The nominees for the 2025 Grammy Awards are in. It is yet another banner year for Beyoncé, who leads the pack with 11 nominations, extending her career total to a record-breaking 99. Behind her are Grammys favorites Billie Eilish, Post Malone, and Kendrick Lamar, as well as Charli XCX, who gets her first big score with Brat. Those four artists received seven nominations apiece. Six nods make for a relatively quiet year by Taylor Swift’s dominant standards, but a good one for Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan, who also notch up six in their maiden Grammys years.
As well as the above-mentioned artists’ full-lengths—The Tortured Poets Department, Cowboy Carter, Hit Me Hard and Soft, Brat, Short n’ Sweet, and The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess—the Album of the Year category features André 3000’s woodwind album, New Blue Sun, and Jacob Collier’s Djesse Vol. 4. Record of the Year features singles from all of the above except André 3000 and Collier, who are replaced by the Beatles (“Now and Then”) and Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us.” That song accounts for most of the rapper’s seven nominations, though his collaboration with Future and Metro Boomin, “Like That”—which sparked the Drake beef that led to “Not Like Us”—is also in the mix.
As well as Carpenter and Roan, first-time nominees include Beyoncé collaborator Shaboozey, who gets five nods, including Song of the Year, for “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” and Doechii with three, including Best New Artist. A Grammys Hall of Famer, the late Chick Corea, picked up three more nominations, bringing his all-time total to an impressive 75. That puts him in joint fifth for most-nominated artist ever, alongside Kanye West.
One notable absence is Zach Bryan, who reportedly withheld his music for Grammys consideration. The country singer “does not feel comfortable with awards shows making music competitive,” sources told Variety. He joins a lineage of artists to snub the Grammys—often citing institutional bias—including Drake, the Weeknd, and Frank Ocean.