By Susan Chang
AsAmNews Intern
Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson took home two of the biggest prizes at the 58th Grammy Awards.
They won for Record of the Year and Best Pop Duo/Group performance with Ronson’s Uptown Funk featuring Mars.
The two beat Florence and the Machine’s Ship to Wreck, Maroon 5’s Sugar, Taylor Swift and Kendrick Lamar’s Bad Blood and Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth and See You Again.
For record of the year, their song beat D’Angelo’s Really Love, Ed Sheehan’s Thinking Out Loud, the Weeknd’s Can’t Feel My Face and Taylor Swift’s Blank Space.
Congrats Record Of The Year @MarkRonson featuring @BrunoMars – 'Uptown Funk' #GRAMMYs pic.twitter.com/eXWlp79Z3J
— Recording Academy / GRAMMYs (@RecordingAcad) February 16, 2016
Mars has been nominated for Record of the Year four other times since 2011. This year’s awards will be his third and fourth Grammys, in addition to his awards for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for Just the Way You Are from 2011 and Best Pop Vocal Album for his album Unorthodox Jukebox from 2014.
The Record of the Year award was presented by Beyonce with whom Mars performed at this year’s Super Bowl. At the Super Bowl, Mars had performed Uptown Funk, which even Michelle Obama can’t get enough of, according to People.
Watch Uptown Funk on Youtube:
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