LOS ANGELES — Beyoncé and Adele won't be the only superstars vying for music's most highly coveted trophies at the 65th annual Grammy Awards.
As predicted by many music industry insiders, the two A-list pop divas turned up numerous times in nominations announced Tuesday by the Recording Academy, including in the top categories of album, record and song of the year. Beyoncé, who leads all nominees with nine nods in total, was recognized for her LP "Renaissance" and its No. 1 hit, "Break My Soul," while Adele, who received seven nominations overall, was honored for her album "30" and its chart-topping lead single, "Easy on Me."
But Grammy voters — not a group reliably known to align with a given year's commercial and critical favorites — gave the singers lots of high-powered competition for those major prizes: Other LPs up for album of the year include 2022's most-consumed full-length, "Un Verano Sin Ti" by the Puerto Rican singer and rapper Bad Bunny; Compton-born MC Kendrick Lamar's "Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers"; and former boy-band heartthrob Harry Styles' "Harry's House," all of which dominated streaming services like Spotify on their way to the top of the Billboard 200. Lamar's "The Heart Part 5" and Styles' "As It Was" both made the cut in the record and song categories, where their competition includes inescapable singles such as Steve Lacy's psychedelic-soul hit "Bad Habit," Lizzo's disco-funk "About Damn Time" and the gleefully profane "ABCDEFU" by 18-year-old Gayle.
