The Grammys 2025 Nominations Are In & While Beyoncé Broke Records Others Got Majorly Snubbed

The nominations for the 2025 Grammy awards have just dropped, and while the pop girlies are definitely dominating, some of the snubs this year are simply diabolical. So grab your popcorn (or should I say, your “Espresso”), and let’s dive into this year’s Grammy tea.

What are the biggest takeaways from the 2025 Grammy nominations?

First things first, Queen Bey continues her reign supreme. Beyoncé snatched a whopping 11 nominations, bringing her career total to 99. That’s right, 99 problems but a Grammy is quite literally not one.

She’s now officially the most-nominated artist in Grammy history, leaving her hubby Jay-Z in the dust. The couple had been tied on 88 nominations each, but Cowboy Carter put Bey on top!

Everybody better thank Bey in their acceptance speeches IYKYK. (Image: Getty Images)

But it’s not just about the established royalty. The pop girlies are coming for their crowns, with Charli xcx, Billie Eilish, Sabrina Carpenter, and Chappell Roan all scoring multiple nods in major categories.

Besties who get nominated together, stick together. (Image: Getty Images)

Oh, and let’s not forget about Taylor Swift. She’s up for Album of the Year… again, making me nervous for the rest of the pop divas who are up against the reigning champ.

Who got snubbed in the 2025 Grammy nominations?

Now let’s pour one out for the artists who were left out in the cold. Ariana Grande fans, you might want to sit down for this one. Despite dropping eternal sunshine this year, our ponytail queen got minimal love from the Grammy’s. She did manage to snag three nods, but none in the major categories.

Jack Antonoff, producer to the pop girlies including Taylor, Sabrina and Lana Del Rey usually racks up the Grammy wins, but this year it looks like he got ghosted in the Producer of the Year category. It seems the Grammy’s wanted to finally give someone else a chance, despite him producing two Album of the Year nominees. Maybe they thought he was getting too comfortable with his three-year winning streak

Megan Thee Stallion‘s album Megan apparently wasn’t hot enough for the Grammys this year. Despite setting TikTok on fire, Meg got zero nominations. The stallion got stalled, it seems.

Diva deserved better. (Image: Getty Images)

And what about Tyla? After winning Best African Performance last year, we all thought she was the new Grammy darling. But this year? Crickets. Not a single nomination. The audacity.

Jungkook, who debuted his first solo album apart from BTS got absolutely snubbed. Despite Golden breaking records, including becoming the best-selling Korean soloist album in history, Jungkook got zero nominations. The Grammys have nominated BTS a couple of times in the past, but they have never actually won. K-Pop girlies rise up!

Were there any 2025 Grammy nomination surprises?

Hold onto your vintage band tees, because the Beatles are back, baby! Their AI-assisted track “Now and Then” scored a nod for Record of the Year. Who knew that in 2024, we’d be talking about a new Beatles song?

Technology is wild. (Image: The Beatles/Instagram)

André 3000‘s flute album New Blue Sun also made a surprise appearance in the Album of the Year category. I guess the Grammys are really embracing that ‘nature sounds to study to’ vibe.

The full 2025 Grammy nomination list:

Take a peep at the full list.

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 feat. Post Malone

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

This could be Chappell’s moment! (Image: Getty Images)

Song Of The Year

• A Bay Song (Tipsy) — Sean Cook, Jerrel Jones, Joe Kent, Nevin Sastry, Chibueze Collins Obinna & Mark Williams (Shaboozey)
• Birds of a Feather — Billie Eilish O’Connell & Finneas O’Connell (Billie Eilish)
• Die With a Smile — Dernst Emile II, James Fauntleroy, Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars & Andrew Watt (Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars)
• Fortnight — Jack Antonoff, Austin Post & Taylor Swift (Taylor Swift and Post Malone)
• Good Luck, Babe! — Daniel Nigro, Kayleigh Rose Amstutz & Justin Tranter (Chappell Roan)
• Not Like Us — Kendrick Lamar (Kendrick Lamar)
• Please Please Please — Amy Allen, Jack Antonoff & Sabrina Carpenter (Sabrina Carpenter)
• TEXAS HOLD ‘EM — Brian Bates, Beyoncé, Elizabeth Lowell Boland, Megan Bülow, Nate Ferraro & Raphael Saadiq (Beyoncé)

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

She deserves her flowers. (Images: Getty Images)

Best Pop Vocal Album

• Short n’ Sweet — Sabrina Carpenter
• HIT ME HARD AND SOFT — Billie Eilish
• eternal sunshine — Ariana Grande
• 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 pop duo/group performance

• Us — Gracie Abrams featuring Taylor Swift
• Levii’s Jeans — Beyoncé featuring Post Malone
• The Boy is Mine — Ariana Grande, Brandy and Monica
• Die With A Smile — Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars
• Guess — Charli xcx and Billie Eilish

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

Another one, thank you! (Image:Getty Images)

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 Television)

• 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

Best Opera Recording

• Adams: Girls of the Golden West — John Adams, conductor; Paul Appleby, Julia Bullock, Hye Jung Lee, Daniela Mack, Elliot Madore, Ryan McKinny & Davóne Tines; Dmitriy Lipay, producer (Los Angeles Philharmonic; Los Angeles Master Chorale)
• Catán: Florencia en el Amazonas — Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor; Mario Chang, Michael Chioldi, Greer Grimsley, Nancy Fabiola Herrera, Mattia Olivieri, Ailyn Pérez & Gabriella Reyes; David Frost, producer (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus)
• Moravec: The Shining — Gerard Schwarz, conductor; Tristan Hallett, Kelly Kaduce & Edward Parks; Blanton Alspaugh, producer (Kansas City Symphony; Lyric Opera of Kansas City Chorus)
• Puts: The Hours — Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor; Joyce DiDonato, Renée Fleming & Kelli O’Hara; David Frost, producer (Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; Metropolitan Opera Chorus)
• Saariaho: Adriana Mater — Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor; Fleur Barron, Axelle Fanyo, Nicholas Phan & Christopher Purves; Jason O’Connell, producer (San Francisco Symphony; San Francisco Symphony Chorus; Timo Kurkikangas)

When are the 2025 Grammys?

And there you have it folks. The 2025 Grammy nominations in all their chaotic glory. Will Beyoncé finally snag that elusive Album of the Year award? Will Taylor Swift add another trophy to her probably-overflowing cabinet? Or will we all be shocked when André 3000’s flute album sweeps the whole thing?

Tune in Sunday, February 2, 2025 to find out. May the odds be ever in your fave’s favour!

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