"I didn't think we were going to win this one, " lead singer Nate Ruess said after the best new artist win.
But it's worth noting that Alabama Shakes was considered SXSW's musical breakout last year, just months before the group won the Best New Artist Grammy.
Fun's anthem We Are Young, featuring Janelle Monae, was named song of the year, with the New York band going on to win the best new artist prize.
That album generated three Top 20 hits and helped Hornsby win the Best New Artist Grammy, and it laid the groundwork for a wildly diverse career encompassing jazz, pop, classical, bluegrass, folk, rock and Vaudeville.
He appeared uninvited onstage at the 2006 MTV Europe Music Awards, walked out of the 2004 American Music Awards after losing in the Best New Artist category and reportedly threw a backstage tantrum at the 2007 VMAs because he did not perform on the main stage.
But the members of the Recording Academy, who vote on the Grammys, have made some stunningly questionable decisions over the years and not just the notorious Best New Artist Grammy they gave to the lip-sync act Milli Vanilli.
While the categories honored at the VMAs still include video of the year, best new artist, best video in the hip-hop, pop or rock genres and many others, the award show has become a celebration of the MTV family of programming and of the youth that it entertains.
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It used to be that winning a Grammy was one of the best way for a new artist to enter into the public imagination.
Hayes began an incredible run on the awards show circuit with a nomination for best new artist at the ACMs last year.
He won the Country Music Association's best new artist in November, was tied with Swift as the top-nominated country artist at Sunday's Grammy Awards, where he performed, and now takes center stage in Las Vegas.
Bellows was the most talented and, ultimately, the second-best artist who studied with Robert Henri, at the New York School of Art, early in the twentieth century.
She began working with beads and sewing as a child on the La Jolla Luiseno Reservation in California, and at 22, became the youngest artist to earn best in show at New Mexico's Santa Fe Market, the largest crafts fair in Indian Country.
Perhaps the surest bet is Justin Bieber for Best New Artist, a five-to-two favorite.
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Esperanza Spalding, the bass-playing jazz singer whose best new artist win upset Justin Bieber fans two years ago, was present to win two more Grammys in the pre-telecast.
Other winners at the ceremony, hosted by Russell Brand, included Lady Gaga for best new artist, whose live performance culminated in her pretending to stab herself and swinging from the ceiling.
Reggae artist Sean Paul took the best new act award and best video was won by Sigur Ros.
Fun won Best New Artist and Song of the Year, edging out the Lumineers and a tune by Mr. Sheeran.
Bon Iver wins best new artist and Justin Vernon gives a speech basically denouncing the Grammys.
Drake, whom Spalding also beat two years ago for best new artist, may now wish he had been there because the rapper was awarded his first Grammy after 13 nominations.
Jazz bassist Esperanza Spalding upset boy wonder Justin Bieber for Best New Artist (according to pre-ceremony Vegas odds, Spalding was the longest shot to win).
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Fun. took home major awards best new artist, in something of an upset over Frank Ocean, and song of the year for the transcendent anthem "We Are Young, " featuring Janelle Monae.
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