Beyonce leads 2025 Grammy nominations, becoming the most nominated artist in the show’s history

“Cowboy Carter” is up for Album of the Year and Country Album, while “Texas Hold ‘Em” is nominated for Record, Song and Country Song of the Year. She has also been nominated in a variety of genres, including pop, country, Americana and melodic rap.

This is her first time receiving nominations in the country and Americana categories. She and her husband Jay-Z previously had the same number of career nominations at 88.

If Beyoncé wins album of the year, she will become the first black woman to do so in the 21st century. Lauryn Hill last won in 1999 for The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, joining Natalie Cole and Whitney Houston as the only black women to win the Grammy’s top prize.

Post Malone also received his first country nominations this year with the release of his debut country album, “F-1 Trillion,” in August. He’s up for a country album and “I Had Some Help,” his collaboration with Morgan Wallen. , nominated for Country Song and Country Duo/Group Performance. This is Wallen’s first Grammy nomination.

Malone trails just behind Beyoncé with seven nominations, along with Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar and Charli XCX, who received her first nominations as a solo artist.

Lamar’s ubiquitous diss track released during his feud with Drake, “Not Like Us,” is nominated for record and song of the year, rap song, music video, and best rap performance. In the latter category, he has two simultaneous entries, his first in his career: Future and Metro Boomin featuring Lamar, “Like That” is up for best rap performance and best rap song.

This is his third time receiving two Best Rap Song nominations at the same time.

Taylor Swift and first-time nominees Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roane boast six nominations each.

Last year, female artists dominated the major categories. This year continues to some extent, but the main trend seems to be a change in genre. Joining “Cowboy Carter” in the Album of the Year category are Andre 3000’s new-age, alternative jazz album “New Blue Sun” and “Djesse Vol.” multi-instrumentalist Jacob Collier. 4″. Rising pop stars Carpenter and Roan close out with “Short n’ Sweet” and “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess,” respectively, as well as Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Department” and Eilish’s “Hit Me Hard and Soft.” and Charli XCX’s rave-ready “BRAT.”

Eilish is the only artist whose first three albums were nominated for Album of the Year.

Last year, Fast won album of the year with “Midnights,” breaking the record for most wins in that category with four. This year, she becomes the first woman to receive seven career nominations in this category.

“The breadth and variety of genres represented in the overall field feels new and truly exciting,” says Recording Academy CEO and President Harvey Mason Jr. He credits a vibrant and evolving electoral body for its success. “We were very careful about how we looked at and tried to balance our membership. So not just gender or people of color, different racial makeup, but also genre equality and trying to make sure that all the different types of music in different regions and different places are represented in as many ways as possible.”

Only recordings commercially released in the United States between September 16, 2023 and August 30, 2024 are eligible for nominations. The final round of Grammy voting to determine the winners will take place from December 12 to January 3.

In the Best New Artist category, Carpenter and Rohan will compete alongside Benson Boon, Dochii, Khruangbin, RAYE, Shabuzi and Teddy Swims.

Joining Beyoncé in the Song of the Year category are Eilish for “Birds of a Feather,” Swift and Post Malone for “Fortnight,” “Good Luck, Babe!” Roan, “Please Please Please” by Carpenter, “Not Like” by Lamar. Us,” “Die With A Smile” by Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars and “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” by Shaboozey.

Shabuzi is also nominated for the first time. His “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” is the biggest song of the year, spending more weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 than any other—so popular that a remix of the track is also ready to be recorded. .

Elsewhere, Shaboosie is nominated in the melodic rap performance category for his role in Beyoncé’s “SPAGHETTII.” Linda Martell, the country’s first commercially successful black female musician, also features on the song, earning the 83-year-old artist her first Grammy nomination.

For the record of the year, “Texas Hold’em” will compete with “Fortnight” by Swift and Post Malone, “Birds of a Father” by Eilish, “Not Like Us” by Lamar, “Good Luck, Babe!” Rohan, “Espresso” Carpenter. “, Charlie XCX’s “360” and the Beatles’ latest new song, “Now and then”, created using artificial intelligence.

“We try to be aware of how music creators and our community are using technology. And in this case, the AI ​​improved the record and allowed him to get into the categories he was eligible for,” Mason Jr. explains.

Dolly Parton received her 55th career nomination in the audiobook, narrative and recorded story categories for her book “Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones,” the Associated Press reported Friday morning with the country music legend. “No! What was I nominated for?” – she encouraged on the phone. “Oh, well, this is cool. I thought it would be for my rock album, I would take it.”

“This is good. I’m always grateful for everything. I don’t work for it, but it’s always nice to say, “You did a good job,” and for someone to acknowledge it. Therefore, I am always proud of every award received and every mention. It just makes me feel like I’m doing the right thing.”

She is up against producer Guy Oldfield, George Clinton, Barbra Streisand and Jimmy Carter, who could become the oldest Grammy Award winner in history at age 100.

So what’s missing? As was the case last year, there is a huge lack of Latin music—the fastest-growing streaming genre in the U.S.—across the board, with no representation in major categories. There are also only four entries in the best albums category for Música Mexicana, despite it also being one of the fastest growing genres.

And K-pop seems to be missing too. There are no nominations for BTS members who released solo material this year: RM’s “Right Place, Wrong Person,” “Hope on the Street, Vol.” J-Hope. 1″ and “Muse” by Jimin. As a boy band, BTS has received five nominations throughout their career.

“I definitely see room for improvement in many genres, and we continue to invite people to become a part of the academy,” Mason Jr. speaks. “Without the right representation, we won’t get the right results. When I say “true,” I mean a reflection and representation of what is happening in music today. So the work continues.”

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