2025 Grammy Awards winners list: Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar, Taylor Swift face off – National | Globalnews.ca

The 2025 Grammy Awards are here and it’s not just about all the glitz and glam. Many Grammy nominees are set to break records this year, like Beyoncé, who has become the most nominated artist in the award show’s history with a total of 99 nominations.

Not only is the Texas Hold ’Em singer the most nominated artist this year, with a total of 11 nods, but she also has the most Grammy Awards of all time, with a total of 34 wins.

Beyoncé started the night strong by taking home the award for Best Country Duo/Group performance for her collab with Miley Cyrus, II Most Wanted. The win marked her first-ever win in a Country category —making her the first Black woman to win a Grammy for a country music song since the Pointer Sisters win in 1975 for Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.

Beyoncé also won Best Country Album for Cowboy Carter, making her the first Black female artist to win in the category.

“Wow I really was not expecting this,” Beyoncé said as she accepted her award. “I want to thank god that I’m still able to do what I love after so many years. I’d like to thank all of the incredible country artists that accepted album. We worked so hard on it.”

Beyoncé’s also nominated for Album of the Year, which is a category she’s never won. Her album, Cowboy Carter, is up against some major artists including Billie Eilish, Taylor Swift, Sabrina Carpenter, Charli XCX, Chappell Roan, André 3000 and Jacob Collier.

If Beyoncé wins the album of the year, she’ll become the first Black woman to do so in the 21st century. Lauryn Hill last won in 1999 for The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, joining Natalie Cole and Whitney Houston as the only Black women to take home the Grammys’ top prize.

Swift is also breaking records this year after becoming the first woman to earn seven career nominations in the Album of the Year category. Last year, she won album of the year for Midnights, breaking the record for most wins in the category with four.

Carpenter accepted the Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Album for her album, Short n’ Sweet. She also took home a Grammy prior to the show for Best Pop Solo Performance for her hit song, Espresso.

“I’m still out of breath from the performance, so I really was not expecting this,” she said during her speech for Best Pop Vocal Album. “And all those nominees that were just on the screen are some of my favourite artists in the world, and I can’t believe I’m nominated against them, or even in this room right now. This is whoa — my first Grammy, so I’m gonna cry.”

Kendrick Lamar’s Not Like Us, a diss track released during his feud with Drake, was an early winner. It received trophies for Best Music Video, Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance. It marks his seventh time winning in the latter category.

(Find below a complete list of all the nominees in the major categories. Final winners will be bolded as the ceremony goes on.)

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Album of the Year

André 3000 – New Blue Sun
Beyoncé – Cowboy Carter
Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft
Chappell Roan – The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
Charli XCX – Brat
Jacob Collier – Djesse Vol. 4
Sabrina Carpenter – Short n’ Sweet
Taylor Swift – The Tortured Poets Department

Record of the Year

The Beatles – Now and Then
Beyoncé – Texas Hold ’Em
Billie Eilish – Birds of a Feather
Chappell Roan – Good Luck, Babe!
Charli XCX – 360
Kendrick Lamar – Not Like Us
Sabrina Carpenter – Espresso
Taylor Swift Featuring Post Malone – Fortnight

Song of the Year

Beyoncé – Texas Hold ’Em
Billie Eilish – Birds of a Feather
Chappell Roan – Good Luck, Babe!
Kendrick Lamar – Not Like Us
Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars – Die With a Smile
Sabrina Carpenter – Please Please Please
Shaboozey – A Bar Song (Tipsy)
Taylor Swift Featuring Post Malone – Fortnight

Best Music Video

A$AP Rocky – Tailor Swif
Charli XCX – 360
Eminem – Houdini
**WINNER: Kendrick Lamar – Not Like Us
Taylor Swift Featuring Post Malone – Fortnight

Best Pop Solo Performance

Beyoncé – Bodyguard
Billie Eilish – Birds of a Feather
Chappell Roan – Good Luck, Babe!
Charli XCX – Apple
**WINNER: Sabrina Carpenter – Espresso

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance

Ariana Grande, Brandy & Monica – The Boy Is Mine – Remix
Beyoncé Featuring Post Malone – Levii’s Jeans
Charli XCX & Billie Eilish – Guess Featuring Billie Eilish
Gracie Abrams Featuring Taylor Swift – Us.
Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars – Die With a Smile

Best Pop Vocal Album

Ariana Grande – Eternal Sunshine
Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft
Chappell Roan – The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
**WINNER: Sabrina Carpenter – Short n’ Sweet
Taylor Swift – The Tortured Poets Department

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album

À Fleur De Peau, Cyrille Aimée
Pieces of Treasure, Rickie Lee Jones
**WINNER: Visions, Norah Jones
Good Together, Lake Street Dive
Impossible Dream, Aaron Lazar
Christmas Wish – Gregory Porter

Best New Artist

Benson Boone
Doechii
**WINNER: Chappell Roan
Khruangbin
Raye
Sabrina Carpenter
Shaboozey
Teddy Swims

Best Rap Performance

Cardi B – Enough (Miami)
Common & Pete Rock Featuring Posdnuos – When the Sun Shines Again
Doechii – Nissan Altima
Eminem – Houdini
Future, Metro Boomin & Kendrick Lamar – Like That
Glorilla – Yeah Glo!
**WINNER: Kendrick Lamar – Not Like Us

Best Melodic Rap Performance

Kehlani, Jordan Adetunji Featuring Kehlani
Spaghettii, Beyoncé Featuring Linda Martell & Shaboozey
We Still Don’t Trust You, Future & Metro Boomin Featuring The Weeknd
Big Mama, Latto
**WINNER: 3:AM, Rapsody Featuring Erykah Badu

Best Rap Song

Future, Metro Boomin & Kendrick Lamar – Like That
Glorilla – Yeah Glo!
**WINNER: Kendrick Lamar – Not Like Us
Rapsody & Hit-Boy – Asteroids
¥$, Kanye West, Ty Dolla $ign & Rich the Kid Featuring Playboi Carti – Carnival

Best Rap Album

Common & Pete Rock – The Auditorium Vol. 1
**WINNER: Doechii – Alligator Bites Never Heal
Eminem – The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce)
Future & Metro Boomin – We Don’t Trust You
J. Cole – Might Delete Later

Best R&B Performance

Guidance, Jhené Aiko
Residuals, Chris Brown
Here We Go (Uh Oh), Coco Jones
Saturn, SZA
**WINNER: Made For Me (Live On BET), Muni Long

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Best Traditional R&B Performance

Wet, Marsha Ambrosius
Can I Have This Groove, Kenyon Dixon
No Lie, Lalah Hathaway Featuring Michael McDonald
Make Me Forget, Muni Long
**WINNER: That’s You, Lucky Daye

Best R&B Song

Coco Jones – Here We Go (Uh Oh)
Kehlani – After Hours
Muni Long – Ruined Me
**WINNER: SZA – Saturn
Tems – Burning

Best R&B Album

**WINNER: Chris Brown – 11:11 (Deluxe)
Lalah Hathaway – Vantablack
Lucky Daye – Algorithm
Muni Long – Revenge
Usher – Coming Home

Best Pop Dance Recording

Make You Mine, Madison Beer
**WINNER: Von Dutch, Charli XCX
L’Amour de Ma Vie [Over Now Extended Edit], Billie Eilish
Yes, And?, Ariana Grande
Got Me Started, Troye Sivan

Best Dance/Electronic Music Album

**WINNER: Charli XCX – Brat
Four Tet – Three
Justice – Hyperdrama
Kaytranada – Timeless
Zedd – Telos

Best Rock Album

The Black Crowes – Happiness Bastards
Fontaines D.C. – Romance
Green Day – Saviors
Idles – Tangk
Jack White – No Name
Pearl Jam – Dark Matter
**WINNER: The Rolling Stones – Hackney Diamonds

Best Rock Song

The Black Keys – Beautiful People (Stay High)
Green Day – Dilemma
Idles – Gift Horse
Pearl Jam – Dark Matter
**WINNER: St. Vincent – Broken Man

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 Metal Performance

**WINNER: Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!), Marina Viotti & Victor Le Masne
Crown of Horns, Judas Priest
Suffocate, Knocked Loose Featuring Poppy
Screaming Suicide, Metallica
Cellar Door, Spiritbox

Best Alternative Music Performance

Neon Pill, Cage The Elephant
Song of The Lake, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Starburster, Fontaines D.C.
BYE BYE, Kim Gordon
**WINNER: Flea, St. Vincent

Best Alternative Music Album

Wild God, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Charm, Clairo
The Collective, Kim Gordon
What Now, Brittany Howard
**WINNER: All Born Screaming, St. Vincent

Best Country Album

**WINNER: Beyoncé – Cowboy Carter
Chris Stapleton – Higher
Kacey Musgraves – Deeper Well
Lainey Wilson – Whirlwind
Post Malone – F-1 Trillion

Best Country Solo Performance

Beyoncé – 16 Carriages
**WINNER: Chris Stapleton – It Takes a Woman
Jelly Roll – I Am Not Okay
Kacey Musgraves – The Architect
Shaboozey – A Bar Song (Tipsy)

Best Country Duo/Group Performance

**WINNER: Beyoncé & Miley Cyrus – II Most Wanted
Brothers Osborne – Break Mine
Dan + Shay – Bigger Houses
Kelsea Ballerini & Noah Kahan – Cowboys Cry Too
Post Malone Featuring Morgan Wallen – I Had Some Help

Best Country Song

Beyoncé – Texas Hold ’Em
Jelly Roll – I Am Not Okay
**WINNER: Kacey Musgraves – The Architect
Post Malone Featuring Morgan Wallen – I Had Some Help
Shaboozey – A Bar Song (Tipsy)

Best Americana Performance

YA YA, Beyoncé
Subtitles, Madison Cunningham
Don’t Do Me Good, Madi Diaz Featuring Kacey Musgraves
**WINNER: American Dreaming, Sierra Ferrell
Runaway Train, Sarah Jarosz
Empty Trainload Of Sky, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings

Best Latin Pop Album

Funk Generation, Anitta
El Viaje, Luis Fonsi
GARCÍA, Kany García
**WINNER: Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran, Shakira
ORQUÍDEAS, Kali Uchi

Best Comedy Album

**WINNER: Dave Chappelle – The Dreamer
Jim Gaffigan – The Prisoner
Nikki Glaser – Someday You’ll Die
Ricky Gervais – Armageddon
Trevor Noah – Where Was I

Best Musical Theatre Album

**WINNER: Hell’s Kitchen
Merrily We Roll Along
The Notebook
The Outsiders
Suffs
The Wiz

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For a complete list of the 2025 Grammy winners, visit the official Grammys site.

— With files from The Associated Press

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