Beyoncé leads the 2025 Grammy noms, becoming the most nominated artist in the show’s history

NEW YORK (AP) — Welcome toBeyoncé country. When it comes to nan 2025 Grammy Award nominations, “Cowboy Carter” rules nan nation. She leads nan nods pinch 11, bringing her profession full to 99 nominations. That makes her nan astir nominated creator successful Grammy history.

“Cowboy Carter” is up for medium and state medium of nan year, and “Texas Hold ’Em” is nominated for record, opus and state opus of nan year. She besides received nominations successful a wide swath of genres, including pop, country, Americana and melodic rap capacity categories.

This is her first clip receiving nominations successful nan country and Americana categories. Previously, she and her hubby Jay-Z were tied for most-career nominations, astatine 88.

If Beyoncé wins nan medium of nan year, she’ll go nan first Black female to do truthful successful nan 21st century. Lauryn Hill past won successful 1999 for “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill,” joining Natalie Cole and Whitney Houston arsenic nan only Black women to return location nan Grammys’ apical prize.

Post Malone besides received his first ever nominations successful nan state categories this year, having released his debut state medium “F-1 Trillion” successful August. That 1 is up for state medium and “I Had Some Help,” his collaboration pinch Morgan Wallen, is nominated for state opus and state duo/group performance. They are Wallen’s first ever Grammy nominations.

Malone is conscionable down Beyoncé, pinch 7 nominations, tied pinch Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar and Charli XCX, who earned her first nominations arsenic a solo artist.

Lamar’s ubiquitous diss track released during his feud pinch Drake, “Not Like Us,” is nominated for grounds and opus of nan year, rap song, euphony video arsenic good arsenic champion rap performance. He has 2 simultaneous entries successful nan second category, a profession first: Future & Metro Boomin featuring Lamar, “Like That” is up for champion rap capacity and champion rap song.

This is his 3rd clip receiving 2 simultaneous nominations for champion rap song.

Taylor Swift and first-time nominees Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan boast of six nominations each.

Last year, women artists dominated nan awesome categories. This year, that continues somewhat, but nan main inclination seems to beryllium a variance of genre. In nan medium of nan twelvemonth category, alongside “Cowboy Carter” is André 3000’s caller age, alt-jazz “New Blue Sun” and multi-instrumentalist Jacob Collier’s “Djesse Vol. 4.” Rising popular stars Carpenter and Roan information it out, pinch “Short n’ Sweet” and “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess” respectively, arsenic good arsenic Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Department,” Eilish’s “Hit Me Hard and Soft,” and Charli XCX’s rave-ready “BRAT.”

Eilish is nan only creator to person her first 3 albums go nominated for medium of nan year.

Last year, Swift won medium of nan year for “Midnights,” breaking nan grounds for astir wins successful nan class pinch four. This year, she becomes nan first ever female to 7 profession nominations successful nan category.

“The breadth and nan assortment of genres represented successful nan wide section feels caller and really exciting,” says nan Recording Academy CEO and President Harvey Mason jr. He credits an progressive and evolving voting body for its success. “We’ve been very intentional successful really we looked astatine and tried to rebalance our membership. So not conscionable gender aliases group of color, different group makeup, but besides genre equity and trying to make judge that each different types of euphony successful different regions and different locations are being represented successful each measurement possible.”

Only recordings commercially released successful nan U.S. betwixt Sept. 16, 2023 done Aug. 30, 2024 were eligible for nominations. The last information of Grammy voting, which determines its winners, will return spot Dec. 12 done January 3.

In nan champion caller creator category, Carpenter and Roan will spell head-to-head, alongside Benson Boone, Doechii, Khruangbin, RAYE, Shaboozey and Teddy Swims.

In nan opus of nan twelvemonth category, Beyoncé is joined by Eilish pinch “Birds of a Feather,” Swift and Post Malone pinch “Fortnight,” Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!”, Carpenter’s “Please Please Please,” Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With A Smile,” and Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy).”

Shaboozey is besides a first-time nominee. His “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” is nan biggest opus of nan year, having spent much weeks astatine No. 1 connected nan Billboard Hot 100 than immoderate different — it is truthful popular, a remix of nan way is besides up for remixed recording.

Elsewhere, Shaboozey is nominated successful nan melodic rap capacity class for his characteristic connected Beyoncé’s “SPAGHETTII.” Linda Martell, nan first commercially-successful Black female musician successful country, is besides featured connected nan song, delivering nan 83-year-old creator her first Grammy nomination.

For grounds of nan year, “Texas Hold ’Em” will compete against Swift and Post Malone’s “Fortnight,” Eilish’s “Birds of a Father,” Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!”, Carpenter’s “Espresso,” Charli XCX’s “360,” and nan Beatles past caller song, the AI-assisted “Now and Then.”

“We’re trying to make judge we’re keeping up pinch really euphony creators and our organization are utilizing technology. And successful this case, AI enhanced nan grounds and allowed it to beryllium eligible successful nan categories that it was eligible in,” Mason jr explains.

So, what’s missing? Like past year, there’s a immense dearth of Latin euphony — nan fastest increasing streaming genre successful nan United States — crossed nan board, and nary practice successful nan awesome categories. There are besides only 4 entries successful nan champion Música Mexicana medium category, contempt it besides being 1 of the fastest increasing genres.

And K-pop, too, seems to beryllium absent. There are nary nominations for nan BTS members who’ve released solo worldly this year: RM’s “Right Place, Wrong Person,” J-Hope’s “Hope connected nan Street, Vol. 1,” and Jimin’s “Muse.” As a boy band, BTS has received 5 nominations crossed their career.

“I decidedly spot room for betterment crossed galore genres and we are continuing to induce group to beryllium a portion of nan academy,” Mason jr. says. “Without nan correct practice we don’t get nan correct results. When I opportunity right, I mean reflective and typical of what’s happening successful euphony today. So, nan activity continues.”

The 2025 Grammy Awards will aerial Feb. 2 unrecorded connected CBS and Paramount+ from nan Crypto.com Arena successful Los Angeles.