw God Today/Rodney Clawson, Monty Criswell & Wade Kirby, songwriters (George Strait)
-In Color/Jamey Johnson, Lee Thomas Miller & James Otto, songwriters (Jamey Johnson)
-Stay/Jennifer Nettles, songwriter (Sugarland)
-You're Gonna Miss This/Ashley Gorley & Lee Thomas Miller, songwriters (Trace Adkins)

Best Country Album
-That Lonesome Song/Jamey Johnson
-Sleepless Nights/Patty Loveless
-Troubadour/George Strait
-Around The Bend/Randy Travis
-Heaven, Heartache And The Power Of Love/Trisha Yearwood

Best Comedy Album
-Anticipation/Lewis Black
-Flight Of The Conchords/Flight Of The Conchords
-For Your Consideration/Kathy Griffin
-It's Bad For Ya/George Carlin
-Songs Of The Bushmen/Harry Shearer

Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media
-American Gangster/(Various Artists)
-August Rush/(Various Artists)
-Juno/(Various Artists)
-Mamma Mia!/Meryl Streep (& Various Artists)
-Sweeney Todd — The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street/(Various Artists)

Best Score Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media
-The Dark Knight/James Newton Howard & Hans Zimmer, composers
-Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull/John Williams, composer
-Iron Man/Ramin Djawadi, composer
-There Will Be Blood/Jonny Greenwood, composer
-Wall-E/Thomas Newman, composer

Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media
-Down To Earth (From Wall-E)/Peter Gabriel & Thomas Newman, songwriters (Peter Gabriel)
-Ever Ever After (From Enchanted)/Alan Menken & Stephen Schwartz, songwriters (Carrie Underwood)
-Say (From The Bucket List)/John Mayer, songwriter (John Mayer)
-That's How You Know (From Enchanted)/Alan Menken & Stephen Schwartz, songwriters (Amy Adams)
-Walk Hard (From Walk Hard — The Dewey Cox Story)/Judd Apatow, Marshall Crenshaw, Jake Kasdan & John C. Reilly, songwriters (John C. Reilly)

Best Short Form Music Video
-Honey/Erykah Badu
-Who's Gonna Save My Soul/Gnarls Barkley
-Another Way To Die/Alicia Keys & Jack White
-House Of Cards/Radiohead
-Pork And Beans/Weezer

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