The most important global music awards are back. The United States Recording Academy has announced this Friday, November 8, who are the nominees for its famous awards, the Grammys, which will celebrate their 67th awards gala on February 2 at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, California. The 13,000 members of the Academy have decided who their favorites are this year, and the list includes many women who have been triumphing for years, such as Beyoncé (who leads the list with 11 nominations) and Taylor Swift, who will be rivals in the main categories. Other artists who have stood out in recent times are Sabrina Carpenter, Charli XCX or Chappell Roan. The Beatles have also received a surprising nomination more than half a century after their dissolution. Furthermore, in this edition, the honorary award for Person of the Year will go to the American folk-rock group Grateful Dead.
Beyoncé Knowles and her album Cowboy Carter they reach 11 nominations because it is in all the main categories: best song, recording and album of the year, and it has also been chosen in the category of country; Billie Eilish has seven with her third album (and also third to be nominated), Hit Me Hard and Soft; just like Kendrick Lamar, Charli XCX and Post Malone. Swift has six thanks to The Tortured Poets Departmenttying with two of the year’s great sensations, Sabrina Carpenter (with her album Short N’ Sweet) y Chappell Roan (The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess). Con Cowboy CarterBeyoncé, 43, manages to be the most nominated artist in Grammy history, with 99 nominations. She has already won 32, also the most.
The most important and most disputed award is Album of the Year and there Taylor Swift, 34, shatters her record. If last year he already achieved a milestone by placing one of his albums among the candidates for album of the year for the sixth time and tied with Barbra Streisand, this year he surpasses her, thanks to a seventh entry, The Tortured Poets Department, which she precisely announced on the stage of the 2024 Grammys. In that category, Swift will compete with Beyoncé, who thanks to Cowboy Carter She is already the black artist with the most nominations for Album of the Year, surpassing Kanye West and Kendrick Lamar. Both will fight against André 3000, Sabrina Carpenter, Charli XCX, Jacob Collier, Chappell Roan and Billie Eilish. In previous editions, Beyoncé, despite being the most nominated, lost in this category against Adele and Harry Styles. Taylor Swift, on the other hand, has won four of the six for which she has been nominated, more than Frank Sinatra or Stevie Wonder. Despite their long careers and many nominations, it is the first time that both compete in the premier category.
One of the surprises of the year has been the nomination of the Beatles thanks to the song Now and Thenin which Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr recovered an old voice recording of John Lennon, to which George Harrison’s guitar had later been added. The group disappeared almost 54 years ago, but thanks to this new topic, controversial due to the possible use of artificial intelligence, they have achieved their 24th nomination. Being in the Recording of the Year category, one of the most contested, they will have a difficult time. They will compete against Texas Hold’ Emby Beyoncé; Espressoby Sabrina Carpenter; 360de Charli XCX; Birds of Featherde Billie Eilish; Not like usde Kendrick Lamarr; Good Luck, Babeby Chappell Roan, and Fortnightde Taylor Swift con Post Malone.
For the Song of the Year category, nominations are for Birds of a Featherde Billie Eilish; Fortnightde Swift con Post Malone; Texas Hold ‘Emby Beyoncé; Not Like Usby Kendrick Lamar; Good Luck, Babe!, the Chappell Roan; A Bar Song (Tipsy)de Shaboozey; Die With a Smileby Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars, and Please Please Pleaseby Sabrina Carpenter.
As for New Artist, the fight will be between Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter, who compete against Shaboozey, lyricist Raye, rapper Doechii, Texan trio Khruangbin, composer Teddy Swins and rocker Benson Boone, famous for his hit Beautiful Things. Both Carpenter and Roan, phenomena of the year who draw masses to their concerts, accumulate six nominations each.
In addition to the Grammys, the Recording Academy also celebrates the Latin Grammys, focused, as the name suggests, on Latin music. After passing through Seville last year, the next edition will be held next week, on Thursday, November 14, in Miami (Florida, USA). But Latin music is also recognized in the main Grammy awards. This year, for Latin pop album, Anitta, Luis Fonsi, Kany Garcia, Kali Uchis and Shakira are nominated, who is the favorite for Women no longer crywhile in the Mexican and Tejano music category Chiquis, Carín León, Peso Pluma and Jessi Uribe are nominated.
Harvey Mason Jr., the Academy’s executive director, has spoken of the importance of these awards as a “global celebration of music.” “The people who create music deserve an organization that cares for them and defends them and yes, that also celebrates them,” he explained. “It is an award from music people honoring music people,” he stated before announcing some of the 94 categories. Among others, artists such as Kylie Minogue, Hayley Williams, from the band Paramore, Ben Platt, Billie Joe from Greenday and Victoria Monet, have submitted several nominations. This year, the Academy has introduced new features, as more than 2,000 new members have joined, including many women. In addition, they have adjusted the main categories. In the four most important ones, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Record of the Year and New Artist, the number of nominees went from 10 to eight.