Which Year Should Beyoncé Have Won AOTY At The Grammys?

[Rasille]

2010
Beyoncé-I Am Sasha Fierce
Taylor Swift- Fearless
Black Eyed Peas- The E.N.D
Lady Gaga- The Fame
Dave Matthews Band- Big Whisky and The Groo Grux King

2015
Beyoncé- Beyoncé
Beck- Morning Phase
Sam Smith- In The Lonely Hour
Ed Sheeran- X
Pharrell- GIRL

2017
Beyoncé- Lemonade
Adele- 25
Justin Bieber- Purpose
Drake- Views
Sturgill Simpson- A Sailors Guide To Earth

2023
Beyoncé- Renaissance
Harry Styles- Harry’s House
ABBA- Voyage
Adele- 30
Bad Bunny- Un Verano Sin Ti
Mary J Blige- Good Morning Gorgeous
Brandi Carlile- In These Silent Days
Coldplay- Music of The Spheres
Kendrick Lamar- Mr Morale and The Big Steppers
Lizzo- Special

 

[BigSteve]

17 at a minimum

 

[bourgeoisie tall freak]

i like adele but 25 was not it, so i would have gave it to her there at least.
i think renassaince was my most played for last year and kendrick the year before that so idk bout that one.

 

[McSpacey]

Which year shouldn’t she have? Let’s start there! It hit different.

 

[Cool DOC]

Don't know how big those Taylor singles were in 2010 but that seemed like her only realistic year.

 

[ThirdAct]

The year she aired out and emasculated Jay for a whole album

 

[Max Goonberg]

Has any black artists ever won aoty?

 

[Sauce Dab]

I’d say either 2015 or 2023 personally. When Beck beat her in 2015 that was when I knew she was never winning AOTY. Nobody was beating that Adele album in 2017. She was unstoppable that year

 

[Fanservice]

Has any black artists ever won aoty?

Lauryn Hill I think is the only one

 

[Sad Bunny]

2017.

 

[Yinny]

2015 or 23 for me hands down my favs from her

 

[Jean Jacket]

2015 stands out. I can't think of any other year.

 

[CapitalOne]

Has any black artists ever won aoty?

Lauryn Hill I think is the only one

Outkast won for speakerboxx/the love below

Michael jackson won for thriller

Jon batiste won for we are

Herbie hancock for river

Ray charles for genius loves company

Whitney houston for the bodyguard sountrack

Natalie cole for unforgettable

Quicy jones back on the block

Lionel richie for cant slow down

Stevie wonder for songs in the key of life, fulfillingness first finale and innervisions

 

[Rev]

I fully expected Beyonce to win for "Lemonade" because of the impact it had that year between the songs, the videos...which followed the elevator incident.

Could've won for the double album "Beyonce" too. How good was Beck's "Morning Phase" album? Honest question.

Has any black artists ever won aoty?

 

[Illmagic]

2010 -Maybe? Taylor Swift wasn't a superstar then as she was in her country bag at that point. Beyonce was a mega star so a strong case could be made she coulda took it. However, that album wasn't all that critically acclaimed where Fearless was. So I dunno maybe she could have won there. I can't call it

2015 - Yes. She should have won that year. I think the Grammys really took into account the fact Beck penned all his songs and played hella instruments throughout the album. Which is undeniably impressive. But still this was Beyonce's award. Huge album and it was critically acclaimed. I'm not a big Beyonce fan but this was the best album she's done IMO.

2017 - No. The Grammys got this correct. Lemonade is crazy overrated. When you strip away the controversy its really not that good. It was big but so was 25. Hello was a massive song. I didn't think 25 was all that great either but I think its certainly better than Lemonade. Both albums were big so they went with the better album musically.

2023 - Probably? I thought Renaissance was wack but it was a huge album with some huge songs. She also took some chances musically, so it was right up the Grammys ally. Once again though Adele has a much better album then her...but Adele didn't win either. Harry Styles won .His album was the definition of boring mid pop. So if you wern't going to give it to Adele then it has to go to Beyonce. Or just go all in on the most popular and go with Bad Bunny.

So she should have 1 AOTY at least. Maybe 2