​The 57th annual Grammy Awards turned out to be an excellent night for 22-year-old performer Sam Smith, who went home with Best New Artist, Record of the Year and Song of the Year.

Smith was also on top in Facebook mentions surrounding the show, taking the lead with 45 million interactions on the platform. Facebook’s top social moment in the entire awards show was when Smith accepted his award for Record of the Year and thanked the man about whom he wrote the album: “Thank you so much for breaking my heart because you got me four Grammys.”

Other top Facebook moments were AC/DC’s opening song and Madonna’s performance.

The Grammys telecast Sunday night saw a ratings dip, averaging 25.3 million viewers overall. That marks a six-year low in Nielsen ratings and an 11 percent drop from the 2014 Grammy Awards. CBS.com, however, saw record traffic, with this year being the first time fans could stream the entire broadcast on the Website or CBS All Access.

This year’s Grammys show had to go up against AMC’s midseason return of The Walking Dead, cable’s highest-rated series, which debuted Sunday night at 9 p.m. The Walking Dead hit 15.6 million viewers Sunday night, while the debut of Breaking Bad prequel Better Call Saul became the biggest series premiere in cable history in its key demographic, with 4.4 million adults 18-49 and 6.9 million viewers overall. The second episode of Better Call Saul debuts Monday, Feb. 9 and begins the show’s normal Monday night schedule.

Nielsen’s social charts named the 2015 Grammy Awards the biggest social entertainment program thus far of the 2014-15 season (thereby excluding the Super Bowl).

On Twitter, according to Lost Remote, the platform saw more than 13 million posts about the show. People responded most to when Beck won Album of the Year and Kanye West again took the stage to interrupt him (before he thought better of it). West later said backstage that he didn’t agree with Beck’s win and “Beck needs to respect artistry and he should’ve given his award to Beyonce.”

The moment, below, was a call-back to when West interrupted Taylor Swift onstage on behalf of Beyonce at the 2009 VMAs for Swift’s win.

Twitter also tracked the most interactions on its platform when Madonna performed and when Smith won his fourth Grammy of the night, this one for Record of the Year. The five most tweeted-about celebrities at the Grammys were Kanye West for his onstage stunt, Sam Smith, Beyonce, Ed Sheeran and Iggy Azalea.

Sheeran also had the show’s most-Shazamed moment with his performance with Electric Light Orchestra of the song “Mr. Blue Sky.” But his own song, “Thinking Out Loud,” also made the top three, when he performed it with John Mayer. “Thinking Out Loud” was also the most clicked-to-buy Shazam throughout the night.

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