BEYONCÉ, TAYLOR SWIFT, KENDRICK LAMAR LEAD 2025 GRAMMY NOMINEES

The 2025 Grammy nominations are here with Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, and Kendrick Lamar among the artists slated to compete for the biggest prizes next year.

Beyoncé, thanks to Cowboy Carter, led all nominees this year with 11, scoring looks not only in the three major categories — Song, Record, and Album of the Year — but four different genre categories: Country, Pop, Rap, and Americana. Her 11 nominations also made Beyoncé the most nominated artist in Grammy history with 99 (she previously shared the record, 88, with her husband, Jay-Z).

Lamar, meanwhile, was one of four artists to rack up seven nominations, alongside Billie Eilish, Charli XCX, and Post Malone. Swift, Sabrina Carpenter, and Chappell Roan each earned six nominations.

For Record of the Year, Beyoncé’s “Texas Hold ‘Em” will be up against Carpenter’s “Espresso,” Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather,” Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” Swift and Post Malone’s “Fortnight,” Charli’s “360,” and Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!” Then there’s the category’s biggest surprise: The Beatles’ final song, “Now and Then,” which was released last year.

Many of these same tunes will compete for Song of the Year, including “Birds of a Feather,” “Fortnight,” “Texas Hold ‘Em,” “Not Like Us,” and “Good Luck, Babe!” That category will also boast Shaboozey’s crossover smash “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ collaboration “Die With a Smile,” and Carpenter’s other 2024 hit, “Please Please Please.”

And in Album of the Year, André 3000 scored a delightfully surprising nomination for his instrumental flute record, New Blue Sun. He’ll be up against Bey’s Cowboy Carter, Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet, Charli’s Brat, Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft, Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department, Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, and Jacob Collier’s Djesse Vol. 4.

Carpenter and Roan — easily the year’s biggest breakthrough stars — are also unsurprisingly leading the pack for Best New Artist. They’ll be up against Shaboozey, Benson Boone, Doechii, Raye, Teddy Swims, and Khruangbin.