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Ed Sheeran Wins Best Pop Vocal Album | 2018 GRAMMYs

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"Shape Of You" singer takes home Best Pop Vocal Album for '÷ (Divide)' at the 60th GRAMMY Awards
Renée Fabian
GRAMMYs
Jan 28, 2018 - 2:53 pm

British singer/songwriter Ed Sheeran has taken home Best Pop Vocal Album for ÷ (Divide) at the 60th GRAMMY Awards. This is his first win in the category.

Released in 2017, Sheeran's third studio album comprised 12 tracks that led to quite the accomplishment — according to Nielsen Music, it was the biggest selling album of 2017. This is largely thanks to standout tracks such as "Shape Of You" and "Perfect."

"This is an album which, including bonus tracks, features rapping and singing; club music and orchestras; a tin whistle and a bodhran, hallmarks of Irish folk; and a song partly in the Ghanaian dialect Twi," writes The New York Times.

The other nominees in the category were Coldplay's Kaleidoscope EP, Lana Del Rey's Lust For Life, Imagine Dragons' Evolve, Kesha's Rainbow, and Lady Gaga's Joanne.

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Ed Sheeran Wins Best Pop Solo Performance | 2018 GRAMMYs

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The singer/songwriter takes home Best Pop Solo Performance GRAMMY for "Shape Of You" at the 60th GRAMMY Awards
Brian Haack
GRAMMYs
Jan 28, 2018 - 5:38 pm

Ed Sheeran won Best Pop Solo Performance for "Shape Of You" at the 60th GRAMMY Awards. This marks Sheeran's second career win in the category.

The other nominees in the category were Kelly Clarkson's "Love So Soft," Kesha's "Praying," Lady Gaga's "Million Reasons," and P!nk's "What About Us."

Sheeran was unable to attend the 60th GRAMMYs due to schedule conflicts, so the award was accepted on his behalf. His win for "Shape Of You," along with his additional win for Best Pop Vocal Album for Divide, at the 60th GRAMMYs brings his career GRAMMY total to four. 

Along with charting No. 1 on the pop songs charts in 44 countries, "Shape Of You" held the distinction of taking the No. 1 slot for all of 2017 on the Billboard Hot 100 year-end chart. Sheeran told Nick Grimshaw on the U.K.'s Radio 1 Breakfast Show that he'd originally written the song with the intention of handing it off to Rihanna, but changed his mind after realizing it was unlikely that she'd sing lines referencing her listening to "Van The Man [Van Morrison] on the jukebox."

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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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Bruno Mars Wins Record Of The Year
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Bruno Mars Wins Record Of The Year | 2018 GRAMMYs

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R&B singer/songwriter takes home Record Of The Year for "24K Magic." at the 60th GRAMMY Awards
Renée Fabian
GRAMMYs
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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Bruno Mars Wins Song Of The Year | 2018 GRAMMYs

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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
GRAMMYs
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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