| 2015 Grammy Award Winners Winners Announced: February 8, 2015 Held at: Staples Center, Los Angeles Host: LL Cool J Eligibility Year: October 1, 2013, and September 30, 2014 |
2015 Grammy Winners |
| Record of the Year: Stay With Me (Darkchild Version) – Sam Smith |
| Album of the Year: Morning Phase – Beck |
| Song of the Year: Stay With Me (Darkchild Version) – Sam Smith |
| Best New Artist: Sam Smith |
| Best Pop Solo Performance: Happy (Live) – Pharrell Williams |
| Best Pop Duo/Group Performance: Say Something – A Great Big World With Christina Aguilera |
| Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album: Cheek to Cheek – Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga |
| Best Pop Vocal Album: In The Lonely Hour – Sam Smith |
| Best Dance Recording: Rather Be – Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynne |
| Best Dance/Electronic Album: Syro – Aphex Twin |
| Best Contemporary Instrumental Album: Bass & Mandolin – Chris Thile & Edgar Meyer Jr |
| Best Rock Performance: Lazaretto – Jack White |
| Best Metal Performance: The Last in Line – Tenacious D |
| Best Rock Song: Ain’t It Fun – Paramore (Hayley Williams & Taylor York, songwriters) |
| Best Rock Album: Morning Phase – Beck |
| Best Alternative Music Album: St. Vincent – St. Vincent |
| Best R&B Performance: Drunk in Love – Beyonce featuring Jay Z |
| Best Traditional R&B Performance: Jesus Children – Robert Glasper Experiment featuring Lalah Hathaway & Malcolm-Jamal Warner |
| Best R&B Song: Drunk in Love – Beyonce featuring Jay Z |
| Best Urban Contemporary Album: Girl – Pharrell Williams |
| Best R&B Album: Love, Marriage & Divorce – Toni Braxton & Babyface |
| Best Rap Performance: I – Kendrick Lamar |
| Best Rap/Sung Collaboration: The Monster – Eminem Featuring Rihanna |
| Best Rap Song: I – Kendrick Lamar (K. Duckworth & C. Smith, songwriters) |
| Best Rap Album: The Marshall Mathers LP2 – Eminem |
| Best Country Solo Performance: Something in the Water – Carrie Underwood |
| Best Country Duo/Group Performance: Gentle on My Mind – The Band Perry |
| Best Country Song: I’m Not Gonna Miss You – Glen Campbell (Glen Campbell & Julian Raymond, songwriters) |
| Best New Age Album: Winds of Samsara – Ricky Kej & Wouter Kellerman |
| Best Improvised Jazz Solo: Fingerprints – Chick Corea, soloist |
| Best Jazz Vocal Album: Beautiful Life – Dianne Reeves |
| Best Jazz Instrumental Album: Trilogy – Chick Corea Trio |
| Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album: Life in the Bubble – Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band |
| Best Latin Jazz Album: The Offense of the Drum – Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra |
| Best Gospel Performance/Song: No Greater Love – Smokie Norful (Smokie Norful; Aaron W. Lindsey & Smokie Norful, songwriters) |
| Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song: Messengers – Lecrae featuring For King & Country |
| Best Gospel Album: Help – Erica Campbell |
| Best Contemporary Christian Music Album: Run Wild. Live Free. Love Strong. – For King & Country |
| Best Roots Gospel Album: Shine For All the People – Mike Farris |
| Best Latin Pop Album: Tangos – Ruben Blades |
| Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album: Multiviral – Calle 13 |
| Best Regional Mexican Music Album (Including Tejano): Mano A Mano – Tangos A La Manera De Vicente Fernandez – Vicente Fernandez |
| Best Tropical Latin Album: Mas + Corazon Profundo – Carlos Vives |
| Best American Roots Performance: A Feather’s Not a Bird – Rosanne Cash |
| Best American Roots Song: A Feather’s Not a Bird – Rosanne Cash (Rosanne Cash & John Leventhal, songwriters) |
| Best Americana Album: The River & The Thread – Rosanne Cash |
| Best Bluegrass Album: The Earls of Leicester – The Earls of Leicester |
| Best Blues Album: Step Back – Johnny Winter |
| Best Folk Album: Remedy – Old Crow Medicine Show |
| Best Regional Roots Music Album: The Legacy – Jo-El Sonnier |
| Best Reggae Album: Fly Rasta – Ziggy Marley |
| Best World Music Album: Eve – Angelique Kidjo |
| Best Children’s Album: I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up For Education and Changed the World (Malala Yousafzai) – Neela Vaswani |
| Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Storytelling): Diary of a Mad Diva – Joan Rivers |
| Best Comedy Album: Mandatory Fun – “Weird Al” Yankovic |
| Best Musical Theater Album: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical – Jessie Mueller, principal soloist; Jason Howland, Steve Sidwell & Billy Jay Stein, producers (Carole King, composer & lyricist) (Original Broadway Cast) |
| Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media: Frozen – Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez, Tom MacDougall & Chris Montan, compilation producers |
| Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media: The Grand Budapest Hotel – Alexandre Desplat, composer |
| Best Song Written for Visual Media: Let It Go – Idina Menzel (Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez, songwriters) |
| Best Instrumental Composition: The Book Thief – John Williams, composer |
| Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Capella: Daft Punk – Pentatonix (Ben Bram, Mitch Grassi, Scott Hoying, Avi Kaplan, Kirstin Maldonado & Kevin Olusola, arrangers) |
| Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals: New York Tendaberry” Billy Childs featuring Renee Fleming & Yo-Yo Ma (Billy Childs, arranger) |
| Best Recording Package: Lightning Bolt – Pearl Jam (Jeff Ament, Don Pendleton, Joe Spix & Jerome Turner, art directors) |
| Best Boxed or Special Edition Limited Edition Package: The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume One (1917-27) – Various Artists (Susan Archie, Dean Blackwood & Jack White, art directors) |
| Best Album Notes: Offering: Live At Temple University – John Coltrane (Ashley Kahn, album notes writer) |
| Best Historical Album: The Garden Spot Programs, 1950 – Hank Williams (Colin Escott & Cheryl Pawelski, compilation producers; Michael Graves, mastering engineer) |
| Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical: Morning Phase – Beck (Tom Elmhirst, David Greenbaum, Florian Lagatta, Cole Marsden Greif-Neill, Robbie Nelson, Darrell Thorp, Cassidy Turbin & Joe Visciano, engineers; Bob Ludwig, mastering engineer) |
| Producer of the Year, Non-Classical: Max Martin |
| Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical: All Of Me (Tiesto’s Birthday Treatment Remix) – John Legend (Tijs Michiel Verwest, remixer) |
| Best Surround Sound Album: Beyonce – Beyonce (Elliot Scheiner, surround mix engineer; Bob Ludwig, surround mastering engineer; Beyonce Knowles, surround producer) |
| Best Engineered Album, Classical: Vaughan Williams: Dona Nobis Pacem; Symphony No. 4; The Lark Ascending – Robert Spano, Norman Mackenzie, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus (Michael Bishop, engineer; Michael Bishop, mastering engineer) |
| Producer of the Year, Classical: Judith Sherman |
| Best Orchestral Performance: Adams, John: City Noir – St. Louis Symphony (David Robertson, conductor) |
| Best Opera Recording: Charpentier: La Descente D’Orphee Aux Enfers – Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble; Boston Early Music Festival Vocal Ensemble (Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs, conductors; Aaron Sheehan; Renate Wolter-Seevers, producer) |
| Best Choral Performance: The Sacred Spirit of Russia – Conspirare (Craig Hella Johnson, conductor) |
| Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance: In 27 Pieces – The Hilary Hahn Encores – Hilary Hahn & Cory Smythe |
| Best Classical Instrumental Solo: Play – Jason Vieaux |
| Best Classical Solo Vocal Album: Douce France – Carl Bagge, Margareta Bengston, Mats Bergström, Per Ekdahl, Bengan Janson, Olle Linder & Antoine Tamestit (Anne Sofie Von Otter; Bengt Forsberg, accompanist) |
| Best Classical Compendium: Partch: Plectra & Percussion Dances – Partch (John Schneider, producer) |
| Best Contemporary Classical Composition: Adams, John Luther: Become Ocean – Ludovic Morlot & Seattle Symphony (John Luther Adams, composer) |
| Best Music Video: Happy – Pharrell Williams (We Are From LA, video director; Kathleen Heffernan, Solal Micenmacher, Jett Steiger, video producers) |
| Best Music Film: 20 Feet From Stardom – Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer & Judith Hill (Morgan Neville, video director; Gil Friesen & Caitrin Rogers, video producers) |
