The 67th Annual Grammy Awards nominations are here. The Recording Academy announced the nominees Friday morning via a YouTube livestream, and the final round of voting will take place from Dec. 12 through Jan. 3, 2025.
Beyoncé is the most awarded artist this year with 11 nominations, bringing her to an unprecedented career total of 99. “COWBOY CARTER” is the most diverse release of the year in terms of nomination categories, with Beyoncé garnering four nominees in the country category (Best Country Solo Performance, Best Country Duo/Group Performance, Best Country Song, Best Country Album), three in the general category (Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year), two in pop (Best Pop Solo Performance, Best Pop Duo/Group Performance), one in rap (Best Melodic Rap Performance) and one in Americana (Best Americana Performance).
This year marks the first nomination for Charli xcx as a solo artist, securing the second-most nominations of the year with the release of “BRAT.” The Essex diva is nominated for Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Best Dance Pop Recording, Best Dance/Electronic Music Album, Best Remixed Recording, Best Music Video (which features University alum Alex Consani), Best Recording Package and Best Pop Solo Performance. She is also nominated for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for her remix of “Guess” with Billie Eilish.
In addition to her nomination with Charli, Eilish has been nominated for seven Grammys for her latest release, “HIT ME HARD AND SOFT.” These nominations bring her career total to 32 at just 22 years old.
Kendrick Lamar is up for seven Grammys this year, earning two nominees in both the Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song categories for his feature on Future and Metro Boomin’s “Like That” and his Drake-diss track “Not Like Us.” The latter also earned Lamar nominations for Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Music Video. “Not Like Us” producer Mustard earned the second nominee of his career for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical.
First-time nominees this year include Chappell Roan, Sabrina Carpenter and Doechii, who are all up for Best New Artist. Roan is nominated for six, and her summer hit, “Good Luck, Babe!” received nominations for Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance. Carpenter is up for eight awards, with four in the general categories, two in pop and two in the technical categories with Best Remixed Recording and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. Doechii is nominated for Best Rap Performance and Best Remixed Recording for Kaytranada’s remix of her song with City Girls’ JT, “Alter Ego.” The Florida rapper’s debut album, “Alligator Bites Never Heal,” is also up for Best Rap Album, making Doechii the only female nominated within this category.
Other first-time nominees include Addison Rae for Best Remixed Recording as a feature on Charli xcx’s “Von Dutch A. G. Cook Remix” and Clairo for Best Alternative Music Album with her latest release, “Charm.” Waxahatchee’s “Tigers Blood” is up for Best Americana Album and hardcore band Knocked Loose is nominated for Best Metal Performance. Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon has been nominated for two Grammys, Best Alternative Music Performance and Best Alternative Music Album, making her the first member of the trailblazing rock band to receive a nomination in their career.
Last year’s biggest winners, Taylor Swift and SZA, are again nominated this year. SZA’s February release, “Saturn,” is nominated for Best R&B Performance and Best R&B Song. Swift, who released “The Tortured Poets Department” earlier this year, has been nominated for six Grammys, including Best Pop Duo/Group Performance as a feature on a Gracie Abrams track.
Post Malone has been nominated for eight Grammys, four of which are for his collaboration with Swift on the song “Fortnight.” The rapper-turned-country artist received four additional nominees for his new music venture, including Best Country Duo/Group Performance, Best Country Song and Best Country Album.
For the first time since 1996, The Beatles are nominated for a Grammy. Their song “Now and Then,” unearthed in 2022 and released in late 2023, is up for Record of the Year and Best Rock Performance. John Lennon is also nominated for a posthumous Grammy, with the reissue of his 1973 album “Mind Games” being nominated for Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package.
André 3000 is nominated for the first time not as a feature since 2007. The former Outkast member is nominated for Album of the Year and Best Alternative Jazz Album for his 2023 instrumental release “New Blue Sun” and Best Instrumental Composition for the song “I Swear, I Really Wanted to Make a ‘Rap’ Album but This Is Literally the Way the Wind Blew Me This Time.” In an interview with The New York Times, the musician stated the nominations were “super duper cool.”
The 67th Grammy Awards will air on CBS and Paramount+ on Feb. 2, 2025. A complete list of nominations can be found here.
