Grammy Awards Celebrate Blush of Youth

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From left, Ben Lovett, Marcus Mumford, Ted Dwane and Winston Marshall of Mumford & Sons won the album of the year award, presented by Adele, far right. More Photos »

LOS ANGELES — The Black Keys and their frontman, Dan Auerbach, emerged as the big winners at the Grammy Awards, taking home four trophies, including best rock album, but it was the British folk-rock group Mumford & Sons that won the coveted album of the year for "Babel."

Marcus Mumford beamed as he and his band mates were handed the award after a long night of watching others win. "We figured we weren't going to win anything because the Black Keys have been sweeping up all day, and deservedly so," he said.

The night's other big winner was the Belgian-Australian songwriter Gotye. He garnered three trophies, including record of the year and best pop duo or group performance for his smash single with Kimbra, "Somebody That I Used to Know," which was the best-selling single in the United States last year. Gotye's album "Making Mirrors" also won best alternative album. He seemed as impressed that Prince handed him the record-of-the-year award as he was with the trophy itself. "It's a little bit flabbergasting," he said.

Fun., the Brooklyn pop-rock trio, won best new artist and song of the year for "We Are Young," their inescapable hit that spent six weeks atop the Hot 100 and sold more than six million copies.

The group's frontman, Nate Ruess, seemed nonplused as he accepted the award for song of the year. "I don't know what I was thinking when I wrote the chorus of this song," he said. "Look at our faces. We are not young. We have been doing this for 12 years, and we could not do it without the help of all our fans."

The night's other winners of triple awards included Skrillex, Jay-Z and Kanye West.

Taylor Swift began the 55th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony here with an extravagant circus-themed production number, singing her young woman's lament about a feckless boyfriend — "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" — amid confetti, fire-eaters, dancing clowns, jugglers, men on stilts and trapeze artists.

It was a festive opening to an award year that seemed to tilt toward youth and new music. Many of the musicians up for the top four awards were alternative bands, Americana groups or young R&B singers who were not household names.

"What's unusual about it is the youth of most of the acts in these categories," said Bill Freimuth, the Recording Academy vice president for awards, which bestows the Grammys.

"It feels to me like a transitional year, a passing of the baton."

Adele became the first woman since Barbra Streisand in the mid-1960s to win the award for best pop solo performance two years in a row, as Grammy voters said her live version of "Set Fire to the Rain" deserved the trophy.

The R&B singer Frank Ocean, a critical darling for his solo debut "Channel Orange," took home the prize for best urban contemporary album, beating out Miguel and Chris Brown, as well as winning for best rap-sung collaboration for "No Church in the Wild," a track he made with Jay-Z, Mr. West and The-Dream.

"Babel," Mumford & Sons' second album, sold 1.4 million copies in four months. The group had six Grammy nominations, and also won for best long-form music video during the pretelecast ceremony.

The Black Keys, the stalwart blues-rock duo whose "Lonely Boy" was a hit, were up for five awards, including record and album of the year. But in the end they won best rock performance and best rock song for "Lonely Boy" as well as best rock album for "El Camino." Mr. Auerbach also won nonclassical producer of the year, in part for his work on Dr. John's "Locked Down," which won best blues album.

Miguel, a newcomer, was nominated for five awards, including song of the year for his hit "Adorn," which won best R&B song early in the evening.

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