The 2010 Grammy Awards Winners List

The 52nd Grammy Awards was held at Los Angeles Staple Stadium on Sunday night and it played host to some remarkable performances by Pink, a duet by Lady Gaga and Elton John and a Michael Jackson Tribute by Celine Dion, Smokey Robinson, Carrie Underwood, Jennifer Hudson and Usher.

Beyonce was the biggest winner of the night, winning six Grammys followed by Taylor Swift who won four including the Album of the Year.

Here is the complete list of the Grammy winners.
Album of the Year: Fearless- Taylor Swift
Best Female Pop Vocal Performance: “Halo”- Beyoncé
Song of the Year: “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)” — Thaddis Harrell, Beyonc— Knowles, Terius Nash & Christopher Stewart, songwriters (Beyonc—)
Best Solo Rock Performance: “Working on a Dream” — Bruce Springsteen
Record of the Year: “Use Somebody” — Kings of Leon
Best Country Album: Fearless — Taylor Swift
Best Rock Album: 21st Century Breakdown — Green Day
Best Hard Rock Performance: “War Machine” — AC/DC
Best Rap/Sung Collaboration: “Run This Town” — Jay-Z, Rihanna & Kanye West
Best Dance Recording: “Poker Face” — Lady Gaga
Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals: “Use Somebody” — Kings of Leon
Best New Artist: Zac Brown Band
Best Electronic/Dance Album: The Fame — Lady Gaga
Best Alternative Music Album: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix — Phoenix
Best Contemporary R&B Album: I Am… Sasha Fierce — Beyoncé
Best Female R&B Vocal Performance: “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)” — Beyoncé
Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals: “I Gotta Feeling” — The Black Eyed Peas
Best Rock Song: “Use Somebody” — Caleb Followill, Jared Followill, Matthew Followill & Nathan Followill, songwriters (Kings Of Leon)
Best Pop Vocal Album: The E.N.D. — The Black Eyed Peas
Best Male R&B Vocal Performance: “Pretty Wings” — Maxwell
Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals: “Blame It” — Jamie Foxx & T-Pain
Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance: “At Last” — Beyoncé
Best Rock Instrumental Performance: “A Day in the Life” — Jeff Beck
Best Urban/Alternative Performance: “Pearls” — India.Arie & Dobet Gnahore
Best R&B Song: “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)” — Thaddis Harrell, Beyoncé Knowles, Terius Nash & Christopher Stewart, songwriters (Beyoncé)
Best Rap Solo Performance: “D.O.A. (Death Of Auto-Tune)” — Jay-Z
Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group: “Crack a Bottle” — Eminem, Dr. Dre & 50 Cent
Best Rap Song: “Run This Town” — Jeff Bhasker, Shawn Carter, Robyn Fenty, Kanye West & Ernest Wilson, songwriters (Athanasios Alatas, songwriter) (Jay-Z, Rihanna & Kanye West)
Best Rap Album: Relapse — Eminem
Best Male Pop Vocal Performance: “Make It Mine” — Jason Mraz
Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals: “Lucky” — Jason Mraz & Colbie Caillat
Best Female Country Vocal Performance: “White Horse” — Taylor Swift
Best Male Country Vocal Performance: “Sweet Thing” — Keith Urban
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album: Michael Bublé Meets Madison Square Garden — Michael Bublé
Best Metal Performance: “Dissident Aggressor” — Judas Priest
Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals: “I Run to You” — Lady Antebellum
Best Country Collaboration With Vocals: “I Told You So” — Carrie Underwood & Randy Travis
Best Country Song: “White Horse” — Liz Rose & Taylor Swift, songwriters (Taylor Swift)
Best Americana Album: Electric Dirt — Levon Helm
Best Contemporary Blues Album: Already Free — The Derek Trucks Band
Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media: Slumdog Millionaire — Various Artists, A.R. Rahman, producer
Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media: “Jai Ho” (From Slumdog Millionaire) — Gulzar, A.R. Rahman & Tanvi Shah, songwriters (A.R. Rahman, Sukhvinder Singh, Tanvi Shah, Mahalaxmi Iyer & Vijay Prakash)
Best Recording Package: Everything That Happens Will Happen Today — Stefan Sagmeister, art director (David Byrne & Brian Eno)
Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package: Neil Young Archives Vol. I (1963-1972) — Gary Burden, Jenice Heo & Neil Young, art directors (Neil Young)
Best Short Form Music Video: “Boom Boom Pow” — The Black Eyed Peas
Best Long Form Music Video: “The Beatles Love – All Together Now” — (Various Artists)
Best Comedy Album: A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift Of All! — Stephen Colbert

Colbie Caillat And Jason Mraz Spread Holiday Cheer On Letterman

There’s nothing better than hearing some of our favorite artists get in the holiday spirit by singing some of our favorite Christmas songs.

Colbie Caillat and Jason Mraz stopped by the Late Show with David Letterman to spread some cheer and performed ‘Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas’.

Check out their performance of the holiday classic –

Colbie Caillat Live On Dancing With The Stars

Colbie Caillat performed her current single ‘Fallin’ For You’ off of her sophomore album Breakthrough on ABC’s Dancing With The Stars.

It’s amazing to think Caillat used to be just another musician on Myspace trying to catch a break. She’s come a long way!

Check out her performance of ‘Fallin’ For You’ –

All-Star Line Up for ‘A Very Special Christmas’ Album

A Very Special Christmas Volume 7 has gathered an impressive list of celebrity all-stars for its upcoming release on November 24th to benefit the Special Olympics.

Colbie Caillat, Miley Cyrus, Kellie Pickler, Ashley Tisdale, Carrie Underwood, Charice, Kristinia DeBarge, Gloriana, Vanessa Hudgens, Sean Kingston, Leighton Meester, Mitchel Musso, and Carter Twins have all contributed to the acclaimed Christmas series.

A Very Special Christmas Volume 7, released through the Universal Music Enterprises, features original recordings of new and traditional Christmas songs which each artist selected especially for this album.

“This is a fantastic Christmas record created by and for a new generation that wants to make the world a better place,” said Timothy Shriver, Chairman and CEO of Special Olympics. “The songs on A Very Special Christmas Volume 7 have all the freshness and energy of the talented artists who recorded them. Through the spirit of their musical performances, these young recording stars bring the same passion and dedication to Special Olympics that our athletes display every day of their lives.”

A Very Special Christmas series has generated more than $l00 million for Special Olympics, the most ever raised by a benefit recording series.

Colbie Caillat’s No. 1 ‘Breakthrough’

Colbie Caillat has a lot to be thankful for this week. Her new album ‘Breakthrough’ has landed on top of this week’s Billboard 200 charts with first-week sales of 106,000 units.

“You always hope for the best, but you never actually think it’s going to happen,” Caillat told Billboard.com. “I never want to get my hopes up. Everyone kept saying, ‘I think it’s gonna be No. 1. It’s gonna be No. 1. It looks like it,’ and I just kept trying to ignore it ’cause I didn’t want it to not happen.”

Caillat went on to say, “”And now that it is happening, I can’t believe it. I’m so excited. I’m so thankful. I’ve grown up a lot over the past two years and I…just knew exactly what I wanted for the record and I was able to express that to my producers and the people I wrote songs with. To be able to do it the way I wanted and it actually turned out the way I wanted feels like such an accomplishment.”

Caillat’s debut album peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 and has now been certified double-platinum. Her current single ‘Fallin’ For You’ is at No. 12 on the Hot 100.

Caillat’s come a long way since her debut and we’re certain she’ll be around for some time to come.

Congratulations!

Colbie Caillat On Track To First No. 1 Album

Singer/Songwriter Colbie Caillat may soon have her first No.1 album with her sophomore release ‘Breakthrough.’ Industry insiders expect her album to sell between 90,000 to 100,000 copies in it’s first week, which would land Caillat at the top of both the Billboard Hot 200 chart and the Top Comprehensive Albums tally.

Her first album ‘Coco’ debuted at No. 5 in 2007 with 51,000. According to Nielsen Soundscan, ‘Coco’ has sold more than 1.96 million copies.

Congratulations, Colbie! You’ve come a long way since you first posted your music on Myspace.

Colbie Caillat Covers Pussycat Dolls “Don’t Cha”

Like most of the artists who take part in Pepsi Music’s Cover Art series, Colbie Caillat thought carefully about which outside composition she should choose. She rounded up the usual suspects—the classic songs that had contributed to her growth as a sensitive singer/songwriter. She went to the timeless ballads of love and loss that informed her as an artst and a person. She went straight to the Pussycat Dolls’ catalog.

Actually, there was an extra step or two in the process of Caillat choosing “Don’t Cha” that we may have skipped over. “I was coming up with all these beautiful, favorite songs of mine,” she explains. “And then Nancy, my stage coach, was like, ‘Why don’t you do something truly off the wall, like “Don’t Cha”?’ And I was like, uhhhh…let’s try it! We were in the dressing room, and me and the band tried it on guitars, and it worked out really cool, so I just wanted to go for it.”

I think she did an “OK” job…..I think she should have picked something different. What do you think?

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COLBIE CAILLAT’S INSIGHT INTO HER MYSPACE SUCCESS

March 26, 2009 by Rob Steiner  
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(CMT News) – For the tall, beautiful, 24-year-old Colbie Caillat, the road to stardom seemed to open effortlessly for her. In the span of a year, she went from being an aspiring singer-songwriter to gaining national recognition.

 

It all began with the social networking Web site, MySpace, where anyone can create a personal profile and post original music for public scrutiny and approval. After a friend thought Caillat’s music should be exposed online, she made Caillat a page and posted a few of her songs. In eight months, Colbie Caillat was the No. 1 unsigned artist on MySpace. Not only had thousands of listeners taken notice, so had record label executives.

 

She eventually signed with Universal and released her debut album, Coco, in 2007. The CD peaked at No. 5 in Billboard in a month and reached platinum status. 

 

But Caillat’s interest in music came much earlier in life, when she heard Lauryn Hill’s version of Roberta Flack’s “Killing Me Softly.” 

 

“Ever since then, I’ve taken vocal lessons and a little bit of piano lessons,” she explained. “It wasn’t until I was 19 that I took my first guitar lesson. I only knew how to play four chords, and I wrote a song.” 

 

She was following her parents’ advice. Her father, Ken Caillat, is an award-winning producer, who co-produced Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 Grammy award-winning album, Rumours.

 

“My parents had always told me I need to become a musician and a songwriter, not just a singer,” she said. “So that day when I wrote the song, I was just kind of in awe that it happened that fast. And then I kept writing and my friend put my songs up on MySpace for me.” 

 

Coco generated two top five singles, “Realize,” and the No. 1 hit “Bubbly,” a song originally posted by her friend on MySpace. Her singles have spilled over into neighboring genres, including the charts for Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks, Hot Digital Songs, Pop 100, The Billboard Hot 100 and even country radio.

 

Her MySpace page claims Caillat’s sound is like “Sweet honey flowing over rocks.” But if you ask her, she’s not so sure.

 

“I always tell people it’s a mix of acoustic pop with a little bit of folk-soul to it. I don’t know,” she smiled. “I like all styles of music so I think when I wrote my songs it all just kind of blended together and made this sound that I have on my record. I don’t know,” she admitted. “Acoustic pop, I guess.”

 

Though her sound may not fit neatly into one clear-cut category, it’s working for her. She even released a deluxe edition of Cocoincluding new music and a collaboration with her musical icons, the Wailers.

 

“All of them were exactly the way I thought they would be,” she said of the group who once backed legendary reggae artist Bob Marley. “They were really friendly. It was cool because Family Man, the original bass player, he was telling me that his kids like my music and I was like, ‘That’s really funny because I’ve listened to you guys forever and now we’re working together.’”

 

She branched out to write with teen sensation Taylor Swift on the latter’s latest album, Fearless. After hearing Swift was interested in working with her, the two met in Nashville where they wrote and recorded “Breathe.”

 

“She had a concept,” Caillat said of working with Swift. “She had this idea. She had most of the song written. It was about a very important subject to her which I could also relate to as well. So, it was easy writing with her.” “Plus,” Caillat smiled, “she’s just the sweetest thing I’ve ever met and very talented, so it was really lovely working with her.”

 

As well as collaborating and touring, Caillat said she’s back in the studio working on her next album. She’s written 30 songs over the past year and a-half and plans to record them all to help determine which to keep.

 

“Each day you are in there, you add new instruments and different harmonies, and the song kind of becomes this painting, and it kind of grows on its own,” she said.

 

Although she’s happy to be back in the studio, she did admit to anxieties about her sophomore album.

 

“You do have to worry a little because, especially for me, my fans started hearing all my songs from MySpace, so they knew them ahead of time. So, now it’s going to be all brand new stuff they’ve never heard before. And that’s the only thing that’s a little scary. Like any album that just comes out, you have to get used to it,” she smiled. “But, I’m more excited about it.”  

 

Check out the music video, “Bubbly.” The song that started it all.

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