Robert Plant and Coldplay Lead ASCAP Grammy Winners
The 51st Annual Grammy Awards were held on Feb. 8, 2009 at Staples Center in Los Angeles. Former Led Zeppelin singer
Robert Plant led all winners with five Grammys for Record of The Year, Album of The Year, Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals, Best Country Collaboration With Vocals and Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album.
Coldplay (PRS) won the coveted Song of The Year honors as well as awards for Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals and Best Rock Album. Other ASCAP members winning multiple Grammys were
John Mayer,
Ne-Yo,
Brad Paisley and
Sugarland. Congratulations to all of the ASCAP members winning and nominated for awards!
Recipients of the 2009 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Awards included ASCAP members
Gene Autry,
Hank Jones and
Tom Paxton. The awards were given at a special invitation-only ceremony the night before the Grammy Awards. The Lifetime Achievement Award honors lifelong artistic contributions to the recording medium and is determined by vote of The Recording Academy's National Board of Trustees.
A list of the ASCAP members winning Grammys can be seen below.
General
Record Of The Year
"Please Read The Letter"
Robert Plant, artist
Album Of The Year
Raising Sand
Robert Plant, artist
Song Of The Year
"Viva La Vida"
Guy Berryman (PRS), Jonny Buckland (PRS), Will Champion (PRS) & Chris Martin (PRS) [Coldplay], songwriters
Best Male Pop Vocal Performance
"Say"
John Mayer
Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals
"Viva La Vida"
Coldplay (PRS)
Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals
"Rich Woman"
Robert Plant
Best Pop Instrumental Performance
"I Dreamed There Was No War"
Eagles
Rock
Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance
"Gravity"
John Mayer
Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals
"Sex On Fire"
Kings Of Leon
Best Hard Rock Performance
"Wax Simulacra"
The Mars Volta
Best Metal Performance
"My Apocalypse"
Metallica
Best Rock Instrumental Performance
"Peaches En Regalia"
Zappa Plays Zappa
Best Rock Song
"Girls In Their Summer Clothes"
Bruce Springsteen, songwriter
Best Rock Album
Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends
Coldplay (PRS)
Alternative
Best Alternative Music Album
In Rainbows
Radiohead (PRS)
R&B
Best Female R&B Vocal Performance
"Superwoman"
Alicia Keys
Best Male R&B Vocal Performance
"Miss Independent"
Ne-Yo
Best R&B Song
"Miss Independent"
Mikkel Eriksen, Tor Hermansen & Ne-Yo, songwriters
Best R&B Album
Jennifer Hudson
Jennifer Hudson
Best Contemporary R&B Album
Growing Pains
Mary J. Blige
Rap
Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group
"Swagga Like Us"
Jay-Z
Best Rap Song
"Lollipop"
Stephen Garrett & Darius "Deezle" Harrison, songwriters
Country
Best Male Country Vocal Performance
"Letter To Me"
Brad Paisley
Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals
"Stay"
Sugarland
Best Country Collaboration With Vocals
"Killing The Blues"
Robert Plant
Best Country Instrumental Performance
"Cluster Pluck"
Brad Paisley
Best Country Song
"Stay"
Jennifer Nettles, songwriter
Best Country Album
Troubadour
George Strait
Best Bluegrass Album
Honoring The Fathers Of Bluegrass: Tribute To 1946 And 1947
Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder
Jazz
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
Monday Night Live At The Village Vanguard
The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra
Gospel
Best Gospel Performance
"Get Up"
Mary Mary
Best Southern, Country, Or Bluegrass Gospel Album
Lovin' Life
Gaither Vocal Band
Latin
Best Tropical Latin Album
Señor Bachata
José Feliciano
Best Banda Album
No Es De Madera
Joan Sebástian
Folk
Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album
Raising Sand
Robert Plant
Best Native American Music Album
Come To Me Great Mystery — Native American Healing Songs
Tom Wasinger, producer
Best Hawaiian Music Album
'Ikena
Daniel Ho
Reggae
Best Reggae Album
Jah Is Real
Burning Spear (PRS)
World Music
Best Traditional World Music Album
Ilembe: Honoring Shaka Zulu
Ladysmith Black Mambazo (SAMRO)
Best Contemporary World Music Album
Global Drum Project
Mickey Hart, Zakir Hussain, Sikiru Adepoju & Giovanni Hidalgo
Musical Show
Best Musical Show Album
In The Heights
Lin-Manuel Miranda, producer
Lin-Manuel Miranda, composer/lyricist
Film/TV/Visual Media
Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media
Juno
Various Artists
Best Score Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media
The Dark Knight
James Newton Howard & Hans Zimmer, composers
Composing/Arranging
Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)
"Here's That Rainy Day"
Nan Schwartz, arranger
Production, Non-Classical
Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical
Rick Rubin
- Death Magnetic (Metallica)
- Home Before Dark
- Mercy (Dancing For The Death Of An Imaginary Enemy)
- Seeing Things (Jakob Dylan)
- Weezer (Red Album)
Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical
"Electric Feel (Justice Remix)"
Justice (SACEM), remixers
Classical
Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with Orchestra)
"Schoenberg/Sibelius: Violin Concertos"
Esa-Pekka Salonen (TEOSTO), conductor
Hilary Hahn, soloist
Best Classical Vocal Performance
"Corigliano: Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems Of Bob Dylan"
Hila Plitmann
Best Classical Contemporary Composition
"Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems Of Bob Dylan"
John Corigliano
Music Video
Best Long Form Music Video
Runnin' Down A Dream
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, artist
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