It’s been a spot of competition for years that essentially the most celebrated artist in music historical past has by no means gained Album of the 12 months. Beyonce subtly shaded the Grammys in her new album, Cowboy Carter, despite the fact that it sounds prefer it’s water off a duck’s again.

Within the track “Candy Honey Buckin’”, the 32-time Grammy winner sings: “A-O-T-Y, I ain’t win (That’s cool) / I ain’t stuntin’ ’bout them / Take that shit on the chin / Come again and fuck up the pen (Yeah)” with AOTY clearly which means Album of the 12 months.

Queen Bey has misplaced AOTY twice to Taylor Swift. In 2010, Beyoncé misplaced to Swift’s Fearless; and once more in 2015, she misplaced to 1989. Maybe most famously, Beyonce misplaced to Swift for Greatest Feminine Video on the 2009 VMAs, prompting Kanye West to interrupt Tay’s acceptance speech.

However there’s no love misplaced between Tay and Bey, clearly. Swift opened up about her years-long relationship with the previous Future’s Youngster star in her TIME Individual of the 12 months cowl story, saying: “She’s essentially the most valuable gem of an individual—heat and open and humorous,” she mentioned. “And she or he’s such an awesome disrupter of music-industry norms. She taught each artist how one can flip the desk and problem archaic enterprise practices.”

Beyonce’s 32 Grammy wins make her essentially the most adorned artist within the award present’s historical past. She’s additionally tied with her husband Jay-Z because the most-nominated music act within the historical past of the Grammys with 88 nominations every. She gained Greatest Dance / Digital Music Album for RENAISSANCE on the 2023 Grammys, taking up the late conductor Georg Solti, who set the report for many Grammy wins in 1997.

Opposite to in style perception, Swift doesn’t make a cameo on Beyoncé’s album Cowboy Carter, Individuals confirmed. Followers speculated that the Tortured Poets Society artist was on the album and vented their theories to social media. “I ABSOLUTELY THOUGHT THAT WAS TAYLOR SWIFT IN BODYGUARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MY GOD, IMAGINE A DELUXE WITH TAYLOR ACTUALLY SINGING A VERSE WITH BEYONCÉ!!!!! THAT’S DEADASS HER BACKGROUND VOCALS!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! PLS CONFIRM I KNOW I AM NOT DELUSIONAL!!!!!!” one fan enthusiastically posted on X.