What seemed inevitable became reality at the 2023 Grammy ceremony, when Beyonce scooped up four more Grammy Awards to bring her career total to 32, more than any artist in the 60+ year history of the Grammys.
Two years later, in 2025, Beyonce won another three awards, ballooning her career total to 35, including her first Album of the Year prize. (She’s never won Record of the Year, though by our count, she should have won it four times.)
Now that she’s taken the all-time record, how long will she hold it? And who else could possibly challenge the record?
Let’s take a look at how the numbers stack up, through the 2026 Grammy Awards.
The All-Time Grammy Win Leaderboard
Here’s the proof that it’s real: Beyonce atop the list of all-time Grammy wins.
Most Career Grammy Wins:
35 Beyonce
31 Georg Solti
29 Chick Corea
28 Quincy Jones
27 Kendrick Lamar
27 Alison Krauss
27 John Williams
26 Pierre Boulez
25 Stevie Wonder
25 Vladimir Horowitz
25 Jay-Z
25 David Frost
24 Serban Ghenea
24 Kanye West
22 U2
22 Vince Gill
20 Bruce Springsteen
20 Pat Metheny
20 Al Schmitt
20 Kirk Franklin
20 Yo-Yo Ma
20 Henry Mancini
By the way, Beyonce also holds the record for most career Grammy nominations with 99, just ahead of her husband Jay-Z.
Who Could Catch Beyonce?
Looking at that leaderboard, it’s not clear that anybody could catch Beyonce. She really could hold this record for years, if not decades.
That’s especially true if she keeps releasing new music. As we just saw, the Recording Academy still loves Beyonce, so if she remains prolific, odds are she could someday reach an amazing 40 Grammy Awards. Maybe even 50!
But just for fun, let’s imagine that Beyonce decided to pull a Rihanna and step away from music for several years. In that case, might someone ever tie her record?
If we had to place odds on the most likely artists to pass Beyonce’s record, these would be our (admittedly long-shot) candidates.
1. Kendrick Lamar (27 Grammys)
Kendrick Lamar has won 27 Grammys in just 13 years. That includes five awards in 2025 for “Not Like Us,” and five more in 2026 for the rest of his GNX album.
Ten Grammys in two years is unprecedented. At this pace, he is clearly the only artist with a real chance to catch Beyonce in a few years.
With just one more album, Kendrick could eclipse the 30 mark and start to close in on Beyonce. If anybody is going to threaten Beyonce’s record in the next decade, it’s Kendrick.
2. Alison Krauss (27 Grammys)
The only other active performer currently within shouting distance of Beyonce is extraordinarily-talented country and bluegrass star Alison Krauss, who has 27 Grammys to her name so far.
There was a time that Krauss won pretty much every award for which she was nominated, but those days are behind us. Her last win came in 2012, and though she was nominated twice in 2023 for her collab album with Robert Plant, she did not win either. She also did not win in 2026, despite two more noms.
Still, Krauss is only eight behind Beyonce, and she’s well-liked and respected within the country, bluegrass, and folk fields.
3. Serban Ghenea (24 Grammys)
Several years ago, the Grammys started giving awards not just to the artists, but also to the producers, engineers, and mixers. That’s great news for people like Serban Ghenea, whose work behind the scenes has been rewarded with 24 Grammys from 56 nominations so far.
In 2026 alone, Ghenea was nominated for his work on Lady Gaga’s “Abracadabra,” Sabrina Carpenter’s “Manchild,” and Rose and Bruno Mars’ “APT.”
Seemingly every superstar artist calls in Ghenea when they want a hit single. That means he’s likely to keep racking up Grammys for many years to come. If he wins 2 awards per year, he could catch Beyonce in five or six years.
4. Kirk Franklin (20 Grammys)
Since 2019, soul-gospel star Kirk Franklin has been nominated for 10 Grammys, and he’s won eight of them. He’s an unstoppable force in the eyes of the Recording Academy. If he keeps that up, he could catch Beyonce in the next decade or so.
Gospel singers have lots of Grammy categories all to themselves, so Franklin has more opportunities to win than nearly everyone on this list. And Franklin has also been nominated for Rap and R&B awards.
Franklin has been making hits since the ’90s, yet he’s still young enough to keep going for at least two more decades. He earned another nomination in 2026, but did not win.
5. Bruno Mars (16 Grammys)
Bruno Mars has become the ultimate Grammy favorite. Since 2016, he’s won 14 of the 18 Grammys for which he’s been nominated. That includes his work with Anderson .Paak as Silk Sonic.
He’s been nominated in the Pop field, the R&B field, and even the Rap field as a featured artist. Most impressively, he’s nabbed a whopping 16 nominations in the Big Three categories of Record, Song, and Album of the Year, proving his appeal to a broad swath of voters.
6. Jay-Z (25 Grammys)
Jay-Z has 25 Grammys from 89 nominations. Amazingly, he’s earned at least one Grammy nod in 21 of the past 23 years. In 2025, he picked up another Grammy as a songwriter on Beyonce’s Cowboy Carter.
The problem for Jay-Z is twofold: First, he usually doesn’t beat Kanye or Kendrick Lamar head to head. And second, he often records with his wife, which means that if the two of them share an award, he doesn’t get any closer to catching her.
7. Kanye West (24 Grammys)
Kanye hasn’t been popular lately, neither with the Grammys nor with the general public. But he already has 24 Grammys, and he’s still getting nominated on a regular basis.
He won two more awards in 2022 for Donda, both in the Rap field, where most of his wins have come. It’s unlikely he’ll ever win a major award in the General Field.
But he could potentially keep pumping out albums and collect enough Grammys in the Rap field alone to get to 35.
8. John Williams (27 Grammys)
Famous Star War and Jaws composer John Williams has nabbed 27 Grammys throughout a lengthy career that saw him score his first Grammy nom way back in 1962.
Williams is still getting nominated these days. A lot, in fact! Williams has picked up five more Grammys in the past 10 years, including one in 2024 for his Indiana Jones composition. And he won again in 2026 for the Music by John Williams film.
As long as there are movie scores to compose, Williams remains a Grammy threat. But can he find a way to win 8 more to tie Beyonce? That would be asking a lot.
9. Taylor Swift (14 Grammys)
Taylor Swift would seem to be an obvious contender to Beyonce’s throne, given her many Grammy successes over the years. She’s won Album of the Year four times! And she already has more American Music Awards than anyone in history.
Surprisingly, though, Swift only has 14 career Grammy wins thus far. For a long time, she straddled the line between country and pop, and therefore didn’t seem to be fully embraced by either segment of the Recording Academy, which probably cost her a few wins. Swift didn’t capture any awards in 2014 or 2015, for instance, even though her overall popularity was incredibly high at that time.
Although Swift’s win percentage of 24% (14 for 58) isn’t stellar, she pumps out new albums almost every year. So it’s possible that she could pile up another 15-20 Grammys in the next ten years, which would put her close to the 30 range.
10. Chick Corea (29 Grammys)
Jazz performer Chick Corea racked up 27 Grammys from 1976 to 2022, and was showing no signs of stopping, until his passing in 2021. In 2025, he earned one more for a posthumous album, followed by a second posthumous win in 2026.
It’s still very possible that he could be nominated in the future for songs which he recorded before his passing.
But it’s questionable whether he would have enough material in the vault to nab six more posthumous awards, which is how many he needs to catch Beyonce.
Honorable Mention: We also considered Foo Fighters (15 Grammys), Adele (16 Grammys), and Lady Gaga (16 Grammys) for this last spot, as well as classical producer David Frost (25 Grammys.)
How Long Will Beyonce Hold the Record?
In addition to the artists named above, Stevie Wonder and Quincy Jones are within striking distance of Beyonce, but their days of winning Grammys seem to be over.
As you can see, there aren’t a lot of strong contenders to Beyonce’s throne. She may reign as the Queen of the Grammys for a very long time.
The prediction here is that Beyonce will hold the Grammy record at least into the 2030s, before Kendrick Lamar overtakes her.
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Last Updated on February 19, 2026