Winner of 20 Grammy awards, pop singer Beyonce, also known as Queen Bey, got 9 nominations for the 59th Grammy awards, which makes her the most nominated female artist in Grammy history.
Chance, the Chicago artist reaped a windfall with seven nominations. Beyonce’s 9 got the heads up for her album Lemonade and Adele scored on ’25’.
Beyonce is also the first artist to be nominated in the genres of pop, R&B, rap and rock in the same year, with the last two genres being covered by her due to her collaboration with Kendrick Lamar and Jack White.
Beyonce received this year’s nominations in the three main three categories: Best record of the year, Best song of the year and Best album.
According to the Fox News Latino, with 63 nominations to her credit, the Texas-born artist is drawing closer to the all-time nomination record of 79 and 28 Grammys that was set by the well-known Quincy Jones.
Beyonce is also up for the best urban contemporary album with her sixth studio recording Lemonade. The visual concept album was released last April on paid subscription platform Tidal, Sky News reported.
Also, in a statement to Sky News, Recording Academy’s CEO Neil Portnow said, “Artists are feeling emboldened and courageous and just wanting to step out of the predictable boundaries of what they have done and Beyonce is the poster child for that.”
The nominations have come with their own set of controversies with news reports of Rihanna dissing Beyonce’s nine nominations by liking a fan’s instagram post questioning Beyonce’s nomination of Best Album of the year.
But Rihanna was quick to deny that she meant anything by liking the post, and said she was happy with her 8 nominations and people should see the bigger picture rather than pitting artists against each other.
Here is her answer:
