Beyoncé, seen right here accepting the most effective dance/digital music album award for Renaissance through 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 sphere of artists nominated for the 67th Grammy Awards, with 11 nominations. She secured nominations in three of the night time’s 4 basic classes, together with album of the yr for her critically acclaimed COWBOY CARTER, in addition to music 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 business figures who votes on and presents the Grammys, additionally racked up nominations. Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish, who’ve dominated the album, report and music 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 several 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 “basic subject” classes, which additionally embody finest new artist.
Beyonce’s Rodeo
With this yr’s 11 nods, Beyonce is now probably the most nominated artist in Grammys historical past with 99 complete profession nominations. Along with her nominations in album, music and report of the yr — classes by which she has considerably infamously been crushed on a number of events — Beyoncé picked up nominations in a wide selection of style classes, together with pop, Americana, nation and melodic rap. Although the artist had beforehand asserted, “This ain’t a rustic album. This can be a ‘Beyoncé’ album,” COWBOY CARTER decidedly reveals up in the most effective nation album class, sandwiched between extra anticipated albums by mainstays Kacey Musgraves, Chris Stapleton, Lainey Wilson and the rap-rocker-turned-country-convert, Submit 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, Submit’s writing credit score and featured efficiency on the Taylor Swift monitor “Fortnight” landed him music of the yr and report of the yr nominations. For his work on the COWBOY CARTER monitor, “LEVII’S JEANS,” the Syracuse-born collaborator earns a nomination for finest pop duo/group efficiency, a class he’ll be competing in opposition to himself in due to his personal monitor, “I Had Some Assist” that includes Morgan Wallen. The drinkin’ buddy break-up jaunt — one of many yr’s largest hits — can also be up for finest nation music.
Whereas with regards to boozy nation tracks, “A Bar Tune (Tipsy)” by Shaboozey, the title-holder within the contest for the longest working No.1 music of 2024 thus far, is up for music of the yr. The singer-rapper himself, who additionally lent his abilities to 2 songs on COWBOY CARTER, joins Carpenter and Roan in the most effective 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 resulting from get their moments within the highlight heading into the February ceremony. Sabrina Carpenter’s “Please Please Please” is nominated for music 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 music and report of the yr classes. Every girl’s full size album, Quick N’ Candy and The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, will compete for album of the yr.
Except for the candy and the sapphic, there was one girl who dominated Summer season 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 finest dance/digital album with a number of singles off the album incomes nominations: “Guess” that includes Billie Eilish is up for finest pop duo/group efficiency, “Apple” for finest pop solo efficiency, “Von dutch” for finest pop dance recording and “360” for finest 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 season. 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, music of the yr and lastly, finest rap efficiency, a class by which the rapper seems twice due to his function on the monitor “Like That” with Future and Metro Boomin. The final time a rap diss monitor was nominated was in 2016, when Drake’s diss to Meek Mill, “Again to Again” secured a nom for finest rap efficiency, in the end shedding 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 most effective 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 finest new artist this yr (bolstered by her single “Nissan Altima” securing a nom for finest 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 finest 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. Although 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 music, “Scientists & Engineers,” which was awarded finest rap efficiency and finest rap music. He has a complete of 9 profession wins on the Grammys. The famed rapper/flutist can even compete for finest 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 acquired important popularity of its 2024 album Solely God Was Above Us, however was utterly shut out of the rock and different classes. Three-time Grammy winner Dua Lipa acquired no nominations for her newest dance pop album, Radical Optimism. Regardless of African artists Ayrra 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 is just not up for any awards regardless of important acclaim. In the meantime, This autumn heaters like Tyler, The Creator’s Chromakopia and GloRilla’s Superb 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 most effective rap efficiency class.) The closing date to launch work to be eligible for this yr’s Grammy Awards was Aug. 30, 2024.