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Justin Bieber's a Winner After All, Thanks to the Brits

Justin Bieber may be resting easier tonight. The 16-year-old phenom, who admitted to being disappointed by his Grammy loss for Best New Artist on Sunday, salvaged his week by leaving London with the Brit Award for Best International Breakthrough Act.
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Justin Bieber may be resting easier tonight.

The 16-year-old phenom, who admitted to being disappointed by his Grammy loss for Best New Artist on Sunday, salvaged his week by leaving London with the Brit Award for Best International Breakthrough Act.

He had to beat Bruno Mars and the cast of Glee to get that!

And Bieber wasn't the only Grammy refugee to be honored overseas...

GALLERY: Star sightings at the 2011 Brit Awards

Rihanna started out the night in a multicolored, seemingly Cee Lo Green-inspired party dress that immediately had us hankering for slushies and cotton candy, and later quickened pulses by performing in a red rose-inspired mini with a dramatic train. The "Only GIrl in the World" singer was subsequently named Best International Female Solo Artist.

Cee Lo Green, meanwhile, was named Best International Male Solo Artist, but he was practically unrecognizable, having apparently left the plumage and puppets in the U.S. Instead, he wore a black and white Adidas track suit on the red carpet and a lounge-singer style white dinner jacket onstage. But at least his jacket was trimmed in red.

The Arcade Fire, still glowing after their Album of the Year Grammy (yet now having to deal with all the "who are they?" remarks from the hoi polloi), was named Best International Group and The Suburbs was deemed Best International Album.

"Check it out on Google," frontman Win Butler advised whomever is still unacquainted with his band.

Homegrown quartet Mumford &Sons, which made a triumphant Grammy debut performing with Bob Dylan and the Avett Brothers but lost out on two awards (Esperanza Spalding beat them, too ), won Best British Album of the Year for their debut effort, Sigh No More.

"We're very honored, very humbled," Marcus Mumford said in thanks.

The alt-folk rockers lost Best British Group, however, to none other than Robbie Williams and fellow '80s dance-pop hitmakers Take That. So there!

But despite the ocean-crossing star power in the room, perhaps the most exciting gent of the night was 22-year-old rapper Tinie Tempah, who won Best British Breakthrough Act and Best Single for "Pass Out," off of his debut album, Disc-Overy. He dedicated his wins to "U.K. music, peace and love."

And, subliminally, to Ringo.

(Originally published Feb. 15, 2011, at 5:50 p.m. PT)

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