Beyoncé is nominated in 11 categories for the 2025 Grammy Awards, holding the record for the artist with the most nominations with 99 times.
On November 8 (local time), the American Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences announced the list of nominations for the 2025 Grammy Awards. Among the 11 categories, Beyoncé appeared in three major award lists including Album of the Year, Record of the Year and Song of the Year with the single Cowboy Carter , released late March.
This is Beyoncé's highest achievement to date and the fifth time the singer has led the pack. In 2010, she received 10 nominations, marking her first time dominating the season. As of 2023, Beyoncé and her husband, rapper Jay-Z, have had the most nominations in the categories with 88, but she is currently the only artist to hold that title. Beyoncé is also the singer with the most Grammys with 32 trophies in her career, counting from her time in Destiny's Child and The Carters (with Jay-Z).
Beyoncé, 43, is one of the world's most successful artists with over 100 million records sold worldwide. Throughout her career, the singer has won many awards such as Grammy, Billboard, MTV, American Music Awards. Magazine Forbes She was twice named the world's most powerful woman in entertainment in 2015 and 2017. She married rapper Jay-Z in 2008 and has three children - Blue Ivy Carter, 12, and twins Rumi and Sir Carter, six.
Following Beyoncé, singers Charli XCX, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar and Post Malone each received seven nominations. Sabrina Carpenter, Chappell Roan and Taylor Swift followed with six nominations. According to Variety , Beyoncé isn't the only name to stand out at next year's awards, as Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter are all considered potential candidates for the big three awards. Swift is the first female artist to be nominated for Album of the Year seven times, while Roan and Carpenter are up for Best New Artist.
Variety also commented that the 2025 Grammys will continue to be a competition between female voices, as both the Album and Record of the Year lists have six out of eight female nominees. In 2024, only one male name entered the above two categories.
In the section Record of the year , hit Not Like Us Kendrick Lamar's "The Last Song" is predicted to win due to its high popularity, being played frequently at many sports competitions throughout the year and during US presidential candidate Kamala Harris' campaign in Atlanta in July.
"His music has been everywhere, even in sports and elections, forcing Grammy experts to consider the possibility of a male voice winning," Variety The last time a male artist won the award was in 2022, when Skill Sonic won with the song Leave The Door Open , featuring Bruno Mars.
This year, the song Now and Then The Beatles's hit single attracted attention when competing for the award. Record of the Year , marking the band's return to the Grammys after nearly three decades, since last winning in 1997.
One of the four members of the group - Paul McCartney - called it "the last Beatles song". The song was written by John Lennon and recorded by himself in 1970 - 10 years before the singer died. Producers used artificial intelligence (AI) to restore Lennon's recording and the guitar of the late artist George Starr (recorded in the 1990s) to blend with the instrumentals of the two surviving members, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr.
The 67th Grammy Awards will take place on February 2, 2025 (local time) at the Cryto.com Arena in Los Angeles, and is expected to last three and a half hours. The panel of experts will vote on the winners from December 12 to January 3, 2025.
Some Grammy 2025 nomination categories
Album of the year
1. New Blue Sun - André 3000
2. Cowboy Carter - Beyoncé
3. Short n' Sweet - Sabrina Carpenter
4. Brat - Charli XCX
5. Djesse Vol. 4 - Jacob Collier
6. Hit Me Hard and Soft - Billie Eilish
7. The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess - Chappell Roan
8. The Tortured Poets Department - Taylor Swift
Record of the year
1. Now and Then - The Beatles
2. Texas Hold 'Em - Beyoncé
3. Espresso - Sabrina Carpenter
4. 360 - Charli XCX
5. Birds of a Feather - Billie Eilish
6. Not Like Us - Kendrick Lamar
7. Good Luck, Babe! - Chappell Roan
8. Fortnight - Taylor Swift ft. Post Malone
Song of the year
1. A Bar Song (Tipsy) - Shaboozey
2. Birds of a Feather - Billie Eilish
3. Die With a Smile - Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars
4. Fortnight - Taylor Swift ft. Post Malone
5. Good Luck, Babe! - Chappell Roan
6. Not Like Us - Kendrick Lamar
7. Please Please Please - Sabrina Carpenter
8. Texas Hold 'Em - Beyoncé
Best New Artist
1. Benson Boone
2. Sabrina Carpenter
3. Doechii
4. Khruangbin
5. Raye
6. Chappell Roan
7. Shaboozey
8. Teddy Swims
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