Beyonce leads nominations for 2023 Grammy Awards

Pop superstar Beyonce led the field of musicians nominated for Grammy awards on Tuesday, setting up a showdown with Adele, Harry Styles and others for the top prize of album of the year.

Beyonce landed nine nominations for the highest honours in music. That brought her career total to 88, tying her with husband Jay-Z as the most nominated artist in Grammy history.

Her dance-heavy album ‘Renaissance’ will compete for album of the year with Adele’s ‘30’,’Harry’s Hous’ from Harry Styles, ‘Special’ from Lizzo, and entries from ABBA, Bad Bunny, Mary J. Blige, Brandi Carlile and Coldplay.

The nominations again put Beyonce in competition with Adele, who won album of the year in 2017. Adele said at the time she thought that award should have gone to Beyonce’s ‘Lemonade’. Beyonce has never won the album award, even though she boasts the most Grammy wins of any female artist with 28.

At the awards ceremony in February, Beyonce’s single ‘Break My Soul’ will compete for record and song of the year against Adele’s ‘Easy on Me’.

Taylor Swift’s 10-minute version of her 2012 song ‘All Too Well’ also landed a nod for best song.

The Grammys will be handed out at a ceremony in downtown Los Angeles on Feb. 5. Winners will be chosen by the nearly 13,000 musicians, producers and songwriters who belong to the Recording Academy.

The awards will be broadcast live on U.S. broadcast network CBS and streamed on Paramount+.