Beyonce Grammy submissions: 12 chances for nominations across pop, rap, country, Americana categories
When Beyonce is eligible at the Grammys, you can typically expect her to be one of the most nominated artists of the year. She picked up 10 bids in 2010, and she was up for nine awards in 2017, 2021, and 2023. Altogether she’s tied with her husband Jay-Z for the most Grammy nominations ever (88). That’s a tie she’s sure to break this year with her genre-bending “Cowboy Carter” album, which could get the trailblazing artist up to 12 nominations. If she secures all of them, she’ll tie Michael Jackson (1984) and Babyface (1997) for the most bids in a single year, and bring her all-time tally to an even 100 noms. Here are her submissions:
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Record of the Year — “Texas Hold ‘Em”
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Album of the Year — “Cowboy Carter”
Song of the Year — “Texas Hold ‘Em”
Best Pop Solo Performance — “Bodyguard”
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance — “Levii’s Jeans” (with Post Malone)
Best R&B Song — “Tyrant”
Best Melodic Rap Performance — “Spaghetti” (with Linda Martell and Shaboozey)
Best Country Solo Performance — “16 Carriages”
Best Country Duo/Group Performance — “II Most Wanted” (with Miley Cyrus)
Best Country Song — “Texas Hold ‘Em”
Best Country Album — “Cowboy Carter”
Best Americana Performance — “YA YA”
SEECan Beyonce’s ‘Cowboy Carter’ still win Grammys in spite of CMA snub?
As you can see, Beyonce is likely to continue hopping genres. She has been nominated in pop, R&B, rap, and rock categories in the past. This year she could add country and Americana awards to her extensive resume. She has five submissions to that field — perhaps surprisingly, she entered “16 Carriages” for Best Country Solo Performance instead of her chart-topping Record and Song of the Year contender “Texas Hold ‘Em.”
Her album “Cowboy Carter” was clearly accepted by the genre screening committee as a country album, but the 27-track behemoth contains multitudes. It has two pop songs submitted, one R&B track, and even a melodic rap cut. Will that help her or hurt her, though, when it comes to the nominations and wins? Will “Cowboy Carter” be deemed country enough to reward? We saw a worrying sign from the country music industry when the CMAs entirely snubbed the album, perhaps writing her off as an interloper rather than a true participant in country music.
But Beyonce already has an established track record with the Recording Academy — and how! She has more trophies than any other individual in Grammy history (32), and she was welcomed into the dance/EDM categories with wins for her last album, “Renaissance.” So voters are used to regarding her as more than just a pop/R&B star. If she can extend her empire into country awards, there’s probably nowhere she can’t go.
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