Well, Beyoncé is the top nominated performer, but undoubtedly the biggest surprise is The Beatles competing in the Record of the Year Category. Didn't see that one coming.

Grammy Nominations 2025

The nominees for the 2025 Grammy Awards are in. It is yet another banner year for Beyoncé, who leads the pack with 11 nominations, extending her career total to a record-breaking 99. Behind her are Grammys favorites Billie Eilish, Post Malone, and Kendrick Lamar, as well as Charli XCX, who gets her first big score with Brat. Those four artists received seven nominations apiece. Six nods make for a relatively quiet year by Taylor Swift’s dominant standards, but a good one for Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan, who also notch up six in their maiden Grammys years.

As well as the above-mentioned artists’ full-lengths—The Tortured Poets Department, Cowboy Carter, Hit Me Hard and Soft, Brat, Short n’ Sweet, and The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess—the Album of the Year category features André 3000’s woodwind album, New Blue Sun, and Jacob Collier’s Djesse Vol. 4. Record of the Year features singles from all of the above except André 3000 and Collier, who are replaced by the Beatles (“Now and Then”) and Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us.” That song accounts for most of the rapper’s seven nominations, though his collaboration with Future and Metro Boomin, “Like That”—which sparked the Drake beef that led to “Not Like Us”—is also in the mix.

As well as Carpenter and Roan, first-time nominees include Beyoncé collaborator Shaboozey, who gets five nods, including Song of the Year, for “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” and Doechii with three, including Best New Artist. A Grammys Hall of Famer, the late Chick Corea, picked up three more nominations, bringing his all-time total to an impressive 75. That puts him in joint fifth for most-nominated artist ever, alongside Kanye West.

Record of the Year
The Beatles - Now and Then
Beyoncé - Texas Hold ’Em
Billie Eilish - Birds of a Feather
Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe!
Charli XCX - 360
Kendrick Lamar - Not Like Us
Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso
Taylor Swift Featuring Post Malone - Fortnight

Album of the Year
André 3000 - New Blue Sun
Beyoncé - Cowboy Carter
Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft
Chappell Roan - The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
Charli XCX - Brat
Jacob Collier - Djesse Vol. 4
Sabrina Carpenter - Short n’ Sweet
Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department

Song of the Year
Beyoncé - Texas Hold ’Em
Billie Eilish - Birds of a Feather
Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe!
Kendrick Lamar - Not Like Us
Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars - Die With a Smile
Sabrina Carpenter - Please Please Please
Shaboozey - A Bar Song (Tipsy)
Taylor Swift Featuring Post Malone - Fortnight

Best New Artist
Benson Boone
Doechii
Chappell Roan
Khruangbin
Raye
Sabrina Carpenter
Shaboozey
Teddy Swims

Producer of the Year, Non-Classical
Alissia
Daniel Nigro
Dernst “D’Mile” Emile II
Ian Fitchuk
Mustard

Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical
Amy Allen
Edgar Barrera
Jessi Alexander
Jessie Jo Dillon
Raye

Best Pop Solo Performance
Beyoncé - Bodyguard
Billie Eilish - Birds of a Feather
Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe!
Charli XCX - Apple
Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
Ariana Grande, Brandy & Monica - The Boy Is Mine – Remix
Beyoncé Featuring Post Malone - Levii’s Jeans
Charli XCX & Billie Eilish - Guess Featuring Billie Eilish
Gracie Abrams Featuring Taylor Swift - Us.
Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars - Die With a Smile

Best Pop Vocal Album
Ariana Grande - Eternal Sunshine
Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft
Chappell Roan - The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
Sabrina Carpenter - Short n’ Sweet
Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department
Best Dance/Electronic Recording
Disclosure - She’s Gone, Dance On
Four Tet - Loved
Fred Again.. & Baby Keem - Leavemealone
Justice & Tame Impala - Neverender
Kaytranada Featuring Childish Gambino - Witchy

Best Dance Pop Recording
Ariana Grande - Yes, And?
Billie Eilish - L’Amour de Ma Vie [Over Now Extended Edit]
Charli XCX - Von Dutch
Madison Beer - Make You Mine
Troye Sivan - Got Me Started

Best Dance/Electronic Music Album
Charli XCX - Brat
Four Tet - Three
Justice - Hyperdrama
Kaytranada - Timeless
Zedd - Telos

Best Remixed Recording
Charli XCX - Von Dutch A. G. Cook Remix Featuring Addison Rae
Doechii & Kaytranada Featuring JT - Alter Ego (Kaytranada Remix)
Julian Marley & Antaeus - Jah Sees Them (Amapiano Remix)
Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso (Mark Ronson x FNZ Working Late Remix)
Shaboozey & David Guetta - A Bar Song (Tipsy) (Remix)

Best Rock Performance
The Beatles - Now and Then
The Black Keys - Beautiful People (Stay High)
Green Day - The American Dream Is Killing Me
Idles - Gift Horse
Pearl Jam - Dark Matter
St. Vincent - Broken Man

Best Metal Performance
Gojira, Marina Viotti & Victor le Masne - Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!)
Judas Priest - Crown of Horns
Knocked Loose Featuring Poppy - Suffocate
Metallica - Screaming Suicide
Spiritbox - Cellar Door

Best Rock Song
The Black Keys - Beautiful People (Stay High)
Green Day - Dilemma
Idles - Gift Horse
Pearl Jam - Dark Matter
St. Vincent - Broken Man

Best Rock Album
The Black Crowes - Happiness Bastards
Fontaines D.C. - Romance
Green Day - Saviors
Idles - Tangk
Jack White - No Name
Pearl Jam - Dark Matter
The Rolling Stones - Hackney Diamonds

Best Alternative Music Performance
Cage the Elephant - Neon Pill
Fontaines D.C. - Starburster
Kim Gordon - Bye Bye
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Song of the Lake
St. Vincent - Flea

Best Alternative Music Album
Brittany Howard - What Now
Clairo - Charm
Kim Gordon - The Collective
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Wild God
St. Vincent - All Born Screaming

Best R&B Performance
Chris Brown - Residuals
Coco Jones - Here We Go (Uh Oh)
Jhené Aiko - Guidance
Muni Long - Made for Me (Live on BET)
SZA - Saturn
Best Traditional R&B Performance
Kenyon Dixon - Can I Have This Groove
Lalah Hathaway Featuring Michael McDonald - No Lie
Lucky Daye - That’s You
Marsha Ambrosius - Wet
Muni Long - Make Me Forget

Best R&B Song
Coco Jones - Here We Go (Uh Oh)
Kehlani - After Hours
Muni Long - Ruined Me
SZA - Saturn
Tems - Burning

Best Progressive R&B Album
Avery*Sunshine - So Glad to Know You
Childish Gambino - Bando Stone and the New World
Durand Bernarr - En Route
Kehlani - Crash
NxWorries - Why Lawd?

Best R&B Album
Chris Brown - 11:11 (Deluxe)
Lalah Hathaway - Vantablack
Lucky Daye - Algorithm
Muni Long - Revenge
Usher - Coming Home

Best Rap Performance
Cardi B - Enough (Miami)
Common & Pete Rock Featuring Posdnuos - When the Sun Shines Again
Doechii - Nissan Altima
Eminem - Houdini
Future, Metro Boomin & Kendrick Lamar - Like That
Glorilla - Yeah Glo!
Kendrick Lamar - Not Like Us

Best Melodic Rap Performance
Beyoncé, Linda Martell & Shaboozey - Spaghettii
Future, Metro Boomin & The Weeknd - We Still Don’t Trust You
Jordan Adetunji Featuring Kehlani - Kehlani (Remix)
Latto - Big Mama
Rapsody Featuring Erykah Badu - 3:AM

Best Rap Song
Future, Metro Boomin & Kendrick Lamar - Like That
Glorilla - Yeah Glo!
Kendrick Lamar - Not Like Us
Rapsody & Hit-Boy - Asteroids
¥$, Kanye West, Ty Dolla $ign & Rich the Kid Featuring Playboi Carti - Carnival

Best Rap Album
Common & Pete Rock - The Auditorium Vol. 1
Doechii - Alligator Bites Never Heal
Eminem - The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce)
Future & Metro Boomin - We Don’t Trust You
J. Cole - Might Delete Later

Best Spoken Word Poetry Album
Malik Yusef - Good M.U.S.I.C. Universe Sonic Sinema Episode 1: In the Beginning Was the Word
Omari Hardwick - Concrete & Whiskey Act II Part 1: A Bourbon 30 Series
Queen Sheba - Civil Writes: The South Got Something to Say
Skillz - The Seven Number Ones
Tank and the Bangas - The Heart, the Mind, the Soul

Best Jazz Performance
The Baylor Project - Walk With Me, Lord (Sound | Spirit)
Chick Corea & Béla Fleck - Juno
Dan Pugach & Nicole Zuraitis Featuring Troy Roberts - Little Fears
Lakecia Benjamin Featuring Randy Brecker, Jeff “Tain” Watts & John Scofield - Phoenix Reimagined (Live)
Samara Joy Featuring Sullivan Fortner - Twinkle Twinkle Little Me

Best Jazz Vocal Album
Catherine Russell & Sean Mason - My Ideal
Christie Dashiell - Journey in Black
Kurt Elling & Sullivan Fortner - Wildflowers Vol. 1
Milton Nascimento & Esperanza Spalding - Milton + Esperanza
Samara Joy - A Joyful Holiday

Best Jazz Instrumental Album
Ambrose Akinmusire - Owl Song
Chick Corea & Béla Fleck - Remembrance
Kenny Barron - Beyond This Place
Lakecia Benjamin - Phoenix Reimagined (Live)
Sullivan Fortner - Solo Game

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
The Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra - And So It Goes
Dan Pugach - Bianca Reimagined
John Beasley Featuring Frankfurt Radio Big Band - Returning to Forever
Miguel Zenón - Golden City
Orrin Evans & The Captain Black Big Band - Walk a Mile in My Shoe

Best Latin Jazz Album
Donald Vega Featuring Lewis Nash, John Patitucci & Luisito Quintero- As I Travel
Eliane Elias - Time and Again
Hamilton de Holanda & Gonzalo Rubalcaba - Collab
Horacio ‘El Negro’ Hernandez, John Beasley & Jose Gola - El Trio: Live in Italy
Michel Camilo & Tomatito - Spain Forever Again
Zaccai Curtis - Cubop Lives!

Best Alternative Jazz Album
Arooj Aftab - Night Reign
André 3000 - New Blue Sun
Keyon Harrold - Foreverland
Meshell Ndegeocello - No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin
Robert Glasper - Code Derivation

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
Aaron Lazar - Impossible Dream
Cyrille Aimée - À Fleur de Peau
Gregory Porter - Christmas Wish
Lake Street Dive - Good Together
Norah Jones - Visions

Best Contemporary Instrumental Album
Béla Fleck - Rhapsody in Blue
Bill Frisell - Orchestras (Live)
Julian Lage - Speak to Me
Mark Guiliana - Mark
Taylor Eigsti - Plot Armor

Best Musical Theater Album
Hell’s Kitchen
Merrily We Roll Along
The Notebook
The Outsiders
Suffs
The Wiz

Best Country Solo Performance
Beyoncé - 16 Carriages
Chris Stapleton - It Takes a Woman
Jelly Roll - I Am Not Okay
Kacey Musgraves - The Architect
Shaboozey - A Bar Song (Tipsy)

Best Country Duo/Group Performance
Beyoncé & Miley Cyrus - II Most Wanted
Brothers Osborne - Break Mine
Dan + Shay - Bigger Houses
Kelsea Ballerini & Noah Kahan - Cowboys Cry Too
Post Malone Featuring Morgan Wallen - I Had Some Help

Best Country Song
Beyoncé - Texas Hold ’Em
Jelly Roll - I Am Not Okay
Kacey Musgraves - The Architect
Post Malone Featuring Morgan Wallen - I Had Some Help
Shaboozey - A Bar Song (Tipsy)



Best Country Album
Beyoncé - Cowboy Carter
Chris Stapleton - Higher
Kacey Musgraves - Deeper Well
Lainey Wilson - Whirlwind
Post Malone - F-1 Trillion

Best American Roots Performance
The Fabulous Thunderbirds Featuring Bonnie Raitt, Keb’ Mo’, Taj Mahal & Mick Fleetwood - Nothing in Rambling
Rhiannon Giddens - The Ballad of Sally Anne
Shemekia Copeland - Blame It on Eve
Sierra Ferrell - Lighthouse

Best Americana Performance
Beyoncé - Ya Ya
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - Empty Trainload of Sky
Madi Diaz & Kacey Musgraves - Don’t Do Me Good
Madison Cunningham - Subtitles
Sarah Jarosz - Runaway Train
Sierra Ferrell - American Dreaming

Best American Roots Song
Aoife O’Donovan - All My Friends
Iron & Wine & Fiona Apple - All in Good Time
Mark Knopfler - Ahead of the Game
Shemekia Copeland - Blame It on Eve
Sierra Ferrell - American Dreaming

Best Americana Album
Charley Crockett - $10 Cowboy
Maggie Rose - No One Gets Out Alive
Sarah Jarosz - Polaroid Lovers
Sierra Ferrell - Trail of Flowers
T Bone Burnett - The Other Side
Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood

Best Bluegrass Album
Billy Strings - Live Vol. 1
Bronwyn Keith-Hynes - I Built a World
Dan Tyminski - Dan Tyminski: Live From the Ryman
The Del McCoury Band - Songs of Love and Life
Sister Sadie - No Fear
Tony Trischka - Earl Jam

Best Traditional Blues Album
Cedric Burnside - Hill Country Love
The Fabulous Thunderbirds - Struck Down
Little Feat - Sam’s Place
Sue Foley - One Guitar Woman
Taj Mahal - Swingin’: Live at the Church in Tulsa

Best Contemporary Blues Album
Antonio Vergara - The Fury
Joe Bonamassa - Blues Deluxe Vol. 2
Ruthie Foster - Mileage
Shemekia Copeland - Blame It on Eve
Steve Cropper & The Midnight Hour - Friendlytown

Best Folk Album
Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future
American Patchwork Quartet - American Patchwork Quartet
Aoife O’Donovan - All My Friends
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - Woodland
Madi Diaz - Weird Faith

Best Regional Roots Music Album
Big Chief Monk Featuring J’wan Boudreaux - Live at the 2024 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
Kalani Pe'a - Kuini
New Breed Brass Band Featuring Trombone Shorty - Live at the 2024 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
The Rumble - Stories From the Battlefield
Sean Ardoin & Kreole Rock and Soul - 25 Back to My Roots

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I know I said it somewhere before, but it will be a crime if Sabrina Carpenter beats Chappell Roan for Best New Artist. Both put out great stuff late last year or earlier this year, but Chappell is really a bona fide new superstar artist, while this is Sabrina's SIXTH album.

Yeah I don't get how Sabrina is in the Best New Artist category. Makes no sense but again this is the Grammy's and they do whatever they want half or more of the time.

A lot of Grammy nominations and the catagories they are nominated for make no sense. It's the Grammys!

I mean sure, one can debate if a song is rock or pop, Soul or Dance. But is an artist a New Artist or not should be a pretty easy call. Five albums in, many, many people already knew who Sabrina Carpenter was before they ever heard Espresso.

One point of clarification : I was surprised to see Chappell Roan's album up for Album of the Year, as it came out in Sept of 2023. Previously the eligibility period was 10/1-9/30, so I figured she had missed it for the last Grammys. But it turns out this year they made it 9/16/23 - 8/31/24, so she just snuck in to this year's window.

Not going to pretend to care, but I was curious.

I had to scroll down near the bottom of the list in the unpopular categories to see the stuff I know and/or like.

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings is great - as usual. They are national treasures.
Sarah Jarosz's album is good, but I would rank it my least favorite as it leans more mainstream. Hopefully she can go back to what she does best.
Aoife O’Donovan is solid.

When was the last time The Beatles and The Rolling Stones were nominated for Grammy's in the same year?

Never. The Stones first Grammy nomination was in 1979!

I'm excited to see that Maggie Rose's "No One Gets Out Alive" album was nominated. She's pretty under-the-radar compared to most acts here, but I think she's phenomenal and the album deserves more attention.

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Unbelievably, The Beatles have never won a Record of the Year Grammy. They have won the other Big Awards though -- Album of the Year (Revolver, Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band), Song of the Year (Michelle) and Best New Artist.

That's priceless.

Wow. I guess I shouldn't be surprised... it is the Grammys after all.

The new Judas Priest album is closer to country music than that new Beyonce.

It's based on a subjective standard of when someone had their breakthrough to widespread or more mainstream notoriety. Strictly speaking Chappell Roan is not a "new" recording artist, as she released an EP in 2017 and her first single in 2020.

Of all the absolutely legitimate complaints that one could make about this year's Grammy nominees, "Beyoncé's Country album wasn't really Country enough" is a weird one to roll out.

I'll say that selecting Andre 3000's all-flute album as a nominee for Album of the Year is completely mental. Did any of the voters even listen to that one?
Can't believe Vampire Weekend's outstanding new album didn't get a single nomination. Their last album was far inferior and got an Album of the Year nod.

Don't really care about any of the artists or awards other than hoping this one takes it.

It would be amusing for opera singer Marina Viotti to win a Grammy for a heavy metal performance. (Though not too far out; she used to be a be a metal singer before she became an opera singer.)

I'm not surprised at all.

60's Grammys were really, really bad. Outside of the few Beatles wins, it was mostly Sinatra. Glen Campbell won Album of the year in 1969.
70's Grammys weren't much better. They loved Stevie Wonder and gave him 3 AOTY. At least they got Rumors and Saturday Night Fever right.
80's were hit and miss with some stunningly bad choices (Christopher Cross, Can't Slow Down, Toto IV) and some absolutely correct (Thriller, The Joshua Tree, Graceland, Faith).
90's AOTY choices were really bad for a long time with awful misses (Nick of Time, Back on the Block, Falling Into You, Unforgettable...With Love, Tony Bennett Unplugged) before semi-salvaging themselves late in the decade with Jagged Little Pill, Time Out of Mind, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.

They're been somewhat better in the 2000's.

This is from the Grammy website.

https://www.grammy.com/news/how-does...mmy-category-0

Short n' Sweet is album 6 (and great too). They are ignoring their own rules.

Chappell broke thru this year but doesn't cross the maximum album/single threshold.

I noticed a Song of the Year nomination for A Bar Song (Tipsy) by Shaboozy. Had no idea what that song even was (though I have heard of the artist).
Just now I saw this :


Longest running solo track at #1 in Billboard history???
Just listened to the song. Never heard it before. And Meh.

I'm not a big Stevie Wonder fan, but it's hard to argue against the quality of "Talking Book" and "Songs in the Key of Life". Not sure if those won best album, but Stevie Wonder of the early 70's was pretty solid.

I could say this about many songs over the last 20 years.
Just listened to a snippet of this, and while it's not my thing - it's better than a lot of popular stuff out I've heard recently.

Yeah it's a massive hit but I'm meh on it too. Way overplayed.

Bridge Over Troubled Water and Tapestry were both well deserved. I'd always thought Hotel California got best album but it must have been best record.

The Grammys changed it last year from end of September to end to August
to give more planning time for the show and the pre-Grammy events,
but there was backlash that it was too soon of a change, so for 2023 it was 9/15...

I stop watching the Grammy after Jethro Tull didn't win best heavy metal artist.