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Grammy Nominations
2025: Beyonce Leads With
11 Nods as Taylor Swift,
Chappell Roan, Sabrina
Carpenter and Charli XCX
Are Among Top Nominees
By Chris Willman

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Beyoncé just earned herself another

sash. As numbers go, she is easily the
queen of the rodeo that is the 2025
Grammy nominations, racking up 11
nominations for her “Cowboy Carter”
album and its attendant singles. That’s a
personal high for her, besting the 10
nods she got back in 2009.

But Beyoncé has to share the headlines

coming out of Friday morning’s
announcement. Because she is just one
of five powerhouse women who are
nominated in all three of the Grammys‘
top general categories this year — record,
song and album of the year. Joining her
in being nominated for all three of those
major prizes are Taylor Swift, Billie
Eilish, Chappell Roan and Sabrina
Carpenter.

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The red-hot Roan and Carpenter also

have the distinction of each being
nominated for best new artist, meaning
they are up in all four general categories
open to recording artists across genres. If
either Carpenter or Roan turned out to be
red-hot enough to win best new artist
plus the trio of record, song and album of
the year, they’d be the first to accomplish
that since Eilish did it in 2020.

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Three other artists picked up

nominations in two of the three top
categories and accrued major
nomination tallies: Charli XCX, Post
Malone and Kendrick Lamar.

Following Beyoncé’s leading 11 nods, it’s

Eilish, Lamar, Malone and Charli XCX
who have a four-way tie for the second-
largest number of nominations this year,
with seven noms each. Close behind with
six nominations apiece are Swift, Roan
and Carpenter.

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(Scroll down to see the full list of

nominations in 94 categories.)

Is this the Grammys’ year of the

woman”? You’d have to say yes, with
female artists claiming six out of the
eight nominations for both album of the
year and record of the year. But then, last
year was really the year of the woman,
with seven out of eight spots taken in
those categories. In other words, this
“stepping up” has been the norm and not
the exception for several successive
years now.

The dominance of all these women on

the charts as well as in the larger pop
culture made predicting the Grammys a
little easier this year, for many. (Variety’s
predictions a month ago were largely on
the nose, getting six out of eight
nominees right in each of the four
general-field categories.)

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It was only when the Recording

Academy’s voters deigned to recognize
men in top categories that inclusions
occurred that were less expected… if not
head-scratchers. Andre 3000’s album of
the year nomination, for his
instrumental free-range-flute album
“New Blue Sun,” is sure to set off a rash
of WTF comments; although the
collection certainly had its defenders,
there was not a prognosticator in the
world who considered that even a dark
horse. The sewn-together Beatles track
“Now and Then,” which is nominated for
record of the year, had at least popped up
in the conversations, as a possibility to
fill the surprise-veteran slot taken by
ABBA two years ago.

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Benson Boone, Teddy Swims and

Shaboozey were the three breakout men
of the year in music, but the first two of
those were held to a single nomination,
for best new artist. Shaboozey got that
nom, too, along with three more for his
record-busting “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” and
one for a feature on “Cowboy Carter.”
(“Bar Song” also picked up an additional
nod for best remix, an award that goes to
the remixer but acknowledges the artist
parenthetically.)

Will the Feb. 1 ceremony finally see

Beyoncé winning either album or record
of the year — two prizes that have eluded
her despite winning a record number of
Grammys? The rooting interest is off the
charts. But every one of the women
competing against her in the top
categories has had undeniable zeitgeist
moments this year. And in the record of
the year division, she faces Kendrick
Lamar. His single “Not Like Us” was so
ubiquitous in even sports and electoral
politics this year that it forces Grammy
watchers to consider a possibility that is
about as unthinkable at the Grammys
lately as it is inevitable in the outside
world: a guy prevailing.

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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

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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” X

Kaytranada, remixer (Doechii Featuring JT)
2. “A Bar Song (Tipsy) [Remix]”