NEW YORK — It appears just like the 2025 Grammy Awards could also be a distinct form of award present. Beyoncé leads the nods with 11, bringing her profession complete to a record-breaking 99 nominations. There’s an unimaginable variety of genres represented throughout the most important classes, and ladies proceed to succeed. So… who didn’t make the reduce? What have been the most effective surprises of all? Let’s have a look.
Nation’s cool once more… and it appears a bit completely different.
Nation music has bled into different outstanding genres and the Recording Academy has taken notice. Nation hybridists — like Beyoncé, Publish Malone and first-time nominee Shaboozey — lead many nominations, in nation and past.
However which means the traditionalists may not see rewards: CMA Awards favorites Cody Johnson’s “Leather-based” and Luke Combs’ “Fathers & Sons” didn’t see any nominations. The latter shouldn’t come as a lot of a shock: Comb’s blockbuster cowl of Tracy Chapman’s “Quick Automotive” wasn’t nominated for report of the 12 months on the Grammys in 2024, both – although it did land a nod in greatest nation solo efficiency.
This 12 months additionally marks Malone and Beyoncé’s first-ever nominations within the nation classes.
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The Beatles are again
Who noticed this one coming? The Beatles final new track, the AI-assisted “Now and Then,” is up for report of the 12 months. Launched in 2023, the track utilized synthetic intelligence to extract John Lennon’s voice from an outdated demo. It’s the identical expertise used to separate the Beatles’ voices from background sounds throughout the making of director Peter Jackson’s 2021 documentary collection, “The Beatles: Get Again.”
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Final summer time, the Recording Academy introduced a collection of modifications to the Grammy Awards, together with new protocols involving technological developments in machine studying. It sparked headlines: “Solely human creators” may win the music business’s highest honor in a call geared toward the usage of synthetic intelligence in common music. On the 2025 Grammys, clearly, these modifications are in motion.
Album of the 12 months will get a facelift
Final 12 months’s album of the 12 months class was dominated by pop ladies — and that continues, with Taylor Swift, Chappell Roan, Sabrina Carpenter and Charli XCX’s rave-ready method to the style receiving noms. The latter is a pleasant shock (extra on that beneath), however the two males nominated are artistic outliers. OutKast frontman André 3000’s experimental jazz-flute album “New Blue Solar” is a contender, in addition to Jacob Collier’s “Djesse Vol. 4,” although that one could fulfill an area left vacant by Jon Batiste.
BRAT summer time is ceaselessly
Charli XCX, having by no means acquired a solo artist nomination on the Grammys, is up for seven awards on the 2025 ceremony. These embody report and album of the 12 months, in addition to pop solo and pop duo/group efficiency, pop dance recording, dance/digital album and music video. Clearly, her culture-shifting “BRAT” album — and the summer time of memes it impressed — has continued to carry actual affect.
Thrilling, stunning first time nominees
There isn’t a scarcity of first-time nominees this 12 months. Some have been anticipated — like Roan, Carpenter and Shaboozey — others much less so. Willow Smith has acquired her first nomination within the association, devices and vocals class for arranging her track “b i g f e e l i n g s.” Linda Martell, the primary commercially profitable Black lady musician in nation, is featured alongside Shaboozey on Beyoncé’s “SPAGHETTII,” which is up for the melodic rap efficiency class. That delivers the progenitor her first-ever Grammy nomination at age 83.
And lastly, Morgan Wallen — undoubtedly some of the common musicians within the nation, and one rife with controversy — has acquired his first two Grammy nominations for his characteristic on Malone’s “I Had Some Assist.” Final 12 months, his track “Final Night time” was nominated for greatest nation track, however that could be a songwriter’s award, and Wallen didn’t obtain a nod.
Prior to now, the nation singer has been absent from nominations. In 2021, after video surfaced of him utilizing a racial slur, he was disqualified or restricted from a number of award reveals and acquired no Grammy nominations for his bestselling “Harmful: The Double Album.”
Latin music is lacking from the highest classes… once more
Identical to final 12 months, Latin music is lacking from the highest classes on the 2025 Grammys, regardless of a surplus of eligible expertise: Peso Pluma’s “Éxodo,” Shakira’s “Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran,” Residente, “Las Letras Ya No Importan,” Carín León’s “Boca Chueca, Vol. 1” and Dangerous Bunny’s “Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana” amongst them.
No Ok-pop?
Identical as above: Ok-pop, too, appears to be absent. There are not any nominations for the BTS members who’ve launched solo materials this 12 months: RM’s “Proper Place, Mistaken Particular person,” J-Hope’s “Hope on the Road, Vol. 1,” and Jimin’s “Muse.” As a boy band, BTS has acquired 5 nominations throughout its profession.
Just one nomination for landmark artists
Regardless of being one of many nice world superstars of the present second — recurrently celebrated as some of the streamed artists on the planet — Dangerous Bunny’s “Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana” acquired just one nomination, for música urbana album.
And Usher, who had a blockbuster 12 months — together with a star-studded Tremendous Bowl halftime present — additionally acquired just one nomination, for R&B album.
…And none for others
In pop, Dua Lipa’s “Radical Optimism” is nowhere to be seen. In nation, greatest new artist hopeful Megan Moroney acquired no nominations. In R&B, Normani’s long-awaited debut album, “Dopamine,” did not make waves with voters, and in rap, Nicki Minaj’s “Pink Friday 2” and Megan Thee Stallion’s “Megan” are absent.
The tip of Jack Antonoff’s reign?
Final 12 months, Jack Antonoff took residence producer of the 12 months, non-classical for a 3rd 12 months in a row, tying Babyface as the one different producer to take action consecutively. This 12 months, he didn’t obtain a nod in that class — one he has held a spot in since 2019. Who will take the mantle?