Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar Lead 2025 Grammy Nominees

The 2025 Grammy nominations are here with Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, and Kendrick Lamar among the artists slated to compete for the biggest prizes next year.

Beyoncé, thanks to Cowboy Carter, led all nominees this year with 11, scoring looks not only in the three major categories — Song, Record, and Album of the Year — but four different genre categories: Country, Pop, Rap, and Americana. Her 11 nominations also made Beyoncé the most nominated artist in Grammy history with 99 (she previously shared the record, 88, with her husband Jay-Z).

Lamar, meanwhile, was one of four artists to rack up seven nominations, alongside Billie Eilish, Charli XCX, and Post Malone. Swift, Sabrina Carpenter, and Chappell Roan each earned six nominations. 

For Record of the Year, Beyoncé’s “Texas Hold ‘Em” will be up against Carpenter’s “Espresso,” Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather,” Lamar’s “Not Like Us, Swift and Post Malone’s “Fortnight,” Charli’s “360,” and ” Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!” Then there’s the category’s biggest surprise: The Beatles’ final song, “Now and Then,” which was released last year. 

Many of these same tunes will compete for Song of the Year, including “Birds of a Feather,” “Fortnight,” “Texas Hold ‘Em,” “Not Like Us,” and “Good Luck, Babe!” That category will also boast Shaboozey’s crossover smash “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ collaboration “Die With a Smile,” and Carpenter’s other 2024 hit, “Please Please Please.”

And in Album of the Year, André 3000 scored a delightfully surprising nomination for his instrumental flute record New Blue Sun. He’ll be up against Bey’s Cowboy Carter, Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet, Charli’s Brat, Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft, Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department, Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, and Jacob Collier’s Djesse Vol. 4. 

Carpenter and Roan — easily the year’s biggest breakthrough stars — are also unsurprisingly leading the pack for Best New Artist. They’ll be up against Shaboozey, Benson Boone, Doechii, Raye, Teddy Swims, and Khruangbin. 

Already, the major question surrounding the 2025 Grammys feels like whether this will be the year that Beyoncé — already the most decorated and now the most nominated artist in the show’s history — finally wins her first major category award since 2010 (when “Single Ladies” won Song of the Year). But the competition is stiff. Swift, of course, has won Album of the Year more than any other artist (four times), and both Eilish and André 3000 are previous winners in that category, too (André as a member of Outkast). 

Eilish has also become a major favorite of Recording Academy voters since sweeping the Big Four prizes in 2020. She’s since added another Record and Song of the Year trophy to her collection, the former for “Everything I Wanted” in 2021, the latter for “What Was I Made For?” last year. (Eilish is also now the first artist to have her first three albums nominated for Album of the Year.)

For Charli XCX, her seven Grammy nominations this year are her first ever as a solo artist (she was previously nominated in 2015 for Record of the Year and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for “Fancy” with Iggy Azalea). Raye also became the first artist to simultaneously notch nods for Best New Artist and Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical, celebrating her work as a solo artist, as well as with others like Beyoncé, Jennifer Lopez, Halle, and Lucky Daye.

There are several notable first-time nominees, as well, including Sierra Ferrell, Doechii, and Morgan Wallen (who’s still yet to be nominated as a solo artist but did earn two nods for his hit with Post Malone, “I Had Some Help”). Several music legends picked up their first nods as well, including the storied producer Pete Rock, legendary singer Linda Martell, and punk great Kim Gordon. Current indie favorites Waxahatchee, Clairo, and Madi Diaz scored their first nominations as well, as did Puerto Rican rapper Young Miko, Mexican singer-songwriter Carín León, and Colombian singer-songwriter Reid. 

See below for the full list of nominees.

Album of the Year
André 3000 – New Blue Sun
Beyoncé – Cowboy Carter
Sabrina Carpenter – Short n’ Sweet
Charli XCX – Brat
Jacob Collier – Djesse Vol. 4
Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft
Chappell Roan – The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
Taylor Swift – The Tortured Poets Department

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

Song of the Year
Shaboozey – “A Bar Song (Tipsy)”
Billie Eilish – “Birds of a Feather”
Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars – “Die With a Smile”
Taylor Swift featuring Post Malone – “Fortnight”
Chappell Roan – “Good Luck, Babe!”
Kendrick Lamar – “Not Like Us”
Sabrina Carpenter – “Please Please Please”
Beyoncé – “Texas Hold ‘Em”

Best New Artist
Benson Boone
Sabrina Carpenter
Doechii
Khruangbin
RAYE
Chappell Roan
Shaboozey
Teddy Swims

Best Pop Solo Performance
Beyoncé – “Bodyguard”
Sabrina Carpenter – “Espresso”
Charli XCX – “Apple”
Billie Eilish – “Birds of a Feather”
Chappell Roan – “Good Luck, Babe!”

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
Gracie Abrams featuring Taylor Swift – “Us.”
Beyoncé featuring Post Malone – “Levii’s Jeans”
Charli XCX and Billie Eilish – “Guess”
Ariana Grande, Brandy, and Monica – “The Boy Is Mine”
Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars – “Die With a Smile”

Best Dance Pop Recording
Madison Beer – “Make You Mine”
Charli XCX – “Von Dutch”
Billie Eilish – “L’amour De Ma Vie” [Over Now Extended Edit]
Ariana Grande – “Yes, and?”
Troye Sivan – “Got Me Started”

Best Rock Album
The Black Crowes – Happiness Bastards
Fontaines D.C. – Romance
Green Day – Saviors
Idles – TANGK
Pearl Jam – Dark Matter
The Rolling Stone – Hackney Diamonds
Jack White – No Name

Best Alternative Music Performance
Cage the Elephant – “Neon Pill”
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – “Song of the Lake”
Fontaines D.C. – “Starburster”
Kim Gordon – “Bye Bye”
St. Vincent – “Flea”

Best R&B Performance
Jhené Aiko – “Guidance”
Chris Brown – “Residuals”
Coco Jones – “Here We Go (Uh Oh)”
Muni Long – “Made for Me (Live on BET)”
SZA – “Saturn”

Best R&B Album
Chris Brown – 11:11 (Deluxe)
Lalah Hathaway – Vantablack
Muni Long – Revenge
Lucky Daye – Algorithm
Usher – Coming Home

Best Melodic Rap Performance
Jordan Adetunji featuring Kehlani – “Kehlani”
Beyoncé featuring Linda Martell and Shaboozey – “Spaghettii”
Future and Metro Boomin featuring the Weeknd – “We Still Don’t Trust You”
Latto – “Big Mama”
Rapsody featuring Erykah Badu – “3:AM”

Best Country Solo Performance
Beyoncé – “16 Carriages”
Jelly Roll – “I Am Not Okay”
Kacey Musgraves – “The Architect”
Shaboozey – “A Bar Song (Tipsy)”
Chris Stapleton – “It Takes a Woman”

Best Country Album
Beyoncé – Cowboy Carter
Post Malone – F-1 Trillion
Kacey Musgraves – Deeper Well
Chris Stapleton – Higher
Lainey Wilson – Whirlwind

Best Latin Pop Album
Anitta – Funk Generation
Luis Fonsi – El Viaje
Kany Garcia – García
Shakira – Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran
Kali Uchis – Orquídeas

Best Música Mexicana Album (Including Tejano)
Chiquis – Diamantes
Carín León – Boca Chueca, Vol. 1
Peso Pluma – Éxodo
Jessi Uribe – De Lejitos

Best African Music Performance
Yemi Blade – “Tomorrow”
Asake and Wizkid – “MMS”
Chris Brown featuring Davido and Lojay – “Sensational”
Burna Boy – “Higher”
Tems – “Love Me JeJe”

Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical
Jessi Alexander
Amy Allen
Edgar Barrera
Jessie Jo Dillon
Raye

Producer of the Year, Non-Classical
Alissia
Dernst “D’Mile” Emile II
Ian Fitchuk
Mustard
Daniel Nigro

Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media (Includes Film And Television)
Laura Karpman – American Fiction
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – Challengers
Kris Bowers – The Color Purple
Hans Zimmer – Dune: Part Two
Nick Chuba, Atticus Ross and Leopold Ross – Shōgun

Best Song Written For Visual Media
Luke Combs – “Ain’t No Love In Oklahoma” (Twisters: The Album)
’NSync and Justin Timberlake – “Better Place” (Trolls Band Together)
Olivia Rodrigo – “Can’t Catch Me Now” (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes)
Jon Batiste – “It Never Went Away” (American Symphony)
Barbra Streisand – “Love Will Survive” (The Tattooist of Auschwitz)

From Rolling Stone US.