Beyoncé leads the 2025 Grammy Awards nominations with an impressive 11 nods, bringing her career total to a record-breaking 99 nominations, the highest ever in Grammy history.
Her country-inspired album Cowboy Carter is up for both Album of the Year and Country Album of the Year, while her hit Texas Hold ’Em is nominated for Record, Song, and Country Song of the Year. This year marks her debut in the country and Americana categories, making it a historic moment for her career.
Previously, Beyoncé and her husband, Jay-Z, shared a tie with 88 nominations each, but she now holds the record alone. If she wins Album of the Year, she will be the first Black woman to do so in the 21st century, following Lauryn Hill’s win in 1999 with The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.
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Post Malone also earned his first Grammy nods in the country genre this year, thanks to his August release, F-1 Trillion. The album is nominated for Country Album of the Year, while his collaboration with Morgan Wallen, I Had Some Help, is up for Country Song and Country Duo/Group Performance. These are Wallen’s first Grammy nominations as well.
Following Beyoncé, Malone ties with Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar, and Charli XCX, who each garnered seven nominations. Lamar’s diss track Not Like Us earned multiple nods, including Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Rap Song, Music Video, and Best Rap Performance, achieving a career milestone with two nominations in the Best Rap Performance category.
Taylor Swift, alongside first-time nominees Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan, received six nominations each. Swift’s nod for The Tortured Poets Department continues her Album of the Year success, where she holds a record of four wins. This year, she reaches a milestone with seven career nominations in the category, the most for any female artist.
This year’s Album of the Year category showcases a wide genre mix, featuring André 3000’s alt-jazz New Blue Sun, Jacob Collier’s Djesse Vol. 4, and pop debuts from Carpenter and Roan with Short n’ Sweet and The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, respectively. Other nominees include Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft and Charli XCX’s BRAT, highlighting a broad range of musical styles.
Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. shared his enthusiasm for the genre diversity in this year’s nominations, attributing it to the Academy’s efforts to broaden its membership, bringing in more gender, racial, genre, and regional representation to the voting process.
