Grammy Nominations: Beyoncé Leads with 11; Kendrick Lamar, Charli XCX, Billie Eilish Earn 7 Each

Beyoncé continues her reign as the queen of the Grammys: She leads the 2025 awards with 11 nominations, even sweeping all four country categories with her historic Cowboy Carter album.

Beyoncé is up for album of the year and best country album, while her No. 1 country hit “Texas Hold ‘Em” is nominated for song of the year, record of the year and best country song. Her other nominations include best country solo performance for “16 Carriages,” best country/duo performance “II Most Wanted” with Miley Cyrus and best Americana performance for “Ya Ya.”

With 99 career nominations, she now breaks her tie with hubby Jay-Z, who now has 89 nods including one for album of the year as a co-writer of several Cowboy Carter songs. Beyoncé is the most decorated artist in Grammy history, with 32 wins, and could finally win her first album of the year trophy next year.

She’s got competition, though. Taylor Swift, the first artist to win album of the year four times, is nominated for The Tortured Poets Department, making her the first woman to earn seven nods in the category. Other nominees include Hit Me Hard and Soft by Billie Eilish — who becomes the first artist to have their first three albums compete for the top prize — Sabrina Carpenter’s Short N’ Sweet, Charli XCX’s brat, Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, Andre 3000’s New Blue Sun and Jacob Collier’s Djesse Vol. 4.

Eilish, Charli XCX, Post Malone and Kendrick Lamar — who is up for song and record of the year with “Not Like Us” — follow Beyoncé with seven nominations each. Swift, Carpenter and Roan earned six nods apiece.

Battling Beyoncé and Lamar’s songs for record of the year are Swift and Malone’s “Fortnight,” Carpenter’s “Espresso,” Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather,” Charli XCX’s “360,” Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!” and the Beatles’ final song “Now and Then.”

Beyoncé, Lamar, Swift, Eilish and Roan’s songs are also competing for song of the year — a songwriter’s awards — along with Carpenter’s “Please Please Please,” Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With a Smile” and Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” which is spending its 16th week on top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Shaboozey is also up for best new artist alongside Carpenter, Roan, Benson Boone, Teddy Swims, Raye, Doechii and Khruangbin. Shaboozey, who got a boost after appearing on two Cowboy Carter tracks, is nominated for best melodic rap performance for his guest appearance on Beyoncé’s “Spaghetti.” Country music pioneer Linda Martell, the first Black woman to perform at the Grand Ole Opry, also appears on the song and earns her first-ever Grammy nominations.

Other first-time nominees include Carpenter, Kim Gordon, Willow, Pete Rock and Morgan Wallen, who scored two country nods for his appearance on Malone’s No. 1 hit “I Need Some Help.” Malone also earned a best pop duo/group performance nomination for “Levii’s Jeans” with Beyoncé.

Beyoncé’s nominations in country and American Roots extend her genre-filled run at the Grammys since she’s won honors in R&B, rap, pop and dance. She even earned a rock nomination at the 2017 show, Her five nods across country and American Roots fields come two months after she was snubbed at the CMA Awards, where she received zero nominations. She was also dissed by the Grammys’ country committee when they rejected “Daddy Lessons,” her twangy song from 2016’s Lemonade.

Months after female acts won all televised awards at the 2024 Grammys, women dominate in major categories for next year as well, like album of the year, record of the year, best pop solo performance and best pop vocal album, where nominees include Swift, Eilish, Carpenter, Roan and Ariana Grande, who earns her sixth nod in the category with Eternal Sunshine, tying a record set by Kelly Clarkson.

And though a woman has never won producer of the year (non-classical), Alissia is nominated this year — marking the first female nod in six years. She’s up against Dan Nigro, Mustard, Dernst “D’Mile” Emile II and Ian Fitchuk.

The 2025 Grammys will air live on Feb. 2 from the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. Final voting is from Dec. 12 through Jan. 3. The 2025 nominations for the top categories follow, and a full list of the 2025 Grammy nominations is available here.

Album Of The Year 

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)” – Sean Cook, Jerrel Jones, Joe Kent, Chibueze Collins Obinna, Nevin Sastry & Mark Williams, songwriters (Shaboozey) 

“BIRDS OF A FEATHER” – Billie Eilish O’Connell & Finneas O’Connell, songwriters (Billie Eilish) 

“Die With A Smile” – Dernst “D’Mile” Emile II, James Fauntleroy, Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars & Andrew Watt, songwriters (Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars) 

“Fortnight” – Jack Antonoff, Austin Post & Taylor Swift, songwriters (Taylor Swift Featuring Post Malone)

“Good Luck, Babe!” – Kayleigh Rose Amstutz, Daniel Nigro & Justin Tranter, songwriters (Chappell Roan) 

“Not Like Us” – Kendrick Lamar, songwriter (Kendrick Lamar) 

“Please Please Please” – Amy Allen, Jack Antonoff & Sabrina Carpenter, songwriters (Sabrina Carpenter) 

“TEXAS HOLD ‘EM” – Brian Bates, Beyoncé, Elizabeth Lowell Boland, Megan Bülow, Nate Ferraro & Raphael Saadiq, songwriters (Beyoncé) 

Record Of The Year 

“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

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

“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 & Billie Eilish

“the boy is mine” – Ariana Grande, Brandy & Monica

“Die With A Smile” – Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars

Best Pop Vocal Album

Short n’ Sweet – Sabrina Carpenter

HIT ME HARD AND SOFT – Billie Eilish

eternal sunshine – Ariana Grande

Chappell Roan The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess – Chappell Roan

THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT – Taylor Swift

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 Rock Song

“Beautiful People (Stay High)” – Dan Auerbach, Patrick Carney, Beck Hansen & Daniel Nakamura, songwriters (The Black Keys)

“Broken Man” – Annie Clark, songwriter (St. Vincent)

“Dark Matter” – Jeff Ament, Matt Cameron, Stone Gossard, Mike McCready, Eddie Vedder & Andrew Watt, songwriters (Pearl Jam)

“Dilemma” – Billie Joe Armstrong, Tré Cool & Mike Dirnt, songwriters (Green Day)

“Gift Horse” – Jon Beavis, Mark Bowen, Adam Devonshire, Lee Kiernan & Joe Talbot, songwriters (IDLES)

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 Song

“After Hours” – Diovanna Frazier, Alex Goldblatt, Kehlani Parrish, Khris Riddick-Tynes & Daniel Upchurch, songwriters (Kehlani)

“Burning” – Ronald Banful & Temilade Openiyi, songwriters (Tems)

“Here We Go (Uh Oh)” – Sara Diamond, Sydney Floyd, Marisela Jackson, Courtney Jones, Carl McCormick & Kelvin Wooten, songwriters (Coco Jones)

“Ruined Me” – Jeff Gitelman, Priscilla Renea & Kevin Theodore, songwriters (Muni Long)

“Saturn” – Rob Bisel, Carter Lang, Solána Rowe, Jared Solomon & Scott Zhang, songwriters (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 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 Country Album 

COWBOY CARTER – Beyoncé 

F-1 Trillion – Post Malone

Deeper Well – Kacey Musgraves 

Higher – Chris Stapleton 

Whirlwind – Lainey Wilson

Best Americana Album

The Other Side – T Bone Burnett

$10 Cowboy – Charley Crockett

Trail Of Flowers – Sierra Ferrell

Polaroid Lovers – Sarah Jarosz

No One Gets Out Alive – Maggie Rose

Tigers Blood – Waxahatchee

Best Latin Pop Album

Funk Generation – Anitta 

El Viaje – Luis Fonsi 

GARCÍA – Kany García

Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran – Shakira

ORQUÍDEAS – Kali Uchis

Best African Music Performance

“Tomorrow” – Yemi Alade

“MMS” – Asake & Wizkid

“Sensational” – Chris Brown Featuring Davido & Lojay 

“Higher” – Burna Boy

“Love Me JeJe” – Tems

Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media (Includes Film And Televison)

American Fiction – Laura Karpman, composer 

Challengers – Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, composers 

The Color Purple – Kris Bowers, composer

Dune: Part Two – Hans Zimmer, composer

Shōgun – Nick Chuba, Atticus Ross & Leopold Ross, composers