Grammys 2025 nominations: Who's up for the biggest prizes?
2024-11-08
Category: entertainment

Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Charli XCX, Kendrick Lamar and Chappell Roan will all be up for major honours at the 2025 Grammy Awards.The trophies will be handed out in a star-studded ceremony on 2 February, with 94 categories in total. Here are the contenders for the biggest prizes.
The "big four" awards
Album of the yearAndré 3000 - New Blue SunBeyoncé - Cowboy CarterSabrina Carpenter - Short n’ SweetCharli XCX - BratJacob Collier - Djesse Vol 4Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and SoftChappell Roan - The Rise and Fall of a Midwest PrincessTaylor Swift - The Tortured Poets DepartmentRecord of the yearThe Beatles - Now And ThenBeyoncé - Texas Hold ’EmSabrina Carpenter - EspressoCharli XCX - 360Billie Eilish - Birds of a FeatherKendrick Lamar - Not Like UsChappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe!Taylor Swift ft Post Malone - FortnightSong of the yearBeyoncé - Texas Hold 'EmSabrina Carpnter - Please Please PleaseBillie Eilish - Birds Of A FeatherLady Gaga & Bruno Mars - Die With a SmileKendrick Lamar - Not Like UsChappel Roan - Good Luck, Babe!Shaboozey - A Bar Song (Tipsy)Taylor Swift ft Post Malone - FortnightBest new artistBenson BooneSabrina CarpenterDoechiiKhruangbinRayeChappell RoanShaboozeyTeddy Swims
Pop and dance
Best pop vocal albumSabrina Carpenter - Short n’ SweetBillie Eilish - Hit Me Hard And Soft Ariana Grande - Eternal SunshineChappell Roan - The Rise and Fall of a Midwest PrincessTaylor Swift - The Tortured Poets DepartmentBest pop solo performanceBeyoncé - BodyguardSabrina Carpenter - EspressoCharli XCX - AppleBillie Eilish - Birds of a FeatherChappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe!Best pop duo/group performanceGracie Abrams ft Taylor Swift - UsBeyoncé ft Post Malone - Levii’s JeansCharli XCX & Billie Eilish - GuessAriana Grande, Brandy & Monica - The Boy Is MineLady Gaga & Bruno Mars - Die With A Smile
Best dance/electronic recordingDisclosure - She’s Gone, Dance OnFour Tet - LovedFred Again & Baby Keem - LeavemealoneJustice & Tame Impala - NeverenderKaytranada ft Childish Gambino - WitchyBest dance/electronic albumCharli XCX - BratFour Tet - ThreeJustice - Hyperdrama Kaytranada - TimelessZedd - TelosBest dance pop recordingMadison Beer - Make You MineCharli XCX - Von DutchBillie Eilish - L’Amour De Ma Vie [Over Now Extended Edit]Ariana Grande - Yes, and? Troye Sivan - Got Me Started
Rock and metal
Best rock performanceThe Beatles - Now And ThenThe Black Keys - Beautiful People (Stay High)Green Day - The American Dream Is Killing MeIdles - Gift HorsePearl Jam - Dark MatterSt. Vincent - Broken ManBest rock songThe Black Keys - Beautiful People (Stay High)St Vincent - Broken ManPearl Jam - Dark MatterGreen Day - DilemmaIdles - Gift HorseBest rock albumThe Black Crowes - Happiness B******sFontaines DC - RomanceGreen Day - SaviorsIdles - TANGKPearl Jam - Dark MatterThe Rolling Stones - Hackney DiamondsJack White - No NameBest alternative music albumNick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Wild GodClairo - CharmKim Gordon - The CollectiveBrittany Howard - What NowSt Vincent - All Born ScreamingBest metal performanceGojira, Marina Viotti & Victor Le Masne - Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!)Judas Priest - Crown of HornsKnocked Loose Featuring Poppy - SuffocateMetallica - Screaming SuicideSpiritbox - Cellar Door
Rap
Best rap performanceCardi B - Enough (Miami) Common & Pete Rock ft Posdnuos - When The Sun Shines Again Doechii - Nissan AltimaEminem - Houdini Future, Metro Boomin & Kendrick Lamar - Like ThatGloRilla - Yeah Glo! Kendrick Lamar - Not Like UsBest melodic rap performanceJordan Adetunji ft Kehlani - KehlaniBeyoncé ft Linda Martell & Shaboozey - SpaghettiiFuture & Metro Boomin ft The Weeknd - We Still Don’t Trust YouLatto - Big MamaRapsody ft Erykah Badu - 3:AMBest rap songRapsody ft Hit-Boy - AsteroidsKanye West & Ty Dolla $Ign - CarnivalFuture & Metro Boomin ft Kendrick Lamar - Like ThatKendrick Lamar - Not Like UsGloRilla - Yeah Glo! Best rap albumJ Cole - Might Delete LaterCommon & Pete Rock - The Auditorium, Vol 1Doechii - Alligator Bites Never HealEminem - The Death Of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce)Future & Metro Boomin - We Don’t Trust You
Country
Best country solo performanceBeyoncé - 16 CarriagesJelly Roll - I Am Not OkayKacey Musgraves - The ArchitectShaboozey - A Bar Song (Tipsy)Chris Stapleton - It Takes A WomanBest country duo/group performanceKelsea Ballerini With Noah Kahan - Cowboys Cry TooBeyoncé ft Miley Cyrus - II Most WantedBrothers Osborne - Break MineDan + Shay - Bigger HousesPost Malone ft Morgan Wallen - I Had Some HelpBest country songKacey Musgraves - The ArchitectShaboozey - A Bar Song (Tipsy)Jelly Roll - I Am Not OkayPost Malone ft Morgan Wallen - I Had Some HelpBeyoncé - Texas Hold 'EmBest country albumBeyoncé - Cowboy Carter Post Malone - F-1 Trillion Kacey Musgraves - Deeper Well Chris Stapleton - Higher Lainey Wilson - Whirlwind
R&B and Afrobeats
Best R&B performanceJhené Aiko - GuidanceChris Brown - ResidualsCoco Jones - Here We Go (Uh Oh)Muni Long - Made For Me (Live On BET)SZA - SaturnBest R&B songKehlani - After Hours Tems - BurningCoco Jones - Here We Go (Uh Oh) Muni Long - Ruined Me SZA - SaturnBest progressive R&B albumAvery*Sunshine - So Glad to Know You Durand Bernarr - En RouteChildish Gambino - Bando Stone And The New World Kehlani - CrashNxWorries (Anderson .Paak & Knxwledge) - Why Lawd? Best R&B albumChris Brown - 11:11 (Deluxe)Lalah Hathaway - VantablackMuni Long - RevengeLucky Daye - AlgorithmUsher - Coming HomeBest African music performanceYemi Alade - Tomorrow Asake & Wizkid - MMS Chris Brown ft Davido & Lojay - Sensational Burna Boy - Higher Tems - Love Me JeJe
Production and songwriting
Producer of the Year, Non-ClassicalAlissiaDaniel NigroDernst “D’Mile” Emile IIIan FitchukMustardSongwriter of the YearAmy AllenEdgar BarreraJessi AlexanderJessie Jo DillonRaye
Film and TV
Best comedy albumRicky Gervais - ArmageddonDave Chappelle - The Dreamer Jim Gaffigan - The PrisonerNikki Glaser - Someday You’ll DieTrevor Noah - Where Was IBest compilation soundtrack for visual mediaThe Color Purple - Various ArtistsDeadpool & Wolverine - Various ArtistsMaestro: Music By Leonard Bernstein - London Symphony Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Bradley CooperSaltburn - Various ArtistsTwisters: The Album - Various ArtistsBest score soundtrack for visual media (includes film and televison)Laura Karpman - American Fiction Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Challengers Kris Bowers - The Color Purple Hans Zimmer - Dune: Part Two Nick Chuba, Atticus Ross & Leopold Ross - Shōgun Best score soundtrack for video games and other interactive mediaPinar Toprak - Avatar: Frontiers of PandoraBear McCreary - God of War Ragnarök: ValhallaJohn Paesano - Marvel’s Spider-Man 2Wilbert Roget, II - Star Wars OutlawsWinifred Phillips - Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad OverlordBest song written for visual mediaLuke Combs - Ain’t No Love In Oklahoma (From Twisters: The Album)*NSYNC & Justin Timberlake - Better Place (From Trolls Band Together) Olivia Rodrigo - Can’t Catch Me Now (From The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes)Jon Batiste - It Never Went Away (From American Symphony)Barbra Streisand - Love Will Survive (From The Tattooist of Auschwitz)Best music videoA$AP Rocky - Tailor Swif  Charli XCX - 360Eminem - HoudiniKendrick Lamar - Not Like UsTaylor Swift ft Post Malone - FortnightBest music filmAmerican SymphonyJuneKings From QueensStevie Van Zandt: DiscipleThe Greatest Night In Pop
Jazz and classical
Best jazz vocal albumChristie Dashiell - Journey In BlackKurt Elling & Sullivan Fortner - Wildflowers Vol 1Samara Joy - A Joyful HolidayMilton Nascimento & Esperanza Spalding - Milton + Esperanza Catherine Russell & Sean Mason - My IdealBest jazz instrumental albumAmbrose Akinmusire ft Bill Frisell & Herlin Riley - Owl SongKenny Barron ft Kiyoshi Kitagawa, Johnathan Blake, Immanuel Wilkins & Steve Nelson - Beyond This PlaceLakecia Benjamin - Phoenix Reimagined (Live)Chick Corea & Béla Fleck - RemembranceSullivan Fortner - Solo GameBest alternative jazz albumArooj Aftab - Night ReignAndré 3000 - New Blue SunRobert Glasper - Code DerivationKeyon Harrold - ForeverlandMeshell Ndegeocello - No More Water: The Gospel Of James BaldwinBest musical theatre albumHell’s KitchenMerrily We Roll AlongThe NotebookThe OutsidersSuffsThe WizBest opera recordingAdams: Girls Of The Golden West - John Adams, conductor (Los Angeles Philharmonic; Los Angeles Master Chorale)Catán: Florencia En El Amazonas - Yannick Nézet-Séguin (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus)Moravec: The Shining - Gerard Schwarz, conductor (Kansas City Symphony; Lyric Opera Of Kansas City Chorus)Puts: The Hours - Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor (Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; Metropolitan Opera Chorus)Saariaho: Adriana Mater - Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor (San Francisco Symphony; San Francisco Symphony Chorus; Timo Kurkikangas)Best orchestral performanceJohn Adams: City Noir - Fearful Symmetries & Lola Montez Does The Spider Dance - Marin Alsop, conductor (ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra)Kodály: Háry János Suite; Summer Evening & Symphony In C Major - JoAnn Falletta, conductor (Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra)Ortiz: Revolución Diamantina - Gustavo Dudamel, conductor (Los Angeles Philharmonic)Sibelius: Karelia Suite, Rakastava, & Lemminkäinen - Susanna Mälkki, conductor (Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra)Stravinsky: The Firebird - Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor (San Francisco Symphony)