British stars Harry Styles and Adele are among the many frontrunners for the 2023 Grammy Awards, shortlisted for the evening’s largest awards alongside Lizzo, Kendrick Lamar and Beyonce – who’s now tied with husband Jay-Z for the title of most nominated artist of all time.
Beyonce leads the nominations with 9, taking her profession whole to 88 – now the identical as her rapper husband, who earned 5 this 12 months for his writing efforts on DJ Khaled’s track God Did, in addition to his work on his spouse’s album Renaissance and single Break My Soul.
She is up in opposition to Styles, Adele, Lamar and Lizzo within the album of the 12 months, track of the 12 months, and file of the 12 months classes, three of the Grammy ceremony’s largest prizes.
The most embellished lady within the present’s historical past with 28 wins, Beyonce may break the late Hungarian-British conductor Georg Solti’s file for many awards received if she takes residence 4 gongs subsequent 12 months. Solti, with 31 Grammys, has held the file since 1997.
The nominations put her up in opposition to Adele as soon as once more – the British star received album of the 12 months in 2017, however stated on stage that the award ought to have gone to the US artists Lemonade.
Following her return to the highlight in 2021 with fourth album 30, which topped each the UK and US charts, Adele was additionally nominated in classes together with finest pop vocal album, and finest music movie, for Adele: One Night Only – which marked the singer’s comeback with an interview by Oprah Winfrey and a live performance efficiency on the Griffith Observatory.
Meanwhile, Styles continued a standout 12 months which noticed him nominated for the celebrated Mercury Prize; chart-topping third album Harry’s House scored a nod for finest pop vocal album and finest non-engineered album (non-classical), whereas the hit monitor As It Was obtained nominations for finest pop solo efficiency, track of the 12 months, finest music video, and file of the 12 months.
With 91 classes celebrating genres from rock and rap to nation and comedy in 2023, Lamar is the second front-runner with eight nods, whereas Adele and Brandi Carlile have seven, and Styles joins different artists together with Mary J Blige and DJ Khaled with six.
Upcoming British indie rock duo Wet Leg – who have been additionally shortlisted for the Mercury Prize earlier this 12 months, and tipped by Barack Obama, no much less – additionally scored a nomination in one of many large classes, finest new artist, alongside Eurovision 2021 winners Maneksin.
Coldplay, Taylor Swift, Doja Cat, Steve Lacy and Bad Bunny are additionally among the many big-name nominees – with Bad Bunny making historical past with the primary Spanish-language album of the 12 months nomination for Un Verano Sin Ti.
Announced by stars together with Olivia Rodrigo, John Legend, Cyndi Lauper, Machine Gun Kelly and Smokey Robinson, nearly half of the 2023 nominees are girls and greater than half are folks of color, in keeping with the Recording Academy, which organises the awards.
New classes embrace songwriter of the 12 months and different music efficiency, which Recording Academy chief govt Harvey Mason Jr says will assist diversify the sixty fifth version of the annual awards. There may even be a particular benefit award for finest track for social change, based mostly on lyrical content material that addresses a well timed social situation.
Joe Wadsworth, musicologist and founding father of The Online Recording Studio, stated that with Adele and Styles among the many large nominees, subsequent 12 months’s awards ceremony might be “the most successful for UK artists in a generation”.
“Nods for Adele and Harry Styles were expected in many of the major categories but it is fantastic to also see recognition for the likes of Wet Leg,” he stated. “The Isle of Wight band’s three nominations, including for best new artist, will surely make up for missing out on last month’s Mercury Prize.”
Main class nominees
Album Of The Year
Voyage – ABBA
30 – Adele
Un Verano Sin Ti – Bad Bunny
Renaissance – Beyonce
Good Morning Gorgeous (Deluxe) – Mary J Blige
In These Silent Days – Brandi Carlile
Music of the Spheres – Coldplay
Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers – Kendrick Lamar
Special – Lizzo
Harry’s House – Harry Styles
Record Of The Year
Don’t Shut Me Down – ABBA
Easy on Me – Adele
Break My Soul – Beyoncé
Good Morning Gorgeous – Mary J. Blige
You and Me On The Rock – Brandi Carlile that includes Lucius
Woman – Doja Cat
Bad Habit – Steve Lacy
The Heart Part 5 – Kendrick Lamar
About Damn Time – Lizzo
As It Was – Harry Styles
Song Of The Year (songwriter’s award)
abcdefu – Sara Davis, GAYLE and Dave Pittenger
About Damn Time – Lizzo, Eric Frederic, Blake Slatkin and Theron Makiel Thomas
All Too Well (10 Minute Version – The Short Film) – Liz Rose and Taylor Swift
As It Was – Tyler Johnson, Kid Harpoon and Harry Styles
Bad Habit – Matthew Castellanos, Brittany Foushee, Diana Gordon, John Carroll Kirby and Steve Lacy
Break My Soul – Beyonce, S Carter, Terius The Dream Gesteelde-Diamant and Christopher A Stewart
Easy On Me – Adele Adkins and Greg Kurstin
God Did – Tarik Azzouz, E Blackmon, Khaled Khaled, F LeBlanc, Jay-Z, John Stephens, Dwayne Carter, William Roberts and Nicholas Warwar
The Heart Part 5 – Jake Kosich, Johnny Kosich, Kendrick Lamar and Matt Schaeffer
Just Like That – Bonnie Raitt
Best New Artist
Anitta
Omar Apollo
DOMi & JD Beck
Muni Long
Samara Joy
Latto
Månekskin
Tobe Nwigwe
Molly Tuttle
Wet Leg.
Songwriter Of The Year
Amy Allen
Nija Charles
Tobia Jesso Jr
The-Dream
Laura Veltz
The sixty fifth annual Grammy Awards will happen on 5 February 2023 on the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.
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