On November 8 the Recording Academy released the nominees for the 2025 (67th) Grammy Awards.
While her Country music album failed to earn any nominations in the Country Music awards; Beyonce earned eleven Grammy Award nominations for her “Cowboy Carter” album to lead the list of nominees.
The nominations this year bring Beyonce to a career 99 Grammy Award nominations to make her the most nominated artist in Grammy history.
But Beyonce is not the only artist to make history with this year’s Grammy Awards. Billie Eilish becomes the only artist to have her first three albums nominated for Album of the Year. Last year Taylor Swift made history with the most Album of the Year Awards at four; this year she becomes the only female artist to have an album nominted seven times.
Post Malone, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar, Charli XCX, Taylor Swift Sabrina Carpenter, Shaboozey, and Chappell Roan also garnered multiple award nominations.
Dominating in the Country Music Awards, Morgan Wallen earns his first Grammy nomination. The 2025 Grammy nominations include several first time nominees this year.
Recording Academy President and CEO Harvey Mason Jr spoke on the 2025 nominations saying, “the breadth and the variety of genres represented in the general field feels new and really exciting. We’ve been very intentional in how we looked at and tried to rebalance our membership. So not just gender or people of color, different racial makeup, but also genre equity and trying to make sure that all different types of music in different regions and different locations are being represented in every way possible.”
Eligible recordings for the 2025 Grammy Awards must have a release date between September 16, 2023 and August 30, 2024. Voting for the winners begins next month with the results revealed at a gala event on February 2 in Los Angeles.
Latin and K-Pop music are largely absent again this year from the major categories. Harvey Mason noted, “I definitely see room for improvement across many genres and we are continuing to invite people to be a part of the academy. Without the right representation we don’t get the right results. When I say right, I mean reflective and representative of what’s happening in music today. So, the work continues.”