Best Pop Vocal Album The E.N.D. - The Black Eyed Peas
Breakthrough - Colbie Caillat
All I Ever Wanted - Kelly Clarkson
The Fray - The Fray
Funhouse - Pink
Funhouse is the definition of pop masterpiece that year.
So What, Sober, Please Don't Leave Me, Glitter In The Air, I Don't Believe You etc.
2011
Not a bad choice, but a surprising one. The public was not expecting Arcade Fire's The Suburbs to take album of the year at the 2011 Grammys, especially when Katy Perry's Teenage Dream was the ubiquitous album that year. While nearly every music critic preferred the former to the latter, it was surprising the Recording Academy went with the elite vs. the popular choice. After all, Perry's album scored five No. 1 hits -- tying a record previously set by Michael Jackson.
Beyoncé for ST in AOTY and Best Urban Contemporary Album.
Mariah in 1996, the Grammys were so shady, didn't they air every category she was nominated in?
Gaga never being nominated for Best New Artist and the Grammys changing the rules the year after that because of the sole purpose that she was snubbed.