Beyoncé and other Grammy award winners from the past five years: how did they fare in the UK charts?

The Grammy Awards were held in Los Angeles last night, with big wins for Beyoncé and Taylor Swift. Compare their UK chart positions with those of previous Grammy award winners
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Beyoncé accepts one of the six Grammys she won at the Grammy awards last night. But how did the top winners do in the UK charts? Photograph: Mike Blake/Reuters

Beyoncé was the big winner at the Grammy Awards in the US last night, taking home six statues including best female pop vocal performance for Halo and song of the year for Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It).

Country up-and-comer Taylor Swift followed closely with four Grammys, including album of the year for Fearless. Kings of Leon meanwhile won the night's top award, record of the year, with Use Somebody.

Beyoncé may have set a record for the most awards won by a female solo artist in one year (she now has sixteen Grammys in total, including those won with former group Destiny's Child), but does Grammys success mean success in the British music charts? The Official Charts Company has taken the winners in ten of the main Grammy categories over the last five years and charted their peak position in the UK top 200.

A quick look at the data shows that Coldplay and U2 are the only Grammy-winning artists who also scored a UK number one with the same single. Seven of the winning albums also held the UK number one spot, but the Grammys don't always mean UK success. Of the records that were released in this country, seven of the singles and two of the albums peaked outside the top 40, including a chart position of 115 for John Mayer's single Waiting for the World to Change and 192 for Herbie Hancock's album River: The Joni Letters.

Check out the tables below or download the spreadsheet for the full dataset of winners in all ten categories, including vocal performances and rock album.

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DATA: Grammy award winners and their UK chart positions

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Data summary

Grammy record of the year winners

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Year
Title
Artist
Chart position
2009 Use Somebody Kings Of Leon 2
2008 Please Read The Letter Robert Plant & Alison Krauss n/a
2007 Rehab Amy Winehouse 7
2006 Not Ready To Make Nice Dixie Chicks 70
2005 Boulevard Of Broken Dreams Green Day 5

Grammy album of the year winners

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Year
Title
Artist
Chart position
2009 Fearless Taylor Swift 5
2008 Raising Sand Robert Plant & Alison Krauss 2
2007 River: The Joni Letters Herbie Hancock 192
2006 Taking The Long Way Dixie Chicks 10
2005 How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb U2 1

Grammy song of the year winners

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Year
Title
Artist
Single
2009 Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) Beyoncé 7
2008 Viva La Vida Coldplay 1
2007 Rehab Amy Winehouse 7
2006 Not Ready To Make Nice Dixie Chicks 70
2005 Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own U2 1

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