Beyoncé, seen right here accepting the very best dance/digital music album award for Renaissance throughout the sixty fifth Grammy Awards in 2023, is nominated for 11 awards on the 2025 Grammys.
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Beyoncé, already probably the most awarded performer within the historical past of the Grammys, leads the sector of artists nominated for the 67th Grammy Awards, with 11 nominations. She secured nominations in three of the night time’s 4 normal classes, together with album of the yr for her critically acclaimed Cowboy Carter, in addition to track of the yr and report of the yr for “TEXAS HOLD ‘EM.”
Past Beyoncé, artists who’ve been well-loved by the Recording Academy, the physique of musicians and music trade figures who votes on and presents the Grammys, additionally racked up nominations. Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish, who’ve dominated the album, report and track of the yr classes within the final 5 years, will every compete in all three classes once more.
2024 has additionally been a stacked yr for breakout stars, and a number of other of them, together with Sabrina Carpenter, Chappell Roan and Charli xcx, scored a number of nominations. Carpenter and Roan are the one performers nominated in all 4 of the “normal subject” classes, which additionally embody greatest new artist.
Beyonce’s rodeo
With this yr’s 11 nods, Beyoncé is now probably the most nominated artist in Grammys historical past, with 99 whole profession nominations. Along with her nominations in album, track and report of the yr — classes through which she has considerably infamously been overwhelmed on a number of events — Beyoncé picked up nominations in a big selection of style classes, together with pop, Americana, nation and melodic rap. Despite the fact that the artist had beforehand asserted, “This ain’t a rustic album. It is a ‘Beyoncé’ album,” Cowboy Carter decidedly reveals up in the very best nation album class, sandwiched between extra anticipated albums by mainstays Kacey Musgraves, Chris Stapleton, Lainey Wilson and the rap-rocker-turned-country-convert, Publish Malone.
Talking of Posty, he’s tied with Charli xcx, Billie Eilish and Kendrick Lamar with seven nominations every heading into the ceremony, which is able to happen on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025. As a coveted function artist for giant names this yr, Publish’s writing credit score and featured efficiency on the Taylor Swift observe “Fortnight” landed him track of the yr and report of the yr nominations. For his work on the Cowboy Carter observe “LEVII’S JEANS,” the Syracuse-born collaborator earns a nomination for greatest pop duo/group efficiency, a class he’ll be competing in opposition to himself in because of his personal observe, “I Had Some Assist,” that includes Morgan Wallen. The drinkin’ buddy break-up jaunt — one of many yr’s greatest hits — can be up for greatest nation track.
Whereas with reference to boozy nation tracks, “A Bar Music (Tipsy)” by Shaboozey, the title-holder within the contest for the longest operating No.1 track of 2024 so far, is up for track of the yr. The singer-rapper himself, who additionally lent his abilities to 2 songs on Cowboy Carter, joins Carpenter and Roan in the very best new artist class, together with Benson Boone, Doechii, Khruangbin, RAYE and Teddy Swims.
10,000-hours artists
Two names who loved flashbang success in 2024 after long-simmering careers are because of get their moments within the highlight heading into the February ceremony. Sabrina Carpenter’s “Please Please Please” is nominated for track of the yr whereas the frothy “Espresso” is up for report of the yr. Chappell Roan’s festival-dominating queer anthem, “Good Luck, Babe!,” is nominated in each the track and report of the yr classes. Every girl’s full-length albums, Brief n’ Candy and The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, will compete for album of the yr.
Apart from the candy and the sapphic, there was one girl who dominated summer time 2024 and will take that reign into subsequent spring. Greater than a decade into her profession, Charli xcx has earned her first Grammy nominations as a solo artist. The English electropop phenom’s BRAT is nominated for each album of the yr and greatest dance/digital album, with a number of singles off the album incomes nominations: “Guess,” that includes Billie Eilish, is up for greatest pop duo/group efficiency, “Apple,” for greatest pop solo efficiency, “Von dutch,” for greatest pop dance recording, and “360,” for greatest music video.
Acquainted names in new territory
Regardless of not dropping an album this yr, Kendrick Lamar made sufficient noise to alert the Recording Academy when he and Drake engaged in a ruthless rap battle earlier this summer time. The Compton MC’s “Not Like Us,” the efficient kill shot that ended the pair’s tête-à-tête, is nominated for report of the yr, track of the yr and, lastly, greatest rap efficiency, a class through which the rapper seems twice because of his function on the observe “Like That” with Future and Metro Boomin. The final time a rap diss observe was nominated was in 2016, when Drake’s diss to Meek Mill, “Again to Again,” secured a nom for greatest rap efficiency, in the end dropping out that yr to Kendrick Lamar’s “Alright.”
Alicia Keys is not any stranger to the Grammys stage, however this yr, the 16-time winner is nominated in the very best musical theater album class for the primary time, for her semi-autobiographical Broadway musical, Hell’s Kitchen. In the meantime, the Florida-hailing rap protege Doechii is the one MC up for greatest new artist this yr (bolstered by her single “Nissan Altima” securing a nom for greatest rap efficiency) and British R&B-jazz maestro RAYE is the primary artist ever to be nominated for songwriter of the yr, non-classical and greatest new artist concurrently.
Surprises and snubs
With greater than three many years in music-making, André 3000 dropped his debut solo album final yr, the experimental jazz joint New Blue Solar. Now, the ATLien’s foray into ambient flute exercises has resulted in a nomination for album of the yr. Despite the fact that that is his first solo physique of labor to be nominated, André collected two gramophones simply final yr for his function on Killer Mike’s track, “Scientists & Engineers,” which was awarded greatest rap efficiency and greatest rap track. He has a complete of 9 profession wins on the Grammys. The famed rapper/flutist may even compete for greatest different jazz album alongside Arooj Aftab’s Evening Reign, Robert Glasper’s Code Derivation, Keyon Harrold’s Foreverland and Meshell Ndegeocello’s No Extra Water: The Gospel Of James Baldwin.
So far as omissions, not all are created equal. Vampire Weekend obtained essential popularity of its 2024 album, Solely God Was Above Us, however was fully shut out of the rock and different classes. Three-time Grammy winner Dua Lipa obtained no nominations for her newest dance pop album, Radical Optimism. Regardless of African artists Ayra Starr, Tyla and Rema making main waves within the world market this yr, none are represented on this yr’s classes. Within the hip-hop world, 21 Savage’s American Dream just isn’t up for any awards regardless of essential acclaim. In the meantime, This fall heaters like Tyler, the Creator’s Chromakopia and GloRilla’s Wonderful are vacant from the rap classes as a result of they have been launched after the eligibility window of the approaching yr’s awards (though Glo’s confidence booster, “Yeah Glo!,” made it to the very best rap efficiency class). The closing date to launch work to be eligible for this yr’s Grammy Awards was Aug. 30, 2024.
