SUMMARY
  • Beyoncé leads with 11 nominations this season, eyeing more Grammy history.
  • Taylor Swift competes for a fourth Album of the Year win.
  • Charli XCX, Billie Eilish, and Post Malone are big contenders this year.

The 67th Annual Grammy Awards are coming up on February 2, 2025, and all eyes are on Beyoncé, who’s leading the nominations with 11 nods for her album Cowboy Carter. This brings her total to 99 Grammy nominations, the most for any artist ever!

Beyoncé in Cowboy Carter
Beyoncé in Cowboy Carter (Credits: YouTube/Beyoncé)

She’s already won 32 Grammys, so it’s safe to say she’s a big favorite for the upcoming awards. But she’s not the only one being recognized—other artists like Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar, Taylor Swift, and Charli XCX are also nominated, with several nominations each. Let’s break down the major categories and see who’s up for what.

Record of the Year

This is the biggest award for a single song. The nominees are:

  • 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

This is another major category where the nominees are:

  • 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
  • The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess – Chappell Roan
  • The Tortured Poets Department – Taylor Swift

Song of the Year

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

Best New Artist

  • Benson Boone
  • Sabrina Carpenter
  • Doechii
  • Khruangbin
  • Raye
  • Chappell Roan
  • Shaboozey
  • Teddy Swims

Producer of the Year, Non-Classical

  • Alissia
  • Dernst “D’Mile” Emile II
  • Ian Fitchuk
  • Mustard
  • Daniel Nigro

Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical

  • Jessi Alexander
  • Amy Allen
  • Edgar Barrera
  • Jessie Jo Dillon
  • Raye

Best Pop Solo Performance

Sabrina Carpenter in Espresso
Sabrina Carpenter in Espresso (Credits: YouTube/Sabrina Carpenter)
  • Bodyguard – Beyoncé
  • Espresso – Sabrina Carpenter
  • Apple – Charli XCX
  • Birds of a Feather – Billie Eilish
  • Good Luck, Babe! – Chappell Roan

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance

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

Best Pop Vocal Album

  • Short n’ Sweet – Sabrina Carpenter
  • Hit Me Hard and Soft – Billie Eilish
  • Eternal Sunshine – Ariana Grande
  • The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess – Chappell Roan
  • The Tortured Poets Department – Taylor Swift

Best Dance/Electronic Recording

  • She’s Gone, Dance On – Disclosure
  • Loved – Four Tet
  • Leavemealone – Fred Again.. and Baby Keem
  • Neverender – Justice and Tame Impala
  • Witchy – Kaytranada

Best Dance Pop Recording

  • Make You Mine – Madison Beer
  • Von Dutch – Charli XCX
  • L’Amour de Ma Vie (Over Now Extended Edit) – Billie Eilish
  • Yes, And? – Ariana Grande
  • Got Me Started – Troye Sivan

Best Dance/Electronic Album

  • Brat – Charli XCX
  • Three – Four Tet
  • Hyperdrama – Justice
  • Timeless – Kaytranada
  • Telos – Zedd

Best Remixed Recording

  • Von Dutch (A. G. Cook Remix) – Charli XCX
  • Alter Ego (Kaytranada Remix) – Doechii & Kaytranada featuring JT
  • Jah Sees Them (Amapiano Remix) – Julian Marley & Antaeus
  • Espresso (Mark Ronson x FNZ Working Late Remix) – Sabrina Carpenter
  • A Bar Song (Tipsy) (Remix) – Shaboozey & David Guetta

Best Rock Performance

  • Now and Then – The Beatles
  • Beautiful People (Stay High) – The Black Keys
  • The American Dream Is Killing Me – Green Day
  • Gift Horse – Idles
  • Dark Matter – Pearl Jam
  • Broken Man – St. Vincent

Best Metal Performance

  • Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça Ira!) – Gojira
  • Crown of Horns – Judas Priest
  • Suffocate – Knocked Loose featuring Poppy
  • Screaming Suicide – Metallica
  • Cellar Door – Spiritbox

Best Rock Song

  • Beautiful People (Stay High) – The Black Keys
  • Broken Man – St. Vincent
  • Dark Matter – Pearl Jam
  • Dilemma – Green Day
  • Gift Horse – Idles

Best Rock Album

  • Happiness Bastards – The Black Crowes
  • Romance – Fontaines D.C.
  • Saviors – Green Day
  • Tangk – Idles
  • Dark Matter – Pearl Jam
  • Hackney Diamonds – The Rolling Stones
  • No Name – Jack White

Best Alternative Music Performance

  • Neon Pill – Cage the Elephant
  • Song of the Lake – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
  • Starburster – Fontaines D.C.
  • Bye Bye – Kim Gordon
  • Flea – St. Vincent

Best Alternative Music Album

  • Wild God – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
  • Charm – Clairo
  • The Collective – Kim Gordon
  • What Now – Brittany Howard
  • All Born Screaming – St. Vincent

Best R&B Performance

  • Guidance – Jhené Aiko
  • Residuals – Chris Brown
  • Here We Go (Uh Oh) – Coco Jones
  • Made for Me (Live on BET) – Muni Long
  • Saturn – SZA

Best Traditional R&B Performance

  • Wet – Marsha Ambrosius
  • Can I Have This Groove – Kenyon Dixon
  • No Lie – Lalah Hathaway featuring Michael McDonald
  • Make Me Forget – Muni Long
  • That’s You – Lucky Daye

Best R&B Song

Kehlani in After Hours
Kehlani in After Hours (Credits: YouTube/Kehlani)
  • After Hours – Kehlani
  • Burning – Tems
  • Here We Go (Uh Oh) – Coco Jones
  • Ruined Me – Muni Long
  • Saturn – SZA

Best Progressive R&B Album

  • So Glad to Know You – Avery*Sunshine
  • En Route – Durand Bernarr
  • Bando Stone And The New World – Childish Gambino
  • CRASH – Kehlani
  • Why Lawd? – NxWorries (Anderson .Paak & Knxwledge)

Best Rap Performance

  • Enough (Miami) – Cardi B
  • When The Sun Shines Again – Common & Pete Rock featuring Posdnuos
  • NISSAN ALTIMA – Doechii
  • Houdini – Eminem
  • Like That – Future, Metro Boomin & Kendrick Lamar
  • Yeah Glo! – GloRilla
  • Not Like Us – Kendrick Lamar

Best Rap Song

  • Asteroids – Marlanna Evans
  • Carnival – Jordan Carter, Raul Cubina, Grant Dickinson, Samuel Lindley, Nasir Pemberton, Dimitri Roger, Ty Dolla $ign, Kanye West & Mark Carl Stolinski Williams
  • Like That – Kendrick Lamar Duckworth, Kobe “BbyKobe” Hood, Leland Wayne & Nayvadius Wilburn
  • Not Like Us – Kendrick Lamar
  • Yeah Glo! – Ronnie Jackson, Jaucquez Lowe, Timothy McKibbins, Kevin Andre Price, Julius Rivera III & Gloria Woods

Best Rap Album

  • Might Delete Later – J. Cole
  • The Auditorium, Vol. 1 –Common & Pete Rock
  • Alligator Bites Never Heal – Doechii
  • The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce) – Eminem
  • We Don’t Trust You – Future & Metro Boomin

Best Country Album

  • COWBOY CARTER – Beyoncé
  • F-1 Trillion – Post Malone
  • Deeper Well – Kacey Musgraves
  • Higher – Chris Stapleton
  • Whirlwind – Lainey Wilson

Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games

  • Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
  • God of War Ragnarök: Valhall
  • Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
  • Star Wars Outlaws
  • Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord

Best Music Video

  • Tailor Swift – ASAP Rocky
  • 360 – Charli XCX
  • Houdini – Eminem
  • Not Like Us – Kendrick Lamar
  • Fortnight – Taylor Swift featuring Post Malone

Best Music Film

  • American Symphony
  • June 
  • Kings From Queens 
  • Stevie Van Zandt: Disciple 
  • The Greatest Night in Pop 

Best Song Written for Visual Media

  • Ain’t No Love in Oklahoma – from Twisters
  • Better Place – from Trolls Band Together
  • Can’t Catch Me Now – from The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
  • It Never Went Away – from American Symphony
  • Love Will Survive – from The Tattooist of Auschwitz

Best Alternative Jazz Album

  • Night Reign – Arooj Aftab
  • New Blue Sun – André 3000
  • Code Derivation – Robert Glasper
  • Foreverland – Keyon Harrold
  • No More Water: The Gospel Of James Baldwin – Meshell Ndegeocello

Best Latin Pop Album

  • Funk Generation – Anitta
  • El Viaje – Luis Fonsi
  • GARCÍA – Kany García
  • Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran – Shakira
  • ORQUÍDEAS – Kali Uchis

Check out the full list of nominations in all 94 categories over at GRAMMY.com!

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