Houston, Adele, Minaj bring bumper audience to Grammys
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LOS ANGELES--A bumper 40 million U.S. viewers watched Sunday's Grammy Awards, drawn in by the death of Whitney Houston and the performance comeback of Adele, and kept watching during a controversial religious stage act by rapper Nicki Minaj.
The telecast drew 39.9 million viewers — the second-largest Grammy TV audience ever and the biggest since 1984, ratings data showed on Monday. Last year's Grammys show drew 26 million viewers.
