Which Arcade Fire album won the 2011 Grammy Award for Album of the Year?

Arcade Fire’s album The Suburbs won the 2011 Grammy Award for Album of the Year.

The Canadian band released The Suburbs on August 2, 2010. Its songs examine suburban life, memory, growing older, and the tension between familiarity and change. The title track and “Ready to Start” became two of the album’s best-known songs.

At the 53rd Grammy Awards in February 2011, The Suburbs won Album of the Year, defeating releases by Eminem, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, and Lady Antebellum. Arcade Fire’s victory was widely regarded as a major recognition for an alternative rock group.

The award is sometimes confused with the 2011 Brit Award for Best International Album, which The Suburbs also won. Arcade Fire’s earlier album Funeral had received critical acclaim but did not win this Grammy.