Grammy Nominations: Beyoncé Leads with 11; Kendrick Lamar, Charli XCX, Billie Eilish Earn 7 Each

Beyoncé continues her reign because the queen of the Grammys: She leads the 2025 awards with 11 nominations, even sweeping all 4 nation classes along with her historic Cowboy Carter album.

Beyoncé is up for album of the yr and finest nation album, whereas her No. 1 nation hit “Texas Maintain ‘Em” is nominated for tune of the yr, report of the yr and finest nation tune. Her different nominations embody finest nation solo efficiency for “16 Carriages,” finest nation/duo efficiency “II Most Wished” with Miley Cyrus and finest Americana efficiency for “Ya Ya.”

With 99 profession nominations, she now breaks her tie with hubby Jay-Z, who now has 89 nods together with one for album of the yr as a co-writer of a number of Cowboy Carter songs. Beyoncé is essentially the most adorned artist in Grammy historical past, with 32 wins, and will lastly win her first album of the yr trophy subsequent yr.

She’s received competitors, although. Taylor Swift, the primary artist to win album of the yr 4 instances, is nominated for The Tortured Poets Division, making her the primary girl to earn seven nods within the class. Different nominees embody Hit Me Onerous and Mushy by Billie Eilish — who turns into the primary artist to have their first three albums compete for the highest prize — Sabrina Carpenter’s Quick N’ Candy, Charli XCX’s brat, Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, Andre 3000’s New Blue Solar and Jacob Collier’s Djesse Vol. 4.

Eilish, Charli XCX, Publish Malone and Kendrick Lamar — who’s up for tune and report of the yr with “Not Like Us” — observe Beyoncé with seven nominations every. Swift, Carpenter and Roan earned six nods apiece.

Battling Beyoncé and Lamar’s songs for report of the yr are Swift and Malone’s “Fortnight,” Carpenter’s “Espresso,” Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather,” Charli XCX’s “360,” Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!” and the Beatles’ remaining tune “Now and Then.”

Beyoncé, Lamar, Swift, Eilish and Roan’s songs are additionally competing for tune of the yr — a songwriter’s awards — together with Carpenter’s “Please Please Please,” Girl Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With a Smile” and Shaboozey’s “A Bar Tune (Tipsy),” which is spending its sixteenth week on high of the Billboard Scorching 100 chart.

Shaboozey can also be up for finest new artist alongside Carpenter, Roan, Benson Boone, Teddy Swims, Raye, Doechii and Khruangbin. Shaboozey, who received a lift after showing on two Cowboy Carter tracks, is nominated for finest melodic rap efficiency for his visitor look on Beyoncé’s “Spaghetti.” Nation music pioneer Linda Martell, the primary Black girl to carry out on the Grand Ole Opry, additionally seems on the tune and earns her first-ever Grammy nominations.

Different first-time nominees embody Carpenter, Kim Gordon, Willow, Pete Rock and Morgan Wallen, who scored two nation nods for his look on Malone’s No. 1 hit “I Want Some Assist.” Malone additionally earned a finest pop duo/group efficiency nomination for “Levii’s Denims” with Beyoncé.

Beyoncé’s nominations in nation and American Roots prolong her genre-filled run on the Grammys since she’s gained honors in R&B, rap, pop and dance. She even earned a rock nomination on the 2017 present, Her 5 nods throughout nation and American Roots fields come two months after she was snubbed on the CMA Awards, the place she obtained zero nominations. She was additionally dissed by the Grammys’ nation committee after they rejected “Daddy Classes,” her twangy tune from 2016’s Lemonade.

Months after feminine acts gained all televised awards on the 2024 Grammys, ladies dominate in main classes for subsequent yr as nicely, like album of the yr, report of the yr, finest pop solo efficiency and finest pop vocal album, the place nominees embody Swift, Eilish, Carpenter, Roan and Ariana Grande, who earns her sixth nod within the class with Everlasting Sunshine, tying a report set by Kelly Clarkson.

And although a girl has by no means gained producer of the yr (non-classical), Alissia is nominated this yr — marking the primary feminine nod in six years. She’s up in opposition to Dan Nigro, Mustard, Dernst “D’Mile” Emile II and Ian Fitchuk.

The 2025 Grammys will air dwell on Feb. 2 from the Crypto.com Enviornment in Los Angeles. Ultimate voting is from Dec. 12 via Jan. 3. The 2025 nominations for the highest classes observe, and click on right here for a full checklist of the 2025 Grammy nominations.