The brightest stars in pop music will vie for the trade’s high awards on the Grammys in Los Angeles on Sunday, with a Beyonce-Adele rematch set to take heart stage.
Kendrick Lamar, Harry Styles and Taylor Swift are additionally among the many frontrunners on the gala primed to be probably the most star-studded in latest reminiscence.
The performance-heavy ceremony will embody songs from main contenders Styles, Bad Bunny, Lizzo and Mary J. Blige on the sixty fifth annual present, hosted as soon as once more by comic Trevor Noah.
Beyonce leads the pack with 9 possibilities at Grammy gold, adopted by rapper Lamar with eight. Adele and fellow balladeer Brandi Carlile scored seven nods every.
Music’s largest night time follows a yr of blockbuster albums, together with Beyonce’s “Renaissance” — a pulsating amassing of membership tracks — and Adele’s introspective ode to the ugly cry, “30.”
Those data will face off in probably the most prestigious classes, six years after the British artist shut out Queen Bey’s culture-shaking “Lemonade.”
Adele’s sweep in 2017 left each girls in tears, with the crooner calling Beyonce her “idol” and telling the viewers her fellow megastar’s paradigm-shifting report ought to have received.
That contest fueled perennial criticism that the Academy constantly fails to pay Black artists their due.
This yr, Billboard predicts the Beyhive will rejoice over a greatest album win for his or her Queen, whereas the trade tracker thinks Adele has the highest shot at greatest report — the award for total efficiency of a track — for her single “Easy On Me.”
But because the shock upsets of Grammys previous show, it is actually anybody’s sport.
Either method, with this yr’s new nominations, Beyonce continues to forge a history-making path: she moved right into a tie together with her husband, Jay-Z, as probably the most nominated artists ever with 88 every.
Already the girl with probably the most Grammys, Beyonce might overtake classical conductor Georg Solti for probably the most wins by any artist, with 4 victories on Sunday; she’s tied for second place with music energy participant Quincy Jones.
Bad Bunny, indisputably the world’s largest business artist, has three Grammy possibilities off his main drop “Un Verano Sin Ti,” which is within the working for Album of the Year.
It’s the primary time an all Spanish-language album has an opportunity at that coveted award, and it is the primary time the Puerto Rican reggaeton megastar has landed a solo nomination within the main Grammy classes.
Styles, Lizzo and Doja Cat all determine among the many high nominees, whereas pop juggernaut Swift might lastly win the Song of the Year prize that has evaded her for years.
The celebrity — who has been making good on a vow to re-record her first six albums to achieve management of her rights to them — has an opportunity on the prestigious award celebrating songwriters for her 10-minute model of “All Too Well.”
The unique track got here out in 2012 on Swift’s album “Red,” however certified for inclusion as a result of the expanded model contained greater than 50 % new materials.
After a number of Grammy years with clear Best New Artist frontrunners — Olivia Rodrigo, Megan Thee Stallion and Billie Eilish — Sunday’s race is vast open.
The class has grown more and more eclectic and reflective of the web age’s influence on common music, and lots of the nominees together with Brazil’s Anitta, Eurovision rockers Maneskin and rapper Latto have all discovered viral fame on TikTok.
South Korea’s boy band sensation BTS — who final yr declared they had been taking a hiatus — in the meantime is hoping for a primary elusive Grammy.
The Academy — comprised of music-makers together with artists, composers and engineers — additionally shortlisted a coterie of the trade’s enduring stars, with Bonnie Raitt, Willie Nelson and ABBA every garnering a handful of nominations.
After wowing audiences with a show-stopping efficiency on the 2019 Grammys, the big-voiced Carlile will take the stage as soon as extra as she competes within the high classes in addition to for roots and Americana honors.
Asked on a latest purple carpet about her slate of nominations, Carlile stated she was “ecstatic.”
“Those kinds of accolades are life-affirming,” she informed AFP. “Especially because the Grammys is my peers, it means other musicians think I did a good job this year. “That’s why it feels so good.”
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