Record of the Year nominees at the 2013 Grammy Awards include Gotye, Frank Ocean, The Black Keys, Kelly Clarkson, Taylor Swift and fun.
The Record of the Year category at the Grammys "recognizes the artist’s performance as well as the overall contributions of the producer(s), recording engineer(s) and/or mixer(s) if other than the artist," according to Grammy.org.
Gotye was nominated for the hit song "Somebody That I Used to Know"; fun. earned its nomination for the Top-40 staple "We Are Young"; Swift, who was co-hosting the Grammy Nominations Concert Live! with LL Cool J, was nominated for "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" (her album, "Red," did not get released in time to be eligible for the 2013 Grammy Awards, however); Kelly Clarkson grabbed a nomination for "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)"; The Black Keys were picked for "Lonely Boy"; and Frank Ocean was highlighted for "Thinkin About You."
At the 54th annual Grammy Awards in 2012, Adele won for Record of the Year for "Rolling in the Deep."
For more on the Record of the Year nominees, click here.
The 55th annual Grammy Awards have come to a close. Dan Auerbach from The Black Keys was a big winner, but Frank Ocean, fun., Mumford & Sons, Kelly Clarkson and Kanye West & Jay-Z were all honored with Grammys.
From all of us here at HuffPost Entertainment, we hope you enjoyed the show. See you again on Feb. 24 for the 85th annual Academy Awards.
Here's Lena Dunham and Taylor Swift again, just because:
Your complete list of Grammy winners, from fun. to The Black Keys to Mumford & Sons.
| @ TVWithoutPity : Wow, the closing #Grammys jam was bumrushed by sponsor shout-outs. Thought it was MCA forever, not commerce forever. |
LL Cool J gets cut off saying good night on the Grammys. Hashtag that, LL.
This amalgam of rockers and hip-hop stars perform "No Sleep Till Brooklyn" to honor the late MCA. CBS, however, cuts them off with an rundown of the night's sponsors. Classy.
Apparently, it does. Too bad, because they're good?
More on Mumford & Sons' big Grammys night can be found here.
After The Black Keys won multiple awards and Frank Ocean performed to raves, was the Mumford & Sons win in the Album of the Year Grammys category an upset? More on the band's win here.
Mumford & Sons' "Babel" topped favorites like Frank Ocean, fun., The Black Keys and Jack White.
"We figured we wouldn't win anything because The Black Keys had been sweeping up all day," lead singer Marcus Mumford joked.
| @ m1keh0gan : This is definitely lifted from Kraftwerk's MoMA concert last year. |
| @ ml_boardman : Can Frank Ocean start a line of headbands? |
| @ ditzkoff : If they don't get Tom Hanks into this performance of "Forrest Gump," it's never happening. |
Elton John dedicates the Levon Helm tribute to the children and school teachers who lost their lives during the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
John, Zac Brown Band, Mumford & Sons, Mavis Staples and T Bone Burnett performed "The Weight" by The Band to honor Helm, who was the band's drummer.
More on the Levon Helm tribute here.
The Beastie Boys' MCA gets a big ovation from the Grammys crowd when his name is shown during the In Memoriam segment.
R.I.P. Andy Williams, Davy Jones, Andy Griffith, Donna Summer, Marvin Hamlisch, Dick Clark and more.
That's the point of this segment with Ryan Seacrest and Justin Timberlake. It's a good message on a night of excess.
What's Record of the Year? Here you go:
The category celebrates the achievement of the artist as well as the producers, mixers and engineers who worked on the track, unlike Song of the Year, which awards only writers.
Gotye won Record of the Year; he accepted the award from Prince, obviously.
Posted: 12/05/2012 10:22 pm EST