NEW YORK (AP) — Welcome toBeyoncé nation. In the case of the 2025 Grammy Award nominations, “Cowboy Carter” guidelines the nation. She leads the nods with 11, bringing her profession complete to 99 nominations. That makes her the most-nominated artist in Grammy historical past.
“Cowboy Carter” is up for album and nation album of the yr, and “Texas Hold ’Em” is nominated for document, music and nation music of the yr. She additionally obtained nominations in a large swath of genres, together with pop, nation, Americana and melodic rap efficiency classes.
That is her first time receiving nominations within the nation and Americana classes.
If Beyoncé wins the album of the yr, she’ll turn out to be the primary Black girl to take action within the twenty first century. Lauryn Hill final received in 1999 for “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill,” becoming a member of Natalie Cole and Whitney Houston as the one Black ladies to take house the Grammys’ high prize.
Submit Malone additionally obtained his first ever nominations within the nation classes 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 music and nation duo/group efficiency. They’re Wallen’s first ever Grammy nominations.
Malone is simply 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 observe launched throughout his feud with Drake, “Not Like Us,” is nominated for document and music of the yr, rap music, music video in addition to finest rap efficiency. He has two simultaneous entries within the latter class, a profession first: Future & Metro Boomin that includes Lamar, “Like That” is up for finest rap efficiency and finest rap music.
That is his third time receiving two simultaneous nominations for finest rap music.
Taylor Swift and first-time nominees Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan boast of six nominations every.
Final yr, ladies artists dominated the most important classes. This yr, that continues considerably, however the primary development appears to be a variance of style. Within 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, in addition to 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 turn out to be nominated for album of the yr.
Final yr, Swift received album of the yr for “Midnights,” breaking the document for many wins within the class with 4. This yr, she turns into the primary ever girl to seven profession nominations within 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 an lively and evolving voting physique 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.”
Solely recordings commercially launched within the U.S. between Sept. 16, 2023 by means of Aug. 30, 2024 have been eligible for nominations. The ultimate spherical of Grammy voting, which determines its winners, will happen Dec. 12 by means of January 3.
In the very best new artist class, Carpenter and Roan will go head-to-head, alongside Benson Boone, Doechii, Khruangbin, RAYE, Shaboozey and Teddy Swims.
Within the music of the yr class, Beyoncé is joined by Eilish with “Birds of a Feather,” Swift and Submit Malone with “Fortnight,” Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!”, Carpenter’s “Please Please Please,” Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” Woman Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With A Smile,” and Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy).”
Shaboozey can also be a first-time nominee. His “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” is the most important music of the yr, having spent extra weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Sizzling 100 than every other — it’s so fashionable, a remix of the observe can also be up for remixed recording.
Elsewhere, Shaboozey is nominated within the melodic rap efficiency class for his characteristic on Beyoncé’s “SPAGHETTII.” Linda Martell, the primary commercially-successful Black girl musician in nation, can also be featured on the music, delivering the 83-year-old artist her first Grammy nomination.
For document of the yr, “Texas Hold ’Em” will compete in opposition to Swift and Submit 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 final new music, 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 lacking? Like final yr, there’s an enormous dearth of Latin music — the quickest rising streaming style in the USA — throughout the board, and no illustration within the main classes. There are additionally solely 4 entries in the very best Música Mexicana album class, regardless of it additionally being one in all the quickest rising genres.
And Okay-pop, too, appears to be absent. There are not any nominations for the BTS members who’ve launched solo materials 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 obtained 5 nominations throughout their profession.
“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 stay on CBS and Paramount+ from the Crypto.com Enviornment in Los Angeles.
