The nominations for the 57th annual Grammy Awards has officially made Beyonce the woman with the most Grammy nominations.Adding 6 new nominations to her career total, the superstar is now the single most nominated woman in Grammy history. After receiving one nomination last year, she was tied with Dolly Parton for first place, but the two no longer hold that distinction together.
The mother of 1 now has a total of 52 total nominations over her years in the business, and can even be regarded as a legend in her own right, despite been just 33 year old.
The singer was first nominated in 2000 with Destiny’s Child for their song “Bills, Bills, Bills”, though they went home empty handed that night. She won her first trophies the following year for “Say My Name”, which took home two R&B awards, but missed out on the larger Record and Song of the Year, for which it was also nominated. The group would go on to be nominated for over a dozen awards before they finally took a bow a decade ago.
Since then, Beyoncé has continued to collect nominations and awards left and right, seemingly for everything she does. Impressively, she has been nominated for at least one award every year since 2000, only missing 2003.
While Beyoncé has gathered the most nominations of any woman, she does not actually have the most wins for a woman in the business. Right now, she is in third place on that ranking, behind Aretha Franklin and Alison Krauss, who is in the lead for women, having won 27 Grammys. Come February, Mrs. Carter will likely move into second place, as Aretha is only beating her by one spot.
With this new switch up, Beyoncé moves into seventh place on the overall ranking of artists with the most recognitions, switching places with industry veteran David Foster, who has produced some of the biggest songs and albums in history. Foster actually holds the distinction of having won Album of the Year—a prize Bey still has yet to take home—three times in the 90’s, for: Natalie Cole’s Unforgettable…with Love, The Bodygaurd soundtrack, and Celine Dion’s Falling Into You.
Quincy Jones still holds the record for the most nominations in history with 79, followed by composer Georg Solti, Beyoncé’s husband Jay-Z, composer John Williams and jazz musician Chick Correa—who are tied. Immediately above Beyoncé is close personal friend Kanye West, who now has 55 nominations.
