54th Grammy Awards

54th Grammy Awards
54th Grammy Award Poster.jpg
Date February 12, 2012
1:00–3:30 p.m. PST (Pre-Telecast Ceremony)

5:00–8:30 p.m. PST (54th Grammy Awards)
Venue Staples Center, Los Angeles, California
Host LL Cool J
TV in the United States
Network CBS
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The 54th Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 12, 2012, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles being broadcast on CBS. LL Cool J hosted the show. It was the first time in seven years that the event had an official host.[1] Nominations were announced on November 30, 2011 on prime-time television as part of "The GRAMMY Nominations Concert Live! – Countdown to Music's Biggest Night", a one-hour special broadcast live on CBS from Nokia Theatre at L.A. Live.[2][3]Kanye West received the most nominations with seven. Adele, Foo Fighters, and Bruno Mars each received six nominations. Lil Wayne, Skrillex, and Radiohead all earned five nominations.

A total of 78 awards were presented following the Academy's decision to restructure the Grammy Award categories. Paul McCartney received the MusiCares Person of the Year award on February 10, 2012, at the Los Angeles Convention Center, two nights prior to the Grammy telecast.[4]

On February 8, 2012, the Academy announced that the 54th Grammy Pre-Telecast Ceremony would stream live internationally. The ceremony took place at the Los Angeles Convention Center and was streamed live in its entirety internationally at Grammy's official website and CBS Television Network. The ceremony was co-hosted by Dave Koz and MC Lyte. A total of 68 awards were presented in the Pre-Telecast ceremony.[5] The official poster was designed by Architect Frank Gehry.[6]

The night before the ceremony Whitney Houston died in Los Angeles, and the show's producers quickly planned a tribute in the form of Jennifer Hudson singing Houston's I Will Always Love You.[7] The awards show began with a Bruce Springsteen performance followed by an LL Cool J prayer for Whitney Houston. Adele won all of her six nominations, tying Beyoncé's record for most wins by a female artist in one night.[8][9]Foo Fighters and Kanye West followed with five and four awards, respectively.[8][10]

Ratings

The 54th Grammys were the second-highest rated in its history with 39.9 million viewers, second only to the 1984 Grammys with 43.8 mil. viewers. The rating was 50% higher than in 2011.[11]

Pre-telecast[5]

Performers

Presenters

Main telecast[12]

Performers

The following performed:

Artist(s) Song(s)
Bruce Springsteen
The E Street Band 		"We Take Care of Our Own"
Bruno Mars "Runaway Baby"
Alicia Keys
Bonnie Raitt 		Tribute to Etta James
"A Sunday Kind of Love"
Chris Brown "Turn Up the Music"
"Beautiful People"
Jason Aldean
Kelly Clarkson 		"Don't You Wanna Stay"
Foo Fighters "Walk"
Rihanna
Coldplay 		"We Found Love"
"Princess of China"
"Paradise"
Maroon 5
Foster the People
The Beach Boys 		Celebrating the Beach Boys' 50th anniversary
"Surfer Girl"
"Wouldn't It Be Nice"
"Good Vibrations"
Paul McCartney
Diana Krall
Joe Walsh 		"My Valentine"
The Civil Wars "Barton Hollow"
Taylor Swift "Mean"
Katy Perry "E.T."
"Part of Me"
Adele "Rolling in the Deep"
The Band Perry
Blake Shelton
Glen Campbell 		Homage to Glen Campbell
"Gentle on My Mind"
"Southern Nights"
"Rhinestone Cowboy"
Tony Bennett
Carrie Underwood 		"It Had to Be You"
Jennifer Hudson Tribute to Whitney Houston
"I Will Always Love You"
Chris Brown
David Guetta
Lil Wayne
Foo Fighters
deadmau5 		"I Can Only Imagine"
"Rope"
"Raise Your Weapon"
Nicki Minaj "Roman Holiday"
Paul McCartney
Bruce Springsteen
Dave Grohl
Joe Walsh
Rusty Anderson
Brian Ray
Paul Wickens
Abe Laboriel, Jr. 		"Golden Slumbers"
"Carry That Weight"
"The End"

Presenters

Nominees and winners

The winners per category were:[14]

General

Record of the Year

"Rolling in the Deep" – Adele

Paul Epworth, producer; Tom Elmhirst & Mark Rankin, engineers/mixers
Album of the Year

21 – Adele

Jim Abbiss, Adele Adkins, Paul Epworth, Rick Rubin, Fraser T. Smith, Ryan Tedder & Dan Wilson, producers; Jim Abbiss, Philip Allen, Beatriz Artola, Ian Dowling, Tom Elmhirst, Greg Fidelman, Dan Parry, Steve Price, Mark Rankin, Andrew Scheps, Fraser T. Smith & Ryan Tedder, engineers/mixers; Tom Coyne, mastering engineer
Song of the Year

"Rolling in the Deep"

Adele Adkins & Paul Epworth, songwriters (Adele)
Best New Artist

Bon Iver

Pop

Best Pop Solo Performance

"Someone Like You" – Adele

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance

"Body and Soul" – Tony Bennett & Amy Winehouse

Best Pop Instrumental Album

The Road from Memphis – Booker T. Jones

Best Pop Vocal Album

21 – Adele

Dance/Electronica

Best Dance Recording

"Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites" – Skrillex

Sonny Moore, producer & mixer
Best Dance/Electronica Album

Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites – Skrillex

Traditional Pop

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album

Duets II – Tony Bennett

Rock

Best Rock Performance

"Walk" – Foo Fighters

Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance

"White Limo" – Foo Fighters

Best Rock Song

"Walk" – Foo Fighters, songwriters (Foo Fighters)

Best Rock Album

Wasting Light – Foo Fighters

Alternative

Best Alternative Music Album

Bon Iver, Bon Iver – Bon Iver

R&B

Best R&B Performance

"Is This Love" – Corinne Bailey Rae

Best Traditional R&B Performance

"Fool for You" – Cee Lo Green featuring Melanie Fiona

Best R&B Song

"Fool for You"

Cee Lo Green & Jack Splash, songwriters (Cee Lo Green featuring Melanie Fiona)
Best R&B Album

F.A.M.E. – Chris Brown

Rap

Best Rap Performance

"Otis" – Jay-Z & Kanye West featuring Otis Redding

Best Rap/Sung Collaboration

"All of the Lights" – Kanye West featuring Rihanna, Fergie & Kid Cudi

Best Rap Song

"All of the Lights"

Jeff Bhasker, Fergie, Really Doe, Kanye West & Malik Yusef, songwriters (Kanye West featuring Rihanna, Fergie & Kid Cudi)
Best Rap Album

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy – Kanye West

Country

Best Country Solo Performance

"Mean" – Taylor Swift

Best Country Duo/Group Performance

"Barton Hollow" – The Civil Wars

Best Country Song

"Mean"

Taylor Swift, songwriter (Taylor Swift)
Best Country Album

Own the Night – Lady Antebellum

New Age

Best New Age Album

What's It All About – Pat Metheny

Jazz

Best Improvised Jazz Solo

"500 Miles High" – Chick Corea

Best Jazz Vocal Album

The Mosaic Project – Terri Lyne Carrington & Various Artists

Best Jazz Instrumental Album

Forever – Corea, Clarke & White

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album

The Good Feeling – Christian McBride Big Band

Gospel/Contemporary Christian

Best Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music Performance

"Jesus" – Le'Andria Johnson

Best Gospel Song

"Hello Fear"

Kirk Franklin, songwriter (Kirk Franklin)
Best Contemporary Christian Music Song

"Blessings"

Laura Story, songwriter (Laura Story)
Best Gospel Album

Hello Fear – Kirk Franklin

Best Contemporary Christian Music Album

And If Our God Is for Us... – Chris Tomlin

Latin

Best Latin Pop, Rock or Urban Album

Drama y Luz – Maná

Best Regional Mexican or Tejano Album

Bicentenario – Pepe Aguilar

Best Banda or Norteño Album

MTV Unplugged: Los Tigres del Norte and Friends – Los Tigres del Norte

Best Tropical Latin Album

The Last Mambo – Cachao

American Roots Music

Best Americana Album

Ramble at the Ryman – Levon Helm

Best Bluegrass Album

Paper Airplane – Alison Krauss & Union Station

Best Blues Album

Revelator – Tedeschi Trucks Band

Best Folk Album

Barton Hollow – The Civil Wars

Best Regional Roots Music Album

Rebirth of New Orleans – Rebirth Brass Band

Reggae

Best Reggae Album

Revelation Pt 1: The Root of Life – Stephen Marley

World Music

Best World Music Album

Tassili – Tinariwen

Children's

Best Children's Album

All About Bullies... Big and Small – Various Artists

Spoken Word

Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Story Telling)

If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won't) – Betty White

Comedy

Best Comedy Album

Hilarious – Louis C.K.

Musical Show

Best Musical Theater Album

The Book of Mormon: Original Broadway Cast Recording

Josh Gad & Andrew Rannells, principal soloists; Anne Garefino, Robert Lopez, Stephen Oremus, Trey Parker, Scott Rudin & Matt Stone, producers; Robert Lopez, Trey Parker & Matt Stone, composers/lyricists

Music for Visual Media

Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media

Boardwalk Empire Volume 1 – Various Artists

Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media

The King's Speech

Alexandre Desplat, composer
Best Song Written for Visual Media

"I See the Light" (from Tangled)

Alan Menken & Glenn Slater, songwriters (Mandy Moore & Zachary Levi)

Composing/Arranging

Best Instrumental Composition

"Life in Eleven"

Béla Fleck & Howard Levy, composers (Béla Fleck and the Flecktones)
Best Instrumental Arrangement

"Rhapsody in Blue"

Gordon Goodwin, arranger (Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band)
Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)

"Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)"

Jorge Calandrelli, arranger (Tony Bennett & Queen Latifah)

Package

Best Recording Package

Scenes from The Suburbs

Vincent Morisset, art director (Arcade Fire)
Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package

The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story

Dave Bett & Michelle Holme, art directors (Bruce Springsteen)

Notes

Best Album Notes

Hear Me Howling!: Blues, Ballads & Beyond as Recorded by the San Francisco Bay by Chris Strachwitz in the 1960s

Adam Machado, album notes writer (Various Artists)

Historical

Best Historical Album

Band on the Run (Paul McCartney Archive Collection – Deluxe Edition)

Paul McCartney, compilation producer; Sam Okell & Steve Rooke, mastering engineers (Paul McCartney & Wings)

Production

Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical

Paper Airplane

Mike Shipley, engineer; Brad Blackwood, mastering engineer (Alison Krauss & Union Station)
Producer of the Year, Non-Classical

Paul Epworth

Best Remixed Recording

"Cinema" (Skrillex Remix)

Skrillex, remixer (Benny Benassi featuring Gary Go)

Production, Surround Sound

Best Surround Sound Album

Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (Super Deluxe Edition)

Elliot Scheiner, surround mix engineer; Bob Ludwig, surround mastering engineer; Bill Levenson & Elliot Scheiner, surround producers (Derek and the Dominos)

Production, Classical

Best Engineered Album, Classical

Aldridge: Elmer Gantry

Byeong-Joon Hwang & John Newton, engineers; Jesse Lewis, mastering engineer (William Boggs, Keith Phares, Patricia Risley, Vale Rideout, Frank Kelley, Heather Buck, Florentine Opera Chorus & Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra)
Producer of the Year, Classical

Judith Sherman

  • Adams: Son of Chamber Symphony; String Quartet (John Adams, St. Lawrence String Quartet & International Contemporary Ensemble)
  • Capricho Latino (Rachel Barton Pine)
  • 85th Birthday Celebration (Claude Frank)
  • Insects & Paper Airplanes – Chamber Music of Lawrence Dillon (Daedalus Quartet & Benjamin Hochman)
  • Midnight Frolic – The Broadway Theater Music of Louis A. Hirsch (Rick Benjamin & Paragon Ragtime Orchestra)
  • Notable Women – Trios by Today's Female Composers (Lincoln Trio)
  • The Soviet Experience, Vol. 1 – String Quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich & His Contemporaries (Pacifica Quartet)
  • Speak! (Anthony De Mare)
  • State of the Art – The American Brass Quintet at 50 (The American Brass Quintet)
  • Steve Reich: WTC 9/11; Mallet Quartet; Dance Patterns (Kronos Quartet, Steve Reich Musicians & So Percussion)
  • Winging It – Piano Music of John Corigliano (Ursula Oppens)

Classical

Best Orchestral Performance

"Brahms: Symphony No. 4"

Gustavo Dudamel, conductor (Los Angeles Philharmonic)
Best Opera Recording

"Adams: Doctor Atomic"

Alan Gilbert, conductor; Meredith Arwady, Sasha Cooke, Richard Paul Fink, Gerald Finley, Thomas Glenn & Eric Owens; Jay David Saks, producer (Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; Metropolitan Opera Chorus)
Best Choral Performance

"Light & Gold"

Eric Whitacre, conductor (Christopher Glynn & Hila Plitmann; The King's Singers, Laudibus, Pavão Quartet & The Eric Whitacre Singers)
Best Small Ensemble Performance

"Mackey: Lonely Motel – Music from Slide" – Rinde Eckert & Steven Mackey; Eighth Blackbird

Best Classical Instrumental Solo

"Schwantner: Concerto for Percussion & Orchestra"

Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor; Christopher Lamb (Nashville Symphony)
Best Classical Vocal Solo

"Diva Divo"

Joyce DiDonato (Kazushi Ono; Orchestre De L'Opéra National De Lyon; Choeur De L'Opéra National De Lyon)
Best Contemporary Classical Composition

"Aldridge, Robert: Elmer Gantry" – Robert Aldridge & Herschel Garfein

Music Video

Best Short Form Music Video

"Rolling in the Deep" – Adele

Sam Brown, video director; Hannah Chandler, video producer
Best Long Form Music Video

Foo Fighters: Back and Forth – Foo Fighters

James Moll, video director; James Moll & Nigel Sinclair, video producers

Special Merit Awards

MusiCares Person of the Year
President's Merit Award
Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award [17]
Grammy Trustees Award
Technical Grammy Award

Artists with multiple nominations and awards

The following artists received multiple nominations:

The following artists received multiple awards:

References

  1. ^ LL Cool J To Host 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards
  2. ^ Recording Academy, CBS enter 10-year Grammy deal, Associated Press, June 21, 2011
  3. ^ "Jason Aldean, Lady Gaga To Perform At "The GRAMMY Nominations Concert Live!!"". GRAMMY.com. 2011-10-25. http://www.grammy.com/news/jason-aldean-lady-gaga-to-perform-at-the-grammy-nominations-concert-live. Retrieved 2011-11-18. 
  4. ^ "Paul McCartney Is 2012 MusiCares Person Of The Year". GRAMMY.com. http://www.grammy.com/news/paul-mccartney-is-2012-musicares-person-of-the-year. Retrieved 2011-11-18. 
  5. ^ a b GRAMMY Pre-Telecast Ceremony To Stream Live Internationally
  6. ^ Architect Frank Gehry Creates Official Artwork for the 54th Annual Grammy, Grammy.org December 8, 2011
  7. ^ Grammys 2012: Whitney Houston tribute to be sung by Jennifer Hudson
  8. ^ a b "Grammy.com". National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. February 12, 2012. http://www.grammy.com/. Retrieved February 12, 2012. 
  9. ^ "Adele wins 6 Grammys, including record of the year". The Clarion-Ledger. Gannett Company. February 12, 2012. http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20120212/NEWS/120212003/Adele-wins-6-Grammys-including-record-year?odyssey=nav%7Chead. Retrieved February 12, 2012. 
  10. ^ "Grammys 2012 – as it happened". Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/feb/13/grammys-2012-live. Retrieved 6 March 2012. 
  11. ^ "Whitney Houston Tragic Grammys Draw 39.9 Million Viewers, Second Most Watched Ever". Deadline.com. February 13, 2012. http://www.deadline.com/2012/02/ratings-rat-race-grammys-sharply-up-in-early-ratings. Retrieved February 14, 2012. 
  12. ^ The Beach Boys To Reunite At 54th GRAMMY Awards
  13. ^ http://blogs.wickedlocal.com/springsteen/2012/02/13/grammy-disappointment-tribute-to-clarence-clemons-was-scrapped-says-report/
  14. ^ The 54th Grammy Awards Nominees List
  15. ^ 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards Nominees And Winners - Engineer Field, Grammy.com
  16. ^ The Recording Academy, Clive Davis Partner For Pre-GRAMMY Gala
  17. ^ Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award Announces

External links

Special awards
Years