2023: HERE COMES BEYONCÉ, THE MOST AWARDED ARTIST IN AWARD SHOW HISTORY 

Did you know that Beyoncé is the most-awarded artist in the award show history, including MTV Video Music Awards, BET Awards, Soul Train Awards, Grammy Awards, and Billboard Music Awards, amongst others?

Beyoncé, an American singer, songwriter, actress, and entrepreneur, has become the most awarded artist in Grammys history during a historic evening in Los Angeles, United States, as the singer, who was a late arrival at the ceremony after being stuck in traffic, won best R&B song, best dance / electronic recording, best dance / electronic album and best traditional R&B performance, and bringing her total wins so far to 32 Grammy awards.

The Grammy Awards (stylized as GRAMMY), or simply known as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States. It was originally called the Gramophone Awards, as the trophy depicts a gilded gramophone.

Throughout the course of her career, Beyoncé has won 29 MTV Video Music Awards, making her the most-awarded artist in the award show history. She is also the most-awarded artist at the BET Awards and the Soul Train Awards. 

With a total of 32 awards and 79 nominations from the Grammy Awards for her music (including her work in Destiny's Child and The Carters), she is the most-awarded and most nominated (tied alongside her husband Jay-Z) artist in Grammy history. And with 13 awards, Beyoncé is the eighth-most awarded artist at the Billboard Music Awards.

In 2002, she received Songwriter of the Year from American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers becoming the First African American woman to win the award. 

In 2004 and 2019, she received NAACP Image Award for Entertainer of the Year and the Soul Train Music Award for Sammy Davis Jr. – Entertainer of the Year. 

In 2005, Beyoncé also received APEX Award at the Trumpet Award honoring achievements of Black African Americans, and in 2007, she received the International Artist of Excellence award by the American Music Awards. She also received Honorary Otto at the Bravo Otto. 

The following year (2008), Beyoncé received the Legend Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Arts at the World Music Awards and the Career Achievement Award at the LOS40 Music Awards.

In 2010, she received the Artist of the Decade Award at the NRJ Music Awards, while at the 2011 Billboard Music Awards, Beyoncé received the inaugural Billboard Millennium Award. 

Beyoncé received the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards. According to Fuse in 2014, Beyoncé is the second most awarded recording artist of all time.

In 2016, Beyoncé received the Fashion Icon Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America; in 2017, she won a Peabody Award for Entertainment, and in 2019 she received the GLAAD Vanguard Award.

Although music is her primary source of accomplishment, Beyoncé has also received nominations and awards for other works in retail, image, philanthropy, film, and television. Those include eight Primetime Emmy Award nominations and a nomination for a Golden Globe Awards for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for her role in the movie Dreamgirls.

She also received a Critics' Choice Movie Award in 2007 for Listen. In 2012, she was honored by New York Association of Black Journalists for writing Essence article "Eat, Pray, Love". She has also received numerous honors for her philanthropy, such as being inducted into the International Pediatric Hall of Fame in 2008 by the Miami Children's Hospital Foundation, and the Key to the City of New Orleans and Columbia, South Carolina.

Based on streams and views, Beyoncé's most popular song is "Halo" from her 2008 album, I Am… Sasha Fierce. It has notched more than more than 1 billion streams on Spotify and more than 1 billion views on YouTube. Surprisingly, "Halo" is not one of Beyoncé's No. 1 singles; the song peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Sources:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/feb/05/beyonce-breaks-record-grammys-harry-styles-kendrick-lamar-adele

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Beyonc%C3%A9