Lady Gaga Egg Stunt Helps Grammy Awards Earns Huge TV Audience

This year's Grammy Awards secured its biggest TV audience in 11 years, broadcaster CBS has announced.

A total of 26.66million people tuned in to see Lady Gaga emerge from a womb-like egg to perform new single 'Born This Way'.

The figures were up 3% on last year's audience, but the ceremony on Sunday (February 13) has still come under fire from critics.

The Hollywood Reporter's Tim Goodman called the show “lousy” and “bad placed”.

Country act Lady Antebellum were the big winners, taking home five awards, while Lady Gaga, Jay-Z and John Legend all won three prizes.

You can see highlights from the red carpet below on Gigwise, as well as the full Grammy Awards 2011 winners list.

Grammy Awards 2011 - Red Carpet Photos