Taylor Swift, Zac Brown Band Win 2010 Grammy Awards; List of Grammy Winners Included

Country/pop crossover darling Taylor Swift scored big once again, this time at the 2010 Grammy Awards. In the categories devoted to country music, the bubbly 20-year old grabbed awards for Best Female Vocal Country Performance and Best Country Song for White Horse, in addition to Best Country Album for her mega-hit autobiographical disc Fearless. Fearless also won one of the night's biggest honors when it beat out the offerings from Beyonce, the Black Eyed Peas, Lady Gaga and Dave Matthews Band to take Album of the Year.

Other big winners of the night were rockers Kings of Leon, who took the 2010 Grammy Award for Record of the Year with Use Somebody; Beyonce, who won Song of the Year honors with Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) along with several other R&B and Pop genre nods; and country music's new kids on the block, Zac Brown Band, who accepted the Grammy for Best New Artist.

Zac Brown Band's win spells out a big victory for country music at-large, which has already experienced recent gains in popularity with crossover favorites Taylor Swift and Darius Rucker (formerly of Hootie and the Blowfish) drawing new fans via their poppish, unconventional sound. Zac Brown Band's debut studio album The Foundation has enjoyed success thus far, spawning country chart-loving singles Chicken Fried and Toes, and the stirring Highway 20 Ride.

In accepting her Grammy for Best Country Album, Taylor Swift maintained the air of charming innocence that's won the admiration of many a fan when she gushed "I just feel like I'm standing here accepting an impossible dream right now and I thank you so much for that".

An extensive list of 2010 Grammy Award winners as reported on Grammy.com is as follows; for the remaining winners, please visit the Grammy.com site:

2010 Grammy Award winners list, General Categories:

Record of the Year: Kings of Leon / Use Somebody
Album of the Year: Fearless / Taylor Swift
Song of the Year: Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)
Best New Artist: Zac Brown Band

2010 Grammy Award winners list, Pop Genre:

Best Female Pop Vocal Performance: Halo / Beyonce
Best Male Pop Vocal Performance: Make it Mine / Jason Mraz
Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals: I Gotta Feeling / The Black Eyed Peas
Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals: Lucky / Jason Mraz and Colbie Caillat
Best Pop Instrumental Performance: Throw Down Your Heart / Bela Fleck
Best Pop Instrumental Album: Potato Hole / Booker T. Jones
Best Pop Vocal Album: The E.N.D. / The Black Eyed Peas

2010 Grammy Award winners list, Dance/Electronic Genre:

Best Dance Recording: Poker Face / Lady Gaga
Best Electronic/Dance Album: The Fame / Lady Gaga

2010 Grammy Award winners list, Pop/Rock Genres:

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album: Michael Buble Meets Madison Square Garden / M Buble
Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance: Working on a Dream / Bruce Springsteen
Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals: Use Somebody / Kings of Leon
Best Hard Rock Performance: War Machine / AC/DC
Best Metal Performance: Dissident Aggressor / Judas Priest
Best Rock Instrumental Performance: A Day in the Life / Jeff Beck
Best Rock Song: Use Somebody
Best Rock Album: 21st Century Breakdown / Green Day
Best Alternative Music Album: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

2010 Grammy Award winners list, R&B Genre:

Best Female R&B Vocal Performance: Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) / Beyonce
Best Male R&B Vocal Performance: Pretty Wings / Maxwell
Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals: Blame It / Jamie Foxx and T-Pain
Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance: At Last / Beyonce
Best Urban/Alternative Performance: Pearls / India.Arie and Dobet Gnahore
Best R&B Song: Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)
Best R&B Album: Blacksummers' Night / Maxwell
Best Contemporary R&B Album: I Am... Sasha Fierce / Beyonce

2010 Grammy Award winners list, Rap Genre:

Best Rap Solo Performance: D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune) / Jay-Z
Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group: Crack a Bottle / Eminem, Dr. Dre and 50 Cent
Best Rap/Sung Collaboration: Ego / Beyonce and Kanye West
Best Rap Song / Run this Town
Best Rap Album: Relapse / Eminem

2010 Grammy Award winners list, Country Genre:

Best Female Country Vocal Performance: White Horse / Taylor Swift
Best Male Country Vocal Performance: Sweet Thing / Keith Urban
Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals: I Run to You / Lady Antebellum
Best Country Collaboration with Vocals: I Told You So / Carrie Underwood and Randy Travis
Best Country Instrumental Performance: Producer's Song / Steve Wariner
Best Country Song: White Horse
Best Country Album: Fearless

2010 Grammy Award winners list, New Age/Jazz Genres:

Best New Age Album: Prayer for Compassion / David Darling
Best Contemporary Jazz Album: 75 / Jay Zawinul and the Zawinul Syndicate
Best Jazz Vocal Album: Dedicated to You: Kurt Elling Sings the Music of Coltrane and Hartman

Sources:

Grammy Awards Winners List, Grammy Online

52nd Annual Grammy Awards Broadcast, CBS, 1/31/2010