NEW YORK (AP) – It could be a night for the history books for Taylor Swift and Beyoncé at Sunday’s Grammy Awards – for both good and bad reasons.
Swift could become the first woman to win the show’s biggest award three times, the album of the year. Her first surprise album of 2020 – popular, alternative adventure folklore – competes for the highest honor, an award she won for the first time in 2010 for “Fearless”, her discovery that helped her establish herself as a bona fide pop star, even though she sang country music. She won again in 2016 for “1989”, her first pop feature album that dominated the charts with a lot of hits.
Stevie Wonder, Frank Sinatra and Paul Simon are some of the male artists who have won the album three times this year. Producers or engineers also won the award three times, including Phil Ramone, Ryan Tedder, David Foster, Bob Ludwig, Serban Ghenea and others.
The only person to have won the award four times is mastering engineer Tom Coyne, who died in 2017.
Beyoncé has never won her album of the year in her career – she is not honored this year because she did not release a project during the eligibility period – but it is the most nominated act. With 24 wins and nine nominations this year, she could surpass Alison Krauss’ 27 victories and become the most decorated woman in Grammy history.
Beyoncé’s “Black Parade” received nominations such as Record and Song of the Year, as well as Best R&B Song and Best R&B Performance, while Megan Thee Stallion’s guest appearance on “Savage” won awards for Record of the Year. , the best rap performance and the best rap song.
Beyoncé holds the record for most Grammy Award nominations for a female act, with 79. She and Paul McCartney tied for second of all Grammy nominations, behind only Quincy Jones and Jay-Z, who won 80 heads each.
The royal family of music could leave with a series of victories for their home. Jay-Z co-wrote “Black Parade” and “Savage”, earning her nominations for Song of the Year, Best R&B Song and Best Rap Song. He has won 22 Grammy Awards throughout his career.
Their daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, is nominated alongside her mother for best music video for “Brown Skin Girl”. Ivy Carter supports a vocal interpretation of the song and appears in the video; she is also listed as a co-writer of the play along with Jay-Z and Beyoncé.
9-year-old Ivy Carter could become the second youngest person to ever win a Grammy. Leah Peasall was eight years old when The Peasall Sisters won the album of the year at the 2002 show for her appearance in T Bone Burnett’s “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” sound track. “Brown Skin Girl,” a song that celebrates dark-skinned brown women, has won several Ivy Carter Awards, including two Soul Train Music Awards, a BET Award and a NAACP Image Award.
While Beyoncé could have a historic night, history could repeat itself and be excluded from winning a top prize – a common occurrence for R&B and rap artists throughout Grammy history. Of the 24 victories he won, only one was for one of the four big Grammys, the song of the year. He lost the album of the year three times and the record of the year five times.
Jay-Z has never won a top prize, and he and his wife join a list of mostly black performers who have been limited to victories in rap and R&B categories, including Kendrick Lamar, Kanye West, Mariah Carey, Eminem, Drake, Missy Elliott, Mary J. Blige and many more.
This year The Weeknd was the one that was clogged. Despite having the biggest hit of 2020 with “Blinding Lights” and a successful, multi-hit album, it didn’t win any nominations. So far he has won three Grammy Awards – only in the R&B categories – but has promised to boycott the Grammy Awards because he does not agree with the way the Recording Academy selects its winners..
The album of the year award was given only for two rap-based acts – “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” by Lauryn Hill and “Speakerboxxx / The Love Below” by Outkast. Although rap is the most popular genre today, no rap album has received a top award nomination this year. A rap song never received the song of the year or the album of the year until Childish Gambino made history in 2019 with “This Is America”.
“Savage” by Beyoncé and Megan Thee Stallion could become the second hip-hop song to win the album of the year.
Megan Thee Stallion could also become the first female rapper to win the best rap song. Houston rapper with D Smoke, Chika and Doja Cat, could become the fifth act based on rap to win the best new artist. Their competition includes Phoebe Bridgers, Noah Cyrus, Kaytranada and Ingrid Andress, which could only become the fourth act since winning country music.
Other women who could make history on Sunday include Grace Potter, who has the chance to be the first female singer to win the best rock album in two decades and the sister trio HAIM, the first all-female rock band nominated. for the album of the year.
Although 84 prizes will be awarded – about 10 during the live broadcast and the rest during the pre-ceremony – the spectators will most likely watch the performances.
About two dozen acts will arrive on downtown Los Angeles stages, 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, John Mayer, Maren Morris and Doja Cat.
Trevor Noah will host the show, which airs at 20:00 east on CBS and Paramount +. The Grammys were originally scheduled for January 31, but were rejected due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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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