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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Alexis Petridis

The 2025 Grammys celebrated pop being back to its agenda-setting best

Beyoncé with her award for album of the year at this year’s Grammys.
Beyoncé finally won the album of the year award for Cowboy Carter. Photograph: CBS Photo Archive/CBS/Getty Images

Like all major awards ceremonies, the Grammys spawn a mini-industry in predictions: in the weeks before the winners are announced, a rash of articles inevitably appear in which expert voices scan the nominations and foretell who’s going to win. This year, you didn’t really need in-depth knowledge of the music industry or the Recording Academy’s internal machinations to work out what was going to happen, unless there was a major upset.

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