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Zo<\/span>\u00eb<\/span> Strickland | Editor-in-Chief<\/span><\/p>\n On Jan. 28, the \u201c60th Annual Grammy Awards\u201d hit the small screen. The show was hosted by James Corden.<\/span><\/p>\n The awards show, which broadcasted from Madison Square Garden in New York City for the first time after a 14-year stint at the Staples Center, aims to award music and recording professionals from a myriad of different positions for their excellent musical contributions. All of the awards are decided by The Recording Academy, which is comprised of people in the field. <\/span><\/p>\n The Grammys opened up with a performance by Kendrick Lamar, featuring a brief interlude by Bono, who sang the hook to \u201cXXX.\u201d from Lamar\u2019s album \u201cDAMN.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Other performances during the show included: Childish Gambino performing \u201cTerrified,\u201d off of his album \u201cAwaken, My Love!\u201d; Kesha performing \u201cPraying,\u201d off of her album \u201cRainbow\u201d; Bruno Mars featuring Cardi B performing \u201cFinesse\u201d; a joint performance by Sting and Shaggy featuring a performance of Sting\u2019s \u201cEnglishman in New York\u201d and their new single \u201cDon\u2019t Make Me Wait\u201d; amongst a handful of others.<\/span><\/p>\n There were 84 gramophone awards on the table \u2014 including the 75 that were given out before the show began. <\/span><\/p>\n For the first time, the award for Best Comedy Album was presented on TV, rather than being given off-camera. The award was given to Dave Chappelle for his Netflix special \u201cThe Age of Spin.\u201d The special was Chappelle\u2019s first in 13 years, since his 2004 release \u201cFor What It\u2019s Worth.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The award for Best New Artist went to Alessia Clara, whose 2015 album \u201cKnow-It-All\u201d debuted at number nine on the Billboard top 200 list. <\/span><\/p>\n By far the biggest winner of the night was Bruno Mars <\/span>\u2014<\/span> he went home with six awards, including Album of the Year for \u201c24K Magic,\u201d Song of the Year for \u201cThat\u2019s What I Like,\u201d as well as Best R&B Album and Best R&B Performance. Kendrick Lamar also took home a stack of Grammys, winning four of the seven he was nominated for. Lamar took home Best Rap Album for \u201cDamn,\u201d Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance for \u201cHUMBLE.\u201d and Best Rap Collaboration for \u201cLoyalty\u201d with Rihanna. <\/span><\/p>\n Ed Sheeran, who wasn\u2019t in attendance to accept the awards, won both Best Pop Vocal Album for \u201cDivide\u201d and Best Pop Solo Performance for \u201cShape of You.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The next major award show to sweep the screen will be the BAFTA Awards, which is airing on Feb. 18 on BBC America. <\/span><\/p>\n Contact the author at journaleditor@wou.edu<\/span><\/p>\n Photo by:\u00a0latimes.com<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Zo\u00eb Strickland | Editor-in-Chief On Jan. 28, the \u201c60th Annual Grammy Awards\u201d hit the small screen. The show was hosted by James Corden. The awards show, which broadcasted from Madison Square Garden in New York City for the first time after a 14-year stint at the Staples Center, aims to award music and recording professionals […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1030,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1030"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}