As music’s elite collect in Los Angeles for the Grammy awards on Sunday, one query is enjoying on loop: Will Beyonce lastly win the coveted Album of the Yr prize?

The 41-year-old has essentially the most possibilities at Grammy gold with 9 nominations, following the discharge of “Renaissance,” her wealthy, layered ode to membership music.

She is a powerhouse contender for the evening’s main awards — however the identical goes for British balladeer Adele, whose introspective ode to the ugly cry, “30,” earned her seven nods.

The face-off has prompted apparent comparisons to 2017, when Adele swept the highest prizes on the glitzy music biz gala, shutting out Queen Bey’s culture-shaking “Lemonade.”

Six years later, Beyonce has continued to make historical past because the Grammys’ winningest lady; with 4 extra victories on Sunday, she might overtake classical conductor Georg Solti for essentially the most victories by any artist.

However on the subject of the large three awards — greatest album, greatest report, and greatest music — Beyonce curiously stays one thing of an underdog.

She has by no means received Album of the Yr honors and though she has essentially the most File of the Yr nods with eight, she’s by no means received that prize both.

She solely scored Tune of the Yr as soon as, for 2008’s “Single Women.”

However trade watchers together with Billboard predict this can lastly be Beyonce’s yr to take house the Grammy for Album of the Yr, arguably the evening’s most prestigious prize.

“I positive hope so, as a result of does not she deserve it?” Nile Rodgers, the co-founder of the band Stylish who’s credited with contributions on “Renaissance,” informed AFP.

Rodgers, the Supremes, Nirvana and others will obtain a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Recording Academy at Sunday’s ceremony.

“She’s arguably essentially the most culturally essential artist on the planet,” Merck Mercuriadis, the music publishing mogul who was as soon as Beyonce’s supervisor, chimed in at a pre-Grammy gala.

Unhealthy Bunny, Taylor Swift within the combine

Past the Beyonce-Adele rematch, a slew of latest superstars together with Kendrick Lamar, Harry Kinds and Taylor Swift even have sturdy possibilities to take house the evening’s main trophies.

The star-studded sixty fifth annual Grammys, hosted as soon as once more by comic Trevor Noah, will embrace performances from Kinds, Unhealthy Bunny, Lizzo and Mary J. Blige.

“Tune in… if just for an evening of free remedy!” Noah quipped on Twitter.

Unhealthy Bunny, indisputably the world’s greatest business artist, has three Grammy possibilities off his main drop “Un Verano Sin Ti,” additionally an Album of the Yr contender.

It is the primary time a wholly 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.

A Unhealthy Bunny win in that subject “would imply lots to all Spanish-speaking folks and our tradition as a result of it actually says, ‘Hey, Spanish music is simply as revered as music in English and music actually has no limitations,” Colombian artist Sebastian Yatra informed AFP.

Kinds, Lizzo and Doja Cat all determine among the many high nominees, whereas pop juggernaut Swift might win the Tune of the Yr prize that has evaded her for years.

The famous person — 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 award celebrating songwriters for her 10-minute model of “All Too Effectively.”

‘Surreal week’

After a number of Grammy years with clear Finest New Artist favorites — Olivia Rodrigo, Megan Thee Stallion and Billie Eilish — Sunday’s race is broad open.

For Molly Tuttle, a bluegrass artist within the working, even a nomination means “that my music can attain an even bigger viewers and that new alternatives might come up for me.”

“It is only a surreal week. It has been a whirlwind up to now,” she mentioned.

The class has grown more and more eclectic and reflective of the web age’s influence on widespread music, and most of the nominees — together with Brazil’s Anitta, Eurovision rockers Maneskin and rapper Latto — have all discovered viral fame on TikTok.

“It is cool,” mentioned JD Beck, who with co-artist DOMi includes their eponymous experimental jazz duo that is up for 2 Grammys this Sunday, together with Finest New Artist.

“We’re simply ignoring every thing, making an attempt to be very tunnel imaginative and prescient till it is over,” he informed AFP with a blase grin.

“Yeah, specializing in enjoying and never utterly ruining it,” quipped DOMi.

The Academy — comprised of music-makers together with artists, composers and engineers — additionally shortlisted a coterie of the trade’s enduring stars for Grammys, with Bonnie Raitt, Willie Nelson and ABBA every garnering a handful of nominations.

Irrespective of who wins, the Recording Academy’s consideration has amped up the profession of Samara Pleasure, who together with a nod within the jazz classes earned a shot at Finest New Artist.

“You recognize, over the previous few months, much more folks began selecting up the telephone,” she informed AFP with fun.

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