BEYONCÉ and Adele are the stars to beat at the 2023 Grammy Awards, and will go head-to-head for all the major prizes.

Both artistes have been nominated for Album of the Year, Adele for her sumptuous fourth album, 30, and Beyoncé for her dancefloor opus, Renaissance.

Adele’s single, Easy On Me, and Beyoncé’s Break My Soul are each up for Song and Record of the Year.

British stars Harry Styles and Coldplay are also in the running for Best Album, alongside Swedish pop icons, Abba.

The quartet has received their first-ever Album of the Year nomination for last year’s Voyage, which saw them emerge from a 39-year hibernation.

The nominations were announced on November 15, and Beyoncé leads the pack with nine overall, including nods in the Dance and R&B categories.

She is now tied with her husband, Jay-Z as the most-nominated artiste in Grammy history, with a total of 88, overtaking Sir Paul McCartney and Quincy Jones.

However, the star has not won a prize in any of the three biggest categories (Album, Record and Song of the Year) since Single Ladies was named Song of the Year in 2010.

But if she collects four (or more) awards next February, she will beat conductor Sir George Solti’s all-time record of 31 Grammys.

Kendrick Lamar is this year’s second biggest nominee, with eight nods for his fourth album, Mr. Morale, and the Big Steppers, a pensive rumination on the state of the world and his own moral failings, and the freestyle The Heart Part 5.

Adele and country star Brandi Carli are tied in third place, with seven nominations each.

Taylor Swift has received multiple nominations for her epic re-recording of 2012’s All Too Well, but her latest album, Midnights, was released too late for inclusion in the 2023 field.

And Puerto Rican rapper and singer Bad Bunny has made history by landing the first-ever Album of the Year nomination for a Spanish language album.

His record, Un Verano Sin Ti (A Summer Without You), dominated the US Billboard charts this summer, racking up 13 weeks at Number One.

British artistes have had a particularly strong year. Along with Adele, Harry Styles has nominations for Album of the Year (Harry’s House), as well as Record and Song of the Year (As It Was).

Ozzy Osbourne picks up several nominations in the rock categories for his solo record, Patient Number 9, while the Isle of Wight duo, Wet Leg, get a nod for Best New Act.

Drake and The Weeknd, who would have been likely frontrunners in the main categories, withdrew their latest albums from consideration. Both artistes have long maintained, with some justification, that the Grammys sideline black artistes to genre-based categories.

Drake and The Weeknd, who would have been likely frontrunners in the main categories, withdrew their latest albums from consideration. Both artistes have long maintained, with some justification, that the Grammys sideline black artistes to genre-based categories.

Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak, whose side project Silk Sonic also declined to submit their album. Rather than criticise the voters, however, Mars said it “would be crazy to ask for anything more” after winning song and record of the year for Leave The Door Open at this year’s ceremony. (BBC)