Will Beyoncé emerge from the Grammy Awards as its most adorned artist ever?
That’s one of many primary storylines heading into Sunday’s ceremony, the place the celebrity is the main nominee and wishes 4 wins to make history.
A number of of music’s greatest names, together with Beyoncé, are within the operating for the evening’s prime honors — Harry Kinds, Mary J. Blige, Kendrick Lamar, ABBA and Lizzo are all among the many nominees in for album of the 12 months. Adele joins them within the file of the 12 months competitors.
Trevor Noah will host the telecast dwell from downtown Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Enviornment starting at 8 p.m. Jap on CBS and Paramount+. The present will embody performances by Bad Bunny, Mary J. Blige, Sam Smith, Lizzo in addition to particular musical tributes to the late musicians Takeoff, Loretta Lynn and Christine McVie.
However with 91 Grammy classes, many of the awards are given out in the course of the Recording Academy’s livestreamed Premiere Ceremony. It’s throughout that present that Beyoncé could cross Hungarian-British composer Georg Solti because the artist with essentially the most Grammys. (Solti gained his record-breaking thirty first Grammy in 1997.)
There could be many different firsts: If Bad Bunny wins album of the 12 months for “Un Verano Sin Ti,” it will be the primary time a Spanish-language album has taken dwelling the highest honor. Taylor Swift, whose newest album “Midnights” wasn’t eligible for this 12 months’s Grammys, could win her first tune of the 12 months trophy for “All Too Well.” An Adele win for tune of the 12 months for her monitor “Easy on Me” would make her essentially the most adorned artist within the class with three wins, the others coming for her megahits “Hello” and “Rolling in the Deep.”
This 12 months’s Grammys have additionally launched a number of new classes, together with one for online game music composition. And several other non-musicians, similar to actor Viola Davis and Amanda Gorman, could take dwelling trophies. A Davis win in the most effective audiobook, narration and storytelling recording class would make her an EGOT — an artist who’s gained an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award.
This 12 months’s present marks a return to Los Angeles after the pandemic first delayed, then compelled the Grammys to maneuver to Las Vegas final 12 months. Noah hosted the ceremony as effectively, which noticed Jon Batiste take dwelling album of the 12 months.