Beyoncé seems at a marketing campaign occasion for Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris in Houston on Oct. 25, 2024. (AP Photograph/Susan Walsh, File)
Welcome to Beyoncé Nation. Relating to 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 essentially the most nominated artist in Grammy historical past.
“Cowboy Carter” is up for album and nation album of the yr, and “Texas Maintain ’Em” is nominated for file, tune and nation tune of the yr. She additionally acquired 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. Beforehand, she and her husband Jay-Z had been tied for many profession nominations, at 88.
If Beyoncé wins the album of the yr, she’ll turn out to be the primary Black lady to take action within the twenty first century. Lauryn Hill final gained in 1999 for “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill,” becoming a member of Natalie Cole and Whitney Houston as the one Black ladies to take residence the Grammys’ prime prize.
Put up Malone additionally acquired 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 Assist,” his collaboration with Morgan Wallen, is nominated for nation tune and nation duo/group efficiency. They’re Wallen’s first ever Grammy nominations.
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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.
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Lamar’s ubiquitous diss monitor launched throughout his feud with Drake, “Not Like Us,” is nominated for file and tune of the yr, rap tune, music video, in addition to greatest 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 greatest rap efficiency and greatest rap tune.
That is his third time receiving two simultaneous nominations for greatest rap tune.
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 principle pattern 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 Solar” and multi-instrumentalist Jacob Collier’s “Djesse Vol. 4.” Rising pop stars Carpenter and Roan spherical it out, with “Quick n’ Candy” and “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess,” respectively, in addition to Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Division,” Eilish’s “Hit Me Arduous and Gentle,” and Charli XCX’s rave-ready “BRAT.”
Sabrina Carpenter performs in the course of the Occasions Sq. New 12 months’s Eve celebration, Sunday, Dec. 31, 2023, in New York. (Photograph by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP, File)
Eilish is the one artist to have her first three albums turn out to be nominated for album of the yr.
Final yr, Swift gained album of the yr for “Midnights,” breaking the file for many wins within the class with 4. This yr, she turns into the primary ever lady to obtain seven profession nominations within the class.
“The breadth and number of genres represented within the basic discipline really feel new and actually thrilling,” 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 checked out and tried to rebalance our membership. So not simply gender or folks of coloration, completely different racial make-up, but in addition style fairness and attempting to be sure that all several types of music in several areas and completely different places are being represented in each manner potential.”
Solely recordings commercially launched within the US from Sept. 16, 2023, by means of Aug. 30, 2024, had 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 most effective new artist class, Carpenter and Roan will go head-to-head, alongside Benson Boone, Doechii, Khruangbin, RAYE, Shaboozey and Teddy Swims.
Within the tune of the yr class, Beyoncé is joined by Eilish with “Birds of a Feather,” Swift and Put up 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 Tune (Tipsy).”
Shaboozey can be a first-time nominee. His “A Bar Tune (Tipsy)” is the largest tune of the yr, having spent extra weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Scorching 100 than some other — it’s so common, a remix of the monitor can be up for remixed recording.
Elsewhere, Shaboozey is nominated within the melodic rap efficiency class for his function on Beyoncé’s “SPAGHETTII.” Linda Martell, the primary commercially profitable Black lady musician in nation, can be featured on the tune, delivering the 83-year-old artist her first Grammy nomination.
For file of the yr, “Texas Maintain ’Em” will compete in opposition to Swift and Put up 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 tune, the AI-assisted “Now and Then.”
“We’re attempting to ensure we’re maintaining with how music creators and our group are utilizing know-how. And on this case, AI enhanced the file and allowed it to be eligible within the classes that it was eligible in,” Mason Jr. explains.
Taylor Swift performs throughout “The Eras Tour,” Monday, Aug. 7, 2023, at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles. (AP Photograph/Chris Pizzello, File)
Dolly Parton scored her fifty fifth profession nomination within the audio guide, narration, and storytelling recording class for her “Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones,” information The Related Press broke to the nation music legend Friday morning. “No! What did I get nominated for?” she cheered over the telephone. “Oh, effectively, that’s cool. I assumed it could be for my rock album; I’d take it.
“It feels good. I’m at all times appreciative of every thing. I don’t work for that, but it surely’s at all times good to say ‘you’ve accomplished good work,’ and for someone to acknowledge that. So, I’m at all times pleased with each award I get and each point out I get. That simply makes me really feel like I’m doing the appropriate factor.”
She’s up in opposition to producers Man Oldfield, George Clinton, Barbra Streisand and Jimmy Carter, who might turn out to be the oldest Grammy award winners in historical past at 100.
So, what’s lacking? Like final yr, there’s an enormous dearth of Latin music — the fastest-growing streaming style in the US — throughout the board and no illustration within the main classes. There are additionally solely 4 entries in the most effective Música Mexicana album class, regardless of it additionally being one of many quickest rising genres.
And Ok-pop, too, appears to be absent. There aren’t any nominations for the BTS members who’ve launched solo materials this yr: RM’s “Proper Place, Improper Particular person,” J-Hope’s “Hope on the Road, Vol. 1,” and Jimin’s “Muse.” As a boy band, BTS has acquired 5 nominations throughout their profession.
“I positively see room for enchancment throughout many genres and we’re persevering with to ask folks to be part of the academy,” Mason jr. says. “With out the appropriate illustration, we don’t get the appropriate outcomes. Once I say proper, I imply reflective and consultant of what’s taking place in music in the present day. So, the work continues.”
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The 2025 Grammy Awards will air Feb. 2 dwell on CBS and Paramount+ from the Crypto.com Area in Los Angeles.
