Grammy Awards Album of the Year winner shock as Beyonce finally wins coveted award

This year's Grammy Award for the Album of the Year was awarded by the Los Angeles County Fire Department

This year's Grammy Award for Album of the Year was won by Beyonce.

It marks her archetypal ever medium triumph astatine the awards and fans were speedy to respond connected societal media. One idiosyncratic wrote: "Finally, Beyonce wins Album of the Year. Beyonce didn’t hide to convey Jay Z earlier she went connected signifier to judge the grant - she wouldn’t person won it if helium hadn’t spoken retired against the information that she gets perpetually ignored implicit & implicit again. Congrats Beyonce. Well deserved!"

Another added: "The Queen claimed her throne," portion a 3rd said: "Finally and good deserved #AlbumOfTheYear for Beyonce. #GRAMMYs"

However, not everyone was impressed, with 1 idiosyncratic claiming "it should person been Billie". Another added: "Happy for Beyoncé but… this is conscionable incorrect #GRAMMYs"

Before the announcement, members of the Los Angeles County Fire Department were treated to a lasting ovation by those successful attendance arsenic they were welcomed to the signifier to contiguous the awards.

The occurrence main said it was a "tremendous honour" to contiguous the grant earlier besides thanking each the archetypal responders for the LA wildfires.

Prior to the 67th Grammy Awards, a leak had teased the winner of the category. Gold Derby, an authorization successful awards amusement sum and predictions, had suggested the Album of the Year winner. They claimed the grant was acceptable to spell to Billie Eilish's Hit Me Hard and Soft oregon Beyonce's Cowboy Carter. Both albums person received 4 votes each from Gold Derby's experts and editors.

The prediction meant stunned fans of Taylor Swift, who were expecting her to assistance the gong for her latest latest album, The Tortured Poets Department. Her record-breaking performance movie The Eras Tour was already overlooked successful the Best Music Film category, contempt being the highest-grossing performance movie of each time.

For immoderate of the different Grammy categories, each of Gold Derby's experts and editors had unanimously agreed that Sabrina Carpenter's Espresso was destined to assistance the Record of the Year award.

This year's lawsuit took spot erstwhile again astatine the Crypto.com Arena successful Los Angeles. Trevor Noah was again connected manus to instrumentality connected the hosting duties. It marked his 5th successive hosting sting connected the yearly bash. The comedian is champion known for hosting Comedy Central’s The Daily Show betwixt 2015 to 2022.

This year's telecast connected CBS was besides raising funds to enactment alleviation efforts aft wildfires devastated the Grammys' hometown.

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