Grammy Awards 2016: Key winners

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Ed Sheeran won his first ever Grammys this year

Here is a list of selected winners at this year's Grammy awards, presented at a ceremony in Los Angeles. This list will be updated as winners are announced.

Note - the majority of awards have already been handed out at a pre-ceremony ahead of the main telecast.

Album of the year

  • Winner: 1989 - Taylor Swift

  • Sound & Color - Alabama Shakes

  • To Pimp A Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar

  • Traveller - Chris Stapleton

  • Beauty Behind The Madness - The Weeknd

Best new artist

  • Winner: Meghan Trainor

  • Courtney Barnett

  • James Bay

  • Sam Hunt

  • Tori Kelly

Best rock album

  • Winner: Drones - Muse

  • Chaos And The Calm - James Bay

  • Kintsugi - Death Cab For Cutie

  • Mister Asylum - Highly Suspect

  • .5: The Gray Chapter - Slipknot

Best rock performance

  • Winner: Don't Wanna Fight - Alabama Shakes

  • What Kind Of Man - Florence & The Machine

  • Something From Nothing - Foo Fighters

  • Ex's & Oh's - Elle King

  • Moaning Lisa Smile - Wolf Alice

Record of the year

  • Winner: Uptown Funk - Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars

  • Really Love - D'Angelo and the Vanguard

  • Thinking Out Loud - Ed Sheeran

  • Blank Space - Taylor Swift

  • Can't Feel My Face - The Weeknd

Song of the year

  • Winner: Thinking Out Loud - Ed Sheeran & Amy Wadge

  • Alright - Kendrick Duckworth, Kawan Prather, Mark Anthony Spears & Pharrell Williams (Kendrick Lamar)

  • Blank Space - Max Martin, Shellback & Taylor Swift

  • Girl Crush - Hillary Lindsey, Lori McKenna & Liz Rose (Little Big Town)

  • See You Again - Andrew Cedar, Justin Franks, Charles Puth & Cameron Thomaz (Wiz Khalifa)

Best pop vocal album

  • Winner: 1989 - Taylor Swift

  • Piece By Piece - Kelly Clarkson

  • How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful - Florence & The Machine

  • Uptown Special - Mark Ronson

  • Before This World - James Taylor

Best pop solo performance

  • Winner: Thinking Out Loud - Ed Sheeran

  • Heartbeat Song - Kelly Clarkson

  • Love Me Like You Do - Ellie Goulding

  • Blank Space - Taylor Swift

  • Can't Feel My Face - The Weeknd

Best traditional pop vocal album

  • Winner: The Silver Lining: The Songs Of Jerome Kern - Tony Bennett & Bill Charlap

  • Shadows In The Night - Bob Dylan

  • Stages - Josh Groban

  • No One Ever Tells You - Seth MacFarlane

  • My Dream Duets - Barry Manilow

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Best music video

  • Winner: Bad Blood - Taylor Swift Featuring Kendrick Lamar

  • LSD - ASAP Rocky

  • I Feel Love (Every Million Miles) - The Dead Weather

  • Alright - Kendrick Lamar

  • Freedom - Pharrell Williams

Best dance recording

  • Winner: Where Are U Now - Skrillex and Diplo with Justin Bieber

  • We're All We Need - Above & Beyond Featuring Zoe Johnston

  • Go - The Chemical Brothers Featuring Q-Tip

  • Never Catch Me - Flying Lotus featuring Kendrick Lamar

  • Runaway (U & I) - Galantis

Best R&B performance

  • Winner: Earned It (Fifty Shades Of Grey) - The Weeknd

  • If I Don't Have You - Tamar Braxton

  • Rise Up - Andra Day

  • Breathing Underwater - Hiatus Kaiyote

  • Planes - Jeremih Featuring J. Cole

Best R&B album

  • Winner: Black Messiah - D'Angelo And The Vanguard

  • Coming Home - Leon Bridges

  • Cheers To The Fall - Andra Day

  • Reality Show - Jazmine Sullivan

  • Forever Charlie - Charlie Wilson

Best urban contemporary album

  • Winner: Beauty Behind The Madness - The Weeknd

  • Ego Death - The Internet

  • You Should Be Here - Kehlani

  • Blood - Lianne La Havas

  • Wildheart - Miguel

Best country album

  • Winner: Traveller - Chris Stapleton

  • Montevallo - Sam Hunt

  • Pain Killer - Little Big Town

  • The Blade - Ashley Monroe

  • Pageant Material - Kacey Musgraves

Best country song

  • Winner: Girl Crush - Hillary Lindsey, Lori McKenna & Liz Rose (Little Big Town)

  • Chances Are - Hayes Carll (Lee Ann Womack)

  • Diamond Rings And Old Barstools - Barry Dean, Luke Laird & Jonathan Singleton (Tim McGraw)

  • Hold My Hand - Brandy Clark & Mark Stephen Jones

  • Traveller - Chris Stapleton

Best metal performance

  • Winner: Cirice - Ghost

  • Identity - August Burns Red

  • 512 - Lamb Of God

  • Thank You - Sevendust

  • Custer - Slipknot

Best rap album

  • Winner: To Pimp A Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar

  • 2014 Forest Hills Drive - J. Cole

  • Compton - Dr. Dre

  • If You're Reading This Its Too Late - Drake

  • The Pinkprint - Nicki Minaj

Best music film

  • Winner: Amy - Amy Winehouse

  • Mr. Dynamite: The Rise Of James Brown - James Brown

  • Sonic Highways - Foo Fighters

  • What Happened, Miss Simone? - Nina Simone

  • The Wall - Roger Waters

Best song written for visual media

  • Winner: Glory - Lonnie Lynn, Che Smith & John Stephens (Common and John Legend)

  • Earned It (Fifty Shades Of Grey) - Ahmad Balshe, Stephan Moccio, Jason Quenneville & Abel Tesfaye (The Weeknd)

  • Love Me Like You Do - Savan Kotecha, Max Martin, Tove Nilsson, Ali Payami & Ilya Salmanzadeh (Ellie Goulding)

  • See You Again - Andrew Cedar, Justin Franks, Charles Puth & Cameron Thomaz (Wiz Khalifa Featuring Charlie Puth)

  • Til It Happens To You - Lady Gaga & Diane Warren

A full list of winners is on the Grammys website, external.