Will Beyonce emerge from the Grammy Awards as her most decorated artist ever?
It is one of the main storylines in Sunday’s ceremony, where Superstar is the leading nominee and needs four wins to make history.
Several of music’s biggest names are in the running for top honors of the night, including Beyoncé – Harry Styles, Mary J. Blige, Kendrick Lamar, ABBA and Lizzo are all among the nominees for Album of the Year. Adele joins them in the Record of the Year contest.
Trevor Noah will host the live telecast from the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles beginning at 8 p.m. ET. Eastern on CBS and Paramount+. The show featured Bad Bunny, Mary J. Blige, Sam Smith, Lizzo, as well as special musical tributes to late musicians Takeoff, Loretta Lynn and Christine McVie.
But with 91 Grammy categories, most of the awards are handed out during the Recording Academy’s livestreamed premiere ceremony. It is during that show that Beyoncé may pass Hungarian-British musician Georg Solti as the artist with the most Grammys. (Solti won a record-breaking 31st Grammy in 1997.)
There could be many other firsts: If Bad Bunny wins Album of the Year for “Un Verano Sin Ti,” it would be the first time a Spanish-language album has taken the top honor. Taylor Swift, whose latest album “Midnights” didn’t qualify for this year’s Grammys, could win her first song of the year trophy for “All Too Well.” An Adele win for song of the year for her track “Easy on Me” would make her the most decorated artist in the category with three wins, the others coming for her megahits “Hello” and “Rolling in the Deep.”
This year’s Grammys also introduced several new categories, including one for Video Game Music Composition. And several non-musicians, such as actors Viola Davis and Amanda Gorman, could take home trophies. Davis’ win in the Best Audiobook, Narration and Storytelling Recording category will make her the EGOT – an artist who has won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award.
This year’s show returned to Los Angeles after earlier delays by the pandemic, then forced the Grammys to move to Las Vegas last year. Noah also hosted the ceremony, with Jon Batiste taking home Album of the Year.