SZA
SZA won three awards in the R&B field – artist of the year, album of the year for SOS and song of the year for “Snooze.” Her fourth win was in the all-genre song of the year category for “Kill Bill.”
This is the third year in a row that a female solo artist has won song of the year. Dua Lipa won it in 2022 for “Levitating.” Swift won last year for “Anti-Hero.” In an odd twist, “Kill Bill” beat Miley Cyrus’ “Flowers” in this category, yet “Flowers” beat “Kill Bill” for pop song of the year. (Maybe it’s not so odd. The voters may be saying that “Kill Bill” is a great, hard-to-categorize record, but “Flowers” is an unbeatable pure pop smash.)
“Kill Bill” and “Flowers” also competed for record of the year at the Grammys, with Cyrus’ smash winning there. Only two of the iHeart winners for song of the year have also won the Grammy for record of the year – Adele’s “Hello” and Lizzo’s “Truth Hurts.”
This is the second year in a row that SZA has won R&B artist of the year. She’s the second artist to win twice in the category, following H.E.R., the winner in 2020 and 2021. It’s also the second year in a row that SZA has won R&B song of the year. She won last year for “I Hate U.” SZA and Chris Brown are the only artists to win two years in a row in the category.


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