54th Grammy Awards 2012: Full List of Winners & Event Facts

Adele wins 6 Grammys, including album, song and record of the year !

Adele was shaking as she won album of the year, almost in tears as she held the award. 

She yelled at the end of her speech: 
“Thank you so much!” 

• With six Grammy awards, Adele has matched Beyonce for most Grammy wins in a night by a female act. 
• Adele’s six Grammy Award wins Sunday night include album, record and song of the year. 
• Beyonce set the record two years ago. 
• Adele’s “21” was 2011’s best-selling album. It’s sold more than six million units in the United States. 

Grammy Awards 2012 Full list of winners: Final
Here is a list of winners at the Sunday-night Grammy Awards broadcast gala, live on Global and CBS, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012. Pre-gala winners also listed below.

• Record of the year: Adele's Rolling the Deep
• Best pop solo performance: Adele's Someone Like You
• Best rap performance: Otis, by Kanye West and Jay-Z
• Best rock performance: Foo Fighters' Walk
• R&B album: Chris Brown's F.A.M.E.
• Song of the year: Adele's Rolling in the Deep
• Country album: Lady Antebellum's Own the Night
• Best new artist: Bon Iver

Winners from the pre-broadcast awards gala, earlier Sunday:

• Short-form music video: Adele’s Rolling in the Deep
• Long-form music video: Foo Fighters’ Back and Forth
• Hard rock/metal performance: Foo Fighters’ White Limo
• Rock song: Foo Fighters’ Walk
• Rock Album: Foo Fighters’ Wasting Light
• Recording package: Caroline Robert’s Scenes from The Suburbs, for Arcade Fire
• Rap performance: Jay-Z and Kanye West’s Otis
• Pop duo/group performance: Tony Bennett and Amy Winehouse’s Body and Soul
• Pop instrumental album: Booker T. Jones’ The Road from Memphis
• Dance recording: Skrillex’s Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites
• Dance/electronica album: Skrillex’s Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites
• Traditional pop vocal album: Tony Bennett and various artists’ Duets II
• Alternative music album: Bon Iver’s Bon Iver
• R&B performance: Corinne Bailey Rae’s Is This Love
• Traditional R&B performance: Cee Lo Green and Melanie Fiona’s Fool for You
• R&B song: Cee Lo Green and Co.’s Fool for You
• Rap/sung collaboration: Kanye West, Rihanna, Kid Cudi and Fergie’s All of the Lights
• Rap song: All of the Lights
• Rap album: Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
• Country solo performance: Taylor Swift’s Mean
• Country song: Taylor Swift’s Mean
• Country duo/group performance: The Civil Wars’ Barton Hollow
• Folk album: The Civil Wars’ Barton Hollow
• New age album: Pet Metheny’s What’s It All About
• Improvised jazz solo: Chick Corea’s 500 Miles High
• Jazz vocal album: Terri Lyne Carrington and various artists’ The Mosaic Project
• Jazz instrumental: Corea, Clarke and White’s Forever
• Large jazz ensemble: Christian McBride Big Band’s The Good Feeling
• Gospel/contemporary Christian music performance: Le’Andria Johnson’s Jesus
• Gospel song: Kirk Franklin’s Hello Fear
• Contemporary Christian music song: Laura Story’s Blessings
• Gospel album: Kirk Franklin’s Hello Fear
• Contemporary Christian music album: Chris Tomlin’s And If Our God Is For Us…
• Latin pop, rock or urban album: Mana’s Drama Y Luz
• Regional Mexican or Tejano album: Pepe Aguilar’s Bicentenario
• Bands or Norteno album: Los Tigres Del Norte’s Los Tigres Del Norte and Friends
• Tropical Latin album: Cachao’s The Last Mambo
• Americana album: Levon Helm’s Ramble at the Ryman
• Bluegrass album: Alison Krauss and Union Station’s Paper Airplane
• Blues album: Tedeschi Trucks Band’s Revelator
• Regional roots music album: Rebirth Brass Band’s Rebirth of New Orleans
• Reggae album: Stephen Marley’s Revelatino Pt. 1: The Root of Life
• World music album: Tinariwen’s Tassili
• Children’s album: All About Bullies… Big & Small
• Spoken world album (includes poetry, audio books and story telling): Betty White’s If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won’t)
• Comedy album: Louis C.K.’s Hilarious
• Musical theatre album: The Book of Mormom
• Compilation soundtrack for visual media: Boardwalk Empire: Vol. 1
• Score soundtrack for visual media: Alexandre Desplat’s The King’s Speech
• Song written for visual media: I See the Light (from Tangled)
• Instrumental composition: Bela Fleck and Howard Levy’s Life in Eleven
• Instrumental arrangement: Gordon Goodwin’s Rhapsody in Blue for Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band
• Instrumental arrangement accompanying vocalist: Jorge Calandrelli’s Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me), for Tony Bennett and Queen Latifah
• Boxed or special limited edition package: Dave Bett and Michelle Holme’s The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story
• Album notes: Hear Me Howling: Blues, Ballads & Beyond as recorded by the San Francisco Bay by Chris Strachwitz in the 1960s
• Historical album: Band on the Run (Paul McCartney Archive Collection – Deluxe Edition)
• Engineered album, non-classical: Alison Krauss and Union Station’s Paper Airplane
• Producer of the year, non-classical: Paul Epworth
• Remixed recording, non-classical: Cinema (Skrillex Remix)
• Surround sound album: Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (Super Deluxe Edition)
• Engineered album, classical: Aldridge: Elmer Gantry
• Producer of the year, classical: Judith Sherman
• Orchestral performance: Brahms, Symphony No. 4 by Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel
• Opera recording: Adams: Doctor Atomic
• Choral performance: Light & Gold - Eric Whitacre, conductor (Christopher Glynn & Hila Plitmann; The King's Singers, Laudibus, Pavão Quartet & The Eric Whitacre Singers)
• Small-ensemble performance: Mackey: Lonely Motel – Music from Slide
• Classical instrumental solo: Schwantner: Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra by Christopher Lamb, Giancarlo Guerrero conducts Nashville Symphony
• Classical vocal solo: Joyce DiDonato with Kazushi Ono and Orchestre de l’Opera National de Lyon with Choeur de l’Opera National de Lyon for Diva Divo
• Contemporary classical composition: Robert Aldridge and Herschel Garfein’s Elmer Gantry

Grammy Awards 2012 Facts: Sequence of events

• Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band kicked off the Grammys on Sunday night with a rousing song
• Host LL Cool J took the stage and offered a prayer for Houston, her fans and her family.
• Organizers then played a video of Houston performing her hit "I Will Always Love You" from a previous Grammy show. Later in the evening, actress and singer Jennifer Hudson, who won an Oscar for her role in movie musical "Dreamgirls," will perform a medley of songs in tribute to Houston who died in a Beverly Hills hotel room on the eve of the Grammys. The cause of her death has not been determined.
• Grammy organizers give out awards in more than 75 categories and several early winners mentioned Houston in acceptance speeches.