Bad Bunny makes Grammy history with top prize win
· RTE.ieBad 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."
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.
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.
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.