Los Angeles, Nov 16 (FN Agency) Beyonce and Adele dominate the 2023 Grammy Awards nominations, with several key categories including for album of the year. Adele’s single Easy On Me and Beyoncé’s Break My Soul are each up for song and record of the year. Adele’s fourth album 30, and Beyoncé’s dancefloor opus Renaissance will vie for Album of the Year in February 2023 grand ceremony. British stars Harry Styles and Coldplay along with Kpop superband BTS are also in the running for best album, alongside Swedish pop icons Abba. The quartet ABBA have received their first ever album of the year nomination for last year’s Voyage – which saw them emerge from a 39-year hibernation. The nominations were announced on Tuesday, and Beyoncé leads the pack with nine overall – including nods in the dance and R&B categories. She is now tied with her husband Jay-Z as the most-nominated artist in Grammy history, with a total of 88, overtaking Sir Paul McCartney and Quincy Jones, the BBC said.
However, Beyonce has not won a prize in any of the three biggest categories (album, record and song of the year) since Single Ladies was named song of the year in 2010. But if she collects four (or more) awards next February, she will beat conductor Sir George Solti’s all-time record of 31 Grammys, the BBC said. Kendrick Lamar is this year’s second biggest nominee, with eight nods for his fourth album Mr Morale and the Big Steppers – a pensive rumination on the state of the world and his own moral failings – and the freestyle The Heart Part 5. Adele and country star Brandi Carli are tied in third place, with seven nominations each. Taylor Swift has received multiple nominations for her epic re-recording of 2012’s All Too Well, but her latest album, Midnights, was released too late for inclusion in the 2023 field.
Puerto Rican rapper and singer Bad Bunny has made history by landing the first ever album of the year nomination for a Spanish language album. His record, Un Verano Sin Ti (A Summer Without You), dominated the US Billboard charts this summer, racking up 13 weeks at number one. Along with Adele, Harry Styles has nominations for album of the year (Harry’s House) as well as record and song of the year (As It Was). Drake and The Weeknd, who would have been likely frontrunners in the main categories, withdrew their latest albums from consideration. Both artists have long maintained that the Grammys sideline black artists to genre-based categories. Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak, whose side project Silk Sonic also declined to submit their album. However, Mars said it “would be crazy to ask for anything more” after winning song and record of the year for Leave The Door Open at the 2022 ceremony.