Harry Styles and Adele among big Grammy 2023 nominees - as Beyonce sets record with husband Jay-Z
Beyonce leads the 2023 Grammy nominations with nine, taking her career total to 88 - now the same as her rapper husband Jay-Z, who earned five this year for his writing efforts for DJ Khaled and on some of her work.
Tuesday 15 November 2022 19:54, UK
British stars Harry Styles and Adele are among the frontrunners for the 2023 Grammy Awards, shortlisted for the night's biggest awards alongside Lizzo, Kendrick Lamar and Beyonce - who is now tied with husband Jay-Z for the title of most nominated artist of all time.
Beyonce leads the nominations with nine, taking her career total to 88 - now the same as her rapper husband, who earned five this year for his writing efforts on DJ Khaled's song God Did, as well as his work on his wife's album Renaissance and single Break My Soul.
She is up against Styles, Adele, Lamar and Lizzo in the album of the year, song of the year, and record of the year categories, three of the Grammy ceremony's biggest prizes.
The most decorated woman in the show's history with 28 wins, Beyonce could break the late Hungarian-British conductor Georg Solti's record for most awards won if she takes home four gongs next year. Solti, with 31 Grammys, has held the record since 1997.
The nominations put her up against Adele once again - the British star won album of the year in 2017, but said on stage that the award should have gone to the US artists Lemonade.
Following her return to the spotlight in 2021 with fourth album 30, which topped both the UK and US charts, Adele was also nominated in categories including best pop vocal album, and best music film, for Adele: One Night Only - which marked the singer's comeback with an interview by Oprah Winfrey and a concert performance at the Griffith Observatory.
Meanwhile, Styles continued a standout year which saw him nominated for the prestigious Mercury Prize; chart-topping third album Harry's House scored a nod for best pop vocal album and best non-engineered album (non-classical), while the hit track As It Was received nominations for best pop solo performance, song of the year, best music video, and record of the year.
With 91 categories celebrating genres from rock and rap to country and comedy in 2023, Lamar is the second front-runner with eight nods, while Adele and Brandi Carlile have seven, and Styles joins other artists including Mary J Blige and DJ Khaled with six.
Upcoming British indie rock duo Wet Leg - who were also shortlisted for the Mercury Prize earlier this year, and tipped by Barack Obama, no less - also scored a nomination in one of the big categories, best new artist, alongside Eurovision 2021 winners Maneksin.
Coldplay, Taylor Swift, Doja Cat, Steve Lacy and Bad Bunny are also among the big-name nominees - with Bad Bunny making history with the first Spanish-language album of the year nomination for Un Verano Sin Ti.
Announced by stars including Olivia Rodrigo, John Legend, Cyndi Lauper, Machine Gun Kelly and Smokey Robinson, almost half of the 2023 nominees are women and more than half are people of colour, according to the Recording Academy, which organises the awards.