LOS ANGELES — What does Beyoncé have to do to win the Grammy Award for album of the year?
That was the question swirling around Twitter on Sunday night after Harry Styles won the top Grammys prize in yet another controversial upset over Queen Bey. Styles received the honor for his third solo record, "Harry's House," while Beyoncé was nominated (and expected by many to finally win) for her seventh studio album, "Renaissance."
In an essay for the Los Angeles Times previewing the 2023 Grammys, pop music critic Mikael Wood insisted that the Recording Academy's history of snubbing the "Break My Soul" hit-maker for the biggest award of the night "needs to change on Sunday." Beyoncé has never won album of the year despite being nominated four times: for "I Am...Sasha Fierce" (2008), "Beyoncé" (2013), "Lemonade" (2016) and "Renaissance" (2022).