Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You” won the 2018 Grammy Award for pop solo performance.

The other nominees were:

"Love So Soft" — Kelly Clarkson 

And that is how you start an awards show.

Ripping through a medley centering on his song “XXX” with help from U2’s Bono and the Edge, not to mention Dave Chappelle, Kendrick Lamar opened the Grammys on Sunday with the type of live-wire intensity he’s well known for — but which rarely makes it onto network television.

The performance put Lamar — Sunday’s second-most-nominated artist behind Jay-Z — onstage amid a digitized American flag and a crew of dancers wearing combat fatigues and balaclavas. A screen read, “This is a satire.”

Princess, general and, now, Grammy winner. 

Carrie Fisher, the late author and actress who portrayed Leia Organa, then Solo in the “Star Wars” saga, won a posthumous Grammy Sunday for her narration of “The Princess Diarist,” earning the award for spoken word album.

Fisher, who died Dec. 27, 2016, four days after suffering a heart attack on a flight from London to Los Angeles, was previously nominated in the same category in 2009 for her book “Wishful Drinking.” 

Reba McEntire is just one of many women who arrived to the Grammy awards at Madison Square Garden in New York on Sunday with a white rose pinned to her gown as a show of solidarity from the music industry to the Time’s Up movement.

Backstage, the country singer-songwriter – who won a trophy for roots gospel album – told reporters that to her, the #whiterose initiative symbolized a basic golden rule: Treat others how you want to be treated.

“Let’s treat people kindly. I feel like if we started there, we wouldn’t have these problems,” she said. “I’ve had great mentors and 99% were men. They steered me, and everybody was very encouraging in my career. I’ve been very blessed … I’ve never had a problem.”

Ahead of Sundays Grammys, hundreds of music industry stars and professionals signed a letter released by music business advocates Voices in  Entertainment pledging to wear white roses to tonight's awards in support of "workplaces free of sexual harassment."

Alessia Cara won the 2018 Grammy Award for best new artist.

The other nominees were:

Khalid

I just wanted to remind the audience that the only thing more frightening than watching a black man be honest in America is being an honest black man in America.

Kendrick Lamar and Rihanna won the Grammy Award for rap/sung performance at the 60th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, besting “PRBLMS” by the Atlanta singer-rapper 6LACK and Jay-Z’s collaboration with his wife Beyoncé, “Family Feud,” among others. 

After a serenade of Tony Bennett and John Legend singing “New York, New York,” Lamar accepted the Grammy with Rihanna at his side.

Lamar, who opened the show with a breathtaking medley featuring cameos by Dave Chappelle, Bono and the Edge, had an early edge. Going in to the telecast, he had run the boards in his seven nominations. At today’s afternoon ceremony at Madison Square Garden in New York, the Compton rapper won three, all for his track “Humble”: rap performance, rap song and music video. 

"Loyalty" by Kendrick Lamar featuring Rihanna won the first Grammy Award of the live telecast ceremony on Sunday night for rap/sung performance. 

The other nominees were:

"Prblms" — 6lack

Portugal. The Man cemented its unlikely ascent to alt-rock ultra-stardom with a Grammy win for pop/duo performance for “Feel It Still.”

The song – a lithe ode to ’80s synth-funk and falsetto earnestness – captured the Grammy due in part to the strength of its success on radio (it broke a record by spending 20-plus weeks on the upper reaches of the Alternative Songs Chart).

“It’s funny that’s its biggest song we’ve ever made,” singer John Gourley said on the red carpet of the Alaska-bred band’s slow-burn win. The song catapulted the act to much bigger pop success. Now the band will have to see if it can hold up into the wild future of rock radio.

Joy Villa — she of the Make America Great Again dress at last year's Grammys — has outdone herself on the red carpet this year with a hand-painted "Choose Life" purse and pure white bridal gown with a fetus surrounded by a rainbow in the shape of a womb.

And a sparkling crown.