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

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 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 triad of record, song and album of the year, they’d be the first to accomplish that since freshman Christopher Cross in 1981.

Three other artists picked up nominations in two of the three top categories and accrued big 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.

Is this “the 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.

When the Recording Academy’s voters did deign to recognize men in top categories, it was with some of the more head-scratching inclusions. 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.

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.”

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.

Record of the Year
“Now And Then” – The Beatles
“Texas Hold ‘Em” – Beyoncé
“Espresso” – Sabrina Carpenter
“360” – Charli xcx
“Birds of a Feather” – Billie Eilish
“Not Like Us” – Kendrick Lamar
“Good Luck, Babe!” – Chappell Roan
“Fortnight” – Taylor Swift Featuring Post Malone

Album of the Year
New Blue Sun – André 3000
Cowboy Carter – Beyoncé
Short n’ Sweet – Sabrina Carpenter
Brat – Charli XCX
Djesse Vol. 4 – Jacob Collier
Hit Me Hard and Soft – Billie Eilish

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 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

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