Australian DJ and music producer Harley Streten, best known as Flume, was almost lost for words as he climbed the stairs to the stage at the 59th Grammy Awards to accept his win.

The 25-year-old from Sydney had just missed out on the Best Dance Recording category for his hit Never Be Like You featuring Kai, with The Chainsmokers instead victorious for Don’t Let Me Down.

But just a few minutes later a stunned Flume heard his name called out as winner of Best Dance/Electronic Album for Skin.

“Wow. This is totally insane,” he told the at the ceremony underway in Los Angeles.

Flume is no stranger to winning awards in Australia, with hauls at ARIA ceremonies, but at the music world’s biggest night he was floored to win in a category featuring Jean-Michel Jarre, Tycho, Underworld and Louie Vega.

“I’m really proud to be here representing Australia and Australian music at the Grammys on this stage right now,” Flume told the audience.

Adele wins big, Bowie wins posthumous awards

Adele’s Hello won song of the year, record of the year and best pop solo performance, while her album, 25, won album of the year. 

Hello was up against Formation by Beyonce, I Took a Pill In Ibiza by Mike Posner, Love Yourself by Justin Bieber, and 7 Years by Lukas Graham in a hotly-contested song of the year category.

Beyonce went into the awards with a leading nine nominations for Lemonade, but came away with two wins for Formation which won for best video and best urban contemporary album.

Beyonce wowed the audience with her. first public performance since the surprise announcement 12 days ago that she is pregnant with twins.

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Wearing a sheer, glittering gold dress and halo atop flowing blonde locks, Beyonce sang a medley of the emotional ballads Love Drought and Sandcastles from Lemonade, her Grammy-nominated album about feminism, race and betrayal.

Singing seated on a chair and surrounded by floating petals, the 35-year-old singer also appeared in video projections wearing a gold-chain string bikini.

Beyonce’s performance was seen as an ode to motherhood. Photo: Getty.

Accepting the Best Album award Adele said: “I can’t possibly accept this award.”

“I’m very grateful and very gracious, but my artist of my life is Beyonce, and this album for me … the Lemonade album was so monumental, well thought out and so beautiful and soul-baring. We all got to see another side to you that you don’t always let us see, and we appreciate that. All us artists here f**king adore you,” she said.

David Bowie won four posthumous Grammys for his final album Blackstar.

Blackstar was released just days before his death from cancer in January 2016.

Accepting the rock performance Grammy on Bowie’s behalf, band-mate Donny McCaslin called Bowie “an artistic genius and a funny-as-hell guy”.

Earlier, among the awards handed out before the televised show, an overwhelmed Chance the Rapper picked up his first ever Grammy, for best rap performance.

“This is crazy … I love my family, I love God and I love music,” the Chicago artist said.

George Michael and Prince remembered

Prince and British pop star George Michael, who both died unexpectedly last year, were remembered in special tributes.

Singer Adele during during her George Michael tribute. Photo: Christopher Polk/Getty.

“First of all, I really apologise for swearing,” Adele said, addressing her f-bomb moment earlier in the show.

“George Michael really means a lot to me and I apologise if I offended anyone.”

Earlier, the singer had messed up her performance of Fastlove during the Michael tribute and started again after cursing on live TV.

“I’m sorry. I can’t mess this up for him,” she said to the audience. “Can we start again?” The expletive was bleeped.

The second performance was flawless and heartfelt, as images of the late singer, who died on Christmas Day at age 53, played on the screen behind her.

Adele looked near tears as she finished, as the crowd received the performance with a standing ovation.

Singer Halsey attended in a stunning style. Photo: Getty.

Actor/singer Jennifer Lopez. Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images.

Musician Lady Gaga made – as always – a huge impact. Photo: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty.

Many stars missing

Some of music’s biggest current acts were missing

Frank Ocean did not submit his critically acclaimed Blonde for Grammy consideration because he considers the organisation out of touch with young black artists, while multiple nominees Justin Bieber and Kanye West were not expected to attend for similar reasons despite multiple nominations.

Canadian rapper Drake, whose album Views was the biggest selling album worldwide in 2016, and who won two early Grammys, is on tour in England.

Other Aussies not so lucky

Australia’s other Grammy nominees didn’t share Flume’s success, with Keith Urban, Sia and Hillsong Young & Free missing out on awards.

Urban was nominated for Best Country Album, but Sturgill Simpson took out the award with A Sailor’s Guide To Earth.

Justin Timberlake’s Can’t Stop The Feeling!, for the movie Trolls, won the best written song for visual media award ahead of the Sia-penned, Try Everything, from the Disney animated hit Zootopia.

Sia also lost out for Best Pop Vocal Album to Adele, who won for her album 25.

Hillary Scott & The Scott Family dashed the hopes of two Australian nominees in the Christian music categories.

Australian brothers Joel and Luke Smallbone and their band For King & Country were nominated for Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song for their hit Priceless, but fell to the Scotts.

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Hillsong Young & Free, the latest offshoot of the Sydney-based mega Hillsong church, were also left empty-handed to the Scotts in the Best Contemporary Christian album category.

Brisbane-born big band leader Tim Davies lost out in the Best Instrumental Composition category to the Ted Nash Big Band.

Best Pop duo went to Twenty One Pilots and their song Stressed Out, beating Sia’s collaborations with Sean Paul on Cheap Thrills.

The full list of winners:

Album of the year

25 – Adele – WINNER
Lemonade – Beyoncé
Purpose – Justin Bieber
Views – Drake
Sailor’s Guide to Earth – Sturgill Simpson

Record of the year

Hello – Adele – WINNER
Formation – Beyoncé
7 Years – Lukas Graham
Work – Rihanna
Stressed Out – Twenty One Pilots

Song of the year

Formation – Beyoncé
Hello – Adele – WINNER
I Took A Pill In Ibiza – Mike Posner
Love Yourself – Justin Bieber
7 Years – Lukas Graham

Best rap album

Chance the Rapper – Coloring Book – WINNER
De La Soul – And The Anonymous Nobody
DJ Khaled – Major Key
Drake – Views
Schoolboy Q – Blank Face LP
Kanye West – The Life of Pablo

Best urban contemporary album

Beyonce – Lemonade – WINNER
Gallant – Ology
King – We Are King
Anderson Paak – Malibu
Rihanna – Anti

Best country solo performance

Love Can Go To Hell – Brandy Clark
Vice – Miranda Lambert
My Church – Maren Morris – WINNER
Church Bells – Carrie Underwood
Blue Ain’t Your Color – Keith Urban

Best rock song

Blackstar – David Bowie – WINNER
Burn the Witch – Radiohead
Hardwired – Metallica
Heathens – Twenty One Pilots
My Name Is Human – Highly Suspect

Best pop duo/group performance

Closer – The Chainsmokers featuring Halsey
7 Years – Lukas Graham
Work – Rihanna
Cheap Thrills – Sia featuring Sean Paul
Stressed Out – Twenty One Pilots – WINNER

Best new artist

Kelsea Ballerini
The Chainsmokers
Chance the Rapper – WINNER
Maren Morris
Anderson Paak

Best pop vocal album

Adele – 25 – WINNER
Justin Bieber – Purpose
Ariana Grande – Dangerous Woman
Demi Lovato – Confident
Sia – This Is Acting

Best pop solo performance

Hello – Adele – WINNER
Hold Up – Beyoncé
Love Yourself – Justin Bieber
Piece By Piece (Idol Version) – Kelly Clarkson
Dangerous Woman – Ariana Grande

Best R&B performance

BJ The Chicago Kid – Turnin’ Me Up
Ro James – Permission
Musiq Soulchild – I Do
Rihanna – Needed Me
Solange – Cranes In the Sky – WINNER

Best R&B song

PartyNextDoor Featuring Drake – Come See Me
Bryson Tiller – Exchange
Rihanna – Kiss It Better
Maxwell – Lake By the Ocean – WINNER
Tory Lanez – Luv

Best rap performance

Chance The Rapper featuring Lil Wayne & 2 Chainz – No Problem – WINNER
Desiigner – Panda
Drake featuring the Throne – Pop Style
Fat Joe & Remy Ma featuring French Montana & Infared – All the Way Up
Schoolboy Q featuring Kanye West – That Part

Best rap/sung performance

Drake – Hotline Bling – WINNER
Beyoncé featuring Kendrick Lamar – Freedom
DRAM featuring Lil Yachty – Broccoli
Kanye West featuring Chance the Rapper, Kelly Price, Kirk Franklin & The-Dream – Ultralight Beam
Kanye West featuring Rihanna – Famous

Best R&B album

BJ The Chicago Kid – In My Mind
Lalah Hathaway – Lalah Hathaway Live – WINNER
Terrace Martin – Velvet Portraits
Mint Condition – Healing Season
Mya – Smoove Jones

Best rap song

Fat Joe & Remy Ma featuring French Montana & Infared – All The Way Up
Kanye West featuring Rihanna – Famous
Drake – Hotline Bling – WINNER
Chance the Rapper featuring Lil Wayne & 2 Chainz – No Problem
Kanye West featuring Chance the Rapper, Kelly Price, Kirk Franklin & The-Dream – Ultralight Beam

Best metal performance

Baroness – Shock Me
Silvera – Gojira
Korn – Rotting In Vain
Megadeth – Dystopia – WINNER
Periphery – The Price is Wrong

Best rock performance

Alabama Shakes – Joe (Live from Austin City Limits)
Beyoncé featuring Jack White – Don’t Hurt Yourself
David Bowie – Blackstar – WINNER
Disturbed – The Sound of Silence (Live on Conan)
Twenty One Pilots – Heathens

Best dance recording

Bob Moses – Tearing Me Up
The Chainsmokers – Don’t Let Me Down – WINNER
Flume – Never Be Like You
Riton – Rinse and Repeat
Sofi Tukker – Drinkee

Best dance/electronic album

Skin – Flume – WINNER
Electronica 1: The Time Machine – Jean-Michel Jarre
Epoch – Tycho
Barbara, Barbara, We Face A Shining Future – Underworld

Best music video

Beyonce – Formation – WINNER
Leon Bridges – River
Coldplay – Up and Up
Jamie xx – Gosh
OK Go – Upside Down and Inside Out

Best country song

Keith Urban – Blue Ain’t Your Color
Thomas Rhett – Die A Happy Man
Tim McGraw – Humble and Kind – WINNER
Maren Morris – My Church
Miranda Lambert – Vice

Best country duo/group performance

Dierks Bentley Featuring Elle King – Different For Girls
Brothers Osborne – 21 Summer
Kenny Chesney and Pink – Setting the World On Fire
Pentatonix Featuring Dolly Parton – Jolene – WINNER
Chris Young With Cassadee Pope – Think of You

 – with AAP, ABC