“Cowboy Carter” is nominated for Album of the Year and Country Album, and “Texas Hold ‘Em” is nominated for Record, Song of the Year and Country Song of the Year. He also received nominations in several genres, including pop, country, Americana and melodic rap performance categories.

This marks his first time receiving nominations in the Country and Americana categories. Previously, she and her husband Jay-Z were tied for 88th in terms of most career nominations.

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

After releasing his debut country album “F-1 Trillion” in August, Post Malone received his first nomination in the country categories this year. This is for a country album and “I Had Some Help”, her collaboration with Morgan Wallen. , Country Song and Country Duo/Group Performance, marking Wallen’s first Grammy nominations.

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

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

This marks the third time he has received two nominations for Best Rap Song simultaneously.

Taylor Swift and first-time nominees Sabrina Carpenter and Chappelle Rhone have received six nominations each.

Female artists dominated the major categories last year. This year, this continues to some extent, but the main trend seems to be variation in style. In the Album of the Year category, there’s Andre 3000’s New Age with “Cowboy Carter,” the alt-jazz “New Blue Sun” and multi-instrumentalist Jacob Collier’s “Jesse Vol.” 4.” Rising pop stars Carpenter and Roan performed “Short N’ Sweet” and “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess”, respectively, along with Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Department”, Eilish’s “Hit Me Hard and Soft”. Work done. and Charli XCX’s rousing “BRAT.”

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 wins. This year, she became the first woman to receive seven career nominations in this category.

“The breadth and diversity of genres presented in the general area feels new and really exciting,” says Harvey Mason Jr., CEO and president of the Recording Academy. He credits an active and developed voting body for its success. “We have been very deliberate in the way we have looked at and tried to rebalance our membership. So not only people of gender or color, different racial makeups, but also genre equality and trying to make sure that all different types of music in different regions and different places are represented in every possible way. Used to be.

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

In the Best New Artist category, Carpenter and Roan will go head-to-head with Benson Boon, Doechi, Khruangbin, Raye, Shaboozy and Teddy Swims.

In the Song of the Year category, Eilish with Beyoncé with “Birds of a Feather,” Swift and Post Malone with “Fortnite,” Roan with “Good Luck, Babe!”, Carpenter with “Please Please Please,” Lamar with “Not Like ” Are included. Us,” Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die with a Smile,” and Shaboozie’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy).”

Shaboozi is also a first-time nominee. Their “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” is the biggest song of the year, spending more weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 than any other – it’s so popular, a remix of the track is even set for a remix recording. Is. ,

Elsewhere, Shaboozy is nominated in the Melodic Rap Performance category for his feature on Beyoncé’s “Spaghetti”. The song also features Linda Martel, the country’s first commercially successful black female musician, earning the 83-year-old artist her first Grammy nomination.

For record of the year, “Texas Hold ‘Em” was defeated by Swift and Post Malone’s “Fortnite”, Eilish’s “Birds of a Father”, Lamar’s “Not Like Us”, Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!”, Carpenter’s Will compete with “espresso”. ,” Charli XCX’s “360” and the Beatles’ last new song, the AI-assisted “Now and Then.”

“We’re trying to make sure that we’re paying attention to how music creators and our community are using technology. And in this case, the AI ​​enhanced the record and allowed it to be eligible in the categories it was eligible in,” Mason Jr. explains.

Dolly Parton scored the 55th nomination of her career in the audio book, narration and storytelling recording category for her “Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones,” news the Associated Press reported Friday morning about the country music legend. “No! What was I nominated for?” He enthused over the phone. “Oh, okay, that’s great. I thought it would be for my rock album, I’ll take it.

“It feels good. I always appreciate everything. I don’t work for him, but it’s always nice to say, ‘You did a good job,’ and it’s nice for someone to acknowledge that. So, I’m always proud of every award I get and every mention I get, it makes me feel like I’m doing the right thing.’

She faces competition from producer Guy Oldfield, George Clinton, Barbra Streisand and Jimmy Carter, who at age 100 could become the oldest Grammy Award winner in history.

So, what’s missing? Like last year, Latin music – the fastest-growing streaming genre in the United States – is sorely lacking across the board, and has no representation in the major categories. The Best Musica Mexicana Album category also has only four entries, despite it being 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,” J-Hope’s “Hope on the Street, Vol. 1,” and Jimin’s “Muse.” As a boy band, BTS has received five nominations in their career.

Mason Jr. said, “I definitely see room for improvement in many styles and we’re continuing to invite people to be a part of the academy.” They say. “Without right representation we don’t get the right results. When I say accurate, I mean reflective and representative of what’s happening in music today. So, the work continues.”

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