Beyoncé leads the Grammy nominations with 11, bringing her career complete 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 complete 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, observe and nation observe of the yr. She moreover acquired nominations in a big swath of genres, along with pop, nation, Americana and melodic rap effectivity courses.
This is her first time receiving nominations in the country and Americana courses.
If Beyoncé wins the album of the yr, she’ll become the first Black lady to take motion inside the twenty first century. Lauryn Hill ultimate gained in 1999 for “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill,” changing into a member of Natalie Cole and Whitney Houston because the one Black ladies to take dwelling the Grammys’ prime prize.
Post Malone moreover acquired his first ever nominations inside the nation courses 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 observe and nation duo/group effectivity. They are Wallen’s first ever Grammy nominations.
Malone is solely 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 observe of the yr, rap observe, music video along with best rap effectivity. He has two simultaneous entries inside the latter class, a career first: Future & Metro Boomin that features Lamar, “Like That” is up for best rap effectivity and best rap observe.
This is his third time receiving two simultaneous nominations for best rap observe.
Taylor Swift and first-time nominees Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan boast of six nominations each.
Last yr, women artists dominated the principle courses. This yr, that continues significantly, nevertheless the precept sample seems to be a variance of fashion. 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 inside the class with 4. This yr, she turns into the first ever lady to seven career nominations inside 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 lively 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 inside 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 top-of-the-line new artist class, Carpenter and Roan will go head-to-head, alongside Benson Boone, Doechii, Khruangbin, RAYE, Shaboozey and Teddy Swims.
In the observe 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 can be a first-time nominee. His “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” is the most important observe of the yr, having spent additional weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 than another — it’s so commonplace, a remix of the monitor can be up for remixed recording.
Elsewhere, Shaboozey is nominated inside the melodic rap effectivity class for his attribute on Beyoncé’s “SPAGHETTII.” Linda Martell, the first commercially-successful Black lady musician in nation, can be featured on the observe, 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 ultimate new observe, 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 ultimate yr, there’s an unlimited dearth of Latin music — the fastest growing streaming genre inside the United States — all through the board, and no illustration inside the principle courses. There are moreover solely 4 entries in top-of-the-line Música Mexicana album class, no matter it moreover being one amongst the fastest growing genres.
And Okay-pop, too, seems to be absent. There should 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.
