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Taylor Swift made history (or should that be herstory?) at the 58th annual Grammy Awards on Monday, becoming the first female artist to take Album of the Year twice for albums on which she was the lead artist. She won for her fifth album, 1989, six years after winning for her sophomore set, Fearless.
Swift, 26, is the youngest two-time Album of the Year winner since Stevie Wonder, who was 24 in 1975 when he won in the category for the second time. 1989 (the title is a reference to the year of Swift’s birth) was released in October 2014, near the beginning of the eligibility year.
Swift, who won Best Country Album six years ago for Fearless, is also the first artist to take Best Album honors in both pop and country.
“Uptown Funk” by Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars, which was the best-selling song of 2015, was named Record of the Year. This is Ronson’s second award in that category. He won eight years ago as the producer of Amy Winehouse’s “Rehab.”
“Uptown Funk,” an irresistible throwback to the R&B sound of the 1980s, won a BRIT Award for British Single of the Year last February. It’s only the second single to win both of these awards. The first was Phil Collins’s 1990 smash “Another Day in Paradise.”
Ed Sheeran’s “Thinking Out Loud” (which the pop star co-wrote with Amy Wadge) was named Song of the Year. The exquisite ballad reached #2 on the pop charts. (It was kept out of the top spot by “Uptown Funk.”)
Kendrick Lamar was the night’s top winner, with five awards. That puts him in a tie with Lauryn Hill as the hip-hop artist with the most awards in one night. She swept five Grammys at the 1998 awards.
Lamar, 28, went 0-7 at the Grammys two years ago, losing in four categories to Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. He won two awards last year for “i,” the first single from To Pimp a Butterfly. He won four more awards for the album this year. That total of six Grammys for the album puts it in a tie with Jay Z’s The Blueprint 3 as the rap album with the most Grammy wins. (Jay Z’s album won three 2009 awards and three more the following year.)
Taylor Swift made history (or should that be herstory?) at the 58th annual Grammy Awards on Monday, becoming the first female artist to take Album of the Year twice for albums on which she was the lead artist. She won for her fifth album, 1989, six years after winning for her sophomore set, Fearless.
Swift, 26, is the youngest two-time Album of the Year winner since Stevie Wonder, who was 24 in 1975 when he won in the category for the second time. 1989 (the title is a reference to the year of Swift’s birth) was released in October 2014, near the beginning of the eligibility year.
Swift, who won Best Country Album six years ago for Fearless, is also the first artist to take Best Album honors in both pop and country.
“Uptown Funk” by Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars, which was the best-selling song of 2015, was named Record of the Year. This is Ronson’s second award in that category. He won eight years ago as the producer of Amy Winehouse’s “Rehab.”
“Uptown Funk,” an irresistible throwback to the R&B sound of the 1980s, won a BRIT Award for British Single of the Year last February. It’s only the second single to win both of these awards. The first was Phil Collins’s 1990 smash “Another Day in Paradise.”
Ed Sheeran’s “Thinking Out Loud” (which the pop star co-wrote with Amy Wadge) was named Song of the Year. The exquisite ballad reached #2 on the pop charts. (It was kept out of the top spot by “Uptown Funk.”)
Kendrick Lamar was the night’s top winner, with five awards. That puts him in a tie with Lauryn Hill as the hip-hop artist with the most awards in one night. She swept five Grammys at the 1998 awards.
Lamar, 28, went 0-7 at the Grammys two years ago, losing in four categories to Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. He won two awards last year for “i,” the first single from To Pimp a Butterfly. He won four more awards for the album this year. That total of six Grammys for the album puts it in a tie with Jay Z’s The Blueprint 3 as the rap album with the most Grammy wins. (Jay Z’s album won three 2009 awards and three more the following year.)
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