One of the very best problems an artist can have is having to decide which of their many hits to enter in the Grammy competition for record of the year . (They can enter them all, but most artists and their camps are aware that it’s a far better strategy to select what you think is your strongest entry, rather than running the very real risk of splitting your votes.) Sabrina Carpenter had three strong choices – “Espresso,” her breakthrough smash; “Please Please Please,” her first No.
1 on the Billboard Hot 100; and “Taste,” her current smash. Her camp went with “Espresso.” Billie Eilish had two top five hits on the Hot 100 during the eligibility year – the sexually provocative “Lunch” and the pretty ballad “Birds of a Feather.
” Her camp went with “Birds of a Feather.” Eilish has a strong history in this category. She won record of the year two years running 2020-21 with “bad guy” and “Everything I Wanted.
” She is one of only three acts in Grammy history (following Roberta Flack and U2) to win in that high-profile category two years in a row. This would be Eilish’s fifth nomination in this category. Taylor Swift had many hits during the year, but there was little question that her camp would select “Fortnight,” her collab with Post Malone that entered the Hot 100 at No.
1 in May, becoming her 12th No. 1 hit. And that is indeed her pick.
It’s vying to become Swift’s sixth nomination in this category (a category she has yet to .
