More than 24 million people tuned into CBS to watch the 58th Grammy Awards on Feb. 15, which was hosted by LL Cool J and held at the Los Angeles Staples Center.  The center was filled with this decade’s newest musicians, and 83 gramophone awards were given out that night to artists, composers and producers from all over the world.

There are four categories that the audience looks forward to every year, including “Record of the Year”, “Album of the Year”, “Song of the Year” and “Best New Artist”– all of which in the 2016 awards had jaw-dropping winners.

I sat through the four-hour ceremony with my hopes high just to be let down in the end. I was happy to see the winner of “Record of The Year”, but not so happy with the winners of “Song of the Year”, “Album of The Year” and “Best New Artist”.

The competition was stiff, but I don’t understand how a team of music experts let this one slip through their fingers.

The awards are decided by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS), and the nominees are chosen by the committee’s 150 musical experts who have access to multiple private listening sessions of the nominees’ albums or songs. The top five artists or songs with the most votes are accepted into the category.

“Record of the Year” nominees included “Uptown Funk” by Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars, “Really Love” by D’Angelo and the Vanguard, “Thinking Out Loud” by Ed Sheeran, “Blank Space” by Taylor Swift and “Can’t Feel My Face” by The Weeknd.

The Grammy went to Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars for “Uptown Funk”. The “Record of the Year” is featured on Mark Ronson’s album “Uptown Special”, which came out in 2015.

“Uptown Funk” made its way on many television screens across the world at the 50th NFL Super Bowl this Feb. 7, 2016. Performed aside some of this millennium’s most well-known artists, such as Beyoncé and Coldplay, Mark Ronson’s “Uptown Funk” had its shining moment.

The award presented by Beyoncé might have had viewers rolling their eyes since the song has now been played hundreds of times—it was inescapable all summer long. While listeners might be tired of the tune, deep down we know the song deserved the win. With its intense beats and old- school feel, it was stylistically the one record out of the five that stood out as unique. It didn’t sit at number 1 on the Billboard charts for 14 weeks straight without reason.  The record also holds the longest-leading top 100 number 1 of the 2010s. That changes this record from the record of the year to the record of the decade.

I also appreciate that this song wasn’t the typical love song, like the other records in its category, and I was excited for a DJ to win along-side the largely-known Bruno Mars.

In contrast to “Record of the Year”, I definitely had “Bad Blood” with the winner of “Album of the Year,” Taylor Swift. “1989” went up against albums “Sound & Color” by Alabama Shakes, “To Pimp a Butterfly” by Kendrick Lamar, “Traveller” by Chris Stapleton and “Beauty behind the Madness” by The Weeknd.

The fact that the album came out in 2014 and not 2015 left many confused as to how she took home the 2015 award for “Album of the Year”, but the album has been received positively by the critics.  One critic for the Rolling Stone magazine said that the 13- track album “sounds exactly like Taylor Swift, even when it sounds like nothing she’s ever tried before.” Yet, I think nothing has changed even in this album. It’s still three-minute chunks of her cookie cutter lyrics about how the last boy is out of her life.

A more deserving album might have been “To Pimp a Butterfly” by Kendrick Lamar because it had songs that touched on real-life issues. Lamar said his album is “honest, fearful and unapologetic.” It also incorporates jazz, hip-hop, funk and spoken word.

These unique arrangements in my opinion is more worthy of album of the year than “and the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, Baby, I’m just gonna shake, shake, shake, shake, shake. I shake it off, I shake it off.” Stylistic? More like repetitive.

There is no doubt Swift can put a performance on that will leave us all speechless, but this quality makes her more fit to win “Best Pop Performance,” not “Album of the Year.”

Stevie Wonder made viewers all anxious as he joked about the struggles of opening the “Song of the Year” envelope, leaving audiences all laughing, and nominees on the edges of their seats.

Nominees included “Thinking Out Loud” by Ed Sheeran, “Alright” by Kendrick Lamar, “Blank Space” by Taylor Swift, “Girl Crush” by Little Big Town and “See You Again” by Wiz Khalifa, featuring Charlie Puth.

Sheeran came out on top in this race for “Song of the Year,” but was it the best win? Although this song was heard at possibly every wedding, prom, homecoming, etc., was it worth the title of “Song of the Year”?

Here are my thoughts out loud: Sheeran is deeply talented in his songwriting, but the song on his album “X” took 19 weeks just to reach number one in the United Kingdom. Yet, “See You Again” is now tied for the longest leading number one rap on the Billboard charts, holding this spot for 12 weeks.

And just like “1989”, it was released in 2014. Yet, two other songs it was up against, such as “Alright” and “See You Again”, debuted in 2015.

There is no doubt Sheeran is Grammy-worthy, but his song, “Thinking Out Loud”, may not have deserved the hype it got. His competitor, Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth’s song “See You Again”

wowed listeners with its piano element and contrasting beats. Also, the two artists featured on the track bring an exciting mix of Puth’s voice and Khalifa’s powerful raps.

The winner should also have a song with meaning. Yes, it’s cute that Sheeran sings about lovers growing old together, but Khalifa and Puth are the faces for the memorial of late actor Paul Walker. “See You Again” was a theme song as the “Fast and Furious” movies came to an end and the cast was saying goodbye to their great friend Walker. Walker died in a car crash in 2013 before finishing the movie.

Therefore, it’s goosebumps-inducing when Khalifa shines a light on the importance of friendship and family: “How can we not talk about family when family’s all that we got? Everything I went through you were standing there by my side. And now you gon’ be with me for the last ride.”

Not only for its inspiring lyrics but for the sake of Walker’s life, we should have seen Khalifa and Puth up there on stage holding that gramophone.

“Best New Artist” was quite possibly the most confusing category of them all with nominees Meghan Trainor, Tori Kelly, Sam Hunt, James Bay and Courtney Barnett.

Somehow that envelope had results nobody would have ever expected. Meghan Trainor took home the title as 2015’s “Best New Artist”, and honestly it felt like the voting tallies must have been incorrectly counted because Trainor should have never received this award.

She hit the stage in tears, and I had some, too, but not for the same reason. I was rooting for young British artist James Bay to win best new artist.  I would have even accepted Tori Kelly, but Trainor’s win left me speechless.

Trainor could have possibly won “Best New Artist” in 2014 when she told us all about her bass, but 2015 wasn’t controlled by her music. James Bay has the voice that stands out among the competition. There’s something rich and indie about his style that deserved on-stage recognition.   Bay’s songs, such as “Let It Go” or “Hold Back the River”–all featured on his debut album “Chaos and The Calm”– are songs this decade needs more of. Normal pop songs and hip-hop songs are becoming too mainstream, and Bay’s vibes are a fresh sound for this decade.

A new year of music is upon us as the 2016 Grammys are now all distributed, but hopefully next year, the golden gramophones will find their way to the nominee who truly topped the category.