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Bad Bunny makes Grammy history with top prize win

Bad Bunny made history at the 68th Grammy Awards
Bad Bunny made history at the 68th Grammy Awards

Bad Bunny has made Grammy history after winning Album of the Year for Debí Tirar Más Fotos, becoming the first artist to take the ceremony's biggest award with a Spanish-language record.

The Puerto Rican star, born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, also won Best Música Urbana Album for the same record and picked up Best Global Music Performance, capping a night where he was both the biggest winner and one of its most pointed speakers.

Earlier in the ceremony, he used his Best Música Urbana Album acceptance speech to criticise US immigration enforcement, opening with "ICE out" and telling the room: "We’re not savages, we’re not animals, we’re not aliens; we are humans and we are Americans."

Sounwave, Jack Antonoff, Scott Bridgeway, Kendrick Lamar, Kamasi Washington and SZA
Sounwave, Jack Antonoff, Scott Bridgeway, Kendrick Lamar, Kamasi Washington and SZA on stage at the 68th Grammy Awards

Kendrick Lamar and SZA won Record of the Year for luther, one of five awards on the night for Lamar, while Wildflower earned Song of the Year for Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas O’Connell.

Britain’s Olivia Dean was named Best New Artist, and Lady Gaga took Best Pop Vocal Album for Mayhem as well as Best Dance Pop Recording for Abracadabra.

Ruairí O'Flaherty, who is from Killarney, Co Kerry, was among the credited winners for Record of the Year for luther.

The ceremony, hosted again by Trevor Noah, opened with a performance from Rosé and Bruno Mars, who kicked off the televised broadcast with APT.

OLivia Dean
Olivia Dean was named Best New Artist

Lady Gaga later performed Abracadabra, while Justin Bieber returned to the Grammy stage to perform Yukon, marking one of his highest-profile live TV appearances in recent years.

Sabrina Carpenter also appeared during the show, performing Manchild as part of a run of pop performances spaced throughout the broadcast.

Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga won Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Dance Recording

The In Memoriam segment included tributes honouring Ozzy Osbourne, with performers including Reba McEntire and Lauryn Hill, alongside an all-star nod to Black Sabbath fronted by Post Malone and guitarist Slash.

A long lost of awards were presented before the main TV broadcast. Best Song Written for Visual Media for Golden from the Netflix movie KPop Demon Hunters while Doechii picked up the Best Music Video award for Anxiety. Irish Composer Donnacha Dennehy also won with Dennehy: Land of Winter taking Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance.

You can watch highlights from the 68th Grammy Awards on RTÉ2 at 9pm tonight.


Here are all of the televised winners and selected pre-ceremony winners:

Album of the Year - Debí Tirar Más Fotos - Bad Bunny

Record of the Year - Luther - Kendrick Lamar with SZA

Song of the Year - Wildflower - Billie Eilish

Best Pop Solo Performance - Messy - Lola Young

Best Pop Vocal Album - Mayhem - Lady Gaga

Best Contemporary Country Album - Beautifully Broken - Jelly Roll

Best Musica Urbana Album - Debí Tirar Más Fotos- Bad Bunny

Best New Artist - Olivia Dean

Best Rap Album - GNX - Kendrick Lamar

Best Rap Song - TV Off - Kendrick Lamar featuring Lefty Gunplay

Best Melodic Rap Performance - luther - Kendrick Lamar with SZA

Best Rap Performance - Chains And Whips - Clipse, Pusha T and Malice featuring Kendrick Lamar and Pharrell Williams

Best Global Music Performance - EoO - Bad Bunny

Best Pop Solo Performance - Messy - Lola Young

Best Pop Vocal Album - Mayhem - Lady Gaga

Best Dance Pop Recording - Abracadabra - Lady Gaga

Best Remixed Recording - Abracadabra (Gesaffelstein Remix) - Lady Gaga, Gesaffelstein

Best Dance/Electronic Album - Eusexua - FKA Twigs

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance - Defying Gravity - Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande

Best Audio Book, Narration and Storytelling Recording - Meditations: The Reflections Of His Holiness The Dalai Lama - Dalai Lama

Best Music Video - Anxiety - Doechii

Best Song Written For Visual Media - Golden - From K-Pop Demon Hunters

Best Alternative Music Album - Songs of a Lost World - The Cure

Best Alternative Music Performance - Alone - The Cure

Best Rock Performance - Changes (Live From Villa Park) Back To The Beginning - Yungblud featuring Nuno Bettencourt, Frank Bello, Adam Wakeman, II.

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