Beyonce

The artist and tour de force, who led the nominations this year with a total of nine, just became the most-winning artist in the history of the Grammys.

“When I got called to play on this song it was the most organic thing that ever happened to me,” he said. Beyonce wasn’t in the house to pick up her “Cuff It” hardware. She faced off in the Best R&B Song category against Jazmine Sullivan (“Hurt Me So Good”), Mary J.

With four new prizes tonight, the megastar has now won more Grammy Awards than any other artist in the prizes' 65-year history. She has now won 32 Grammys.

"I want to thank all the incredible transgender legends before me so I could be here tonight," she added, shouting out the late trans pop artist SOPHIE in her speech, as well as Madonna and her mother for inspiration. The night was filled with a number of excellent live performances, from longtime Grammy favorites to new-comers to the stage. [Kendrick Lamar](https://www.npr.org/artists/166009689/kendrick-lamar) took home the Grammy for best rap album for his Mr. The 23-year-old cried through her whole acceptance speech, marveling that she won one of the Grammy's biggest prizes "just by being myself." "Sam graciously wanted me to accept this award because I'm the first transgender woman to win this award," Petras said in her speech. Bonnie Raitt won the song of the year prize for "Just Like That." A half an hour into the show, Beyoncé — who was reportedly late to the awards thanks to LA traffic — tied the all-time record for most Grammys won when she and a team of co-writers won best R&B song for "Cuff It." Lizzo took song of the year for "About Damn Time." Later, she gave credit to her forbearers and inspiration, adding: "I would like to thank the queer community for your love, and for inventing the genre," referring to the house music that grounded RENAISSANCE. "This is so kind," Styles said of the album of the year award, as Beyoncé gave him a standing ovation. (Adele took home took home best pop solo performance for her song "Easy on Me." Beyoncé has now captured more Grammy awards than any other artist, thanks to a quartet of trophies for her album RENAISSANCE.

After 88 career nominations, the superstar won her fourth trophy of the 2023 awards, giving her the record for most Grammy victories.

I’d like to thank the queer community for your love and for inventing the genre. I’d like to thank my parents — my father, my mother — for loving me and pushing me. Nominated nine times overall on Sunday, mostly for “Renaissance” and its songs, Beyoncé will have a chance to add to her total with the top categories still to come: song, record and album of the year, a prize she has never won despite three previous chances. I’d like to thank my beautiful husband, my beautiful three children, who are at home watching. [Beyoncé’s official Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/p/CoTgYsmLl7G/) celebrating her wins so far: “We won 3 y’all,” the caption read, alongside a photo of the singer with a trio of trophies. Alison Krauss, the bluegrass singer and violinist who was nominated twice on Sunday but lost both awards, has 27, as does Chick Corea. Thank you so much to the Grammys. Beyoncé became the first Black woman to win in the dance album category, which has been awarded since 2005. I’d like to thank my Uncle Jonny, who’s not here, but he’s here in spirit. Solti, a Hungarian-born conductor who was the previous leader, won his last award in 1998, the year after his death. “I’m trying not to be too emotional, and I’m trying to just receive this night. “I’d like to thank the queer community for your love and for inventing the genre,” the singer said.

Pop superstar Beyonce, winner of more Grammy awards than any other female artist, has never taken home the coveted album of the year trophy at the music ...

But the top prize has escaped her. “But she has never won album of the year, one of the top awards, and that’s just wrong,” he said. Beyonce heads into the show in Los Angeles with nine nominations, including an album of the year nod for the dance-heavy album Renaissance.

The singer took home four awards in a night that also saw major wins for Kendrick Lamar, Adele and Harry Styles.

The Dr Dre global impact award was awarded to Dr Dre himself in the year that marks the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. “Music isn’t just the harmony of sound but the harmony of human beings,” he said. Bad Bunny also won the Grammy for best musica urbana album. “I would like to thank the culture for allowing me to evolve,” he said in an acceptance speech, referring to the album Mr. Kim Petras also became the second transgender woman to win a Grammy, bringing home the award for best pop duo/group performance with Sam Smith for their song Unholy. Hajipour was arrested two days after the song was published, but was later released on bail. “I’m so surprised, I don’t know what to say,” she said before paying tribute to her friend and inspiration John Prine. “I want to dedicate this award to Prince. “I’m trying not to be too emotional,” the 41-year-old said on stage after winning the record-breaking prize for dance/electronic album. Morale & the Big Steppers as one of his “toughest” projects. Adele won best pop solo performance for Easy on Me, her sixteenth Grammy to date. “I think on nights like tonight it’s so important to remember there is no such thing as best in music …

It's Queen Bey's world and we're all just living in it. Beyoncé reigned at this year's Grammy Awards, breaking the record for the artist with the most ...

And this album to me, the Lemonade album, was just so monumental." Adele looked almost as unhappy as Twitter was about her victory, saying onstage: "I can't possibly accept this award … In his speech, the British musician downplayed the importance of the prize. I want to thank God for protecting me. "I'm just trying to receive this night. Beyoncé reigned at this year's Grammy Awards, breaking the record for the artist with the most trophies in the history of the awards show.

Beyoncé set a record for the most career Grammys won by any artist but was once again shut out of the biggest awards as the ceremony returned to a Los ...

The Tennessee State University Marching Band was the first college marching band ever nominated for best roots gospel album, and it won with “The Urban Hymnal.” Kendrick Lamar won three rap prizes: best performance and best song, for “The Heart Part 5,” and best album, for “Mr. For an industry that has lately gotten worried about the difficulty minting stars amid the fire hose of content in the age of streaming and social media, this year’s list of nominations was about as good as it gets. The prize was chosen by what the academy described as a “blue-ribbon committee.” Raitt, 73, was the surprise winner of song of the year — beating Adele, Beyoncé, Swift, Lizzo and Styles, whose songs were huge hits — for “Just Like That,” a tender meditation about an organ donation that had only modest commercial success. “Harry’s House” also won Styles the award for pop vocal album. Accepting her 32nd career award, Beyoncé thanked God and her family, and honored her “Uncle Jonny,” a gay relative whom she has described in the past as her “godmother” and as the person who exposed her to L.G.B.T.Q. The power of stardom was another of the night’s major underlying themes. “I hope that there’s a future where gender and identity and all these labels don’t matter that much,” Petras told reporters backstage. “You clearly are the artist of our lives!” she shouted. She had been the most nominated artist of the evening, with nine nods. But she was once again shut out of the major categories, winning all four of her prizes for the night in down-ballot genre categories.

Beyoncé is now the Recording Academy's GOAT. She won four Grammy awards Sunday night for her album RENAISSANCE — bringing her career total to 32.

Every year, she covers the Oscars and the Grammy awards for NPR, as well as the Sundance Film Festival and other events. He came to NPR in 2021 and is based out of NPR West. A Martínez is one of the hosts of Morning Edition and Up First.

The queen of pop broke records – though not for the big gongs, again. But if the Recording Academy has a history of unexpected choices, this year's wins for ...

[Harry Styles](https://www.theguardian.com/music/harry-styles)’s Harry’s House beating Renaissance to album of the year doesn’t feel the same as Beck’s Morning Phase triumphing over [Beyoncé](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/dec/13/beyonce-album-first-review) in 2015, nor does it feel the same as if, say, Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres had won this year. [Beyoncé](https://www.theguardian.com/music/beyonce) has only ever won one of them once – song of the year in 2010 for Single Ladies – which seems a fairly inexplicable state of affairs: you don’t need to be a rabid member of the Bey Hive to know that she’s had an immense cultural and commercial impact over the last 20 years. Under the circumstances, Samara Joy – a hugely gifted jazz vocalist, gradually emerging as a significant songwriter as well as an adept interpreter of standards – feels like a worthwhile choice: rooted in tradition, but too soulful to qualify as easy listening. The weirdest success was Bonnie Raitt’s [Just Like That](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Skd0XR3twCA) winning song of the year, at least from the perspective of the UK, where the album it’s from didn’t even make the charts. Certainly they’re one of the biggest-selling groups in a field where several of the nominees didn’t even seem particularly new: Molly Tuttle’s first album came out in 2006; Tobe Nwigwe’s first EP six years ago; Muni Long is 34 and released her debut album, albeit under her real name, Priscilla Renea, in 2009. Without wishing to cast shade on those doughtily toiling away in the areas covered by the best score soundtrack for video games and other interactive media and best new age ambient or chant album categories, the Grammys are ultimately about four awards: album of the year, record of the year, song of the year and best new artist.

Two categories into last night's Grammy Awards broadcast, Beyoncé found herself once again achieving an awkward status within the universe of the Recording ...

[Bonnie Raitt](https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/a-conversation-with-bonnie-raitt-plus-public-enemys-chuck-d) took home Song of the Year, for “Just Like That,” presented by Jill Biden, and Lizzo took home Record of the Year. “You clearly are the artist of our lives.” [Harry Styles](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/notes-on-hollywood/is-harry-styles-a-movie-star) looked a bit stunned as he accepted the night’s final award, for Album of the Year, for “Harry’s House.” “I think, on nights like tonight, it’s obviously so important for us to remember there’s no such thing as ‘best in music,’ ” he said. The ‘ [Lemonade](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/30/beyonces-lemonade)’ album was so monumental.” Song for “Cuff It,” a highlight from her 2022 album, “ [Renaissance](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/15/beyonces-renaissance-shocks-some-life-into-a-culture-gone-inert),” she tied with the conductor Georg Solti for the highest number of Grammy wins. When [Adele](https://www.newyorker.com/tag/adele) won Album of the Year over Beyoncé, in 2017, there was such a sense of cosmic injustice that Adele herself could not bear the result. Like Adele, Lizzo was compelled to use the end of her stage time to state the obvious: “Thank you so much,” she told Beyoncé. Bad Bunny—who won in the Música Urbana Album category but was otherwise snubbed, despite his global dominance—kicked off the show with an electrifying tribute to historical Latin genres, offering up a maximalist version of his merengue-minded single, “Después de la Playa.” It was such a dynamic performance that This was the overt story line of the evening, but the louder subtext was the question of whether the Recording Academy was finally prepared to give Beyoncé the major awards. When the performance wrapped, the cameras found Jay-Z, who was shooting a finger gun in ecstatic celebration. It was the sort of thing that could have come off like a PowerPoint presentation. [Trevor Noah](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/on-television/how-the-daily-show-squandered-the-opportunity-that-was-trevor-noah), worked overtime this year to remind the audience of the Grammys’ respect for her towering greatness, and the historic nature of the evening. [Beyoncé](https://www.newyorker.com/tag/beyonce) found herself once again achieving an awkward status within the universe of the Recording Academy.

Beyoncé lost Album of the Year for Renaissance at the Grammys, for a fourth time, to Harry Styles's album Harry's House. Why did Harry Styles win the top ...

In [the new Songwriter of the Year award](https://www.vulture.com/2022/11/songwriter-of-the-year-grammy-why-it-matters.html), two of the five nominees had cuts on Styles’s album, including the eventual winner, Tobias Jesso Jr. (It’s a little surprising “As It Was” didn’t earn any hardware, but the wins for Harry’s House seem to be recognition of the album as a body of hits.) After the Academy was criticized for giving Jon Batiste’s We Are, an album without a single top-40 hit, AOTY last year, Styles’s project gave them the opportunity to be on the pulse, at no expense of its perspective. [Shania Twain](https://www.vulture.com/2022/04/harry-styles-late-night-talking-boyfriends-shania-twain-coachella.html)) and present ( [Lizzo](https://www.vulture.com/2022/04/harry-styles-lizzo-i-will-survive-coachella-surprise-guest.html)). As it faded out, Styles and his team teed up hits-in-waiting “Late Night Talking” and “Music for A Sushi Restaurant,” both of which hit the top ten. Styles had a hold on the charts as well, with “As It Was” logging a record five separate runs atop the Hot 100, from its No. Blige, Kendrick Lamar, or Lizzo stole votes from her, why didn’t the same happen to Styles with ABBA, Adele, or Coldplay?) It also feels beside the point to argue whether Styles deserved AOTY over Beyoncé — [we’ve done that with her past two snubs for Beyoncé and Lemonade](https://www.vulture.com/2017/02/what-more-does-beyonc-have-to-do-to-win-album-of-the-year.html), and the answer remains a resounding yes. Beyoncé, on the other hand, added a fourth snub for the top honor to her career, this time for [Renaissance](https://www.vulture.com/2022/08/beyonce-renaissance-review.html), a spectacular, holistic project celebrating Blackness and queerness that [many critics](https://www.vulture.com/article/best-albums-2022.html) had already declared the record of 2022. Then when the record came out in May — logging over a half-million units, the second biggest week of the year behind Taylor Swift’s debut for Midnights — Styles hit the road. [took Best New Artist](https://www.vulture.com/2023/02/grammys-2023-samara-joy-best-new-artist.html) (the second jazz BNA win in less than 15 years, if you can believe it). [On Sunday evening](https://www.vulture.com/2023/02/grammys-2023-recap-best-worst-performances-winners.html), it was a different British pop star who stood between her and her first Grammy for Album of the Year: Harry Styles. Anyone other than Bey winning would’ve been met with some level of vitriol — especially after the Grammys spent the entire night hyping AOTY, and especially after [she became ](https://www.vulture.com/2023/02/beyonce-most-grammy-awards-history.html)the winningest artist in the Recording Academy’s history earlier in the ceremony. Styles won on his first AOTY nomination, for his third (solo) album [Harry’s House](https://www.vulture.com/2022/05/harry-styles-harrys-house-album-review.html), a pleasant but too-comfortable set of songs influenced by ‘80s synthpop and classic rock.

Racism, sexism, fuddy-duddyism: They're all reasons why the winningest artist in Grammy history lost album of the year yet again, this time to Harry Styles.

Because she gathers so many collaborators to help execute her plans, voters seem stubbornly unwilling to accept Beyoncé as the auteur in control of her music — a vexing if hardly novel problem running along both race and gender lines. But if she doesn’t need the Grammys, the Grammys need her: Overnight ratings for Sunday’s telecast were up 30% from 2022, a jump attributable at least in part to the suspense surrounding Beyoncé’s opportunity to break the all-time record. Nor do a growing number of intrepid Black artists — Drake, Frank Ocean and the Weeknd among them — who’ve decided the Grammys’ values don’t align with theirs. But “to ensure music creators are voting in the categories in which they are most knowledgeable and qualified,” as the academy rules put it, members can vote on only 10 of the dozens of more specific awards (such as R&B performance), and all 10 of those must be within no more than three genres. After all, Beyonce’s latest loss comes amid a larger historical context, which is that a mere three Black women — Natalie Cole, Whitney Houston and Lauryn Hill — have won album of the year in the Grammys’ 65 years. Lose the trailblazers and you risk losing those who come behind them. All 11,000 or so of the academy’s voting members are allowed to vote in the Grammys’ four general categories of album, record and song of the year and best new artist. This explains the cognitive dissonance stemming from the fact that Beyoncé is both the most-awarded artist in Grammys history and a trendsetter who keeps getting robbed. That’s a clear distortion of Black women’s importance in pop music that undermines the Grammys’ role as a record-keeping enterprise. But with its intricate weave of samples and interpolations, it’s also structurally daring in a way that obviously triggered the academy’s suspicions about “real music” — suspicions foreshadowed in the Grammys’ pretelevised ceremony when Beyoncé’s longtime collaborator In fact, of the 32 Grammys that Beyoncé has collected over the last two decades, only one — one! [Beyoncé lost the award for album of the year](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2023-02-02/grammys-2023-beyonce-renaissance-album-of-the-year) to “Harry’s House” by Harry Styles.

February 6, 2023 4:58 p.m.. Beyoncé accepts the Best Dance ...

It’s not [Messi](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lionel-Messi). It’s [Beyoncé](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Beyonce).” It’s not [Jordan](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Michael-Jordan). [acceptance speech](https://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/a42764558/beyonce-award-acceptance-speech-grammys-2023/). It’s not [LeBron](https://www.britannica.com/biography/LeBron-James). It’s not [Tom Brady](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tom-Brady). [accused of racial discrimination](https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/09/media/grammys-diversity/index.html), particularly towards Black artists. [New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/06/arts/music/grammy-awards-beyonce-harry-styles.html)’ Ben Sisario. Since her first nomination in 2000, her notable wins have included Song of the Year for 2008’s “ [Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)](https://open.spotify.com/track/5R9a4t5t5O0IsznsrKPVro?autoplay=true)” and Best Music Film for 2019’s [Homecoming](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10147546/). She thanked her family, including her late [uncle Johnny](https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/beyonce-renaissance-uncle-johnny), who introduced her to house music and queer culture. During the pre-show, the album’s number-one single “ [Break My Soul](https://open.spotify.com/track/53wEJEYmRgvpAxM0JUgM95?autoplay=true)” took home the award for Best Dance/Electronic Recording, and “ [Plastic Off the Sofa](https://open.spotify.com/track/6ufcuVInt0ocHrUimDjGlb?autoplay=true)” won as Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance. [Trevor Noah](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Trevor-Noah) declared at the 65th annual [Grammy Awards](https://www.grammy.com/) last night.