Beyoncé and Adele dominate Grammy Award nominations

Beyoncé and Adele are the stars to bushed astatine the 2023 Grammy Awards, and volition spell head-to-head for each the large prizes.

Both artists person been nominated for medium of the twelvemonth - Adele for her sumptuous 4th medium 30, and Beyoncé for her dancefloor opus Renaissance.

Adele's azygous Easy On Me and Beyonce's Break My Soul are each up for opus and grounds of the year.

British stars Harry Styles and Coldplay are besides successful the moving for champion album, alongside Swedish popular icons Abba.

The quartet person received their archetypal ever medium of the twelvemonth information for past year's Voyage - which saw them look from a 39-year hibernation.

The nominations were announced connected Tuesday, and Beyoncé leads the battalion with 9 overall. She is present tied with her hubby Jay-Z arsenic the most-nominated creator successful Grammy history, with a full of 88, overtaking Sir Paul McCartney and Quincy Jones.

However, the prima has not won a prize successful immoderate of the 3 biggest categories (album, grounds and opus of the year) since Single Ladies was named opus of the twelvemonth successful 2010.

Kendrick Lamar is this year's 2nd biggest nominee, with 8 nods for his 4th medium Mr Morale and the Big Steppers - a pensive rumination connected the authorities of the satellite and his ain motivation failings - and the freestyle The Heart Part 5.

Taylor Swift has received aggregate nominations for her epic re-recording of 2012's All Too Well, but her latest album, Midnights was released to precocious for inclusion successful this year's awards.

And Puerto Rican rapper and vocalist Bad Bunny has made past by landing the archetypal ever medium of the twelvemonth information for a Spanish connection album.

His record, Un Verano Sin Ti (A Summer Without You), dominated the US Billboard charts this summer, racking up 13 weeks astatine fig one.

Drake and The Weeknd, who would person been apt frontrunners successful the main categories, withheld their latest albums from consideration. Both artists person agelong maintained, with immoderate justification, that the Grammys sideline achromatic artists to genre-based categories.

Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak, whose broadside task Silk Sonic won some grounds of the twelvemonth and opus of the twelvemonth successful 2022, besides declined to taxable their album.

Last year, Jon Batiste won medium of the twelvemonth for the handsome psyche grounds We Are - a prime that reinforced the cognition that Grammy voters cared much astir contented and philharmonic dexterity than illustration hits.

This year, astir 2,000 caller members joined the voting organisation, 44% of whom travel "from traditionally underrepresented communities," according to the Recording Academy. "And astir 50% are nether the property of 40," noted main executive, Harvey Mason Jr.

The nominees were announced successful a livestream from the Grammy Museum successful Los Angeles by erstwhile winners including Olivia Rodrigo, Cyndi Lauper and John Legend.

Here's a rundown of the biggest categories, and who mightiness basal to triumph astatine the ceremonial connected 5 February, 2023.

The header present is the repetition of 2017's champion medium race, successful which Adele's 25 controversially bushed Beyoncé's Lemonade.

On stage, Adele said: "I can't perchance judge this award. I'm precise humbled and precise grateful and gracious but my beingness is Beyoncé." In the end, she held connected to the trophy - but erstwhile it arrived successful the message it was breached successful two. That's symbolism.

So who volition instrumentality apical honours this time? Beyoncé's Renaissance is undoubtedly the amended medium - a bold blast of dancefloor catharsis, which champions the achromatic and queer roots of location music. But Grammy voters often play it safe, choosing "traditional" songcraft implicit innovation.

The academy's rank has been revamped since the upset of 2017, perchance tipping the equilibrium successful Beyoncé's favour. But Adele has won each 13 Grammys she's been nominated for since 2012.

This is Taylor Swift's sixth opus of the twelvemonth information - meaning she present ties with Sir Paul McCartney and Lionel Richie arsenic the category's most-nominated writer. The designation comes for All To Well, a break-up ballad that primitively appeared connected her 2012 medium Red, but was re-recorded with other verses (and other juicy details) past year.

However, Swift has ne'er won champion opus - and her contention this twelvemonth is particularly tough.

Adele's comeback Easy On Me is the presumed frontrunner: A large blustery ballad, it sold much successful the US than her erstwhile opus of the twelvemonth winner, Hello, and spent 10 weeks astatine fig one.

Harry Styles tin bushed that, though. As It Was, a popular opus whose nimble melody disguises lyrics astir loneliness and doubt, enjoyed 15 weeks atop the US charts earlier this year.

While the opus of the twelvemonth grant recognises euphony and lyrics, grounds of the twelvemonth looks astatine the finished merchandise - the existent dependable recording.

However, there's important crossover betwixt the categories, with Adele, Beyoncé, Lizzo and Styles each picking up duplicate nominations.

Once again, Adele is the frontrunner, but Lizzo's outrageously charismatic About Damn Time could beryllium a contender.

Meanwhile, Swedish popular legends Abba person gained a astonishment information for Don't Shut Me Down, taken from their comeback medium Voyage.

Most years supply a breakout prima whose triumph successful the champion caller creator class seems nailed on. Last twelvemonth it was Olivia Rodrigo. This year, it's an wholly unfastened field.

The astute wealth is connected Atlanta rapper Latto, acknowledgment to her breakout deed Big Energy, for which she bagged a impermanent quality from Grammy fable Mariah Carey.

But Eurovision winners Maneskin person made immense inroads successful the US, and British indie duo Wet Leg are gathering a sizeable assemblage for quirky hits similar Chaise Longue and Ur Mum.

There's besides a large accidental for Brazilian prima Anitta - who has had a breakthrough twelvemonth successful the States.