If Michelle Williams Wins a Grammy for ‘Death Becomes Her,’ Destiny’s Child Will Match This Impressive Beatles Record

Beyoncé owned the 67th Annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 2 when she finally won her long-awaited album of the year trophy for Cowboy Carter. Queen Bey now boasts a whopping 35 Grammys, the most of anyone in Grammy history, but she isn’t the Destiny’s Child alumna who’s poised to make history at next year’s ceremony.

Michelle Williams, who joined the Destiny’s Child lineup in 2000, is nominated alongside her Death Becomes Her castmates for best musical theater album at the 2026 Grammys. Should Williams triumph, Destiny’s Child will join The Beatles as the only groups in history where every member of its longest running/most commercially successful lineup won Grammys for work outside of the group. This stat excludes duos, supergroups (e.g., Cream, Boygenius), collectives (e.g., Parliament-Funkadelic, Snarky Puppy) and splinter groups (e.g., Isley-Jasper-Isley). Notably, both Destiny’s Child and The Beatles secured multiple Grammys as groups before each member began their solo journeys.

Williams is nominated for best musical theater album as one of six principal vocalists on the original Broadway cast album for Death Becomes Her. The other nominated vocalists on that album are Taurean Everett, Megan Hilty, Josh Lamon, Christopher Sieber and Jennifer Simard. The other nominees in the category are Maybe Happy Ending (Marcus Choi, Darren Criss, Dez Duron and Helen J Shen, principal vocalists); Just in Time (Emily Bergl, Jonathan Groff, Erika Henningsen, Gracie Lawrence and Michele Pawk, principal vocalists), Gypsy (Danny Burstein, Kevin Csolak, Audra McDonald, Jordan Tyson and Joy Woods, principal vocalists); and Buena Vista Social Club (where no principal vocalists are nominated; only producers).

This Grammy nomination marks Williams’ first outside of Destiny’s Child, despite years of success in the gospel music field, including 2014’s seven-week Hot Gospel Songs chart-topper “Say Yes” (with Beyoncé and Kelly Rowland). Rowland has earned four Grammy nominations for her solo work, including a win for best rap/sung collaboration for “Dilemma” (with Nelly) in 2003.

Although Destiny’s Child debuted in 1998 as a quartet comprised of Beyoncé, Rowland, LeToya Luckett and LaTavia Roberson, the latter two were cycled out for Williams and Farrah Franklin at the turn of the century, with the group settling into its defining trio lineup a few months later. In the 25 years since, Destiny’s Child has reunited at the 2013 Super Bowl Halftime Show, Beyoncé’s 2018 headlining Coachella set and the final night of Queen Bey’s Cowboy Carter Tour — always as the trio of Bey, Kelly and Michelle.

One of the most legendary musical acts in history, The Beatles boasts 10 competitive Grammys, most recently winning best rock performance for “Now and Then” in 2025. In 1968, The Fab Four won album of the year for Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, a category in which each member has been individually recognized with at least a nomination.

John Lennon’s sole solo Grammy win comes from his 1981 album of the year triumph alongside Yoko Ono with Double Fantasy. Eight years prior, in 1973, George Harrison and Ringo Starr won solo trophies thanks to The Concert for Bangladesh snagging album of the year — Harrison as the lead artist on the triple-disk album, Starr as a featured artist. Harrison has won three additional Grammys separate from his Beatles work. Sir Paul McCartney has won eight Grammys outside of The Beatles, though he is, surprisingly, the only ex-Beatle not to have won album of the year apart from The Beatles. (He has received three album of the year nods for solo LPs, plus one as the leader of Wings.)

Given the varying trajectories of solo careers, few groups even approach Destiny’s Child and The Beatles in this regard. Country trio Lady A (formerly Lady Antebellum) comes close, with Hillary Scott snagging trophies for work outside the group (she won two contemporary Christian Grammys in 2017). Don Henley also won solo Grammys for “The End of Innocence” (1990; best rock vocal performance, male) and “The Boys of Summer” (1986; best male rock vocal performance), separate from his Eagles work. Finally, of the longest lasting and most commercially successful Genesis lineup (Tony Banks, Mike Rutherford and Phil Collins), just Collins earned Grammys for his work outside of the band. He won eight times between 1985 and 2000. Peter Gabriel, who was a part of the Genesis lineup in the ’70s, almost matches Collins’ haul with seven solo Grammy victories of his own.

After dodging HUNTR/X’s “Golden” to hold onto the title of longest-running Hot 100 No. 1 single by a girl group with its own “Independent Women, Part I,” Destiny’s Child will find out if the group ties The Beatles’ impressive record in just more than one month.

Final-round Grammy voting runs through Jan. 5. The 68th annual Grammy Awards will be presented on Feb. 1 at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.