BEYONCE already won the 2023 Grammy Award for Best R&B Song with “Cuff It.” The superstar earned the honor over fellow nominees Jazmine Sullivan (“Hurt Me So Good”), Mary J. Blige (“Good Morning Gorgeous”), Muni Long (“Hrs & Hrs”), and PJ Morton (“ Please Don’t Go”). Beyoncé is currently tied for the most wins in Grammy history, having won 31 career awards. She wasn’t at the ceremony to accept her latest Grammy, with host Trevor Noah joking that she might get stuck in traffic.
“Cuff It” is the fourth track from RenaissanceBeyoncé’s seventh studio album and first solo project since 2016 lemonade. In the interim between solo LPs, he released a live albumcollaborated with her husband, Jay-Z, on full effortand assisted by an album tied to Disney’s 2019 remake of The Lion King. Like his other six solo albums, Renaissance debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, making her the first female artist to reach the milestone.
Beyoncé came into the day as the most-awarded artist in the Best R&B Song category, and she already took home trophies for Best Dance/Electronic Recording (“Break My Soul”), and Best Traditional R&B Performance (“Sofa Plastic”). This year marks the first time that Beyoncé, the winningest female artist in Grammy historynominated in the Dance/Electronic category.
Beyoncé is nominated in nine categories at this year’s Grammy Awards, picking up nods elsewhere for Record of the Year (“Break My Soul”), Album of the Year (Renaissance), Song of the Year (“Break My Soul”), and Best Dance/Electronic Music Album (Renaissance).
Beyoncé is nominated in two other categories—Best R&B Performance (“Virgo’s Groove”) and Best Song Written for Visual Media (“live”)—but he lost Muni Long and the songwriting team behind Encanto’s “We Don’t Talk About Bruno,” respectively.
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