Beyoncé Becomes Most Nominated Artist Ever: NPR

Beyoncé, seen here accepting the award for Best Dance/Electronic Music Album for Renaissance at the 65th Grammy Awards in 2023, is nominated for 11 awards at the 2025 Grammys.

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Already the most awarded artist in Grammy history, Beyoncé leads the field of artists nominated for the 67th Grammy Awards with 11 nominations. She secured nominations in three of the night’s four general categories, including album of the year for her critically acclaimed album COWBOY CARTERas well as song of the year and record of the year for “TEXAS HOLD ‘EM.”

In addition to Beyoncé, artists who have been beloved by the Recording Academy, the group of musicians and music industry figures who vote on and present the Grammys, have also won nominations. Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish, who have dominated the album, record and song of the year categories for the past five years, will each compete in all three categories again.

2024 has also been a stacked year for breakout stars, with several of them including Sabrina Carpenter, Chappell Roan and Charli xcx earning multiple nominations. Carpenter and Roan are the only artists nominated in all four of the “general field” categories, which also include Best New Artist.

Beyonce’s Rodeo

With this year’s 11 nods, Beyonce is now the most nominated artist in Grammy history with 99 total career nominations. In addition to her nominations in album, song and record of the year – categories in which she has been notoriously beaten on several occasions – Beyoncé picked up nominations in a wide range of genre categories, including pop, Americana, country and melodic rap. Although the artist had previously claimed, “This is not a country album. This is a ‘Beyoncé’ album,” COWBOY CARTER definitely pops up in the Best Country Album category, sandwiched between more anticipated albums by mainstays Kacey Musgraves, Chris Stapleton, Lainey Wilson and rap-rocker-turned-country Post Malone.

Speaking of Posty, he’s tied with Charli xcx, Billie Eilish and Kendrick Lamar with seven nominations each heading into the ceremony, which takes place on Sunday, February 2, 2025. As a sought-after big-name performer this year, Post credits and featured performance on the Taylor Swift track “Fortnight” earned him nominations for Song of the Year and Record of the Year. For his work on COWBOY CARTER track, “LEVII’S JEANS,” the Syracuse-born collaborator earns a Best Pop Duo/Group Performance nomination, a category he’ll be competing against himself in thanks to his own track, “I Had Some Help” with Morgan Wallen. The drinking buddy break-up jaunt – one of the biggest hits of the year – is also up for best country song.

On the subject of sizzling country tracks, Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” is the titleholder in the race for the longest-running No. 1 song of 2024 to date, ready for song of the year. The singer-rapper himself, who also lent his talents to two more songs COWBOY CARTER, joins Carpenter and Roan in the Best New Artist category along with Benson Boone, Doechii, Khruangbin, RAYE and Teddy Swims.

10,000 hours of artists

Two names who enjoyed flashbang success in 2024 after long careers are set to get their moments in the spotlight heading into February’s ceremony. Sabrina Carpenter’s “Please Please Please” is nominated for song of the year, while the frothy “Espresso” is up for record of the year. Chappell Roan’s festival-dominating queer anthem, “Good Luck, Babe!,” is nominated in both the song and record of the year categories. Every Woman’s Full Length Album, Short N’ Sweet and The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, will compete for album of the year.

Aside from the sweet and the sapphic, there was one woman who ruled the summer of 2024 and could take that reign into next spring. More than a decade into her career, Charli xcx has earned her first Grammy nominations as a solo artist. The English electropop phenomenon ABRUPT is nominated for both Album of the Year and Best Dance/Electronic Album with several singles from the album earning nominations: “Guess” featuring Billie Eilish is up for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance, “Apple” for Best Pop Solo Performance, “Von Dutch” for Best Pop Dance -recording and “360” for Best Music Video.

Familiar names in new territory

Despite not dropping an album this year, Kendrick Lamar made enough noise to alert the Recording Academy when he and Drake engaged in a ruthless rap battle earlier this summer. Compton MC’s “Not Like Us”, the effective kill shot that ended the pair’s tête-à-tête, is nominated for record of the year, song of the year and finally best rap performance, a category in which the rapper appears twice thanks to his feature on the track “Like That” featuring Future and Metro Boomin. The last time a rap diss track was nominated was in 2016, when Drake’s diss to Meek Mill, “Back to Back” secured a Best Rap Performance nomination, ultimately losing that year to Kendrick Lamar’s “Alright.”

Alicia Keys is no stranger to the Grammys stage, but this year the 16-time winner is nominated in the Best Musical Theater Album category for the first time for her semi-autobiographical Broadway musical, Hell’s Kitchen. Meanwhile, Florida-bred rap protégé Doechii is the only MC up for Best New Artist this year (backed by her single “Nissan Altima,” which secures a nomination for Best Rap Performance), and British R&B jazz maestro RAYE is the first artist ever to be nominated for Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical and Best New Artist at the same time.

Surprises and Snubs

With more than three decades in music production, André 3000 dropped his debut solo album last year, the experimental jazz joint New blue sun. Now ATLien’s foray into ambient flute training has resulted in a nomination for album of the year. Although this is his first solo work to be nominated, André collected two Gramophones last year for his feature on Killer Mike’s song, “Scientists & Engineers,” which was awarded for Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song. He has a total of nine career wins at the Grammys. The famous rapper/flutist will also compete for Best Alternative Jazz Album alongside Arooj Aftabs Night ReignRobert Glaspers Code derivationKeyon Harrold’s Foreverland and Meshell Ndegeocello’s No More Water: The Gospel Of James Baldwin.

As for omissions, not all are created equal. Vampire Weekend received critical acclaim for their 2024 album Only God was above us, but was completely shut out of rock and alternative categories. Three-time Grammy winner Dua Lipa received no nominations for her latest dance-pop album, Radical optimism. Despite African artists Ayrra Starr, Tyla and Rema making waves in the global market this year, none are represented in this year’s categories. In the hip-hop world, 21 Savage’s American dream is not at any prices despite critical acclaim. Meanwhile, Q4 heaters like Tyler, The Creator’s Chromacopy and GloRilla’s Lovely are vacant from the rap categories because they were released after the qualifying window for next year’s awards (although Glo’s confidence booster, “Yeah Glo!” did make it to the top rap performance category). The cut-off date for publication of work eligible for this year’s Grammy Awards was August 30, 2024.