Six things we learned from the 2010 Grammy Award-Winners:

1 – Shady’s Back!

2 – 2008’s Slumdog Millionaire refuses to back down.

3 – Kanye can relax, even though Beyonce didn’t get the best music video award, she killed in almost everything else.

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4 – Phoenix proved that one incredible song (“1904”), can bring in enough fans to make you Grammy-certified. (The Cadillac endorsement probably helped a bit as well.)

5 – Taylor Swift never leaves an award show empty-handed

6 – The Lady’s reign over the pop sector (GaGa & Antebellum)

For those of you who missed it, here is a recap of the Grammy Award winners from last night’s show!

Album of the Year

Fearless- Taylor Swift

Best Female Pop Vocal Performance

“Halo”- Beyoncé

Song of the Year

“Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)” — Thaddis Harrell, Beyoncé Knowles, Terius Nash & Christopher Stewart, songwriters (Beyoncé)

Best Solo Rock Performance

“Working on a Dream” — Bruce Springsteen

Record of the Year

“Use Somebody” — Kings of Leon

Best Country Album

Fearless — Taylor Swift

Best Rock Album

21st Century Breakdown — Green Day

Best Hard Rock Performance

“War Machine” — AC/DC

Best Rap/Sung Collaboration

“Run This Town” — Jay-Z, Rihanna & Kanye West

Best Dance Recording

“Poker Face” — Lady Gaga

Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals

“Use Somebody” — Kings of Leon

Best New Artist

Zac Brown Band

Best Electronic/Dance Album

The Fame — Lady Gaga

Best Alternative Music Album

Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix — Phoenix

Best Contemporary R&B Album

I Am… Sasha Fierce — Beyoncé

Best Female R&B Vocal Performance

“Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)” — Beyoncé

Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals

“I Gotta Feeling” — The Black Eyed Peas

Best Rock Song

“Use Somebody” — Caleb Followill, Jared Followill, Matthew Followill & Nathan Followill, songwriters (Kings Of Leon)

Best Pop Vocal Album

The E.N.D. — The Black Eyed Peas

Best Male R&B Vocal Performance

“Pretty Wings” — Maxwell

Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals

“Blame It” — Jamie Foxx & T-Pain

Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance

“At Last” — Beyoncé

Best Rock Instrumental Performance

“A Day in the Life” — Jeff Beck

Best Urban/Alternative Performance

“Pearls” — India.Arie & Dobet Gnahore

Best R&B Song

“Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)” — Thaddis Harrell, Beyoncé Knowles, Terius Nash & Christopher Stewart, songwriters (Beyoncé)

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 & 50 Cent

Best Rap Song

“Run This Town” — Jeff Bhasker, Shawn Carter, Robyn Fenty, Kanye West & Ernest Wilson, songwriters (Athanasios Alatas, songwriter) (Jay-Z, Rihanna & Kanye West)

Best Rap Album

Relapse — Eminem

Best Male Pop Vocal Performance

“Make It Mine” — Jason Mraz

Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals

“Lucky” — Jason Mraz & Colbie Caillat

Best Female Country Vocal Performance

“White Horse” — Taylor Swift

Best Male Country Vocal Performance

“Sweet Thing” — Keith Urban

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album

Michael Bublé Meets Madison Square Garden — Michael Bublé

Best Metal Performance

“Dissident Aggressor” — Judas Priest

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 & Randy Travis

Best Country Song

“White Horse” — Liz Rose & Taylor Swift, songwriters (Taylor Swift)

Best Americana Album

Electric Dirt — Levon Helm

Best Contemporary Blues Album

Already Free — The Derek Trucks Band

Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media

Slumdog Millionaire — Various Artists, A.R. Rahman, producer

Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media

“Jai Ho” (From Slumdog Millionaire) — Gulzar, A.R. Rahman & Tanvi Shah, songwriters (A.R. Rahman, Sukhvinder Singh, Tanvi Shah, Mahalaxmi Iyer & Vijay Prakash)

Best Recording Package

Everything That Happens Will Happen Today — Stefan Sagmeister, art director (David Byrne & Brian Eno)

Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package

Neil Young Archives Vol. I (1963-1972) — Gary Burden, Jenice Heo & Neil Young, art directors (Neil Young)

Best Short Form Music Video

“Boom Boom Pow” — The Black Eyed Peas

Best Long Form Music Video

“The Beatles Love – All Together Now” — (Various Artists)

Best Comedy Album

A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift Of All! — Stephen Colbert

- Jessica Cole

Currently Listening to: “Sundown, Sundown” by Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood

Last year alone, Beyonce released eight singles off her album, I Am… Sasha Fierce, toured around the world and earned 10 Grammy nominations, and no doubt, that’s listing the very minimum of her activities.

She told USA Today, “It’s definitely time to take a break, to recharge my batteries.  I’d like to take about six months and not go into the studio.  I need to just live life, to be inspired by things again.”

“I’ve always worked hard, but I feel like I worked harder this past year than I have since I was just starting out.  I just had all these great opportunities… I visited the pyramids in Egypt.  I saw the Great Wall of China and went out in the middle of the ocean in Australia to see the whales I actually got sprayed in the face. I made some great memories this year and really learned to enjoy life.”

Well, good for her. She deserves some time off. Hang with the family and boyfriend a bit, maybe?  She’s only 28 after all.

-Maggie Summers

currently listening to “Oxford Comma” by Vampire Weekend

Beyonce Knowles

R&B super diva Beyonce was name Artist of the Decade by the U.K. newspaper The Guardian.  Amidst talking about her growth as an artist and marriage to fellow mega star Jay-Z, Beyonce said thhat she’d like to collaborate with Athens’ own Of Montreal.

She told The Guardian she’s recently taken a liking to different genres of music, including indie psych rockers and Of Montreal — all thanks to lil’ sis Solange — and that she “would love to do something like that on my next album.”

So we may have a booty-shaking club hit meets Kevin Barnes alter ego freak-out tune sometime in the future.  All the single ladies (who are also Of Montreal fans), keep your fingers crossed.

—Kristen Callihan

currently listening to “Buckets of Rain” by Neko Case