Beyonce or Taylor Swift? The Beatles or the Rolling Stones? Kendrick Lamar or Post Malone? Sabrina Carpenter or Chappell Roan? Dolly Parton or former president Jimmy Carter? Friday morning’s …
The list of nominees announced Friday morning for the 67th annual Grammy Awards is filled with expected and unexpected contenders alike, along with a record number of women artists who account a majority of the nominees — six out of eight — in the major categories. The highest profile match-up, and the most anticipated, pits Beyonce, who has a field-leading 11 nominations against Swift, who has six.
Of course, the biggest winner at the Feb. 2 telecast of the Grammys — which will air on CBS and Paramount+ from Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Arena — could end up being Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper Lamar, rapper-singer-turned-country-music-artist Malone or This also marks the second consecutive year and fourth time overall Swift has been nominated for Album, Record and Song of the Year. This year saw Swift win her fourth Album of the Year Grammy , a triumph that enabled her to surpass three-time Album of the Year winners Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon and Frank Sinatra.
But only three Black women artists have ever won the coveted Album of the Year award — the most recent being Lauryn Hill’s “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” in 1999. The fact Beyoncé has yet to win in this category prompted her husband, hip-hop mogul Jay-Z, to call out the Grammys when he was honored during this year’s telecast.
It is unlikely, but not impossible, that this time around Grammy votes for Beyoncé and Swift could offset each other. If so, Roan, Carpenter, Eilish or Charli xcx will have a better chance to win the Album of the Year award. Roan and Carpenter, who now has six solo albums to her credit, are also Best New Artist nominees.
The likelihood of an Album of the Year win by one of the six female nominees, all of whom are also vying in other categories, may be bolstered by a relatively recent development. The Recording Academy — under whose auspices the Grammys are presented — has added 3,000 women as new voting members over the past few years.
“It was an incredible year in music and these nominations reflect the work of a voting body that is more representative of the music community than ever before,” Mason said in a statement released Friday morning.
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