Shawn Grant (@SHAWNxGRANT):

As a male member of the Beyhive I will honestly be happy for every award that Beyoncé is able to take home at the Grammys or any other awards show. My love for what she does runs deep in my heart but my head is telling me to never bet against Adele. Betting against Adele at this point is like betting against Tom Brady on the First Sunday in February, risky.

The debate and competition of Adele and Bey at award shows is longstanding and at the end of the day both artists are titans to music, but the success of Adele’s album commercially and the selection process of the Grammys will crown the overseas queen this Sunday.

As amazing as Lemonade is, it did not achieve the commercial success that 25 did. The latest effort from Adele was a sales behemoth racking up millions in streams and showcasing the number of traditional sales that were founding the the distribution climates of yesteryear. The album sold 2.3 million copies after being available for only three days and 3.48 million album equivalent units in the first week. Those numbers were great enough to bounce NSYNC from the highest debut for a single album and served as the highest tracked in Nielsen Soudnscan’s existence. That’s not even calculating the individual dominance of “Hello” that went #1 and “Send My Love” that also placed itself in Top 10.

Aside from the individual success of Adele and her releases, the deck may be stacked against Bey in terms of voting. The individual categories that are R&B or Soul based are voted upon by those who are attributed with that genre and likely to give a nod toward Bey, opposed to some of the major categories that receive votes from the overall recording academy and may swing to the massive success of Adele and not toward the way of Bey.

Here’s a writer that wants Bey to take the gramophones home, but when I’m real with myself I see Adele in a runaway.