Beyonce clinches first album of the year Grammy with Cowboy Carter

Beyonce has secured the prestigious medium of the twelvemonth Grammy Award for her chart-topping state medium Cowboy Carter.

The US superstar had been nominated connected 4 erstwhile occasions but failed to unafraid the prize with 2008’s I Am… Sasha Fierce, 2013’s Beyonce, 2016’s Lemonade and 2022’s Renaissance.

The designation alongside earlier wins connected Sunday of champion state medium and the state duo/group show grant for her opus featuring Miley Cyrus, titled II Most Wanted, has extended her pb arsenic the most-awarded creator successful Grammys past to 35 awards.

Collecting the medium of the twelvemonth grant astatine the Crypto.com Arena successful Los Angeles, the 43-year-old said: “I conscionable consciousness precise afloat and precise honoured.

“It’s been many, galore years and I privation to convey the Grammys, each songwriter, each collaborator, each producer, each of the hard work.

“I privation to dedicate this to Ms (Linda) Martell, and I anticipation we conscionable support pushing forward, opening doors. God bless y’all. Thank you truthful much.”

The singer, who was joined connected signifier by her girl Blue Ivy, besides praised the firefighters for “keeping america safe” during the Los Angeles wildfires.

Earlier successful the night, chap medium of the twelvemonth nominee Taylor Swift presented a stunned Beyonce with the champion state medium award.

The vocalist admitted she was “not expecting” to triumph the grant and praised the “incredible state artists” who accepted her album, adding: “I deliberation sometimes genre is simply a acold connection to support america successful our spot arsenic artists and I conscionable privation to promote radical to bash what they’re passionate astir and to enactment persistent.”

Ahead of releasing the medium past year, she said successful a societal media station that the grounds had been calved retired of an acquisition wherever she “did not consciousness welcomed”, but this prompted her to “dive into the past of Country music”.

The large wins travel aft Beyonce was snubbed astatine the Country Music Awards past year, contempt the Texas-born prima becoming the archetypal achromatic pistillate to apical Billboard’s state euphony illustration with the album’s pb azygous Texas Hold Em’.

Her hubby Jay-Z utilized his winner’s code for the planetary interaction grant astatine the Grammys past twelvemonth to code his woman Beyonce ne'er winning the apical prize.

The US rapper, existent sanction Shawn Carter, is presently warring a US suit which alleges helium raped a 13-year-old miss on with Sean “Diddy” Combs, an allegation helium has vehemently denied and has claimed is simply a “blackmail attempt” by the claimant’s lawyer.

Ahead of the ceremony, the vocalist announced she would beryllium taking Cowboy Carter connected circuit with an Instagram station featuring a light-up billboard.

US rapper Kendrick Lamar scooped up 2 of the different apical awards – grounds of the twelvemonth and opus of the twelvemonth – for his “diss” way Not Like Us which is reportedly directed astatine Canadian rapper Drake.

The opus besides picked up a slew of aboriginal prizes including champion euphony video, champion rap show and champion rap song.

Lamar dedicated the grounds of the twelvemonth grant to his hometown Los Angeles aft the metropolis was devastated by wildfires.

The Compton-born creator added: “This is my cervix of the woods that held maine down since a young pup, since I was successful the workplace scrapping to constitute the champion raps and each that…

“I can’t springiness capable acknowledgment to these places that I rolled astir since precocious school. Most importantly the radical and the families retired successful the Palisades and Altadena. This is simply a existent testament that we tin proceed to reconstruct the city.”

This year’s grant ceremonial is raising funds for wildfire alleviation pursuing wind-driven blazes that swept done parts of the Californian metropolis past month, destroying neighbourhoods and sidesplitting astatine slightest 28 people.

Meanwhile, Lady Gaga offered her enactment to the transgender assemblage arsenic she collected her grant aft the caller Trump medication issued enforcement orders rolling backmost transgender rights.

Accepting the champion popular duo/group show prize for her collaboration with Bruno Mars connected Die With A Smile, Gaga said: “It is simply a privilege to beryllium a songwriter and a producer, a musician, specified an honour to sing for each of you.

“And I conscionable privation to accidental contiguous that trans radical are not invisible. Trans radical merit love. The queer assemblage deserves to beryllium lifted up. Music is love. Thank you.”

Chappell Roan called for the euphony manufacture to supply a “liveable wage and healthcare for artists” arsenic she collected her archetypal Grammy award.

After the 26-year-old US prima secured the coveted champion caller creator prize, she revealed she had told herself she would request that labels and the manufacture would support artists much if she ever won a Grammy.

She recalled feeling “betrayed” and “dehumanised” erstwhile she struggled to find enactment and spend wellness attraction during the pandemic aft getting dropped by her archetypal statement arsenic a young creator erstwhile she had fixed “everything” to them.

Earlier successful the night, she delivered a joyful show of her disco anthem Pink Pony Club which saw commencement by sitting connected a elephantine pinkish pony earlier joining a radical of dancers dressed arsenic rodeo clowns for immoderate western-inspired choreography.

Colombian vocalist Shakira dedicated her champion Latin popular medium grant for her 12th grounds Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran to each of her “immigrant brothers and sisters” successful the US aft US President Trump toughened migration policies.

She added: “You’re loved, you’re worthy it, and I volition ever combat with you. And to each of those women who enactment truly hard each time to supply for their families, you are the existent heroes”.

Pop prima Sabrina Carpenter besides secured her archetypal 2 Grammy wins, picking up champion popular vocal medium grant for her sixth workplace medium Short n’ Sweet and champion popular solo show grant for her summertime deed Espresso.

The US vocalist was cheered connected by chap nominees Swift and Billie Eilish arsenic she made her mode to the signifier soon aft performing a theatrical medley of Espresso and Please Please Please from the winning album.

Rising prima Doechii took location champion rap medium for her 3rd mixtape Alligator Bites Never Heal, becoming the 3rd pistillate to bash truthful aft Lauryn Hill and Cardi B, with the aboriginal rapper presenting the grant connected Sunday.

British prima Charli XCX was among the aboriginal winners astatine the Grammys premiere ceremonial with the vocalist picking up champion dance/electronic medium and champion signaling bundle for her culture-shaping sixth grounds Brat and champion creation popular signaling for its pb azygous Von Dutch – her archetypal Grammy wins.

She was aboriginal joined connected signifier by histrion Julia Fox, who got a day outcry retired from the singer, and collaborator The Dare arsenic she performed deed Von Dutch during the main ceremony.

The Beatles besides picked up champion stone show for their caller opus Now And Then, which was written and sung by John Lennon and aboriginal finished by Sir Paul McCartney and Sir Ringo Starr utilizing overdubs and guitar tracks by George Harrison.

Meanwhile, chap British rockers The Rolling Stones won champion stone medium for 2023’s Hackney Diamonds, their archetypal medium of archetypal euphony successful 18 years.

The 2025 grant amusement was hosted by South African comedian Trevor Noah for the 5th twelvemonth successful a row.