The 58th Grammy Awards took place Monday night, and Taylor Swift and Kendrick Lamar were among the biggest winners of the night.

Swift became the first woman to win album of the year twice, and she may have made a dig at Kanye West in her acceptance speech. She won three awards total. Lamar, who had 11 nominations, the most of the night, won five.

Below are the winners from Monday night's live telecast, not including those awarded during the Premiere Ceremony:

Best rap album
"2014 Forest Hills Drive"— J. Cole
"Compton"— Dr. Dre
"If You're Reading This It's Too Late"— Drake
"To Pimp A Butterfly"— Kendrick Lamar — WINNER
"The Pinkprint"— Nicki Minaj

Best country album
"Montevallo"— Sam Hunt
"Pain Killer"— Little Big Town
"The Blade"— Ashley Monroe
"Pageant Material"— Kacey Musgraves
"Traveller"— Chris Stapleton — WINNER

Record of the year
"Really Love"— D'Angelo And The Vanguard
"Uptown Funk"— Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars — WINNER
"Thinking Out Loud"— Ed Sheeran
"Blank Space"— Taylor Swift
"Can't Feel My Face"— The Weeknd

Album of the year
"Sound & Color"— Alabama Shakes
"To Pimp A Butterfly"— Kendrick Lamar
"Traveller"— Chris Stapleton
"1989"— Taylor Swift — WINNER
"Beauty Behind The Madness"— The Weeknd

Song of the year
"Alright"— Kendrick Lamar
"Blank Space"—Taylor Swift
"Girl Crush"— Little Big Town
"See You Again"— Wiz Khalifa Featuring Charlie Puth
"Thinking Out Loud"— Ed Sheeran — WINNER

Best musical theater album
"An American In Paris"
"Fun Home" 
"Hamilton" — WINNER
"The King and I" 
"Something Rotten!" 

Best rock performance
"Don't Wanna Fight"— Alabama Shakes — WINNER
"What Kind of Man"— Florence + The Machine
"Something from Nothing"— Foo Fighters
"Ex's & Oh's"— Elle King
"Moaning Lisa Smile"— Wolf Alice

Best new artist
Courtney Barnett
James Bay
Sam Hunt
Tori Kelly
Meghan Trainor — WINNER

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The Grammys just snuck in an anti-streaming music message into Monday's live telecast.

While it was hard to miss, the segment was sandwiched awkwardly between a piano performance by this year's youngest Grammy nominee, 12-year-old Joey Alexander, and the annual in memoriam segment — both clearly meant to tug at our heartstrings.

"So, what does hearing your favorite song mean to you?" asked Neil Portnow, the president of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, which awards the Grammys.

He then explained that when people use streaming-music services, the artists and others behind those songs earn "a small fraction of a penny" per song.

"Isn't a song worth more than a penny?" he asked, as the audience cheered. "You bet. Listen, we all love the convenience and we support technologies like streaming that connects us to that music. But we also have to make sure the creators and artists — like Joey over there — grow up in a world where music is a viable career."

After Portnow's statements, rapper Common added, "My comrades of the Recording Academy would like to thank the fans who support our work by going to a concert, subscribing to a music service, collecting vinyl, or speaking out for artists' rights."

Streaming-music services, like Spotify and Apple Music, have been rubbing artists the wrong way over the past couple years as they grow. Taylor Swift, Garth Brooks, Prince, and Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke have all publicly expressed their dissatisfaction with royalty models for artists on streaming services.

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Taylor Swift gave a powerful speech when accepting album of the year for "1989"on Monday night at the Grammys.

Mentioning that she was the first woman to win album of the year twice, the other time for her second album, "Fearless," she provided inspiring words specifically to young women.

"There will be people along the way who will try to undercut your success or take credit for your accomplishments or your fame," she said, "but if you just focus on the work and you don't let those people sidetrack you, some day when you get where you're going, you'll look around and you will know that it was you and the people who love you that got you there, and that will be the greatest feeling in the world."

The powerful speech will certainly inspire her fans and admirers, but many will also take her comments as a reaction to the feud she has with Kanye West.

West's song "Famous," on his newest album, makes an unflattering reference to Swift, saying, "I made that b---- famous," referring in the lyrics to a "Taylor" who is clearly Swift.

Swift has said through a publicist that she did not give her blessing for the track, though West has said on Twitter that she gave her approval.

Don't expect this back-and-forth to end anytime soon.

See the full speech below:

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When David Bowie died in January, there was an outpouring of grief for the artist who made innovation in performance mainstream. To pay tribute to Bowie, Lady Gaga teamed up with the tech company Intel to produce a show that used holography, robotics, 3D motion graphics, and live video processing.

She performed nine Bowie songs in six minutes at the Grammys: "Space Oddity,""Changes,""Ziggy Stardust,""Suffragette City,""Rebel Rebel,""Fashion,""Fame,""Let's Dance" and "Heroes." The act was widely regarded as a big success, and the visual spectacle was incredible.

An Intel ad that aired immediately around the performance on CBS gave a behind-the-scenes view of the run-up to the Grammys. There was some criticism on Twitter that Intel aired its commercial immediately after the tribute, but without it viewers would know less about how the remarkable performance was put together.

Here's a rundown of the technologies Intel used:

To create the animated makeup on Gaga's face, Intel captured a 3D scan of her face in 12 different poses, Vanity Fair reported.

The result was a CGI spider crawling across Ziggy Stardust's signature lightning bolt.

Intel made holograms of dancers, Gaga, and Bowie himself for the performance.

One thing we definitely don't associate with world-class vocalist Adele is bad audio.

So when the Grammys sound went out during the British singer's performance on Monday night's awards broadcast, it was the show's bad.

The stripped-down setup for a crushing Adele performance was all there: a dramatic spotlight on the singer in a floor-length, fitted scarlet gown and just a piano.

Then, as she began singing "All I Ask" from her third album, "25," the sound cut out for several seconds, returning during the first verse. Viewers also complained about a strange guitar sound throughout the song.

It may have also thrown off the singer, as one Los Angeles Times music writer observed on Twitter that Adele's usually pitch-perfect notes were actually flat this evening.

Sound challenges had plagued the live-awards telecast all night, but fans were especially unhappy about the occurrence during Adele's performance:

And in case you were wondering, although she performed, Adele isn't up for any awards this year. She released "25" after Grammy eligibility. It will qualify for awards at the 2017 ceremony. 

Update: Adele, by the way, took the audio problems in stride. "S--t happens," she tweeted. She also said piano mics falling were to blame.

 Watch the audio-challenged Adele performance below:
 

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Monday night's Grammy Awards had their share of problems, and they could've been shorter. But the awards also featured incredible tributes, memorable speeches, and a beloved inanimate object.

From Lady Gaga's David Bowie tribute to Kendrick Lamar's political performance to Dave Grohl partying with a red Solo cup, here are the five best moments from the live show: 

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Kendrick Lamar's fiery, political performance

Kendrick Lamar won big at the Grammys, taking home five awards, including best rap album, but it was his live performance that stood out for its powerful political message. 

Lamar and his dancers emerged onstage dressed as prisoners in a chain gang as he performed a medley of "The Blacker the Berry,""Alright," and ended the performance with the debut of a new song. Midway through his mashup, Lamar and the dancers broke free from the chains to join African dancers and drummers around a blazing fire. He ended the performance standing in front of an image of Africa with Compton written inside. Lamar is from Compton in Los Angeles.       

Watch the performance below:

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Lady Gaga's David Bowie tribute

Lady Gaga channeled David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust in a moving tribute to the late pop icon who died January 10 after a battle with cancer. She performed a mashup of some of Bowie's hit songs, including "Space Oddity" and "Heroes." Video projections recreated the lightning bolt from his 1973 "Aladdin Sane" album on her face, and she played on a mechanical keyboard that moved on robotic legs. She was joined by Nile Rodgers, who produced Bowie’s 1983 "Let’s Dance" album. And even before she performed, her red-carpet look was an homage to the legendary musician. 

Watch the performance below: 

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All things "Hamilton"

If you were unfamiliar with "Hamilton," the hit Broadway musical that's nearly impossible to get tickets for, Monday night changed that. The cast performed the opening number "Alexander Hamilton" via satellite from the Richard Rodgers Theatre in New York and included Lin Manuel-Miranda, the musical's creator, as the titular character. The musical won the Grammy for best musical album, and Miranda rapped his acceptance speech. 

Watch the performance below:

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The Grammys aren't one of the most important sartorial events on the calendar, but there's still opportunity to learn a thing or two.

Take, for example, one of the night's presenters: NFL linebacker Von Miller, crowned MVP of Super Bowl 50. He decided to wear a patterned blazer.

Not just any patterned blazer — a sparkly, silver paisley patterned blazer.

Observe:

Now, we at Business Insider are not going to knock the patterned blazer. There is a place and a time, and the Grammys in 2016 are probably as good a place and time as any.

What we are going to say is this: this particular blazer is one of the ugliest pieces of clothing we've ever seen at an awards show. It's attention-getting in the worst way possible: just for attention's sake.

The sparkles and swirls distract the eye, making it hard to take in the outfit as a whole, and ultimately doing it a disservice. The number one rule for wearing loud clothing is to make sure the rest of your outfit is subdued enough so that you don't look like a clown. A good rule of thumb is one loud or garish item per outfit, whether it's a patterned shirt, cool pants, or spiky shoes.

By pairing the patterned blazer with shiny blue tuxedo pants, his outfit is washed out in a sea of shininess.

Here's how he should have done it:

The above is Spanish actor and singer Miguel Angel Muñoz doing the patterned blazer correctly. The floral patterned blazer is paired with simple trousers and a plain black bow tie, so nothing distracts from the centerpiece.

It's much easier on the eye and looks way more elegant and black-tie appropriate.

Had Miller toned down his blazer choice, he may have been one of the best-dressed guys at the show. As it was, he was just painful to look at. 

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While Taylor Swift's team put out a statement calling Kanye West's "Famous" verse about her "misogynistic," the pop star herself stayed silent for four days while the feud reached a boiling point.

It wasn't until Monday night, at her acceptance speech for the Album of the Year Grammy — the biggest award of the night — that Swift personally addressed the diss.

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We at Business Insider are pretty conservative with our black tie rules. If it can be avoided, we prefer that you don't wear sneakers with your tuxedo.

But if you do, we suggest you do it the way DJ Khaled did at the 2016 Grammys Monday night.

The 40-year-old rapper paired his rather staid patterned tuxedo with a pair of all-black Kanye West's Adidas collaboration Yeezys.

We've panned red carpet sneakers in the past, but these are different. There is something understated and elegant about the suede sneakers.

Here's why we think they work:

• The sneakers are not loud or obnoxious, and they don't look anything like running shoes.
• They are a uniform black suede, without much ornamentation or distraction apart from the nylon strap.
• They aren't shiny and don't draw the eye away from the overall ensemble.
• They're perfectly suited to the Grammys' more relaxed red carpet dress code.
• The houndstooth-printed jacket tones down the tuxedo's formality just enough so the sneakers can slot right in.

We're as surprised as you are that DJ Khaled had the best style move of the 2016 Grammys, but we must give credit where credit is due. His Yeezy 750 in pirate black were a major key to that success.

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Adele's performance at this year's Grammys was mired with technical issues, but she took it all in stride explaining the problems on Twitter. 

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Lady Gaga is getting rave reviews for her tribute to British music icon, David Bowie, who died last month. But it wasn't just her amazing voice that won over music lovers.

Gaga partnered with Intel to put together the incredible, high-tech performance, which was a collaborative display of technology and music that included a dancing robotic keyboard and facial projection technology.

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When LL Cool J took the Grammy stage on Monday night to host music's biggest night for the 5th time in a row, he had company.

There, on his lapel, sat a sparkly (presumably) diamond lapel pin that had his first two initials: LL.

These initials stand for "ladies love," which is an odd thing to proclaim on your chest. (LL's stage name, for what it's worth, stands for "ladies love Cool James").

Besides breaking a rule of decency, LL has also broken another rule with his lapel pin: they aren't meant to be distracting.

Think about other lapel pins you've seen: likely a small flower on a tuxedo or a tiny American flag pin on a presidential candidate. Taking that into account, LL's "LL" pin is probably as distracting as you can get with a pin. It draws the eye and clashes with the rest of his outfit.

But there is a right way to wear a lapel pin. Take for instant, Rami Malek, who we called the best dressed guy at this year's Golden Globes. His ensemble also included a lapel pin:

Observe how Rami Malek's pin melds with the lapel of his navy tuxedo, adding interest to the tuxedo without overwhelming it. The flower is not a contrasting color, so it doesn't draw the eye as much.

That's the right way to pin your lapel. Take note, LL, and better luck next year.

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Even Sir Paul McCartney struggles to get into Grammy afterparties. 

The Beatles cofounder showed up to a party outside of the Argyle in Hollywood with Beck, who won a Grammy for album of the year last year, and the Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, but video footage captured by TMZ shows the group being denied entry. 

In the video, McCartney jokes, "How VIP do we gotta get?" and tells Beck and Hawkins that they "need another hit." 

TMZ cited it as Tyga's party and Twitter users rallied against the rapper for blocking entrance to the group. 

Tyga took to Twitter to clarify that he didn't block the musicians, explaining that he didn't control the door.

He also appeared on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" to explain what happened. 

“I had no knowledge. I was inside performing,” Tyga said, later adding that he was paid to perform. “I wish I knew he was outside, I would’ve went out there with a mic and brought him in to perform with me.”

According to Kimmel, apparently it was the fire marshal who denied entry to the musicians.

"Yeah, tweet the fire marshal; don't tweet me," Tyga joked. 

“You’d think fire codes wouldn’t apply to Beatles — there’s only two of them left,” Kimmel said. “Worst case, they both show up.”

Tyga then asked McCartney to perform with him at his February 26 show at the Nokia Theatre. "I will personally walk you in," Tyga said. 

Watch Tyga explain below:

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The sound issues that marred Adele's Grammy performance Monday night took a toll on the singer.

During an appearance on Thursday's "Ellen," Adele revealed that she was "so embarrassed" following the performance of "All I Ask" off of her "25" album.

"I cried pretty much all day [Tuesday]," she said. "In fairness, I would've cried if it had gone really well as well... I kept spontaneously bursting into tears yesterday, but it was all right — I was fine."

When Adele first began singing, the sound cut out for a brief moment and then a weird guitar-like sound was heard, causing the singer to hit a few flat notes. 

She took to Twitter after the show to explain that the weird sound was caused by the piano mics falling on the strings, which she reiterated to DeGeneres. 

"During changeover and the ad break, the microphones fell onto the piano strings, which is what the guitar noise was — some people thought it was [Justin] Bieber rehearsing, but it wasn't him," she joked. "And it just kinda put the whole thing off, really."

Adele said she knew what the issue was, but couldn't fix it during the live TV show or stop and make a joke out of it. 

"I knew where the mic was and I wanted to turn around and lift it up, but I froze. But I actually felt like it went well... I'm always a bit pitchy anyway," she said, joking that pitchiness is caused by emotion.   

She also joked that the next time she deals with any sound issues, she'll restart the performance.

"Next time I have any sound issues, I am gonna stop. 'Sorry, that's not working for me. If we have time to do it again, let's do it. Otherwise, bye,'" she said.  

Watch the interview below:

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Thanks to a misplaced microphone, Adele's Grammy performance went a bit off the rails this year. On Wednesday, Adele talked to Ellen DeGeneres and let her know exactly what happened that night. While the performance didn't go exactly as planned, Adele is shrugging it off.

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Kanye West released "The Life of Pablo" on February 14, but he just announced another new album for this summer.

West's sudden news came in the middle of a tirade about the Grammys on Twitter, what seems to be his favorite platform for his thoughts these days.

The rapper first started talking about his plan to "fix" the Grammys and make them "culturally relevant again," reaching out to Neil Portnow, the current president of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, which puts on the Grammy Awards each year. 

West said that he needs to "fix" the fact that he knows "so many cool artists whose hearts have been broken by the politics, including mine." 

One of the problems with the Grammys is that the "Grammy awarding system is way off and completely out of touch," West tweeted. 

He mentioned wanting to see Young Thug and Future at the Grammys, as well as Dexter Navy, who directed A$AP Rocky's "L$D" music video and didn't earn a nomination this year. 

In true West fashion, he did add that he "is the most important living artist talking" and claimed that without him at the show next year, "there will be no show." 

West has received 57 Grammy nominations and won 21 times since 2005. 

He continued to say that he shares his thoughts on Twitter because "my voice is my power," and added, "I'm not crazy, I'm free." 

He also briefly talked about Yeezys, his shoes with Adidas, as providing him with "economic freedom," and said that he plans on hooking everyone up with free Yeezys. Exactly what that plan is? We don't quite know. 

He ended his tweetstorm by claiming that he is a "voice of freedom" and "represent[s] what people can't say." 

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On Monday, the historical musical phenomenon "Hamilton" won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama– one of only nine musicals to do so.

Before the show premiered on Broadway in August 2015, composer-lyricist, director, and star Lin-Manuel Miranda performed the opening number to the musical — the then mix-tape — for President Obama at "An Evening of Poetry and Music: The Spoken Word" in May 2009. 

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Beyoncé is an icon.

In addition to dominating the music world, she was honored by the fashion industry and received the Fashion Icon award at the 2016 CFDA Fashion Awards.

During her acceptance speech, she spoke about fashion's influence on her life. Her grandmother was a seamstress, and her mother and uncle designed many of Destiny's Child's first costumes and dresses.

"When we were starting out in Destiny's Child, high-end labels didn't want to dress four black country girls," she said. "We couldn't afford designer dresses. My mom was rejected from every showroom in New York. But like my grandmother, she used her talent and creativity to give her children their dreams."

From her start in Destiny's Child to her most recent Met Gala appearance, it's hard to narrow down Beyoncé's best — or most iconic — outfits.

Nevertheless, here are 30 photos that prove Beyoncé is the fashion icon of our time:

In 2001, Destiny's Child (Michelle Williams, Beyoncé Knowles, and Kelly Rowland) posed in sparkly blue outfits resembling the ones worn by the Destiny's Child dolls they were holding up.

Beyoncé was working on her solo career in 2002 and donned this sparkly gold ensemble for a performance on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno."

She slayed at the 2003 Golden Globes with this flowery number.

Streaming-only music will now be eligible for the Grammy Awards for the first time in the awards' history, according to a press release from the Recording Academy on rule amendments for next year's 59th Grammy Awards.

The new guidelines open up the nominating field to "streaming-only" music that exists only on services with "paid subscription, full catalogue, [and] on-demand/limited download platforms."

This means that free mixtapes, Soundcloud albums, and similarly unpaid music will remain ineligible for nomination at this time.

The normal eligibility restrictions for music released between October 5, 2015, and September 30, 2016, will still apply. 

The rule change comes about a month after Chance the Rapper, a champion of free and streaming-only music, threw his support behind a petition to allow streaming-only music to be considered for Grammy nomination. 

Fittingly, Chance's critically acclaimed new album, "Coloring Book," which premiered on Apple Music in May and is now available on Spotify and Tidal as well, will now be eligible for nomination.

Given the universal praise around "Coloring Book" and its surprising power on the Billboard album chart (despite being streaming-only), Chance has a very good chance of nabbing a nod in one of the rap categories.

Chance even made a sly nod to the Grammy rules before releasing the album, when he rapped on Kanye West's "Ultralight Beam": "I met Kanye West, I'm never going to fail / He said let's do a good-ass job with Chance three / I hear you gotta sell it to snatch the Grammy."

Chance responded to the news of his eligibility by retweeting the Grammys on the rule change and posting an exulted tweet of his own:

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On Sunday night, Kim Kardashian released a series of videos on Snapchat showing a phone call between Kanye West and Taylor Swift. 

The recording shows West explaining the song "Famous" to her before its release, and Swift seemingly approving it.

The song features the lyrics, "I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex / Why? I made that b**** famous."

Swift quickly released a statement about the phone call on Instagram. In it, she argues that she never knew Kanye was going to call her a "b****" in the song, and that's why she criticized it so strongly after its release:

"Where is the video of Kanye telling me he was going to call me 'that b****' in his song?" Swift wrote.

However, if you go back and look at Swift's response to the song in February, her criticism went beyond Kanye's use of the word "b****."

In her Grammys acceptance speech for Album of the Year, she criticized Kanye for taking credit for her success.

"I want to say to all the young women out there: there are going to be people along the way who will try to undercut your success or take credit for your accomplishments or your fame," she said.

That's a criticism of the entire sentiment behind "Famous," not just a criticism of one word.

The problem is that Swift knew about the sentiment behind "Famous" from her phone call with Kanye, and seemingly approved of it.

At one point in the call, she specifically said it's "fine" for Kanye to say he made her famous:

 "You've got to tell the story the way that it happened to you and the way that you experienced it. Like, you honestly didn't know who I was before that. It doesn't matter if I sold seven million of that album before you did that, which is what happened, you didn't know who I was before that. It's fine.”

In her statement, Taylor made it seem like her only issue with the song was the word "b****." But that's not what she talked about in her Grammys speech.

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