Grammy Awards 2014: Key winners

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Sir Paul McCartney and Dave Grohl shared the prize for best rock song

The Grammy Awards have celebrated the best of music from the past 12 months at a ceremony in Los Angeles. Here are the winners and nominees from a selection of the main categories.

Daft Punk lead Grammy Award winners

Record of the year

Get Lucky - Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers

Also nominated:

  • Radioactive - Imagine Dragons

  • Royals - Lorde

  • Locked Out Of Heaven - Bruno Mars

  • Blurred Lines - Robin Thicke featuring TI & Pharrell

Album of the year

Random Access Memories - Daft Punk

Also nominated:

  • The Blessed Unrest - Sara Bareilles

  • Good Kid, M.A.A.D City - Kendrick Lamar

  • The Heist - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

  • Red - Taylor Swift

Song of the year

Royals - Lorde

Also nominated:

  • Just Give Me A Reason - Pink featuring Nate Ruess

  • Locked Out Of Heaven - Bruno Mars

  • Roar - Katy Perry

  • Same Love - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Featuring Mary Lambert

Best new artist

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

Also nominated:

  • James Blake

  • Kendrick Lamar

  • Kacey Musgraves

  • Ed Sheeran

Best pop solo performance

Royals - Lorde

Also nominated:

  • Brave - Sara Bareilles

  • When I Was Your Man - Bruno Mars

  • Roar - Katy Perry

  • Mirrors - Justin Timberlake

Best pop duo/group performance

Get Lucky - Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers

Also nominated:

  • Just Give Me A Reason - Pink featuring Nate Ruess

  • Stay - Rihanna featuring Mikky Ekko

  • Blurred Lines - Robin Thicke featuring TI & Pharrell

  • Suit & Tie - Justin Timberlake & Jay Z

Best pop vocal album

Unorthodox Jukebox - Bruno Mars

Also nominated:

  • Paradise - Lana Del Rey

  • Pure Heroine - Lorde

  • Blurred Lines - Robin Thicke

  • The 20/20 Experience: The Complete Experience - Justin Timberlake

Best dance recording

Clarity - Zedd featuring Foxes

Also nominated:

  • Need U (100%) - Duke Dumont featuring A*M*E & MNEK

  • Sweet Nothing - Calvin Harris featuring Florence Welch

  • Atmosphere - Kaskade

  • This Is What It Feels Like - Armin Van Buuren featuring Trevor Guthrie

Best dance/electronica album

Random Access Memories - Daft Punk

Also nominated:

  • Settle - Disclosure

  • 18 months - Calvin Harris

  • Atmosphere - Kaskade

  • A Color Map Of The Sun - Pretty Lights

Best rock performance

Radioactive - Imagine Dragons

Also nominated:

  • Always Alright - Alabama Shakes

  • The Stars (Are Out Tonight) - David Bowie

  • Kashmir - Led Zeppelin

  • My God Is The Sun - Queens Of The Stone Age

  • I'm Shakin' - Jack White

Best rock song

Cut Me Some Slack - Paul McCartney, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, Pat Smear

Also nominated:

  • Ain't Messin 'Round - Gary Clark Jr

  • Doom And Gloom - The Rolling Stones

  • God Is Dead? - Black Sabbath

  • Panic Station - Muse

Best rock album

Celebration Day - Led Zeppelin

Also nominated:

  • 13 - Black Sabbath

  • The Next Day - David Bowie

  • Mechanical Bull - Kings Of Leon

  • ...Like Clockwork - Queens Of The Stone Age

  • Psychedelic Pill - Neil Young with Crazy Horse

Best R&B performance

Something - Snarky Puppy with Lalah Hathaway

Also nominated:

  • Love And War - Tamar Braxton

  • Best Of Me - Anthony Hamilton

  • Nakamarra - Hiatus Kaiyote featuring Q-Tip

  • How Many Drinks? - Miguel featuring Kendrick Lamar

Best R&B song

Pusher Love Girl - Justin Timberlake

Also nominated:

  • Best Of Me - Anthony Hamilton

  • Love And War - Tamar Braxton

  • Only One - PJ Morton featuring Stevie Wonder

  • Without Me - Fantasia featuring Kelly Rowland & Missy Elliott

Best R&B album

Girl On Fire - Alicia Keys

Also nominated:

  • R&B Divas - Faith Evans

  • Love In The Future - John Legend

  • Better - Chrisette Michele

  • Three Kings - TGT

Best rap performance

Thrift Shop - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Wanz

Also nominated:

  • Started From The Bottom - Drake

  • Berzerk - Eminem

  • Tom Ford - Jay-Z

  • Swimming Pools (Drank) - Kendrick Lamar

Best rap/sung collaboration

Holy Grail - Jay Z featuring Justin Timberlake

Also nominated:

  • Power Trip - J Cole featuring Miguel

  • Part II (On The Run) - Jay Z featuring Beyonce

  • Now Or Never - Kendrick Lamar featuring Mary J Blige

  • Remember You - Wiz Khalifa featuring The Weeknd

Best rap song

Thrift Shop - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

Also nominated:

  • F***in' Problems - ASAP Rocky Featuring Drake, 2 Chainz & Kendrick Lamar

  • Holy Grail - Jay Z featuring Justin Timberlake

  • New Slaves - Kanye West

  • Started From The Bottom - Drake

Best rap album

The Heist - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

Also nominated:

  • Nothing Was The Same - Drake

  • Magna Carta...Holy Grail - Jay Z

  • Good Kid, M.A.A.D City - Kendrick Lamar

  • Yeezus - Kanye West

Best country album

Same Trailer Different Park - Kacey Musgraves

Also nominated:

  • Night Train - Jason Aldean

  • Two Lanes Of Freedom - Tim McGraw

  • Based On A True Story - Blake Shelton

  • Red - Taylor Swift

Best song written for visual media

Skyfall - Adele and Paul Epworth, from Skyfall

Also nominated:

  • Atlas - Coldplay, from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

  • Silver Lining - Jessie J, from Silver Linings Playbook

  • We Both Know - Colbie Caillat Featuring Gavin DeGraw, from Safe Haven

  • Young and Beautiful - Lana Del Rey, from The Great Gatsby

  • You've Got Time - Regina Spektor, from Orange Is The New Black

Producer of the year, non-classical

Pharrell Williams

Also nominated:

  • Rob Cavallo

  • Dr Luke

  • Ariel Rechtshaid

  • Jeff Tweedy

Best music video

Suit & Tie - Justin Timberlake featuring Jay-Z

Also nominated:

  • Safe And Sound - Capital Cities

  • Picasso Baby: A Performance Art Film - Jay Z

  • Can't Hold Us - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Ray Dalton

  • I'm Shakin' - Jack White

Best music film

Live Kisses - Paul McCartney

Also nominated:

  • Live 2012 - Coldplay

  • ¡Cuatro! - Green Day

  • I'm In I'm Out And I'm Gone: The Making Of Get Up! - Ben Harper with Charlie Musselwhite

  • The Road To Red Rocks - Mumford & Sons

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