{"id":13204,"date":"2016-12-07T14:31:58","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T14:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=13204"},"modified":"2016-12-07T14:31:58","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T14:31:58","slug":"grammy-awards-beyonce-leads-the-way-with-nine-nominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/grammy-awards-beyonce-leads-the-way-with-nine-nominations\/","title":{"rendered":"Grammy Awards: Beyonc\u00e9 leads the way with nine nominations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beyonc\u00e9 tips the most nominations for the 59th annual Grammys for her album \u201cLemonade\u201d including Best Album and Record Of The Year, but she\u2019ll have to battle Adele whom\u00a0is nominated for album \u201c25\u201d.<\/h3>\n

Reporter: Andrew Whiteford | Sub-Editor: Hannah Grafton<\/h4>\n
\"Beyonc\u00e9.

Beyonc\u00e9. Photograph: Kevin Winter<\/p><\/div>\n

Adele and Beyonc\u00e9 both experienced extreme commercial and critical success in 2016. Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s visual album \u201cLemonade\u201d tackled adultery and racial segregation whilst being sonically experimental. Adele\u2019s \u201c25\u201d sold over 10,000,000 copies worldwide and spawned successful singles such as \u201cHello\u201d, \u201cWhen We Were Young\u201d and \u201cSend My Love\u201d.<\/p>\n

This year the Grammy Awards will mostly accolade the biggest pop hits on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart \u2014 itself a prominent change for the award ceremony, which typically awarded veterans of the music industry and creative excellence.<\/p>\n

Other musicians with nominations include Drake (Hotline Bling, Views) and\u00a0Rihanna (Anti, Kiss It Better), each with eight nods. An unexpected nominee was Chance The Rapper; the independent artist who took the hip-hop world by storm has gained the acclaimed \u2018Best New Artist\u2019 nomination.<\/p>\n

Similar to most years, the Album Of The Year category will be a close call. \u201cLemonade\u201d and \u201c25\u201d will contend alongside Drake\u2019s \u201cViews,\u201d which broke streaming records; \u201cPurpose,\u201d Justin Bieber\u2019s comeback album; and, in what might be the year\u2019s unexpected, wildcard nomination, \u201cA Sailor\u2019s Guide to Earth,\u201d by the country musician Sturgill Simpson, a favourite amongst music journalists but sold modestly.<\/p>\n

It attracted criticism as it seemed Beyonc\u00e9 was nominated for outwardly every award possible. Besides the overarching genre-less nominations, she is up for awards in the pop category (Hold Up), rock category (\u201cDon\u2019t Hurt Yourself w\/ Jack White) , R&B (Lemonade) and rap (Freedom w\/ Kendrick Lamar), whilst also being nominated for best music video.<\/p>\n

Since the start of her career with Destiny\u2019s Child, Beyonc\u00e9 has been nominated 62 times \u2013 making her the most nominated female artist of all time. This record comes at a time when the Grammy\u2019s board has been criticised for it\u2019s lack of diversity and recognition for minority artists.<\/p>\n

Frank Ocean refused to submit his critically acclaimed album to the Grammy\u2019s after calling the system \u2018dated\u2019. Neil Portnow, the current president of the National Academy of Recording Arts responded: \u201cIn the big picture of the industry, we received 22,000 entries in this year\u2019s process. It\u2019s crystal clear to me that the immense mass of artists believe that we are important,\u201d<\/p>\n

The Grammy Awards will be held on Feb 12th<\/sup> at the Staples Centre, Los Angeles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Beyonc\u00e9 tips the most nominations for the 59th annual Grammys for her album \u201cLemonade\u201d including Best Album and Record Of The Year, but she\u2019ll have to battle Adele whom\u00a0is nominated for album \u201c25\u201d. Reporter: Andrew…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,92,135],"tags":[646,798,2732,4322,5627],"class_list":["post-13204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrity","category-music","category-uncategorized","tag-awards","tag-beyonce","tag-grammys","tag-music","tag-sia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}