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Bruno Mars Wins Album Of The Year | 2018 GRAMMYs

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The R&B singer/songwriter takes home Album Of The Year for '24K Magic' at the 60th GRAMMY Awards
Brian Haack
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Jan 28, 2018 - 8:18 pm

Bruno Mars won Album Of The Year for 24K Magic at the 60th GRAMMY Awards. This marks Mars' first-ever win in the Album Of The Year category as a solo artist.

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The Hawaiian native previously won Album Of The Year for his role as a producer on Adele's 25, which took the honor at the 59th GRAMMY Awards. 

His Album Of The Year win was part of an amazing night for Mars, which saw him sweep all of the categories for which he was nominated, including Record and Song Of The Year. 24K Magic also took home Best R&B Album honors.

"Wow, all right first off, to the other nominees in this category ... you guys are the reason why I'm in the studio pulling my hair out, man, because I know you guys are only going to come with the top-shelf artistry and music," said Mars during his acceptance. "Thank you, you guys, for blessing the world with your music. I mean that."

The other nominees were Jay-Z's 4:44, Lorde's Melodrama, Kendrick Lamar's DAMN., and Childish Gambino's "Awaken, My Love!"

Recent Album Of The Year winners include Adele's 25, Taylor Swift's 1989, Beck's Morning Phase, Daft Punk's Random Access Memories, and Mumford & Sons' Babel.

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Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit Win Best Americana Album | 2018 GRAMMYs

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The group takes home Best Americana Album for "The Nashville Sound" at the 60th GRAMMY Awards
Nate Hertweck
GRAMMYs
Jan 28, 2018 - 5:42 pm

Just as he did at the 58th GRAMMY Awards two years earlier with his album Something More Than Free, Jason Isbell won both Best Americana Album and Best American Roots Song at the 60th GRAMMY Awards. The former award also went to his band, The 400 Unit,  for their efforts on their critically-acclaimed album, The Nashville Sound.

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Coming off his time in alt-country rock ramblers Drive-By Truckers, Isbell's latest GRAMMY wins beef up his already wildly successful solo career. His breakout 2013 album Southeastern showed his chops as a true songwriter's songwriter, and he followed it up with the aforementioned 2015 GRAMMY-winning album, Something More Than Free, which also won Best Americana Album as well as Best American Roots Song for "24 Frames."

The Nashville Sound not only solidified Isbell as one of today's finest songwriters, but name checked and showcased his remarkable band, which includes his talented wife, Amanda Shires, on violin — a successful singer/songwriter in her own right. The couple's romantic and musical compatibility is on full display in the painful and stunning "If We Were Vampires," which also earned Isbell a GRAMMY as a songwriter for Best American Roots Song. All in all, a very big night for Isbell, his band, and the genre he so succinctly represents.

The road to the top was extra daunting this year, considering the other nominees in the category were Gregg Allman's Southern Blood, Brent Cobb's Shine On Rainy Day, Iron & Wine's Beast Epic, and the Mavericks' Brand New Day. The quality and diversity of this crop of nominees is a testiment to what Americana music can represent, include, and accomplish at its finest through authentic, crafty songwriting, and a sound with one foot in the American roots tradition and one foot stepping forward. 

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Bruno Mars Wins Record Of The Year
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R&B singer/songwriter takes home Record Of The Year for "24K Magic." at the 60th GRAMMY Awards
Renée Fabian
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Jan 28, 2018 - 7:38 pm

Arguably the biggest name at the 60th edition of Music's Biggest Night? Bruno Mars.

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He won Record Of The Year for "24K Magic" at the 60th GRAMMY Awards before quickly picking up additional GRAMMYs for Song Of The Year ("That's What I Like") and Album Of The Year (24K Magic). The other nominees for Record Of The Year were Childish Gambino's "Redbone," Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee's "Despacito," featuring Justin Bieber, Jay-Z's "The Story Of O.J.," and Kendrick Lamar's "HUMBLE."

Add to that Best R&B Performance and Best R&B Song ("That's What I Like") and Best R&B Album, and the Hawaiian R&B singer/songwriter swept up as the big winner of the evening. He also lit up the stage with a colorful performance of "Finesse" with fellow GRAMMY nominee Cardi B.

His Record Of The Year win marks a year of accomplishment for the catchy track "24K Magic," the title track from his GRAMMY-winning album, which heated up the charts. But Mars isn't just a hit maker, he has something special that keeps him coming out on top.

"For us, it was more how effortless it was creating with him," longtime Mars producer Ray Romulus of the Stereotypes told Billboard. "It didn’t feel like we were actually working and making songs, it just felt like we were hanging out, having conversations, and as we're doing that we're making the beats. ... He would literally have a new idea for something every second, he would just be spilling out ideas."

"Talk about somebody who really just knows how to write a song," added the Stereotypes' Jonathan Yip. "And a hit song, at that."

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The Hawaiian native takes home Song Of The Year for "That's What I Like" at the 60th GRAMMY Awards
Philip Merrill
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Jan 28, 2018 - 7:11 pm

Feeling the 24K Magic, Bruno Mars' successful progress through the categories he's been nominated in at the 60th GRAMMY Awards picked up another one at Song Of The Year for "That's What I Like."

Christopher Brody Brown and Philip Lawrence co-write with Mars under the name Shampoo Press & Curl. The other winning songwriters for Mars' hit tonight in this category are James Fauntleroy and production team "The Sterotypes" — Ray Charles McCullough II, Jeremy Reeves, Ray Romulus and  Jonathan Yip.

For additional "Finesse" on stage at the 60th GRAMMY Awards, Mars was joined by Cardi B for a reprise of their 148-million-views hit remix.

The Album Of The Year GRAMMY Award wrapped up the night and wrapped up Bruno Mars' complete rampage through his six nominated categories — now six wins.

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Dave Chappelle at the 60th GRAMMY Awards

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Dave Chappelle Wins Best Comedy Album | 2018 GRAMMYs

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Comedian laughs his way to a win for Best Comedy Album for 'The Age Of Spin & Deep In The Heart Of Texas' at the 60th GRAMMY Awards
Tim McPhate
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Jan 28, 2018 - 6:06 pm

Dave Chappelle won Best Comedy Album for 'The Age Of Spin & Deep In The Heart Of Texas' at the 60th GRAMMY Awards, marking his first-ever GRAMMY win.

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The other nominees were Jim Gaffigan's Cinco, Jerry Seinfeld's Jerry Before Seinfeld, Sarah Silverman's A Speck Of Dust, and Kevin Hart's What Now?

A double-album comprising the legendary comedian, writer, and actor's first full-length comedy specials released in over 12 years, Chappelle's The Age Of Spin & Deep In The Heart Of Texas, respectively, document the performer's views on "Making A Murder," a potential script idea for a Texan superhero, and the four times he met O.J. Simpson. In the month following the specials' dual release, Netflix revealed they were already the most-viewed standup performances ever hosted by the streaming video network.

"I am honored to win an award, finally. And I wanted to thank everybody at Netflix, everyone at 'Saturday Night Live' and everyone at 'Chappelle Show,'" said Chappelle, who also name-checked his family during his acceptance.

Chappelle joins the prestigious roster of previous category winners, ranging from Shelley Berman, Bob Newhart, Stephen Colbert, Eddie Murphy, Whoopi Goldberg, and Robin Williams.

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