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Beyoncé losing Best Album for a fourth time at the Grammys had fans absolutely outraged

Beyoncé got snubbed for Best Album … again.

The Grammys are known for stirring up controversy with their Best Album picks, and this year’s was certainly no exception.

Rather than finally reward music megastar Beyoncé with her first Best Album award, the Recording Academy opted for British pop star Harry Styles and his album Harry’s House.

While Styles’ album earned lots of love and got plenty of airplay, Beyoncé’s unfortunate history with the Grammys’ top category resurfaced after her fourth loss in the category.

She was also nominated for groundbreaking works like 2008’s I Am… Sasha Fierce, 2013’s self-titled Beyoncé and 2016’s Lemonade.

While Beyoncé became the Grammys’ most-awarded artist of all time on Sunday night, she still couldn’t take home the show’s top honor for her 2022 album Renaissance.

It’s a bit like how the Academy Awards didn’t give Martin Scorsese the Best Directing Oscar until 2006’s The Departed. You just home the Recording Academy won’t wait that long to recognize Beyoncé for the top Grammy out there.

Let’s just say there were some folks who were not happy about Beyoncé’s latest Best Album snub.

Beyoncé made Grammys history while she was stuck in Los Angeles traffic, and the internet had jokes

“Where’s Beyoncé?!”

Music superstar Beyoncé found out about one of life’s great equalizers on Sunday night: Los Angeles traffic.

As she won Best R&B Song for her hit “Cuff It” off of last year’s Renaissance, folks attending this year’s Grammy Awards began to wonder why Beyoncé wasn’t the one going to the stage to accept the award.

Well, show host Trevor Noah announced to the crowd that Queen Bey was stuck in L.A. traffic and on her way to the ceremony.

Legendary musician Niles Rodgers got some very deserved stage time to accept his role in creating the song, but Beyoncé’s absence mainly just left everyone wondering what Lizzo said earlier in the show.

“Where’s Beyoncé?”

As you can guess, the internet was aflutter as Beyoncé missed her first award of the night, one that tied her for the record for all-time Grammy wins.

While the megastar wasn’t present, newly minted EGOT winner Viola Davis did love getting to announce Beyoncé’s first win of the night. So that’s nice!

 

Beyoncé announces dates for the Renaissance World Tour

The 41-stop Renaissance World Tour begins in May.

Seven months after the release of her seventh studio album, Renaissance, Beyoncé is taking her music on the road for a 41-leg World Tour.

The Break My Soul songstress announced the Renaissance World Tour Wednesday on Instagram, and added a link to her social accounts that leads to a list of every single date and location of the five-month long tour along with a button to register for each.

Renaissance will be Beyoncé’s first solo headlining tour since The Formation World Tour in 2016, though she co-headlined the On The Run II Tour with Jay-Z in 2018.

Here’s a look at every single date that’s been announced:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CoHxOQhrTHX/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

5/10 Stockholm

5/14 Brussels

5/17 Cardiff, UK

5/20 Edinburgh, UK

5/23 Sunderland, UK

5/26 Paris

5/29 London

5/30 London

6/8 Barcelona, Spain

6/11 Marseille, France

6/15 Cologne, Germany

6/17 Amsterdam

6/21 Hamburg, Germany

6/24 Frankfurt, Germany

6/27 Warsaw, Poland

7/8 Toronto

7/12 Philadelphia

7/15 Nashville, TN

7/17 Louisville, KY

7/20 Minneapolis

7/22 Chicago

7/26 Detroit

7/29 East Rutherford, NJ

8/1 Boston

8/3 Pittsburgh

8/5 Washington, DC

8/9 Charlotte, NC

8/11 Atlanta

8/16 Tampa, FL

8/18 Miami

8/21 St. Louis

8/24 Phoenix

8/26 Las Vegas

8/30 San Francisco

9/2 Inglewood, CA

9/11 Vancouver, BC

9/13 Seattle

9/18 Kansas City, MO

9/21 Dallas

9/23 Houston

9/27 New Orleans

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