Grammys 2025: Quick Facts to Know About This Year’s Top Nominees

While Jay-Z still stands as the highest Grammy-winning rapper and most-nominated, Kendrick Lamar has moved forward with 57 career nominations, including seven for “Not Like Us” for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Rap Performance, Best Rap Song, and Best Music Video. His feature on Metro Boomin and Future‘s “Like That” was also nominated for Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song.

Earning their first nominations in the Big Four (Best New Artist, Album of the Year, Song of the Year and Record of the Year) are Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter, while Post Malone and Taylor Swift have become repeat nominees in pop and country categories for selections from their new albums F-1 Trillion and The Tortured Poets Department, respectively.

But while surprises came in the form of André 3000‘s instrumental album New Blue Sun, which was nominated for Album of the Year and Best Alternative Jazz Album (while one track was nominated for Best Instrumental Composition), Chris Brown received a first Best African Music Performance nomination for “Sensational” featuring Davido and Lojay.

But the snubs were noticeable, as Tinashe‘s “Nasty,” one of the most popular songs of the summer, didn’t receive a single nomination, nor did her latest albums BB/Angel and Quantum Baby.

Other glaring snubs were Dua Lipa and Blink-182, despite the band’s reunion and making their first new album in 12 years with One More Time.

Surprise nominees include Beyoncé, André 3000, Chris Brown in new categories, while others like Megan Thee Stallion and Tinashe were snubbed.

Nominations for the 67th Annual Grammy Awards have officially been announced, with top categories including some of our favorite artists, while others were noticeably snubbed.

Unveiled on Friday (Nov. 8), the leading nominees for the upcoming awards ceremony are Beyoncé with 11 nominations, Billie Eilish, Charli XCX, Kendrick Lamar and Post Malone with seven nominations and Chappell Roan, Taylor Swift and Sabrina Carpenter with six nominations.

Beyonce, now the most Grammy-nominated artist of all time with 99 nods, scored first-time awards categories for her eighth album, Cowboy Carter. The LP was nominated in the top categories Album of the Year, Record of the Year and Song of the Year for (“Texas Hold’Em”) (which are among the Big Four); while “Texas” was also nominated for Best Country Song.

Also from Cowboy Carter is “Bodyguard,” which was nominated for Best Pop Solo Performance; “Levii’s Jeans” featuring Post Malone was nominated for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance; “Ya Ya” was nominated for Best Americana Performance; the Miley Cyrus-assisted “II Most Wanted” was nominated for Best Country Duo/Group Performance; “16 Carriages” was nominated for Best Country Solo Performance; while the nomination for Best Melodic Rap Performance went to “Spaghettii” featuring Shaboozey and Linda Martell.

hi it’s me 🙂 thank you @RecordingAcad pic.twitter.com/TdnjMYcogt

— Charli (@charli_xcx) November 9, 2024

Receiving their first nominations as a solo artist was Charli XCX, for songs from her latest album, Brat, with the LP being nominated for Album of the Year and Record of the Year; “360” being nominated for Record of the Year and Best Music Video, “Von Dutch” being nominated for Best Pop Dance Recording, “Apple” being nominated for Best Pop Solo Performance; and the Billie Eilish-featured “Guess” remix being nominated for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. The previous two Grammy nominations that Charli received were Record of the Year and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance with Iggy Azalea for 2014 single “Fancy.”

The fact she posted this about a year ago and now her album has 9 Grammy nominations…. So happy for @charli_xcx pic.twitter.com/XqYK2NRotj

— Joe🥤 (@Joeeyyyypp) November 8, 2024