The 2025 Grammy Award nominations are about to arrive. Here’s what you need to know

NEW YORK – 2025 Grammy Award nominations are just around the corner – who will compete for the main prizes?

Nominees will be announced during a live video broadcast on the Grammy website and the Recording Academy’s YouTube channel on Friday at 8 a.m. PT/11 a.m. ET, with the pre-show starting 15 minutes earlier.

A host of talent is ready to announce the nominees, including Gayle King, Jim Gaffigan and a long list of past Grammy winners: Brandy Clark, Kirk Franklin, David Frost, Robert Gordon, Kylie Minogue, Gabi Moreno, Deanie Parker, Ben Platt. , Mark Ronson, Hayley Williams and last year’s Best New Artist Winner, Victoria Monet.

Only recordings commercially released in the US between September 16, 2023 and August 30, 2024 are eligible for nomination, so don’t expect Future’s “Mixtape Pluto” album to be nominated (although Future and Metro Boomin’s “We Don’t” t Trust You” is likely to be nominated), George Strait “Cowboys and Dreamers.” Tyler, the Creator “Chromocopy” or “Warriors” Lin-Manuel Miranda’s first full-length musical since Hamilton with Pulitzer Prize finalist Asa Davis.

There are a lot of unknowns in the ads: Will Beyoncé And Post Malone receive nominations in the country music category after the success of their huge albums “Cowboy Carter” and F1 Trillion, respectively, even though they are megastars not previously directly associated with the genre?

Will Shabuzi Dominated by “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” the year’s biggest song, which combines his country tone with the familiar template of J. Kwon’s 2004 rap hit “Tipsy”?

The 2025 Grammy Awards will air live on February 2 on CBS and Paramount+ from the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.