And the Grammy goes to…

We’ve officially gotten the winners for the 2025 Grammy Awards! And some I love, some I’ve never heard of (which is normal, okay) and the rest, I don’t necessarily agree with.

Either way, you might be wondering if your favourite artist won anything, so here are the nominees and winners for the Grammy’s this year:

 

The “Big Four” Awards  

Album of the Year 

• Winner: Beyoncé – Cowboy Carter  

• André 3000 – New Blue Sun  

• Sabrina Carpenter – Short n’ Sweet  

• Charli XCX – Brat  

• Jacob Collier – Djesse Vol 4  

• Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft  

• Chappell Roan – The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess  

• Taylor Swift – The Tortured Poets Department 

 

Record of the Year 

• Winner: Kendrick Lamar – Not Like Us  

• The Beatles – Now And Then  

• Beyoncé – Texas Hold ‘Em  

• Sabrina Carpenter – Espresso  

• Charli XCX – 360 

• Billie Eilish – Birds of a Feather 

• Chappell Roan – Good Luck, Babe!  

• Taylor Swift ft Post Malone – Fortnight  

 

Song of the Year 

• Winner: Kendrick Lamar – Not Like Us  

• Beyoncé – Texas Hold ‘Em  

• Sabrina Carpnter – Please Please Please  

• Billie Eilish – Birds Of A Feather  

• Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars – Die With a Smile  

• Chappel Roan – Good Luck, Babe!  

• Shaboozey – A Bar Song (Tipsy)  

• Taylor Swift ft Post Malone – Fortnight  

 

Best New Artist 

• Winner: Chappell Roan  

• Benson Boone  

• Sabrina Carpenter  

• Doechii  

• Khruangbin  

• Raye  

• Shaboozey  

• Teddy Swims 

 

 

Pop and Dance  

Best Pop Vocal Aalbum 

• Winner: Sabrina Carpenter – Short n’ Sweet  

• Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard And Soft  

• Ariana Grande – Eternal Sunshine  

• Chappell Roan – The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess  

• Taylor Swift – The Tortured Poets Department  

 

Best Pop Solo Performance 

• Winner: Sabrina Carpenter – Espresso  

• Beyoncé – Bodyguard  

• Charli XCX – Apple  

• Billie Eilish – Birds of a Feather  

• Chappell Roan – Good Luck, Babe! 

 

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance 

• Winner: Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars – Die With A Smile  

• Gracie Abrams ft Taylor Swift – Us  

• Beyoncé ft Post Malone – Levii’s Jeans  

• Charli XCX & Billie Eilish – Guess  

• Ariana Grande, Brandy & Monica – The Boy Is Mine  

 

Best Dance/Electronic Recording 

• Winner: Justice & Tame Impala – Neverender  

• Disclosure – She’s Gone, Dance On  

• Four Tet – Loved  

• Fred Again & Baby Keem – Leavemealone  

• Kaytranada ft Childish Gambino – Witchy  

 

Best Dance/Electronic Album 

• Winner: Charli XCX – Brat 

• Four Tet – Three  

• Justice – Hyperdrama  

• Kaytranada – Timeless  

• Zedd – Telos  

 

Best Dance/Pop Recording 

• Winner: Charli XCX – Von Dutch  

• Madison Beer – Make You Mine  

• Billie Eilish – L’Amour De Ma Vie [Over Now Extended Edit]  

• Ariana Grande – Yes, and?  

• Troye Sivan – Got Me Started  

 

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album 

• Winner: Norah Jones – Visions  

• Cyrille Aimée – À Fleur De Peau 

• Lake Street Dive – Good Together  

• Aaron Lazar – Impossible Dream  

• Gregory Porter – Christmas Wish  

 

Best Latin Pop Album 

• Winner: Shakira – Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran  

• Anitta – Funk Generation  

• Luis Fonsi – El Viaje  

• Kenny García – García  

• Kali Uchis – Orquídeas  

 

 

Rock and Metal  

Best Rock Performance 

• Winner: The Beatles – Now And Then  

• The Black Keys – Beautiful People (Stay High)  

• Green Day – The American Dream Is Killing Me  

• Idles – Gift Horse  

• Pearl Jam – Dark Matter 

• St. Vincent – Broken Man  

 

Best Rock Song 

• Winner: St Vincent – Broken Man  

• The Black Keys – Beautiful People (Stay High)  

• Pearl Jam – Dark Matter  

• Green Day – Dilemma  

• Idles – Gift Horse  

 

Best Rock Album 

• Winner: The Rolling Stones – Hackney Diamonds  

• The Black Crowes – Happiness B******s 

• Fontaines DC – Romance  

• Green Day – Saviors  

• Idles – TANGK  

• Pearl Jam – Dark Matter  

• Jack White – No Name  

 

Best Alternative Music Album 

• Winner: St Vincent – All Born Screaming  

• Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Wild God  

• Clairo – Charm  

• Kim Gordon – The Collective  

• Brittany Howard – What Now  

 

Best Alternative Music Performance 

• Winner: St Vincent – Flea  

• Cage The Elephant – Neon Pill  

• Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Song of the Lake 

• Fontaines D.C. – Starburster  

• Kim Gordon – Bye Bye  

 

Best Metal Performance 

• Winner: Gojira, Marina Viotti & Victor Le Masne – Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!)  

• Judas Priest – Crown of Horns  

• Knocked Loose Featuring Poppy – Suffocate  

• Metallica – Screaming Suicide  

• Spiritbox – Cellar Door 

 

 

Rap  

Best Rap Performance 

• Winner: Kendrick Lamar – Not Like Us  

• Cardi B – Enough (Miami)  

• Common & Pete Rock ft Posdnuos – When The Sun Shines Again  

• Doechii – Nissan Altima  

• Eminem – Houdini  

• Future, Metro Boomin & Kendrick Lamar – Like That  

• GloRilla – Yeah Glo!  

 

Best Melodic Rap Performance 

• Winner: Rapsody ft Erykah Badu – 3:AM  

• Jordan Adetunji ft Kehlani – Kehlani  

• Beyoncé ft Linda Martell & Shaboozey – Spaghettii  

• Future & Metro Boomin ft The Weeknd – We Still Don’t Trust You  

• Latto – Big Mama  

 

Best Rap Song 

• Winner: Kendrick Lamar – Not Like Us  

• Rapsody ft Hit-Boy – Asteroids  

• Kanye West & Ty Dolla $Ign – Carnival  

• Future & Metro Boomin ft Kendrick Lamar – Like That  

• GloRilla – Yeah Glo!  

 

Best Rap Album 

• Winner: Doechii – Alligator Bites Never Heal  

• J Cole – Might Delete Later  

• Common & Pete Rock – The Auditorium, Vol 1 

• Eminem – The Death Of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce)  

• Future & Metro Boomin – We Don’t Trust You 

 

 

Country  

Best Country Solo Performance 

• Winner: Chris Stapleton – It Takes A Woman  

• Beyoncé – 16 Carriages  

• Jelly Roll – I Am Not Okay  

• Kacey Musgraves – The Architect  

• Shaboozey – A Bar Song (Tipsy)  

 

Best Country Duo/Group Performance 

• Winner: Beyoncé ft Miley Cyrus – II Most Wanted  

• Kelsea Ballerini With Noah Kahan – Cowboys Cry Too  

• Brothers Osborne – Break Mine  

• Dan + Shay – Bigger Houses  

• Post Malone ft Morgan Wallen – I Had Some Help  

 

Best Country Song 

• Winner: Kacey Musgraves – The Architect  

• Shaboozey – A Bar Song (Tipsy)  

• Jelly Roll – I Am Not Okay  

• Post Malone ft Morgan Wallen – I Had Some Help  

• Beyoncé – Texas Hold ‘Em  

 

Best Country Album 

• Winner: Beyoncé – Cowboy Carter  

• Post Malone – F-1 Trillion  

• Kacey Musgraves – Deeper Well  

• Chris Stapleton – Higher  

• Lainey Wilson – Whirlwind  

 

 

R&B and Afrobeats  

Best R&B Performance 

• Winner: Muni Long – Made For Me (Live On BET)  

• Jhené Aiko – Guidance  

• Chris Brown – Residuals  

• Coco Jones – Here We Go (Uh Oh)  

• SZA – Saturn  

 

Best R&B Song 

• Winner: SZA – Saturn  

• Kehlani – After Hours  

• Tems – Burning  

• Coco Jones – Here We Go (Uh Oh)  

• Muni Long – Ruined Me  

 

Best Progressive R&B Album 

• Joint Winner: Avery*Sunshine – So Glad to Know You  

• Joint Winner: NxWorries (Anderson .Paak & Knxwledge) – Why Lawd?  

• Durand Bernarr – En Route  

• Childish Gambino – Bando Stone And The New World  

• Kehlani – Crash  

 

Best R&B Album 

• Winner: Chris Brown – 11:11 (Deluxe)  

• Lalah Hathaway – Vantablack  

• Muni Long – Revenge  

• Lucky Daye – Algorithm  

• Usher – Coming Home  

 

Best African Music Performance 

• Winner: Tems – Love Me JeJe  

• Yemi Alade – Tomorrow  

• Asake & Wizkid – MMS  

• Chris Brown ft Davido & Lojay – Sensational 

• Burna Boy – Higher  

 

 

Production and Songwriting  

Producer of the Year, Non-Classical 

• Winner: Daniel Nigro  

• Alissia  

• Dernst “D’Mile” Emile II  

• Ian Fitchuk  

• Mustard  

 

Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical 

• Winner: Amy Allen  

• Edgar Barrera  

• Jessi Alexander  

• Jessie Jo Dillon  

• Raye  

 

Film and TV Best Comedy Album 

• Winner: Dave Chappelle – The Dreamer  

• Ricky Gervais – Armageddon  

• Jim Gaffigan – The Prisoner  

• Nikki Glaser – Someday You’ll Die  

• Trevor Noah – Where Was I  

 

Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media 

• Winner: Maestro: Music By Leonard Bernstein – London Symphony Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Bradley Cooper  

• The Color Purple – Various Artists  

• Deadpool & Wolverine – Various Artists  

• Saltburn – Various Artists  

• Twisters: The Album – Various Artists  

 

Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media (Includes Film and Televison) 

• Winner: Hans Zimmer – Dune: Part Two  

• Laura Karpman – American Fiction  

• Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross – Challengers  

• Kris Bowers – The Color Purple  

• Nick Chuba, Atticus Ross & Leopold Ross – Shōgun  

 

Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media 

• Winner: Winifred Phillips – Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord  

• Pinar Toprak – Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora  

• Bear McCreary – God of War Ragnarök: Valhalla  

• John Paesano – Marvel’s Spider-Man 2  

• Wilbert Roget, II – Star Wars Outlaws 

 

Best Song Written for Visual Media 

• Winner: Jon Batiste – It Never Went Away (From American Symphony)  

• Luke Combs – Ain’t No Love In Oklahoma (From Twisters: The Album)  

• *NSYNC & Justin Timberlake – Better Place (From Trolls Band Together) 

• Olivia Rodrigo – Can’t Catch Me Now (From The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes)  

• Barbra Streisand – Love Will Survive (From The Tattooist of Auschwitz)  

 

Best Audio Book Narration 

• Winner: Jimmy Carter – Last Sunday in Plains: A Centennial Celebration 

• George Clinton – …And Your Ass Will Follow  

• Guy Oldfield – All You Need Is Love: The Beatles In Their Own Words  

• Dolly Parton – Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones  

• Barbra Streisand – My Name Is Barbra  

 

Best Music Video 

• Winner: Kendrick Lamar – Not Like Us  

• A$AP Rocky – Tailor Swif  

• Charli XCX – 360  

• Eminem – Houdini  

• Taylor Swift ft Post Malone – Fortnight  

 

Best Music Film 

• Winner: American Symphony  

• June  

• Kings From Queens  

• Stevie Van Zandt: Disciple  

• The Greatest Night In Pop  

 

 

Jazz And Classical  

Best Jazz Vocal Album 

• Winner: Samara Joy – A Joyful Holiday  

• Christie Dashiell – Journey In Black  

• Kurt Elling & Sullivan Fortner – Wildflowers Vol 1  

• Milton Nascimento & Esperanza Spalding – Milton + Esperanza  

• Catherine Russell & Sean Mason – My Ideal  

 

Best Jazz Instrumental Album 

• Winner: Chick Corea & Béla Fleck – Remembrance  

• Ambrose Akinmusire ft Bill Frisell & Herlin Riley – Owl Song  

• Kenny Barron ft Kiyoshi Kitagawa, Johnathan Blake, Immanuel Wilkins & Steve Nelson – Beyond This Place  

• Lakecia Benjamin – Phoenix Reimagined (Live)  

• Sullivan Fortner – Solo Game  

 

Best Alternative Jazz Album 

• Winner: Meshell Ndegeocello – No More Water: The Gospel Of James Baldwin  

• Arooj Aftab – Night Reign  

• André 3000 – New Blue Sun  

• Robert Glasper – Code Derivation  

• Keyon Harrold – Foreverland  

 

Best Jazz Performance 

• Winner: Samara Joy feat. Sullivan Fortner – Twinkle Twinkle Little Me  

• The Baylor Project – Walk With Me, Lord 

• Lakecia Benjamin feat. Randy Brecker, Jeff “Tain” Watts, & John Scofield – Phoenix Reimagined (Live)  

• Chick Corea & Béla Fleck –Juno  

• Dan Pugach Big Band feat. Nicole Zuraitis & Troy Roberts – Little Fears  

 

Best Musical Theatre Album 

• Winner: Hell’s Kitchen  

• Merrily We Roll Along  

• The Notebook 

• The Outsiders  

• Suffs  

• The Wiz  

 

Best Opera Recording 

• Winner: Saariaho: Adriana Mater – Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor (San Francisco Symphony; San Francisco Symphony Chorus; Timo Kurkikangas)  

• Adams: Girls Of The Golden West – John Adams, conductor (Los Angeles Philharmonic; Los Angeles Master Chorale)  

• Catán: Florencia En El Amazonas – Yannick Nézet-Séguin (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus)  

• Moravec: The Shining – Gerard Schwarz, conductor (Kansas City Symphony; Lyric Opera Of Kansas City Chorus)  

• Puts: The Hours – Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor (Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; Metropolitan Opera Chorus)  

 

Best Orchestral Performance 

• Winner: Ortiz: Revolución Diamantina – Gustavo Dudamel, conductor (Los Angeles Philharmonic)  

• John Adams: City Noir – Fearful Symmetries & Lola Montez Does The Spider Dance – Marin Alsop, conductor (ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra)  

• Kodály: Háry János Suite; Summer Evening & Symphony In C Major – JoAnn Falletta, conductor (Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra) 

•  Sibelius: Karelia Suite, Rakastava, & Lemminkäinen – Susanna Mälkki, conductor (Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra)  

• Stravinsky: The Firebird – Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor (San Francisco Symphony)