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Last year the Grammys were a female-dominated affair, and this year the nominations are led by women too. Plus, a British band from the past are up for record of the year.

Beyonce leads this year’s female-dominated nominations, receiving 11 nods and making her the most nominated artist in the show’s 67 history, with 99 in total.

It means she overtakes her husband, rapper Jay-Z, with whom she was previously tied on 88 nominations.

Her success as the most-nominated artist comes after her country album, Cowboy Carter, was roundly snubbed at this year’s County Music Association Awards.

The 43-year-old star’s chart-topping album secured nods for album of the year and best country album, while track Texas Hold ‘Em is up for record of the year and song of the year.

Beyonce picked up her 32nd gong at last year’s ceremony, but despite winning the most awards in a lifetime, she’s yet to win the coveted album of the year award.

With recognition across a host of genres – including pop, country, Americana and melodic rap – many will be predicting she’ll surely take the prize home next year. If she does, it will make her the first black woman to do so this century.

Meanwhile, Swift’s seventh nod in the album category for her surprise double album The Tortured Poets Department means she overtakes Barbra Streisand, who had formerly tied with the Shake It Off star with six nominations.

Swift won the best album category last year with Midnights.

Following Beyonce in the lead for nominations, Charli XCX – whose trend setting album Brat saw the moniker become word of the year – has seven nods (her first as a solo artist), as does Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar, and Post Malone.

Lamar has two simultaneous entries in best rap performance – his Drake dis track Not Like Us, and Future & Metro Boomin collaboration Like That. It’s the third time he’s been up against himself in the category.

He’s also up for record and song of the year, best rap song and music video.

American singer-songwriter Sabrina Carpenter continues her stellar year with six nods, as do Chappell Roan and Swift, who finishes her record-breaking Eras tour in North America next month.

As well as Charlie XCX getting some Grammy nomination love, British star Raye also received her first nominations for best new artist and songwriter of the year non-classical.

Carpenter and Roan also made it into the prestigious best new artist category.

While The Beatles – who formed in Liverpool and went on to become the biggest musical act in the world – are up for record of the year with Now And Then, which used the help of artificial intelligence (AI) to complete a previously unfinished track.

Nominations were announced by past Grammy winners including Kylie Minogue, Mark Ronson and last year’s best new artist recipient, Victoria Monet.

The annual ceremony – which gives out a whopping 94 gongs in total – has four big categories – album, record and song of the year and best new artist.

The Recording Academy have adjusted to those categories this year, reducing the number of potential nominees from 10 to eight.

It’s also updated some of its rules to keep up with the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) technology in music and introduced three new categories – best African music performance, best pop dance recording, and best alternative jazz album.