The nominees for the 2025 Grammy Award for Album of the 12 months have been introduced. Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter will compete in opposition to the newest from fellow Recording Academy veterans—Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Onerous and Comfortable and Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poet’s Division—and class newcomers Charli XCX (nominated for Brat), Sabrina Carpenter (Quick n’ Candy), and Chappell Roan (The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess). Jacob Collier’s Djesse Vol. 4 can also be within the operating, as is Outkast musician André 3000’s solo debut, the cosmic jazz woodwind document New Blue Solar.
Along with her seventh nod within the class, Swift is now the feminine artist with probably the most Album of the 12 months nominations, breaking her earlier tie with Barbara Streisand. Swift is already the winningest major artist within the class’s historical past.
Beyoncé, regardless of being the winningest artist in all of Grammys historical past, remains to be looking for her first Album of the 12 months victory. She most just lately misplaced the class to Harry Kinds, in 2023, after being nominated for Renaissance.
Charli XCX got here into the day with two profession Grammy nominations and no victories. Like Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan, she is in search of to change into a first-time winner.
All three of Billie Eilish’s studio albums have now been nominated for Album of the 12 months, however she’s received the class just for her debut, When We All Fall Asleep, The place Do We Go? That 12 months, 2020, Eilish swept the large 4 classes.
André 3000 received two Grammy Awards earlier this 12 months—for Finest Rap Tune and Finest Rap Efficiency, for his work with Killer Mike on “Scientists & Engineers”—and he’s now been nominated 5 instances for Album of the 12 months. He received the class in 2004 for the Outkast album Speakerboxxx/The Love Under.
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Album of the 12 months
André 3000 – New Blue Solar
Beyoncé – Cowboy Carter
Billie Eilish – Hit Me Onerous and Comfortable
Chappell Roan – The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
Charli XCX – Brat
Jacob Collier – Djesse Vol. 4
Sabrina Carpenter – Quick n’ Candy
Taylor Swift – The Tortured Poets Division
