Grammy Awards 2013: The Real Winners And Losers
Feb-11-2013

When last year's Grammy Awards ended, it was clear that British sensation Adele was the show's sweetheart, cleaning up with a tidy six-gramophone hall.
This year's event, the 55th award ceremony, didn't have as clear a winner as Adele-who added to her lifetime haul with a win in the "Best Pop Solo Performance" category-but did manage to shed light on artists outside the vaunted pop realm.
Dan Auerbach, one-half of the rock duo, the Black Keys, took home the most awards for the night, reeling in four Grammys, including those for "Best Rock Song" and "Best Rock Album." While the Black Keys had already won three awards in 2011, this year's show felt like a coming out party of sorts, which arguably included the strongest live performance of the night with "Lonely Boy." The pair, however, were shutout of the bigger categories of the night, namely "Record Of The Year," which went to Gotye, and "Album of the Year," which went to Mumford & Sons' Babel.
Accepting the award on behalf of his band, Marcus Mumford and his so-called "sons" claimed the show's biggest prize, which despite their 12 total nominations was only their second award (the band had won earlier in the day for their role in the long-form video winner Big Easy Express).
"We were in the [pre-telecast] stuff and we had six nominations... and one after the other [the winner was] like Black Keys, Black Keys," said Mumford. "We thought last year was Adele's year and this year was the Black Keys' year... We didn't really care about winning."
In what some may see as a revival of traditional music, Mumford & Sons represents that return of commercially viable Americana folk in the industry. Babel was the number four top-selling album in the U.S. with 1.4 million units sold in 2012.
"They're one of my favorite bands ever," said "Best Country Album" winner Zac Brown (of the Zac Brown Band) about Mumford & Sons. "It's great seeing real music getting the spotlight."

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