Grammys 2025 nominations live: Charli XCX up for Album of the Year with Beyonce and Taylor Swift
Beyonce becomes the most-nominated artist in history as she receives multiple nods for her country-influenced ‘Cowboy Carter’, while Swift breaks a record to become the most-nominated woman for Album of the Year
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Your support makes all the difference.The nominations for the 2025 Grammy Awards have been announced, with several milestones reached by some of the world’s biggest artists.
Beyonce shattered a record to become the most nominated artist of all time, with a total of 99 nominations throughout her career. She was previously tied with her husband, Jay-Z, at 88, but moved ahead after leading the 2025 nominations with 11 nods, including Album of the Year for her country-influenced Cowboy Carter.
Taylor Swift received yet another Album of the Year nod, this time for her latest hit album, The Tortured Poets Department, which pulls her out of a tie with Barbra Streisand and places her as the woman with the most nominations in the category.
Other artists who will be vying for Album of the Year include 2024’s breakthrough star Chappell Roan with her debut, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, and Sabrina Carpenter with her sixth record, Short n’ Sweet.
British star Charli XCX is a also up for her critically adored, trend-setting album Brat, while RAYE received a deserved nod for Best New Artist.
Hip-hop star Kendrick Lamar was nominated for both Record and Song of the Year for his diss track “Not Like Us”, which ties him with Jay-Z for the most nods in those categories by a rapper.
Here we go! Starting with Gayle King from CBS Mornings
Here’s Gayle King, telling us what an amazing year for music it’s been. Not much argument from me, I’ve enjoyed it.
OK, here we go with the nominees for Songwriter and Producer of the Year (non-classical).
Songwriter we have, Jessi Alexander, Amy Allen, Edgar Berrera, Jessie Jo Dillon, and RAYE!
Producer of the Year: Alissia, Dernst “D Mile” Emile II, Ian Fithcuk, Mustard and Daniel Nigro.
Nominations to come in thick and fast
A reminder that when the nominations do begin to be announced, they end up doing it at pretty lightning speed. I’ll be offering quick takes on some of the most notable nominations as they come, but you can also find the rolling updated full list of nominees from my fab colleague Inga, which will be live the moment the first category is announced.
2025 Grammys nominations to be announced today!
Not long to wait now! The pre-announcement bit is happening in five minutes, while the nominations themselves are happening at 4pm UK time (8am PT, 11am ET).
Who do we want to see nominated?
It feels as though there are a few dead certs that will end up in this year’s Big Four categories at the Grammy Awards.
A reminder of the “big four”: Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best New Artist.
For the unitiated and because it is a bit confusing: Song of the Year recognises the composition of a song and the writers behind it, while Record of the Year deals with the artists, producers and engineers who contributed to that song.
Personally I think it would be a shock if Taylor Swift isn’t nominated for a record-breaking seventh Album of the Year nod, for 2024’s The Tortured Poets Department. While I’d argue the album itself suffers from being overly long (in a big way), Swift is a Grammys darling and, regardless of length, Tortured Poets contains some of her finest songwriting to date. “Fortnight” could get a nomination for Song of the Year and possibly also Record of the Year, and I imagine Best Pop Solo Perforance and Best Pop Vocal Album, too.
There are two artists who could sweep the Big Four categories: Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan. Both are likely to end up with Best New Artist nominations (and subsequently reigniting the age-old debate of “new”, given Carpenter is on her sixth album, Short n’ Sweet. This, and Roan’s debut The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, are strong contenders for Album of the Year thanks to critical raves for each, and strong commercial performances to boot.
Carpenter’s mega hit single “Espresso” is likely to end up in both the Song and Record of the Year categories, as is Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!”.
It’s likely that all four categories will be dominated by US artists this year, but one singer flying the flag for the UK could be Charli XCX, who rose to a higher level of international fame thanks to her trend-setting and critically adored sixth album, Brat.
Beyonce should get a nod for her country-influenced album Cowboy Carter, along with Kendrick Lamar for his incendiary Drake diss track, “Not Like Us”.
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When are the 2025 Grammys
The 2025 Grammy Awards will air 2 February live on CBS and Paramount+ from the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. A host has yet to be announced; Trevor Noah has hosted for the past four consecutive years.
A timeline of the rapper’s beef with Kendrick Lamar
As Kendrick Lamar is widely expected to receive at least one nomination for his Drake diss track, “Not Like Us”, take a look at our timeline of the beef between the warring hip-hop stars:
Drake birthday: A timeline of the rapper’s beef with Kendrick Lamar
A rivalry between two of the world’s biggest rappers has simmered for years, flaring up again in May thanks to multiple surprise tracks
Reminder: What time the Grammy nominations will be announced
The 2025 Grammy nominees will be announced during a video stream live on the Grammy website and the Recording Academy’s YouTube channel on Friday at 8am Pacific and 11am Eastern (4pm GMT), kicking off with a pre-show 15 minutes earlier.
How the 2024 Grammy Awards unfolded
It was one of the most memorable Grammys in years. Clearly, organisers felt they had to make up for the deflating 2023 ceremony, where Harry Styles skipped away with Album of the Year after we were promised a rematch between Adele and Beyonce.
They managed it, and then some: this truly was the Year of the Women. After a glittering run on the red carpet, where many nominees appeared to turn up dressed as Grammy Awards (a lot of bronze and gold this year), the ceremony opened with a spectacular medley of hits from British pop star Dua Lipa. By this point, the pre-telecast show had already seen early prizes handed out to indie supergroup Boygenius, Billie Eilish and Kylie Minogue.
Trevor Noah, hosting for the fourth consecutive year, proved himself an ally. He defended Taylor Swift from grouchy NFL fans by flipping the joke and threatening to put the camera on retired American football fans. Swift, who famously sent a wintery glare in comedian Jo Koy’s direction when he dared to make a joke at her expense at the Golden Globes, seemed delighted by Noah by comparison.
How the 2024 Grammy Awards unfolded
Artists including Joni Mitchell and Celine Dion made rapturously received appearances, while artists who had previously gone without recognition were finally given their flowers
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