Believe it or not, it’s that time of year again: the 2025 GRAMMY Nominations have been revealed.

After a year that saw a pop renaissance and continued dominance of women Across genres, the 2025 GRAMMY nominees followed suit. Beyonce is this year’s most nominated artist, with 11 additional artists her GRAMMY resume (more on that later). Pop’s newest reigning queens, Sabrina Timmerman And Chappell Roanfortified their thrones; they celebrate six nominations each and are the only two artists nominated Record of the year, Album of the year, Song of the yearAnd Best New Artist.

In fact, six of the top eight nominees are women. Female artists dominate both the Record Of The Year and Album Of The Year categories, as well as more than a dozen other categories: Best Pop Vocal Album, Best R&B Performance and Best Latin Pop Album.

But that’s just one exciting aspect of this year’s nominations. While you are in the full 2025 GRAMMY nominations listcheck out some of the most notable achievements and scoops from the 2025 GRAMMY nominations — and be sure to tune in to Music’s Biggest Night on Sunday February 2, 2025!

Beyoncé adds to her GRAMMY legacy

With eleven nominations, Beyoncé is not only the most nominated artist at the 2025 GRAMMYs, she is now also the most nominated artist in Grammy history. The 11 new nods bring her total to a whopping 99 nominations!

Queen Bey is already the artist with the most GRAMMY wins of all time with 32, a record she achieved on her album RENAISSANCE winning Best Dance/Electronic Music Album at the 2023 GRAMMYs.

Artists are nominated for the first time in fields/categories

In addition to a new GRAMMY record, Beyoncé is also adding a new GRAMMY Field to her repertoire. She received her first nominations in country and American roots music, as well as five more: Best Country Solo Performance (“16 CARRIAGES”), Best Country Duo/Group Performance (“II MOST WANTED” with Miley Cyrus), Best Country Song (“TEXAS HOLD ‘EM”), Best Country Album (COWBOY CARTER) and Best Americana Performance (“YA YA”).

PostMalone also earned the first Country & American Roots Music Field nominations of his career, earning awards for Best Country Duo/Group Performance and Best Country Song for his Morgan Wallen duet, “I Had Some Help,” and Best Country Album for F-1 trillion.

One of Malone’s many F-1 trillion staff, Luke Combsearned his first nomination in the Best Song Written For Visual Media category for its chart-topping success Twisters anthem “Ain’t No Love In Oklahoma.”

Meanwhile, R&B titans Alicia Keys And Johannes Legend both are also celebrating nominations in new categories. Keys has been nominated for the first time in the Best Musical Theater Album category (The kitchen of hell), and Legend received its first nods for Best Children’s Music Album (My favorite dream) and Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella (“Bridge Over Troubled Water” by Jacob Collier with Legend & Tori Kelly).

Charli xcx continues her brat summer

Pop’s old cool girl Charli xcx is also adding several new categories to her GRAMMY nomination list, but her reason for celebrating is a little bigger than that: these are her first nominations as a solo artist.

Charli xcx’s previous two GRAMMY nominations came in 2015 and were for her Iggy Azalea collaboration, “Fancy.” Perhaps to the surprise of fans, her own work had never received a nod – but brat that changed enormously.

Charli xcx, one of the most nominated artists with seven, earned her first nominations in Album of the Year (brat), Best Pop Solo Performance (“Apple”), Best Pop Dance Recording (“Von Dutch”), Best Dance/Electronic Album (brat) and the Best Music Video (“360”) categories. She’s also nominated in the same two categories that “Fancy” was in 10 years ago: Record Of The Year (“360”) and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance (“Guess” featuring Billie Eilish).

Album of the Year marks notable firsts

Three of Charli xcx’s colleagues Nominees for Album of the Year reaching milestones with their respective nominations. Taylor Swift received her seventh Album Of The Year nomination THE DEPARTMENT OF TORTURED POETSbecoming the first female artist to receive seven nominations in the category.

Billie Eilish scores her third Album Of The Year nomination in a row HIT ME HARD AND SOFTmaking her the first artist to have their first three albums nominated in the category.

Jack Antonoff also achieved back-to-back AOTY achievement, as it marks the second year in a row he has been nominated for his work with two separate artists in the category. His latest Album Of The Year nods go to Swift THE DEPARTMENT OF TORTURED POETS and Sabrina Carpenter’s Short and sweet. (Appropriately, Swift was also one of two artists last year, as Antonoff was nominated for AOTY for his work on Midnights as well as Lana Del Rey‘S Did you know there is a tunnel under Ocean Blvd.)

Veteran acts earn nods for the first time in a long time

Several artists and creators are celebrating their first GRAMMY nominations this year, including major stars like Sabrina Carpenter, DoechiiCarin Léon, Chappell Roan, Shaboozeyand Morgan Wallen. In addition, 32 of the first nominees have two or more nominations.

But while the Recording Academy is always excited to honor new nominees, you can return to GRAMMY.com in January for the annual Meet the first GRAMMY nominee series – one of the most interesting stories from the 2025 GRAMMYs concerns those who received nominations for the first time in more than a decade.

Perhaps the most unexpected names you see on the list the Beatles. The Fab Four are nominated for the first time in 28 years thanks to ‘Now And Then’ Paul McCartney has dubbed “the last Beatles record.” The song received critical acclaim for Record Of The Year and Best Rock Performance, bringing their career nominations to 25; prior to the 2025 GRAMMYs, the Beatles have won seven GRAMMYs.

The longest time between nominations this year goes to the Black Crowswho received a nod for the first time in 34 years Lucky bastardstheir first album in 14 years. They earned their first nomination for Best Rock Album, having only been nominated once before, for Best New Artist in 1991.

Interestingly, the Rock, Metal and Alternative Music field has produced a number of highly anticipated nominations for veteran acts. Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth scored the first nominations of her career with her second solo album, The Collectivewhich is nominated for Best Alternative Music Album, and its lead single “BYE BYE” is nominated for Best Alternative Music Performance.

Pearl Jam celebrated their first nominations since 2011 with their 12th studio album, Dark matterwhich received a nod for Best Rock Album, Best Rock Song and Best Rock Performance for the title track.

They’re in the company of their fellow ’90s punk rock gods Green daywho earned awards in all three categories thanks to their latest album, Saviors. On the occasion of Green Day’s first nominations since 2014, Saviors is nominated for Best Rock Album, while singles “The American Dream Is Killing Me” and “Dilemma” are nominated for Best Rock Performance and Best Rock Song, respectively.

Elsewhere, Guard earned his first nomination for his own work in 10 years with a nod for best R&B album Coming homeAnd Eminem earned his first award for Best Rap Album (a category he has won six times) in 10 years The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce).

Collaborations helped Erykah Badu, Michael McDonald And Monica also receiving their first nominations in more than a decade. Badu collaborates with Rhapsody“3:AM,” received a nod for Best Melodic Rap Performance, the singer’s first nomination in the category and first overall since 2009. McDonald earned his first nomination since 2004 thanks to his Lalah Hathaway duet, “No Lie”, nominated for Best Traditional R&B Performance.

Monica received her first nomination since 2011, which also came full circle. Her collaboration with Ariana Grande And Brandy“The Boy Is Mine,” received a nod for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance – 26 years after her duet with the eponymous Brandy won a GRAMMY for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.

Will legends go home with more golden gramophones? Will Beyoncé continue her victory lap? Will there be multiple first-time winners? Tune in CBS on February 5, 2025 to find out!