Welcome to the land of Beyoncé. When it comes to the 2025 Grammy nominations, “Cowboy Carter” leads the nation. She leads the nominations with 11, bringing her career total to 99 nominations. This makes her the most nominated artist in Grammy history.

“Cowboy Carter” is up for album and country album of the year, and “Texas Hold ‘Em” is nominated for record, song and country song of the year. She has also received nominations across a wide range of genres, including the pop, country, Americana, and melodic rap performance categories.

This is the first time she has received nominations in the country and Americana categories.

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If Beyoncé wins album of the year, she will become the first black woman to win album of the year in the 21st century. Lauryn Hill last won in 1999 for “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill,” joining Natalie Cole and Whitney Houston as the only black women to win the Grammys’ top prize.

Post Malone also received his first-ever nominations in the country categories this year, after releasing his debut country album “F-1 Trillion” in August. This one is in the running for country album and “I Had Some Help,” his collaboration with Morgan Wallen. , is nominated for Country Song and Country Duo/Group Performance. These are Wallen’s first-ever Grammy nominations.

Malone is just behind Beyoncé, with seven nominations, tied with Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar and Charli XCX, who earned her first nominations as a solo artist.

Lamar’s ubiquitous diss track released during his feud with Drake, “Not Like Us,” is nominated for record and song of the year, rap song, music video as well as best rap performance. He has two simultaneous entries in the latter category, a career first: Future & Metro Boomin featuring Lamar, “Like That” is up for Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song.

This is the third time he has received two simultaneous nominations for Best Rap Song.

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

Last year, female artists dominated the major categories. This year that continues somewhat, but the main trend seems to be gender diversity. In the album of the year category, alongside “Cowboy Carter”, we find the new age of André 3000, the alt-jazz “New Blue Sun” and “Djesse Vol. 4.” Rising pop stars Carpenter and Roan round out the package, with “Short n’ Sweet” and “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess,” respectively, as well as Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Department,” “Hit Me Hard and Soft” by Eilish. and Charli XCX’s “BRAT,” ready to rave.

Eilish is the only artist whose first three albums were nominated for album of the year.

Last year, Swift won album of the year for “Midnights,” breaking the record for most wins in the category with four. This year, she becomes the first woman to earn seven career nominations in this category.

“The breadth and variety of genres represented in the general field feels new and really exciting,” says Harvey Mason jr, CEO and president of the Recording Academy. He attributes his success to an active and evolving electorate. “We’ve been very intentional in how we’ve looked at and tried to rebalance our membership. So not just gender or people of color, different racial makeup, but also gender equity and trying to make sure that all different types of music in different regions and different places are represented in every way possible.

Only recordings released in the United States between September 16, 2023 and August 30, 2024 were eligible for nominations. The final round of Grammy voting, which determines the winners, will take place from December 12 to January 3.

In the Best New Artist category, Carpenter and Roan will compete, alongside Benson Boone, Doechii, Khruangbin, RAYE, Shaboozey and Teddy Swims.

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

Shaboozey is also nominated for the first time. Her “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” is the biggest song of the year, having spent more weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 than any other – it’s so popular that a remix of the track is also in the works for a remixed recording. .

Elsewhere, Shaboozey is nominated in the melodic rap performance category for his feature on Beyoncé’s “SPAGHETTII.” Linda Martell, country’s first commercially successful black female musician, is also featured on the song, giving the 83-year-old artist her first Grammy nomination.

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

“We’re trying to make sure we’re keeping up with how music creators and our community are using technology. And in this case, the AI ​​improved the record and allowed him to be eligible in the categories that he was eligible in,” Mason Jr. explains.

So what’s missing? Like last year, there’s a huge shortage of Latin music — the fastest-growing streaming genre in the U.S. — across the board, and no representation in major categories. There are also only four entries in the Best Mexican Music Album category, although it is also one of the fastest growing genres.

And K-pop also seems absent. There are no nominations for BTS members who released solo material this year: RM’s “Right Place, Wrong Person,” “Hope on the Street, Vol. 1” and “Muse” by Jimin. As a boy band, BTS has received five nominations during their career.

“I definitely see room for improvement in many genres and we continue to invite people to be part of the academy,” Mason Jr. said. said. “Without good representation, we don’t get the right results. When I say good, I mean thoughtful and representative of what’s happening in music today. So the work continues. »

The 2025 Grammy Awards will air on February 2 live on CBS and Paramount+ from the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.