Beyoncé leads the Grammy nominations with 11, bringing her career entire to 99.
NEW YORK — Welcome to Beyoncé nation. When it includes the 2025 Grammy Award nominations, “Cowboy Carter” pointers the nation. She leads the nods with 11, bringing her career entire to 99 nominations. That makes her the most-nominated artist in Grammy historic previous.
“Cowboy Carter” is up for album and nation album of the yr, and “Texas Hold ’Em” is nominated for doc, monitor and nation monitor of the yr. She moreover acquired nominations in a big swath of genres, along with pop, nation, Americana and melodic rap effectivity lessons.
This is her first time receiving nominations in the country and Americana lessons.
If Beyoncé wins the album of the yr, she’ll become the first Black lady to take motion throughout the twenty first century. Lauryn Hill remaining gained in 1999 for “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill,” changing into a member of Natalie Cole and Whitney Houston because the one Black women to take dwelling the Grammys’ prime prize.
Post Malone moreover acquired his first ever nominations throughout the nation lessons this yr, having launched his debut nation album “F-1 Trillion” in August. That one is up for nation album and “I Had Some Help,” his collaboration with Morgan Wallen, is nominated for nation monitor and nation duo/group effectivity. They are Wallen’s first ever Grammy nominations.
Malone is just behind Beyoncé, with seven nominations, tied with Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar and Charli XCX, who earned her first nominations as a solo artist.
Lamar’s ubiquitous diss track launched all through his feud with Drake, “Not Like Us,” is nominated for doc and monitor of the yr, rap monitor, music video along with most interesting rap effectivity. He has two simultaneous entries throughout the latter class, a career first: Future & Metro Boomin that features Lamar, “Like That” is up for most interesting rap effectivity and most interesting rap monitor.
This is his third time receiving two simultaneous nominations for most interesting rap monitor.
Taylor Swift and first-time nominees Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan boast of six nominations each.
Last yr, women artists dominated the principle lessons. This yr, that continues significantly, nevertheless the precept sample seems to be a variance of favor. In the album of the yr class, alongside “Cowboy Carter” is André 3000’s new age, alt-jazz “New Blue Sun” and multi-instrumentalist Jacob Collier’s “Djesse Vol. 4.” Rising pop stars Carpenter and Roan spherical it out, with “Short n’ Sweet” and “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess” respectively, along with Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Department,” Eilish’s “Hit Me Hard and Soft,” and Charli XCX’s rave-ready “BRAT.”
Eilish is the one artist to have her first three albums become nominated for album of the yr.
Last yr, Swift won album of the year for “Midnights,” breaking the doc for a lot of wins throughout the class with 4. This yr, she turns into the first ever lady to seven career nominations throughout the class.
“The breadth and the variety of genres represented in the general field feels new and really exciting,” says the Recording Academy CEO and President Harvey Mason jr. He credit score an brisk and evolving voting body for its success. “We’ve been very intentional in how we looked at and tried to rebalance our membership. So not just gender or people of color, different racial makeup, but also genre equity and trying to make sure that all different types of music in different regions and different locations are being represented in every way possible.”
Only recordings commercially launched throughout the U.S. between Sept. 16, 2023 by way of Aug. 30, 2024 had been eligible for nominations. The final spherical of Grammy voting, which determines its winners, will occur Dec. 12 by way of January 3.
In among the finest new artist class, Carpenter and Roan will go head-to-head, alongside Benson Boone, Doechii, Khruangbin, RAYE, Shaboozey and Teddy Swims.
In the monitor of the yr class, Beyoncé is joined by Eilish with “Birds of a Feather,” Swift and Post Malone with “Fortnight,” Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!”, Carpenter’s “Please Please Please,” Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With A Smile,” and Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy).”
Shaboozey may also be a first-time nominee. His “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” is the biggest monitor of the yr, having spent additional weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 than another — it’s so normal, a remix of the monitor may also be up for remixed recording.
Elsewhere, Shaboozey is nominated throughout the melodic rap effectivity class for his attribute on Beyoncé’s “SPAGHETTII.” Linda Martell, the first commercially-successful Black lady musician in nation, may also be featured on the monitor, delivering the 83-year-old artist her first Grammy nomination.
For doc of the yr, “Texas Hold ’Em” will compete in opposition to Swift and Post Malone’s “Fortnight,” Eilish’s “Birds of a Father,” Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!”, Carpenter’s “Espresso,” Charli XCX’s “360,” and the Beatles remaining new monitor, the AI-assisted “Now and Then.”
“We’re trying to make sure we’re keeping up with how music creators and our community are using technology. And in this case, AI enhanced the record and allowed it to be eligible in the categories that it was eligible in,” Mason jr explains.
So, what’s missing? Like remaining yr, there’s an infinite dearth of Latin music — the fastest growing streaming genre throughout the United States — all through the board, and no illustration inside the principle lessons. There are moreover solely 4 entries in among the finest Música Mexicana album class, no matter it moreover being one among the fastest growing genres.
And Okay-pop, too, seems to be absent. There usually are not any nominations for the BTS members who’ve launched solo supplies this yr: RM’s “Right Place, Wrong Person,” J-Hope’s “Hope on the Street, Vol. 1,” and Jimin’s “Muse.” As a boy band, BTS has acquired 5 nominations all through their career.
“I definitely see room for improvement across many genres and we are continuing to invite people to be a part of the academy,” Mason jr. says. “Without the right representation we don’t get the right results. When I say right, I mean reflective and representative of what’s happening in music today. So, the work continues.”
The 2025 Grammy Awards will air Feb. 2 dwell on CBS and Paramount+ from the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.
