The 2025 Grammys highlighted among the younger ladies dominating the pop music world, with a greatest new artist win for Chappell Roan and three wins, two of which had been introduced within the Grammys‘ Premiere Ceremony earlier than the primary broadcast awards presentation on CBS, for Sabrina Carpenter, each of whom delivered high-energy performances.
And Beyoncé prolonged her reign because the queen of the Grammys, profitable much more awards to interrupt her personal file because the winningest artist, and eventually captured the elusive album of the yr high prize for her nation album, Cowboy Carter. Whereas quite a lot of pundits predicted this may lastly be the yr that Beyonce scored an album of the yr win, the triumph was nonetheless a shock to pessimistic viewers who had gotten used to seeing Beyoncé lose the highest award she deserved to win.
However regardless of these plaudits, two ladies who’ve dominated previous editions of the Grammys surprisingly walked away with out a single trophy this yr. Neither Billie Eilish nor Taylor Swift gained a single Grammy on Sunday night time.
Eilish, a seven-time nominee this yr and favourite for track and file of the yr, each awards that went to Kendrick Lamar’s Drake diss monitor, “Not Like Us,” went dwelling empty-handed simply years after she swept the massive 4 classes on the 2020 Grammys. Taylor Swift, a six-time nominee for the album she introduced when she gained large ultimately yr’s Grammys (an Inception-like second, as Trevor Noah joked), touchdown her fourth album of the yr win, additionally didn’t land a Grammy this yr.
However each Swift and Eilish had their moments throughout the present, with Swift presenting greatest nation album to Beyoncé and dancing within the viewers, as common, and Eilish performing and having a humorous trade with Noah after one of many industrial breaks.
Different notable snubs included seven-time nominee Put up Malone additionally being shut out and Charli XCX profitable three awards, however all introduced within the Premiere Ceremony and never the primary awards ceremony broadcast on CBS. Nonetheless, Charli XCX additionally delivered a memorable efficiency.
The Premiere Ceremony additionally noticed actor/author/director Bradley Cooper win his third Grammy, this time for his work on the soundtrack to Maestro, which Cooper co-wrote, directed and starred in as Leonard Bernstein. Whereas Cooper beforehand gained for “Shallow” and A Star Is Born, the Maestro triumph comes after the movie had a disappointing run on the movie awards circuit final yr, being nominated for a number of prizes on the Golden Globes, Critics Selection Awards, BAFTAs, SAG Awards and Oscars, however failing to win a single one from any of these organizations.
