NEW YORK – The Grammys have made sweet music in the ratings, with the show’s biggest TV audience in six years.

Beyonce accepts the award for best female pop vocal performance at the Grammy Awards on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)

Preliminary Nielsen figures Monday show the CBS broadcast attracted 25.8 million viewers. That would be the annual music award show’s highest ratings since 2004.

The 52nd Annual Grammy Awards logged a year-to-year viewer boost of more than a third and dominated network rivals Sunday night.

ABC took the runner-up position for the evening. It beat out the third-place Fox network with 9.1 million versus 4.3 million viewers, respectively.