56th Annual Grammy Awards: 2014's Winners List

The 56th Annual Grammy Awards honoured music's brightest and best and here is a list of winners in the major categories:

Record of the year
"Get Lucky" -- Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers

Album of the year
"Random Access Memories" -- Daft Punk

Song of the year
"Royals" -- Lorde

Best new artist
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis 

Best pop solo performance
Lorde -- "Royals"

Best pop duo/group performance
Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers -- "Get Lucky"

Best pop instrumental album
Herb Alpert -- "Steppin' Out"

Best pop vocal album
Bruno Mars -- "Unorthodox Jukebox" 

Best dance recording
"Clarity" -- Zedd featuring Foxes 

Best dance/electronica album
"Random Access Memories" -- Daft Punk

Best traditional pop vocal album
"To Be Loved" -- Michael Bublé

Best rock performance
Imagine Dragons -- "Radioactive"

Best metal performance
Black Sabbath -- "God is Dead?"

Best rock song
"Cut Me Some Slack" -- Paul McCartney, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, Pat Smear 

Best rock album
Led Zeppelin -- "Celebration Day" 

Best alternative music album
Vampire Weekend -- "Modern Vampires of the City"

Best R&B performance
Snarky Puppy with Lala Hathaway -- "Something"

Best traditional R&B performance
Gary Clark Jr. -- "Please Come Home"

Best R&B song
"Pusher Love Girl" -- Justin Timberlake 

Best urban contemporary album
Rihanna -- "Unapologetic" 

Best R&B album
Alicia Keys -- "Girl on Fire" 

Best rap performance
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Wanz -- "Thrift Shop" 

Best rap/sung collaboration
Jay Z featuring Justin Timberlake -- "Holy Grail" 

Best rap song
"Thrift Shop" -- Macklemore & Ryan Lewis 

Best rap album
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis -- "The Heist" 

Best country solo performance
Darius Rucker -- "Wagon Wheel"

Best country duo/group performance
The Civil Wars -- "From This Valley"

Best country song
"Merry Go 'Round" -- Kacey Musgraves

Best country album
Kacey Musgraves -- "Same Trailer Different Park"

Producer of the year, nonclassical
Pharrell Williams

Best compilation soundtrack for visual media
"Sound City: Real to Reel" 

Best score soundtrack for visual media
"Skyfall"

Best song written for visual media
Adele -- "Skyfall" -- "Skyfall" 

Best music video
Justin Timberlake featuring Jay Z -- "Suit & Tie" 

Best music film
Paul McCartney -- "Live Kisses"

Adele Receives British Order For Excellence By Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace

London -  Adele has received an MBE at Buckingham Palace on Thursday.

The Someone Like You hitmaker was handed the award by the Prince of Wales after being named in the Queen's Birthday Honours list for her services to the music industry.

The 25-year-old singer now has the title Miss Adele Adkins MBE, which stands for member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.

She released a statement after the ceremony, saying: "It was an honour to be recognised and a very proud moment to be awarded alongside such wonderful and inspirational people. Very posh indeed."

Adele has achieved huge success over the past two years with the release of her second album 21, which topped the charts in more than 30 countries and was number one in the UK for 23 weeks, selling more than seven million copies in the country.
It was then certified diamond after 24 weeks at the top spot in the US.

The blonde beauty is now a global pop superstar and also won an Academy Award in February for her James Bond theme song Skyfall.

She is rumoured to be planning the release of her third studio album sometime next year but has been busy being a mum after giving birth to her son Angelo with partner Simon Konecki in October last year.

Singer-songwriter PJ Harvey, broadcaster Aled Jones and author Joanne Harris also received MBEs, while broadcaster Claire Balding was honoured with an OBE. 

Forbes' List Of Top 10 Earning Celebs Under 30 - Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber And Taylor Swift Leads!

Lady Gaga

$80 million! The Queen Monster would have earned even more had it not been for a hip injury that curtailed her Born This Way Ball Tour. The tour grossed $168 million through January; had Gaga been able to finish it, she would have likely topped $200 million. With a new album in the works, look for her to stay around the top of this list.

Justin Bieber

$58 million! Since appearing on the cover of FORBES last year, the Canadian crooner has toured the world, picked up another 20 million Twitter followers and earned another $58 million (that sum would have been even higher if we hadn't credited him with a double-digit million-dollar merchandise advance last year). With stakes in startups including Enflick, Tinychat and Spotify, he shows no signs of slowing down.

Taylor Swift

$55 million! Who says the music industry is dead? Swift released her fourth studio album, Red, in October 2012 and sold 1.2 million copies in week one. The album's first single, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together," became her first to top Billboard's Hot 100 chart. She parlayed that success into endorsement deals with Diet Coke, Sony and Covergirl, not to mention big bucks on the road. She should earn even more next year as she transitions from arena shows to stadium sellouts.

Calvin Harris

$46 million! Calvin Harris makes his debut on FORBES' Celebrity 100 after a stellar year. Discovered on Myspace eight year ago as a singer-songwriter, Harris has morphed into a world-renowned DJ and producer. In February, he signed on to play more than 70 shows over a two-year period in Las Vegas. While the majority of his money comes from performing, he also earns from writing and producing songs like Rihanna's Grammy-winning "We Found Love." Harris played more than 150 shows in the 12 months since June 1, 2012.

Rihanna

$43 million! The Barbados-born singer continues to rake in the dough, playing over 40 shows during our scoring period and releasing new album Unapologetic, her seventh in seven years. Even if you're not one of her 30 million-plus Twitter followers, it's hard not miss her recent singles "Diamonds" and "Stay" and her ubiquitous Vita Coco ads. And that's a formula that should keep the cash coming for years.

Katy Perry

$39 million! It's been a relatively quiet year for Perry as she prepares for a follow-up to Teenage Dream, which made her the only act besides Michael Jackson to have five No. 1 singles from the same album. She still earns plenty for private gigs, a fragrance with Coty and a deal with Popchips, the snackmaker in which she also holds an equity stake. Her 2012 biopic Part of Me added a seven-figure sum to her bottom line.

Adele

$30 million! The singer still sells plenty of music but without a big global tour, it was hard for her to make the Celebrity 100 this year. The new mom got plenty of attention this year for “Skyfall,” her theme for the latest Bond movie. It won an Oscar for Best Original Song.

Jennifer Lawrence

$26 million! Hollywood's new It girl walked away from 2012 with an Oscar for Best Actress for Silver Linings Playbook and one of the top-grossing movies of the year with The Hunger Games. Lawrence was paid under $1 million for the first Hunger Games movie but Lionsgate was happy to pay more to secure her for the second installment: Catching Fire. As Katniss, Lawrence has shown that action heroes don't always have to be played by men for a film to turn a profit.

Kristen Stewart

$22 million! The Twilight money still rolling in (for now). Her earnings look set for a tumble: While she helped make Snow White and the Huntsman a hit, a sequel is still a ways off and the actress doesn't seem terribly interested in doing more big-budget movies.

Taylor Lautner

$22 million! With Twilight at an end, Lautner has to build a career outside of the supernatural franchise. His non-Twilight debut, Abduction, was a bust. He’ has a small role in the Adam Sandler film Grown Ups 2.

Source: Forbes