‘Thanks for loving and pushing me’: Beyoncé breaks Grammys record, but Harry Styles pips her for best album; Lizzo, Adele, Bonnie Raitt also win
- Queen Bey celebrates her 32nd career Grammys win, breaking a long-standing record, but loses out for best album to Harry Styles, for Harry’s House
- Lizzo wins record of the year and Adele best solo performance, and there is a surprise song of the year winner – Bonnie Raitt, for Just Like That
Queen Bey sits alone atop the Grammys throne.
Beyoncé broke the all-time record on Sunday with her 32nd career Grammys win, with the milestone honour coming in the best dance/electronic music album category for Renaissance.
“I’d like to thank my parents, my father, my mother, for loving me and pushing me,” Beyoncé said during her acceptance speech at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. “I’d like to thank my beautiful husband, my beautiful three children who are at home watching. I’d like to thank the queer community for your love and for inventing the genre.”
Beyoncé passed the late conductor Georg Solti, whose 31st Grammy came in 1998, months after his death.
The pop diva, however, lost in the prestigious album of the year category to Harry Styles. The British singer also triumphed over other nominees – Bad Bunny, Lizzo, Adele, Mary J. Blige, Brandi Carlile, Coldplay, Kendrick Lamar and ABBA – with his third album, Harry’s House.
“This doesn’t happen to people like me very often, and this is so nice,” he said onstage.
Lizzo took home the record of the year trophy for About Damn Time, while Adele won best pop solo performance with “Easy on Me”. Veteran singer Bonnie Raitt caught many by surprise by winning Song of the Year with “Just Like That”.
The record-breaking win was Beyoncé’s fourth of the day. Earlier in the ceremony, she tied Solti’s longtime mark by winning best R&B song for “Cuff It” but didn’t appear onstage to collect the trophy.
Bad Bunny got Sunday’s ceremony off to a hopping start. The reggaeton rapper energised the audience with an opening performance of “El Apagón” and “Después De La Playa” that had Taylor Swift and Jack Harlow out of their seats and dancing along.
The Puerto Rican artist, who was Spotify’s most streamed artist in each of the last three years, later won best música urbana album for his chart-topping Un Verano Sin Ti.
Also making history was Kim Petras, who won best pop duo/group performance with Sam Smith for their hit Unholy.
Actress Viola Davis won her first career Grammy, making her the 18th person to achieve EGOT status as the recipient of an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony.
Her win came in the best audio book, narration and storytelling recording category for her 2022 memoir, Finding Me.
Davis, 57, is the first person to reach the EGOT milestone since Jennifer Hudson in 2021. Rita Moreno, John Legend, Mel Brooks, Whoopi Goldberg and Andrew Lloyd Webber are among the other EGOT recipients.
Lamar won best rap song and best rap performance for “The Heart Part 5” and best rap album for Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers. His six wins in the best rap performance category are the most ever.
Having won best pop vocal album for Harry’s House, Styles then performed later in the ceremony. Lizzo also performed, as did Brandi Carlile.
Carlile – whose previous six Grammy wins came in country, American roots and Americana categories – won best rock song and best rock performance for “Broken Horses”.
