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2025 Grammy Award Nominees

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Beyoncé leads the 2025 Grammy nominations with 11 nods for her “Cowboy Carter” album and singles, surpassing her previous record of 10 nominations in 2009. She shares the spotlight with Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Chappell Roan, and Sabrina Carpenter, as all five women are up for record, song, and album of the year.

Roan and Carpenter also stand out for being nominated for best new artist, making them contenders in all four major general categories. Winning all four would make them the first since Eilish in 2020.

Charli XCX, Post Malone, and Kendrick Lamar also made waves, with nominations in two of the top three categories and seven total nods each. Swift, Roan, and Carpenter follow with six nominations each.

RECORD OF THE YEAR

  1. “Now and Then”
    The Beatles
  2. “Texas Hold ‘Em”
    Beyoncé
  3. “Espresso”
    Sabrina Carpenter
  4. “360”
    Charli XCX
  5. “Birds of a Feather”
    Billie Eilish
  6. “Not Like Us”
    Kendrick Lamar
  7. “Good Luck, Babe!”
    Chappell Roan
  8. “Fortnight”
    Taylor Swift Featuring Post Malone

ALBUM OF THE YEAR

  1. “New Blue Sun”
    André 3000
  2. “Cowboy Carter”
    Beyoncé
  3. “Short n’ Sweet”
    Sabrina Carpenter
  4. “Brat”
    Charli XCX
  5. “Djesse Vol. 4”
    Jacob Collier
  6. “Hit Me Hard and Soft”
    Billie Eilish
  7. “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess”
    Chappell Roan
  8. “The Tortured Poets Department”
    Taylor Swift

SONG OF THE YEAR

  1. “A Bar Song (Tipsy)”
    Sean Cook, Jerrel Jones, Joe Kent, Chibueze Collins Obinna, Nevin Sastry & Mark Williams, songwriters
    (Shaboozey)
  2. “Birds of a Feather”
    Billie Eilish O’Connell & Finneas, songwriters (Billie Eilish)
  3. “Die With a Smile”
    Dernst Emile II, James Fauntleroy, Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars & Andrew Watt, songwriters (Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars)
  4. “Fortnight”
    Jack Antonoff, Austin Post & Taylor Swift, songwriters
    (Taylor Swift Featuring Post Malone)
  5. “Good Luck, Babe!”
    Kayleigh Rose Amstutz, Daniel Nigro & Justin Tranter, songwriters (Chappell Roan)
  6. “Not Like Us”
    Kendrick Lamar, songwriter (Kendrick Lamar)
  7. “Please Please Please”
    Amy Allen, Jack Antonoff & Sabrina Carpenter, songwriters (Sabrina Carpenter)
  8. “Texas Hold ‘Em”
    Brian Bates, Beyoncé, Elizabeth Lowell Boland, Megan Bülow, Nate Ferraro & Raphael Saadiq, songwriters (Beyoncé)

BEST NEW ARTIST

  1. Benson Boone
  2. Sabrina Carpenter
  3. Doechii
  4. Khruangbin
  5. Raye
  6. Chappell Roan
  7. Shaboozey
  8. Teddy Swims

PRODUCER OF THE YEAR (NON-CLASSICAL)

  1. Alissia
  2. Dernst “D’Mile” Emile II
  3. Ian Fitchuk
  4. Mustard
  5. Daniel Nigro

SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR

  1. Jessi Alexander
  2. Amy Allen
  3. Edgar Barrera
  4. Jessie Jo Dillon
  5. Raye

BEST POP SOLO PERFORMANCE

  1. “Bodyguard”
    Beyoncé
  2. “Espresso”
    Sabrina Carpenter
  3. “Apple”
    Charli xcx
  4. “Birds of a Feather”
    Billie Eilish
  5. “Good Luck, Babe!”
    Chappell Roan

BEST POP DUO/GROUP PERFORMANCE

  1. “Us”
    Gracie Abrams Featuring Taylor Swift
  2. “Levii’s Jeans”
    Beyoncé Featuring Post Malone
  3. “Guess”
    Charli XCX & Billie Eilish
  4. “The Boy Is Mine”
    Ariana Grande, Brandy & Monica
  5. “Die With a Smile”
    Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars’

BEST POP VOCAL ALBUM

  1. “Short n’ Sweet”
    Sabrina Carpenter
  2. “Hit Me Hard and Soft”
    Billie Eilish
  3. “Eternal Sunshine”
    Ariana Grande
  4. “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess”
    Chappell Roan
  5. “The Tortured Poets Department”
    Taylor Swift

BEST DANCE/ELECTRONIC RECORDING

  1. “She’s Gone, Dance On”
    Disclosure
  2. “Loved”
    Four Tet
  3. “Leavemealone”
    Fred Again & Baby Keem
  4. “Neverender”
    Justice & Tame Impala
  5. “Witchy”
    Kaytranada Featuring Childish Gambino

BEST DANCE POP RECORDING

  1. “Make You Mine”
    Madison Beer
  2. “Von Dutch”
    Charli XCX
  3. “L’Amour de Ma Vie [Over Now Extended Edit]”
    Billie Eilish
  4. “Yes, And?”
    Ariana Grande
  5. “Got Me Started”
    Troye Sivan

BEST DANCE/ELECTRONIC ALBUM

  1. “Brat”
    Charli XCX
  2. “Three”
    Four Tet
  3. “Hyperdrama”
    Justice
  4. “Timeless”
    Kaytranada
  5. “Telos”
    Zedd

BEST REMIXED RECORDING

  1. “Alter Ego – Kaytranada Remix”
    Kaytranada, remixer (Doechii Featuring JT)
  2. “A Bar Song (Tipsy) [Remix]”
    David Guetta, remixer (Shaboozey & David Guetta)
  3. “Espresso (Mark Ronson x FNZ Working Late Remix)”
    FNZ & Mark Ronson, remixers (Sabrina Carpenter)
  4. “Jah Sees Them – Amapiano Remix”
    Alexx Antaeus, Footsteps & MrMyish, remixers (Julian Marley & Antaeus)
  5. “Von Dutch”
    A.G. Cook, remixer (Charli xcx & A.G. Cook Featuring Addison Rae)

BEST TRADITIONAL POP VOCAL ALBUM

  1. À Fleur De Peau
    Cyrille Aimée
  2. Visions
    Norah Jones
  3. Good Together
    Lake Street Dive
  4. Impossible Dream
    Aaron Lazar
  5. Christmas Wish
    Gregory Porter

BEST ROCK PERFORMANCE

  1. “Now and Then”
    The Beatles
  2. “Beautiful People (Stay High)”
    The Black Keys
  3. “The American Dream Is Killing Me”
    Green Day
  4. “Gift Horse”
    Idles
  5. “Dark Matter”
    Pearl Jam
  6. “Broken Man”
    St. Vincent

BEST METAL PERFORMANCE

  1. “Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!)”
    Gojira, Marina Viotti & Victor Le Masne
  2. “Crown of Horns”
    Judas Priest
  3. “Suffocate”
    Knocked Loose Featuring Poppy
  4. “Screaming Suicide”
    Metallica
  5. “Cellar Door”
    Spiritbox

BEST ROCK ALBUM

  1. “Happiness Bastards”
    The Black Crowes
  2. “Romance”
    Fontaines D.C.
  3. “Saviors”
    Green Day
  4. “TANGK”
    Idles
  5. “Dark Matter”
    Pearl Jam
  6. “Hackney Diamonds”
    The Rolling Stones
  7. “No Name”
    Jack White

BEST ROCK SONG

  1. “Beautiful People (Stay High)”
    Dan Auerbach, Patrick Carney, Beck Hansen & Daniel Nakamura, songwriters (The Black Keys)
  2. “Broken Man”
    Annie Clark, songwriter (St. Vincent)
  3. “Dark Matter”
    Jeff Ament, Matt Cameron, Stone Gossard, Mike McCready, Eddie Vedder & Andrew Watt, songwriters (Pearl Jam)
  4. “Dilemma”
    Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt & Tré Cool, songwriters (Green Day)
  5. “Gift Horse”
    Jon Beavis, Mark Bowen, Adam Devonshire, Lee Kiernan & Joe Talbot, songwriters (Idles)

BEST ALTERNATIVE MUSIC PERFORMANCE

  1. “Neon Pill”
    Cage the Elephant
  2. “Song of the Lake”
    Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
  3. “Starburster”
    Fontaines D.C.
  4. “Bye Bye”
    Kim Gordon
  5. “Flea”
    St. Vincent

BEST ALTERNATIVE MUSIC ALBUM

  1. “Wild God”
    Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
  2. “Charm”
    Clairo
  3. “The Collective”
    Kim Gordon
  4. “What Now”
    Brittany Howard
  5. “All Born Screaming”
    St. Vincent

BEST R&B PERFORMANCE

  1. “Guidance”
    Jhené Aiko
  2. “Residuals”
    Chris Brown
  3. “Here We Go (Uh Oh)”
    Coco Jones
  4. “Made For Me (Live On BET)”
    Muni Long
  5. “Saturn”
    SZA

BEST TRADITIONAL R&B PERFORMANCE

  1. “Wet”
    Marsha Ambrosius
  2. “Can I Have This Groove”
    Kenyon Dixon
  3. “No Lie”
    Lalah Hathaway Featuring Michael McDonald
  4. “Make Me Forget”
    Muni Long
  5. “That’s You”
    Lucky Daye

BEST PROGRESSIVE R&B ALBUM

  1. “So Glad to Know You”
    Avery*Sunshine
  2. “En Route”
    Durand Bernarr
  3. “Bando Stone and the New World”
    Childish Gambino
  4. “Crash”
    Kehlani
  5. “Why Lawd?”
    NxWorries (Anderson .Paak & Knxwledge)

BEST R&B SONG

  1. “After Hours”
    Diovanna Frazier, Alex Goldblatt, Kehlani Parrish, Khris Riddick-Tynes & Daniel Upchurch, songwriters (Kehlani)
  2. “Burning”
    Ronald Banful & Temilade Openiyi, songwriters (Tems)
  3. “Here We Go (Uh Oh)”
    Sara Diamond, Sydney Floyd, Marisela Jackson, Courtney Jones, Carl McCormick & Kelvin Wooten, songwriters (Coco Jones)
  4. “Ruined Me”
    Jeff Gitelman, Priscilla Renea & Kevin Theodore, songwriters (Muni Long)
  5. “Saturn”
    Rob Bisel, Carter Lang, Solána Rowe, Jared Solomon & Scott Zhang, songwriters (SZA)

BEST R&B ALBUM

  1. “11:11 (Deluxe)”
    Chris Brown
  2. “Vantablack”
    Lalah Hathaway
  3. “Revenge”
    Muni Long
  4. “Algorithm”
    Lucky Daye
  5. “Coming Home”
    Usher

BEST RAP PERFORMANCE

  1. “Enough (Miami)”
    Cardi B
  2. “When the Sun Shines Again”
    Common & Pete Rock Featuring Posdnuos
  3. “Nissan Altima”
    Doechii
  4. “Houdini”
    Eminem
  5. “Like That”
    Future & Metro Boomin Featuring Kendrick Lamar
  6. “Yeah Glo!”
    GloRilla
  7. “Not Like Us”
    Kendrick Lamar

BEST MELODIC RAP PERFORMANCE

  1. “Kehlani”
    Jordan Adetunji Featuring Kehlani
  2. “Spaghettii”
    Beyoncé Featuring Linda Martell & Shaboozey
  3. “We Still Don’t Trust You”
    Future & Metro Boomin Featuring The Weeknd
  4. “Big Mama”
    Latto
  5. “3:AM”
    Rapsody Featuring Erykah Badu

BEST RAP ALBUM

  1. “Might Delete Later”
    J. Cole
  2. “The Auditorium, Vol. 1”
    Common & Pete Rock
  3. “Alligator Bites Never Heal”
    Doechii
  4. “The Death Of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce)”
    Eminem
  5. “We Don’t Trust You”
    Future & Metro Boomin

BEST RAP SONG

  1. “Asteroids”
    Marlanna Evans, songwriter (Rapsody Featuring Hit-Boy)
  2. “Carnival”
    Jordan Carter, Raul Cubina, Grant Dickinson, Samuel Lindley, Nasir Pemberton, Dimitri Roger, Ty Dolla $ign, Kanye West & Mark Carl Stolinski Williams, songwriters (¥$ (Kanye West & Ty Dolla $Ign)
    Featuring Rich The Kid & Playboi Carti)
  3. “Like That”
    Kendrick Lamar Duckworth, Kobe “BbyKobe” Hood, Leland Wayne & Nayvadius Wilburn, songwriters (Future & Metro Boomin Featuring Kendrick Lamar)
  4. “Not Like Us”
    Kendrick Lamar, songwriter (Kendrick Lamar)
  5. “Yeah Glo!”
    Ronnie Jackson, Jaucquez Lowe, Timothy McKibbins, Kevin Andre Price, Julius Rivera III & Gloria Woods, songwriters (GloRilla)

BEST SPOKEN WORD POETRY ALBUM

  1. “Civil Writes: The South Got Something To Say”
    Queen Sheba
  2. “Concrete & Whiskey Act II Part 1: A Bourbon 30 Series”
    Omari Hardwick
  3. “Good M.U.S.I.C. Universe Sonic Sinema: Episode 1 In the Beginning Was the Word”
    Malik Yusef
  4. “The Heart, the Mind, the Soul”
    Tank and the Bangas
  5. “The Seven Number Ones”
    Mad Skillz

BEST COUNTRY SOLO PERFORMANCE

  1. 16 Carriages
    Beyoncé
  2. I Am Not Okay
    Jelly Roll
  3. The Architect
    Kacey Musgraves
  4. A Bar Song (Tipsy)
    Shaboozey
  5. It Takes A Woman
    Chris Stapleton

BEST COUNTRY DUO/GROUP PERFORMANCE

  1. Cowboys Cry Too
    Kelsea Ballerini With Noah Kahan
  2. II Most Wanted
    Beyoncé Featuring Miley Cyrus
  3. Break Mine
    Brothers Osborne
  4. Bigger Houses
    Dan + Shay
  5. I Had Some Help
    Post Malone Featuring Morgan Wallen

BEST COUNTRY SONG

  1. The Architect
    Shane McAnally, Kacey Musgraves & Josh Osborne, songwriters (Kacey Musgraves)
  2. A Bar Song (Tipsy)
    Sean Cook, Jerrel Jones, Joe Kent, Chibueze Collins Obinna, Nevin Sastry & Mark Williams, songwriters (Shaboozey)
  3. I Am Not Okay
    Casey Brown, Jason DeFord, Ashley Gorley & Taylor Phillips, songwriters (Jelly Roll)
  4. I Had Some Help
    Louis Bell, Ashley Gorley, Hoskins, Austin Post, Ernest Smith, Ryan Vojtesak, Morgan Wallen & Chandler Paul Walters, songwriters (Post Malone Featuring Morgan Wallen)
  5. Texas Hold ‘Em
    Brian Bates, Beyoncé, Elizabeth Lowell Boland, Megan Bülow, Nate Ferraro & Raphael Saadiq, songwriters (Beyoncé)

BEST COUNTRY ALBUM

  1. Cowboy Carter
    Beyoncé
  2. F-1 Trillion
    Post Malone
  3. Deeper Well
    Kacey Musgraves
  4. Higher
    Chris Stapleton
  5. Whirlwind
    Lainey Wilson

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