Why Beyonc hasnt won an Album of the Year Grammy and when she was robbed

The Grammys have been crazy in love with Beyoncé since she got her first of a record 99 nominations with Destiny’s Child 25 years ago.And since DC’s “Bills, Bills, Bills” lost to TLC’s “No Scrubs” for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group in 2000, Bey has gone on to become the winningest artist in Grammy history, bagging her 32nd of those golden gramophones in 2023.But despite her staggering success on music’s biggest night, Beyoncé has never won the award that matters most: Album of the Year.She’s been nominated four times — for “I Am … Sasha Fierce” in 2010, “Beyoncé” in 2015, “Lemonade” in 2017 and “Renaissance” in 2023.

And she’s lost four times.While hubby Jay-Z accepted the Dr.Dre Global Impact Award last year, he called the Grammys out about it: “She has more Grammys than everyone and never won Album of the Year.

So even by your own metrics, that doesn’t work.Think about that.

The most Grammys, [but] never won Album of the Year.That doesn’t work.”In front of the industry, he said the quiet part out loud, as Mrs.

Carter stood in the uncomfortable audience.Weeks later, Queen Bey dropped “Cowboy Carter” — her groundbreaking, genre-bucking country collection — which leads the contenders at Sunday’s Grammys with 11 nominations, the most ever by a female artist in a single year.And — here we go again — she’s up for Album of the Year in what will be the story of the night.So how did we get here, where Beyoncé has perfected the beauty-queen smile-and-clap routine in loss after loss for Grammy’s biggest award?It all started in 2010, when Beyoncé once again led the nominees with 10 for her 2008 album “I Am … Sasha Fierce,” which featured the hits “If I Were a Boy,” “Halo” and, biggest of all, “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It).”That year B was up against Taylor Swift’s “Fearless,” Lady Gaga’s “The Fame,” the Black Eyed Peas’ “The E.N.D.” and Dave Matthews ...