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End up that espresso, seize your pink cowboy hat and buckle up for what’s shaping as much as be women evening on the 2025 Grammy Awards.
Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Billie Eilish, Ariana Grande, Sabrina Carpenter, Charli XCX and Chappell Roan are behind a few of this yr’s biggest chart-topping albums, so it’s potential some or all of those girls will probably be named in a number of classes on Friday when the Recording Academy publicizes the nominations.
Extra girls have been represented within the album of the yr class because it was expanded in 2019, going from 5 nominees to eight or extra. Feminine artists have earned 50% of the nominations or extra in that class since then, peaking final yr when seven of the eight nominees have been girls. Jon Batiste was the only male nominee in that class.
Billboard’s Awards Editor Paul Grein advised CNN that as a result of “girls have dominated pop music in the previous couple of years,” he anticipates this yr’s crop of nominees for album of the yr to match final yr’s, “which is outstanding.”
Eilish, Swift and Beyoncé have emerged because the “frontrunners” to steer the class, mentioned Grein.
Beyoncé stands to earn her fifth album of the yr nod for “Cowboy Carter.” Grein believes she might maintain the sting over the others contemplating she’s by no means received within the class.
Her husband Jay-Z, reminded Grammy voters of this perceived oversight throughout final yr’s ceremony. His remarks, Grein mentioned, “should be bearing on individuals’s minds as they vote.”
Swift, who received album of the yr for “Midnights” final yr, is tied with Barbra Streisand for essentially the most all-time nominations by a feminine artist within the album of the yr class, with six nominations whole. Ought to she earn a seventh for “The Tortured Poet’s Department,” she’ll break her personal report.
Nonetheless it pans out, there’s seemingly nothing however respect between Beyoncé and Swift, who confirmed mutual help by showing up to one another’s live performance movie premieres, dispelling speculation there’s any “dangerous blood” after final yr’s AOTY face-off.
“Girls do this greater than males do, cheer one another on and appear to have one another’s backs,” mentioned Grein, who joked that now “we’ve got Kendrick (Lamar) and Drake going at each other” as a substitute.
However the race for album of the yr is only one a part of what might make the 2025 Grammy Awards particular. Right here’s what else it is best to know.
Charli XCX, Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter have all been cranking out hits for years. However this previous yr, all three artists have damaged by to turn out to be mega mainstream artists, which is able to undoubtedly be illustrated by this yr’s Grammy nods.
Roan and Carpenter might be acknowledged within the “large 4” classes – album of the yr, tune of the yr, report of the yr and finest new artist – the latter holding the potential to be “some of the suspenseful races on Grammy evening,” predicts Grein.
Charli XCX might very properly earn nods within the tune, album and report of the yr classes following the success of her album “Brat,” however she didn’t submit herself to be acknowledged in one of the best new artist class. Ought to she earn a nod on Friday, it’ll be the primary time she’ll have performed so since 2015 when she was acknowledged for her hit tune “Fancy.”
“Cowboy Carter,” as Beyonce mentioned herself, “ain’t a Nation album.” So regardless that its total visuals lean into cowboy-core, sonically this album presents songs within the model of pop, nation, rap and americana. Beyonce’s camp submitted the album and numerous tracks for consideration in classes recognizing all 4 of these genres, so don’t be shocked to see her earn genre-spanning nominations on Friday.
Different artists like Sabrina Carpenter and Megan Thee Stallion, a pop star and rapper, respectively, have adopted swimsuit by submitting songs in classes recognizing music outdoors of the style they’re recognized for. Carpenter might be acknowledged in some nation music classes for her tune “Slim Pickens” and Megan Thee Stallion might earn a nod in a rock class for “Cobra (Rock Remix),” a tune she collaborated on with metallic band Spiritbox.
Think about being Drake on Grammy nomination day and discovering out that Kendrick Lamar’s diss observe “Not Like Us,” of which he’s the topic, earned a nomination. Sorry to say, Drake, however that’s most likely what’ll occur.
The tune, which was written and launched throughout Lamar and Drake’s extremely publicized rap feud final spring, has turn out to be wildly in style and spent two weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Sizzling 100. In what turned a critical sport of lyrical chess, it looks like Lamar is well-positioned to say “checkmate” to Drake on Friday.
Celine Dion’s candid documentary “I Am Celine Dion,” which chronicles her return to music and her wrestle residing with stiff individual syndrome, is prone to be among the many nominees in one of the best music movie class. It could be her first Grammy nomination since 2001.
Recording Academy darling Jon Batiste’s “American Symphony” is one other robust contender to earn a nod on this class, alongside the Beatles “Now and Then” brief movie, Willie Nelson’s “Willie Nelson & Household” docuseries and, after all, Taylor Swift’s “Eras Tour Live performance Movie,” amongst others.
Dion’s nomination for the documentary, which left viewers with questions on whether or not the singer would ever return to the stage, could be particularly significant on the heels of her superb return to the stage for her efficiency of “Hymne A L’Amour” on the 2024 Paris Olympics.
For the primary time ever of their decades-long profession as prolific rock ‘n’ roll teams, the Rolling Stones and the Beatles might earn nominations in the identical class. The Beatles submitted “Now and Then” and the Stones submitted “Sounds of Heaven” (that includes Woman Gaga) in one of the best rock efficiency class, for which they’ll each possible be nominated.
It’s humorous to consider this potential first time matchup contemplating how influential and essential each bands are however the Grammys have been simply sluggish to contemplate rock ‘n’ roll total. The Stones didn’t earn their first nomination till 1978 when “Some Women” was acknowledged for album of the yr and the Beatles have solely ever received seven profession trophies.
Post Malone has by no means received a Grammy. However with three main collaborations with artists together with Taylor Swift, Beyonce and Morgan Wallen, along with releasing his sixth album “F-1 Trillion,” which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, he’s on observe to, on the very least, earn a number of nominations on Friday.
Maybe this’ll be his yr to win. Malone’s collaboration with Swift on “Fortnight” achieved important industrial success on the charts this yr and his collaboration with Beyonce “Levii’s Denims” was among the many album’s hottest tracks.
The Grammy nominations will probably be introduced dwell on Friday at 10:45 a.m. EDT/7:45 a.m. PDT on the Recording Academy’s YouTube web page.