Taylor Swift is once again one of the most-nominated musicians at the Grammys. The singer is up for six more awards this year, and there’s a good chance she’ll walk away with more gold to her name. If she comes out on top in one specific field, she’ll match two of the most successful women in pop music history.
This year, Swift is nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album for her most recent full-length of original material, Midnights. The set was a massive commercial success when it arrived in late 2022, and now it’s competing for a number of important trophies.
If Swift wins Best Pop Vocal Album, she’ll become just the third artist in the history of the category to claim the honor more than once. So far, the only musicians who have managed to do so are Adele and Kelly Clarkson. Those singers are tied for the most wins in this field, with just two apiece.
Swift first earned the prize back in 2016 for her first pure-pop project, 1989. That set beat out Florence and the Machine’s How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful, Mark Ronson’s Uptown Special, James Taylor’s Before This World, and Clarkson’s Piece By Piece. She would go on to be nominated for her albums Reputation, Lover, Folklore, and now Midnights.
Clarkson was the first musician to win Best Pop Vocal Album twice–a feat she accomplished more than a decade ago. She first was named the champion in 2006 for her set Breakaway. In 2013, she doubled her sum when Stronger won the field.
Adele managed the same showing, only in a shorter span of time. Her sophomore title 21 won Best Pop Vocal Album in 2012. In 2017, she returned and won the category again with 21’s follow-up, 25.
Midnights has a very good chance of winning not only Best Pop Vocal Album this year but also Album of the Year–something Swift has earned three times in the past. This time around, the singer-songwriter is up against fellow possible champions Miley Cyrus’ Endless Summer Vacation, Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts, Ed Sheeran’s – (Subtract), and Clarkson’s latest, Chemistry.
The winners of the 2024 Grammys will be announced during a live telecast on CBS on February 4, 2024.
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