Transcript Grammy Awards

The YouTube Music Awards (commonly abbreviated as
YTMA) is an awards show presented by YouTube to
honor the best in the music video medium.
Awards
Breakthrough of the Year - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Response of the Year - "Radioactive" Lindsey Stirling,
Pentatonix
Innovation of the Year - "See Me Standing" DeStorm Power
YouTube Phenomenon - "I Knew You Were Trouble" Taylor
Swift
Video of the Year - "I Got A Boy" Girls' Generation
Artist of the Year - Eminem
A Grammy Award (originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an
accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) of
the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry.
The annual presentation ceremony features performances by prominent artists,
and the presentation of those awards that have a more popular interest. It shares
recognition of the music industry as that of the other performance arts: Emmy
Awards (television), the Tony Awards (stage performance), and the Academy
Awards (motion pictures).
The first Grammy Awards ceremony was
held on May 4, 1959 to honor the musical
accomplishments by performers for the year
1958. Following the 2011 ceremony, NARAS
overhauled many Grammy Award categories
for 2012. The 56th Grammy Awards were
held on January 26, 2014, at the Staples
Center in Los Angeles, California.
The "General Field" are four awards
which are not restricted by genre.
Album of the Year is awarded to the performer and
the production team of a full album.
Record of the Year is awarded to the performer and
the production team of a single song.
Song of the Year is awarded to the
writer(s)/composer(s) of a single song.
Best New Artist is awarded to a promising breakthrough performer who
releases, during the Eligibility Year, the first recording that establishes the
public identity of that artist (which is not necessarily their first proper
release).
The Mercury Prize, formerly called the Mercury
Music Prize and currently known as the
Barclaycard Mercury Prize for sponsorship
reasons, is an annual music prize awarded for
the best album from the United Kingdom and
Ireland. It was established by the British
Phonographic Industry and British Association
of Record Dealers in 1992 as an alternative to
the Brit Awards.
The prize was originally sponsored by
Mercury Communications, a brand
owned by Cable & Wireless, from
which the prize gets its name. It was
later sponsored by Technics(1998 to
2001), Panasonic(2002 and 2003),
and the Nationwide Building Society
(2004 to 2008). Barclaycard became
the Prize's current sponsor in March
2009
The World Music Awards is
an international awards show
founded in 1989 under the
high patronage of Albert II,
Prince of Monaco and is
based in Monte-Carlo.
Awards are presented to the
world's best-selling artists in
the various categories and to
the best-selling artists from
each major territory. Sales
figures are provided by the
International Federation of
the Phonographic Industry
(IFPI). Nine awards are voted
online by the public. The
awards are gold-plated, each
depicting an artist holding
the world.