NEW YORK – It could be a night for the history books for Taylor Swift and Beyoncé at Sunday ‘s Grammy Awards – for good and bad reasons.
Swift could be the first woman to win the show’s top award, record of the year, three times. Her debut album 2020 – the hilarious adventure, another “folklore” – competes for the highest honor, an award she first won in 2010 for “Fearless,” which helped by establishing her as a bona fide pop star even though she sang country music. She won again in 2016 for “1989,” her first full-time pop album that took control of the albums with several beats.
Stevie Wonder, Frank Sinatra and Paul Simon are among the male actors who have won the record of the year three times. Producers or engineers have also won the award three times, including Phil Ramone, Ryan Tedder, David Foster, Bob Ludwig, Serban Ghenea and others.
The only four-time winner of the award is master master engineer Tom Coyne, who died in 2017.
Beyoncé has never won an all-year record of her career – she’s not up for the honor this year as she didn’t put out a project during the eligibility period – but she’s the best act. famous. With 24 wins and nine nominations this year, she was able to surpass Alison Krauss ’27 wins and become the most decorated woman in Grammys history.
Beyoncé’s “Black Parade” won nominations and album of the year as well as best R&B song and best R&B performance, and her guest appearance on “Savage” Megan Thee Stallion won nominations for album of the year, best rap performance. best and best rap. a song.
Beyoncé holds the record for most Grammy nominations for female action, with 79. She and Paul McCartney tie for second place among all Grammy nominees, just behind Quincy Jones and Jay-Z, who have earned 80 nods each.
The musical royal family could walk away with a number of benefits for the home. Jay-Z wrote “Black Parade” and “Savage,” earning him the nomination for song of the year, best R&B and best rap song. He has won 22 Grammys in his lifetime.
Their daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, has been named with her mother for the best music video for “Brown Skin Girl. ”Ivy Carter gives a vocal performance of the song and appears in the video; she is also listed as a songwriter by Jay-Z and Beyoncé.
Ivy Carter, 9, could be the second youngest Grammy winner ever. Leah Peasall was eight when The Peasall Sisters won record of the year at the 2002 show to appear on the show “O Brother, Where Art Thou? ”By T Bone Burnett. soundtrack. “Brown Skin Girl,” a song celebrating brown and dark women, has won several awards for Ivy Carter, including two Soul Train Music Awards, a BET Award and a NAACP Image Award.
While Beyoncé could have had a historic night, history could have repeated her and she could have been excluded from winning a major award – a common event for artists. R&B and rap through Grammy history. Of her 24 wins, only one has been for one of the big four Grammys, song of the year. She has lost the record three times and the record five times.
Jay-Z has never won a major award, and he and his wife join a list of mostly black players limited to winning in the rap and R&B categories, including Kendrick Lamar, Kanye West, Mariah Carey, Eminem, Drake, Missy Elliott, Mary J. Blige and more.
This year the Weeknd was the one that was sculpted. Despite being the biggest loser in 2020 with “Blinding Lights” and a wholesale wholesale record, it didn’t win any nominations. He has won three Grammys so far – only in the R&B categories – but has vowed to block the Grammys as he disagrees with the way the Recording Academy chooses its winners.
Only two rap-based acts were awarded this year’s record award – Lauryn Hill’s “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” and Outkast’s “Speakerboxxx / The Love Below”. While rap is the most popular genre today, no rap record has been nominated for the top prize this year. The rap song of the year or album of the year was never released until Childish Gambino made history in 2019 with “This Is America.”
“Savage” Beyoncé and Megan Thee Stallion could be the second hip-hop song to win this year’s record.
Megan Thee Stallion could be the first female rapper to win best rap song. The Houston rapper, along with D Smoke, Chika and Doja Cat, could also be the fifth rap-based action to earn the best new artist. Their competition features Phoebe Bridgers, Noah Cyrus, Kaytranada and Ingrid Andress, which could be just the fourth act from country music to win.
Other women who could make history on Sunday include Grace Potter, who has the chance to become the first female actress to win best rock record in more than two decades, and the sister of the HAIM trio, first female rock band nominated for record of the year.
While 84 prizes will be awarded – around 10 during the live telecast and the rest during the pre-concert – viewers are more likely to watch for the shows.
About two dozen acts hit levels in downtown Los Angeles, including Swift, Bruno Mars, Cardi B, BTS, Billie Eilish, Harry Styles, Bad Bunny, Megan Thee Stallion, DaBaby, Dua Lipa, Post Malone, Chris Martin, Lil Baby, Iain Mayer, Maren Morris and Doja Cat.
Trevor Noah will host the show, which airs at 8pm East on CBS and Paramount +. The Grammys were originally scheduled for Jan. 31 but were pushed back due to coronavirus infection.
Artists competing with Swift for this year’s album include Coldplay, Post Malone, Dua Lipa, Jhené Aiko, HAIM, Jacob Collier and Black Pumas.
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