EW Zealand's 17-year-old pop sensation Lorde has won her second Grammy Award for her hit song Royals, taking the song of the year title at the annual music ceremony in Los Angeles.
Earlier in the evening the young singer collected her first Grammy for the same song, winning best pop solo performance.
She beat out Justin Timberlake, Katy Perry and Bruno Mars to claim the award, and thanked her rivals during her acceptance speech.
"This is the one thing that I did not expect the most about tonight,'' Lorde said.
"I have been so inspired by all of your vocal work at some point in my life, so thank you,'' she said of her rivals.
Lorde, whose real name is Ella Yelich-O'Connor, stormed through international charts last year with Royals, her genre-defying tale of aspirational luxury. With the song, Lorde became the first act from New Zealand to top the Billboard chart in the US.
Lorde lost out on the record of the year trophy, which went to Get Lucky by Daft Punk (feat Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers).
Aussie artists the Greencards, Keith Urban, Baz Luhrmann, Tame Impala and Hiatus Kayote were all unsuccessful in their categories.
The Australian Chamber Orchestra enjoyed success however. The album on which they performed, Winter Morning Walks, collected four Grammys, including best classical vocal solo for singer Dawn Upshaw and best contemporary classical composition for its composer Maria Schneider.
Rap duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis cleaned up at the Grammys.
The rap duo won best new artist as well as best rap album for The Heist, beating efforts from Kendrick Lamar, Jay Z, Kanye West and Drake.
"Wow, we're here on the stage right now," said Macklemore, thanking fans first, then his fiance and team. "I want to say we made this album without a record label, we made it independently and we appreciate all the support."
Beyonce kicked off the Grammy Awards with steamy and smoky performance of Drunk In Love: She started on a chair and then grinded in a revealing black outfit. Jay Z emerged in a fitted suit to rap his verse, and the couple held hands and danced together.
LL Cool J is hosting the 56th annual awards, airing live on CBS.
Macklemore & Lewis' wins, which include best rap song and rap performance for Thrift Shop, come after the Grammy rap committee almost ousted the duo from its categories. A source told The Associated Press that the rap committee rejected the duo, but that was later overruled by the general Grammy committee. The source, who attended the general Grammy meeting, spoke on the condition of anonymity because the meeting was private.
Macklemore & Lewis are also nominated for album and song of the year.
Timberlake won two awards, including best R&B song for Pusher Love Girl and music video for "Suit & Tie," which also earned Jay Z a Grammy. Engineer Bob Ludwig and gospel singer Tye Tribett are also double winners.
Adele, who dominated the Grammys two years ago, was also an early winner. The British singer won best song written for visual media for Skyfall, which also won an Oscar and Golden Globe last year.
Pharrell Williams, Rihanna, Imagine Dragons and Daft Punk were also early winners.
Macklemore & Lewis, like Lamar, are nominated for seven trophies, and the performers are competing in five of the same categories.
The year marks a high note for hip-hop since album of the year and best new artist both feature two rap acts. OutKast and Lauryn Hill are the only two rap performers to win the coveted album of the year; Hill and Arrested Development are the only rap-based stars to take home best new artist.
A rapper has never won song or record of the year.
Jay Z, keeping up the decade-long Grammy tradition of rappers leading in nominations, was the night's frontrunner with nine.
For top album, Macklemore & Lewis and Lamar's platinum-selling debuts, The Heist and "good kid, m.A.A.d city," will battle Taylor Swift's earth-shattering sales force Red, Daft Punk's electronic adventure Random Access Memories and the surprise nominee - The Blessed Unrest from the piano-playing Sara Bareilles.
Macklemore & Lewis' Same Love is up for song of the year alongside No. 1 Billboard hits, including Katy Perry's Roar, Lorde's Royals, Locked Out of Heaven by Bruno Mars and Pink's Just Give Me a Reason, featuring Nate Ruess of fun. Lorde and Mars' songs repeat in record of the year, and will be up against Imagine Dragons' Radioactive and two songs that feature Pharrell Williams - Daft Punk's Get Lucky and Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines, which has sold 6.6 million tracks and is the biggest song of 2013.
Lorde is just one of the top females to hit the Grammy stage Sunday: Beyonce, Madonna, Carole King, Pink, Swift and Perry will also perform at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
The men are showing up, too, and performers include Metallica, Willie Nelson, Dave Grohl and Nine Inch Nails. Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney, who has two nominations, will sing separately on the telecast.
"I love it because you see a lot of people that you'll never see anywhere else and you'll see a lot of old friends," Starr said.
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