As of 2026, how many Grammy Awards has Beyoncé won?

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35 Grammys. Beyoncé has won 35 Grammys, more than any other artist in the award’s history. She has also been nominated more times than anyone else — 99 — and did not win Album of the Year until 2025, after four earlier nominations in that category. Multiply eligible years by a plausible win rate. A major artist is nominated across a career of two or three decades, and the ceremony has around a hundred categories, so an artist who competes in several each year and wins often can accumulate a total of several dozen. The high category count is what makes totals this large possible at all. The nomination figure in the explanation is the more informative one: nominated more times than anyone in history. Award totals are dominated by how many chances someone gets, and a prolific artist working across multiple genre categories gets far more chances than a similarly acclaimed one in a narrower lane. The detail that reframes the whole record is the last one: the top award eluded her for four nominations despite the record total. Award counts measure volume across many categories, not standing in the headline one, and the two can diverge sharply — which is a recurring source of argument about how these ceremonies work.

Source	Recording Academy
Figure refers to	2026
Last checked	October 5, 2026
Unit	Grammys

As of 2026, how many Grammy Awards has Beyoncé won?

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