2025 GRAMMY Awards nominations have been announced, with artists like Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, and even The Beatles breaking records, while other talents have been noticeably left out.
The 67th GRAMMY® Awards or 2025 GRAMMY Awards, one of the world’s biggest music awards, is just around the corner (February 2, 2024, to be exact), and the The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Inc. has released its full list of nominated artists. The nominees are composed of both longtime superstars like Taylor Swift and Beyoncé, as well as rising music mavens like Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan, forming a lineup of songs, albums, and talents that made 2024 a truly spectacular year in music.
Yet there are also some glaring snubs in the 2025 awards, many of whom have clearly taken the world by storm but remain left out of the impressive list. Without further ado, here is a recap of some record-breaking highlights and misses from the 2025 GRAMMY Awards nominations.
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First A.I.-Assisted Song To Earn A GRAMMY Nomination
Back in June 2023, Sir Paul McCartney of the legendary music group The Beatles revealed a new project that would “extricate” John Lennon’s voice from an old demo recording that was never released. Entitled “Now And Then,” the track was completed through the assistance of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) technology, which helped fill in the blanks and create a whole piece with whatever Lennon had left McCartney in their recording.
The track was released on November 2, 2023, and today it has set a new record as the first A.I.-assisted song to earn a Grammy nomination under the “Record Of The Year” category. It joins other major hits from pop’s current superstars, including “TEXAS HOLD ‘EM” by Beyoncé, “Espresso” by Sabrina Carpenter, “360” by Charli XCX, “BIRDS OF A FEATHER” by Billie Eilish, “Not Like Us” by Kendrick Lamar, “Good Luck, Babe!” by Chappell Roan, and “Fortnight” by Taylor Swift (ft. Post Malone).
Who Run The World? Girls.
The women of the music industry continue to dominate the GRAMMY categories and break existing records (some of which they set themselves in previous editions of the awards).
Beyoncé, for instance, set out to create a country-pop album that would shatter stereotypes and expectations surrounding both her practice and the genre—and she emerges victorious with 11 nominations for her work in Cowboy Carter. The star has made history as the most-nominated artist in Grammy history, with 99 total nominations (including the recent 11), superseding her husband Jay-Z (who formerly held the title with 88 nominations). She also holds the record for artist with the most GRAMMY wins (32).
Then there is Taylor Swift, who continues to set and break records without sign of stopping. Her 2025 GRAMMY nomination for her 2024 album The Tortured Poets Department makes her the first woman to earn seven Album of the Year Nominations.
Yet T.Swift and Queen Bee aren’t the only powerhouses in the 2025 GRAMMY Awards: artists Billie Eilish, Chappell Roan, and Sabrina Carpenter have also earned nominations in all three major categories in the general field (“Record of the Year,” “Album of the Year,” and “Song of the Year”), with Chappell and Sabrina also in the roster for “Best New Artist” given the unbeatable virality of their albums The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess and Short n’ Sweet, respectively.
Of course, 2024 wouldn’t be complete without the phenomenon that was “brat summer,” coined after British popstar Charli XCX’s hit album Brat, which joins the nominees for Album of the Year, Record of the Year, and special fields under “Pop & Dance/Electronic.”
Snubbed Talents
While one can see the obvious merits of this year’s deserving 2025 GRAMMY award nominees, there were also a few artists who were glaringly missing from the roster—and for many, clearly deserved to be recognized for their chart-topping records and albums.
This includes Irish singer-songwriter Hozier, known for his strong lyricism and captivating folk beats, whose song “Too Sweet” (part of a 2024 collection of previously unreleased songs from his popular 2023 album Unreal Unearth) became a number one hit on Billboard’s Hot 100 for weeks (his first since the massive success of “Take Me to Church” in 2013).
Fans were also hoping that Blackpink member LISA, with her new solo pop hits Rockstar and New Woman, would at least make an appearance in the Best New Artist category—which would have made her the first K-pop artist to be nominated.
British popstar Dua Lipa, who made waves in previous editions of the GRAMMYs (mostly notably for her critically-acclaimed Future Nostalgia album and single Dance The Night from the Barbie movie), has also been completely left out. In 2024, she released the dance-worthy “Houdini” followed by “Training Season,” both chart-topping songs from her latest album Radical Optimism.
Meanwhile, Ariana Grande did receive GRAMMY nominations for categories under the field “Pop & Dance/Electronic.” However, works from her hit 2024 album Eternal Sunshine were nowhere to be found in the big four categories under the general field.
These omissions show that, while the GRAMMYs is indeed a prestigious award show, it is not without its blindspots—but perhaps it is enough that these artists’ fans have acknowledged and praised their evident masterpieces when others failed to.
Banner and feature photo background by Joyce G via Unsplash. Featured albums: Short n’ Sweet (Sabrina Carpenter); The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess (Chappell Roan); Brat (Charli XCX); Hit Me Hard and Soft (Billie Eilish); The Tortured Poets Department (Taylor Swift); and Cowboy Carter (Beyoncé).
