The 2025 Grammy Awards most anticipated win will make history tonight - no matter who walks away with the accolade. The ceremony, which ...
The 2025 Grammy Awards most anticipated win will make history tonight - no matter who walks away with the accolade.
The ceremony, which takes place at the Crypto.com Arena, in Los Angeles, on Sunday, might cause a stir as its main category, the revered Album of the Year accolade - will be a uniquely triumphant moment for each of the eight nominees.
Musical legend Beyoncé could finally take home the award after years of being snubbed for the title - but she has got some fierce competition.
Meanwhile Billie Eilish could be a more obvious choice with her album Hit Me Hard and Soft, meaning she would be only the third woman ever to win Album of the Year twice.
Swift, Beyonce’s and Eilish's albums will also square off against Charli XCX’s Brat - which was an online sensation that had even Kamala Harris jumpin on board - Sabrina Carpenter’s fan favourite Short N’ Sweet, and other impressive musicians.
Here FEAMIL takes a look at each nominee and how it could make history for them...
Beyoncé
Many fans are wondering if Beyoncé will finally win Album of the Year, after four previous losses in the category.
The singer's eighth studio album Cowboy Carter is up for 11 awards at the Grammys on Sunday.
The Texas Hold 'Em hitmaker is the most decorated Grammy musician of all time after earning 32 statues from 99 nominations and leads with the highest number of nods this year.
However the main focus on the night for the singer will be to finally land the covered AOTY.
Beyoncé's latest album was a wildly ambitious attempt to contextualise and commemorate the black roots of country music.
However the album's excessive length, including what some felt were a few weaker tracks in its latter half - could count against it.
Should it win the top award, the LP would be Beyonce’s first record to win best album, having previously failed with 2008’s I Am… Sasha Fierce, 2013’s Beyonce, 2016’s Lemonade and 2022’s Renaissance.
Ironically, even if doesn't win, she'll still make history, as the person with the most nominations in that category without a win.
During last year's ceremony, her husband Jay-Z addressed the oversight, telling the audience: 'I don't want to embarrass this young lady, but she has more Grammys than everyone and never won album of the year. So even by your own metrics, that doesn't work.'
The Brooklyn-born rapper was honored with the Dr. Dre Global Impact Award for his contribution to the music industry.
With his 12-year-old daughter Blue Ivy standing on stage beside him, and wife Beyonce looking on from their table in the audience, dressed in just-off-the-catwalk Louis Vuitton by Pharrell Williams, Jay-Z spoke about the importance of dreams, drive and ambition.
He said that there were more important things in life than winning Grammys, noting they were subjective - and pointing out his superstar wife had never won best album.
The camera cut to Beyonce, looking slightly apprehensive in the audience.
Jay-Z has been nominated for 88 competitive Grammy Awards, winning 24 of them. Six of his nominations have been for Album of the Year.
Beyonce has also been nominated for 88 competitive Grammy Awards, winning 32 of them.
In 2015, when Beyonce lost out on Album of the Year to Beck, Kanye West pretended to storm the stage in protest.
The moment drew parallels to West's actions in 2009, when he famously interrupted Swift as she accepted the Best Female Video award at the MTV Video Music Awards, telling her: 'Yo, Taylor, I'm really happy for you. ... but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time.'
West in 2015 mimed storming the stage again, protesting that her album 'Beyonce' lost out to Beck's 'Morning Phase.'
Recording Academy voters choose who wins Album of the Year, and in 2015 the voter base was split between Pharrell, Ed Sheeran and Sam Smith. Beck's support was united, leading to Beck's win.
Beck said after the show: 'Absolutely I thought she was going to win. You can't please everybody.
'I still love him and think he's genius. I aspire to what he does. How many great records has he put out in the last five years, right?'
West, a protégée of Jay-Z's, insisted in interviews in 2015 that Beyonce had been robbed.
'All I know is if the Grammys want real artists to keep coming back, they need to stop playing with us. We ain't gonna play with them no more,' he said.
'Beck needs to respect artistry and he should have given his award to Beyoncé, and at this point, we tired of it.'
Taylor Swift
If Swift bags the Album of the Year award, she will make history too, beating her own record as the person to have won the category the most times.
Last year, the singer was nominated for six awards and made Grammy history as the first person to win Album of the Year four times after picking up the prize for Midnights, her 10th album.
Therefore, if she takes home the accolade again this year she will be the only artist ever to win the award five times.
However some believe Taylor's album, The Tortured Poets Department, may miss out this year due to such a strong category.
The singer's record-breaking concert film The Eras Tour was already snubbed in the Best Music Film category, despite being the highest-grossing concert film of all time.
Very few awards show experts have tipped The Tortured Poets Department for an Album of the Year win - and even a prominent psychic has predicted a major loss for the record.
In an interview with Casino.org, celebrity psychic and astrology reader Inbaal Honigman said, 'Taylor Swift isn't shown as a big winner within the big four categories.'
She added: 'The calm Four of Swords Tarot card indicates that this specific awards ceremony yields modest results for the talented star.'
According to Deadline, the Recording Academy have confirmed that the billionaire singer, 35, will be among the ceremony's celebrity presenters.
It's unknown which category Swift will present, but the outlet hinted that it could be one of the 'Big Four' — which includes Album Of The Year, Song Of The Year, Record Of The Year and Best New Artist.
The Tortured Poets Department, Swift's 11th studio album, is nominated for Album Of The Year and Best Pop Vocal album.
Fortnight featuring Post Malone — which was the lead single off TTPD — is nominated for Song Of The Year, Record Of The Year and Best Music Video.
Rounding out her 2025 nods, Swift and her Eras Tour opener Gracie Abrams' duet Us is up for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance.
Only recordings commercially released in the U.S. between September 16, 2023 through August 30, 2024 were eligible for nominations.
Billie Eilish
The much-decorated Eilish is up for seven Grammys this year, including Record, Album and Song of the Year.
Billie is one of a small number of musicians who have seen all of their studio albums earn nominations for Album of the Year at the Grammys.
If her album Hit Me Hard and Soft wins the award, it will mark the singers second time walking up on stage to accept that trophy, and that’s a feat that only two women have managed before.
If she wins, she will join an elite group of women who have achieved this remarkable feat, alongside Beyoncé and Adele.
The singer songwriter became one of the youngest people to win a Grammy when her debut When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? won in 2020.
Last year, the 22-year-old won Apple Music's Artist of the Year due to her 'extraordinary impact throughout 2024' which saw her bag an Academy Award and two Grammys for her contribution to the Barbie soundtrack.
Billie penned the emotional song What Was I Made For Her for the award winning film by Greta Gerwig before releasing her third album Hit Me Hard and Soft.
It's been a busy year for the star who also performed her hit Birds of a Feather at the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
She also collaborated with Charli XCX for guess, the song of the summer from the star's Brat album and is already touring around the US.
Sabrina Carpenter
First-time nominee and pop breakout Sabrina Carpenter boasts six nominations during the awards night.
The breakout star is up against strong contenders in the category for Album of the year.
Despite the name of her album Short n’ Sweet, Sabrina achieved the second longest-running No. 1 debut on the Billboard 200 this year, following Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department.
Sabrina and Chappell Roan are both first-time nominees, and will be competing for six awards including record of the year, album of the year, song of the year and best new artist.
The Espresso hitmaker, 25, took the world by storm in 2024 as she spent 21 weeks at the top of the singles chart.
The superstar also broke the record in the UK charts by becoming the youngest female artist to hold the No1 and No2 spot in the same week.
Sabrina previously joked that her recent hit Espresso was an 'overnight success 10 years in the making,'.
The 12-track pop sensation is the culmination of a whirlwind 18-months for the star - who saw her fame grow exponentially since opening for Taylor Swift's Eras Tour, becoming embroiled in an alleged love triangle with fellow star Olivia Rodrigo - and of course going viral on TikTok.
But the 4ft11' singer's stardom is more than a decade in the making. She landed her first role aged 11, as a guest in NBC's Law & Order, before finding fame in the Disney Channel's Boy Meets World as Maya Hart.
The pint-sized popstar released four albums under Disney, without any singles cracking the Billboard Top 100 - before her fifth 'Emails I Can't Send' (with Universal's Island Records), finally pushed its way to the US Billboard charts at number 23 and gave her the limelight she deserved.
Carpenter and Roan will be performing at the 67th Grammy Awards, as will Billie Eilish, Charli XCX, Shaboozey and many more.
Charli XCX
After not even being on the Grammys radar last year', Charli XCX is up for eight awards at this year’s awards.
Following the huge success of her album Brat, which kickstarted the global 'Brat Summer' trend the hitmaker, 32, has landed an impressive eight nods at this year's ceremony - including Album Of The Year, and Record Of The Year for her song 360.
And while she's one of the success stories of this year, this is the first time the singer has received a nomination since 2014's Iggy Azalea collaboration Fancy, despite musical success over the years including a bagging a UK number one and US top-ten for her 2022 album Crash.
Charli's 2025 Grammy nominations come after she previously spoke out after her hit album Crash failed to get nominated for a Grammy Award in 2023.
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As the ceremony took place in Los Angeles , Charli, whose real name is Charlotte Emma Aitchison, took to Instagram to vent her frustrations.
Sharing a sultry selfie of herself showing off her cleavage in a white dress, she captioned it: 'Me not being nominated for a Grammy for crash is like Mia Goth not being nominated for an Oscar for Pearl and only further proves that people don’t wanna see hot evil girls thrive.'
The singer made history when her No1 album Brat became a cultural phenomenon last summer along with the colour slime green as millions of fans showed their support by posting clips of Charli's Apple Dance on TikTok.
If the singer walked away with the album of the year accolade it would be sure to top off her sensational year by finally securing her first Grammy.
Speaking in a new interview with W Magazine - of which Charli stars on their second-ever digital cover - the performer revealed how she plans to enjoy the ceremony this Sunday following her first solo recognition at the annual music ceremony.
She explained: 'My dream scenario would be getting a plus-10 so I could bring all my best friends, but, realistically, I’ll probably get a plus-one. Maybe Troye [Sivan] and I can share and make it a plus-two.'
Having only received a nomination twice before over a decade ago, the star told how she just wants have fun on the night amid her surprise at even being recognised following past snubs.
She went on: 'My vibe is just wanting to have a good time. Let’s be real, I wasn’t even on the Grammys’ radar last year, so it’s not something I ever expected.
'The thing is, wherever I am becomes fun anyway, so I’m sure I’ll figure it out.'
She looked sensational as she graced the cover of the publication and pulled off a number of sultry poses for a new shoot.
While she flaunts her figure in her underwear in some snaps, the stunner rocks a tiara and dons a T-shirt with the words 'Queen Charli' emblazoned across it, solidifying her status as the 'Brat Queen'.
Chappell Roan
Chappell Roan’s rise to the Grammy stage is nothing short of remarkable, marking her as one of the most exciting newcomers in recent years.
She has seemingly come out of nowhere and is already the overwhelming favorite to win Best New Artist.
However the star is up for a whopping six nominations including best new artist, song of the year and record of the year for her viral track Good Luck, Babe!
It will the singers first time attending the Grammy Awards joined by industry powerhouses Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar and more in the prestigious event's most coveted categories.
Kayleigh Rose Amstutz, known professionally as Chappell Roan, is an American singer who has emerged as a chart-topping pop superstar.
After years of honing her craft and releasing independent music, her album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess has caught the ears of critics and fans alike, earning her a well-deserved spot among the nominees.
Following the drop, Chappell Roan remained without a music contract for three years while she uploaded her music independently, before getting signed by Island Records in 2023.
In a piece for the New York Times, Roan's producer and co-writer Dan Nigro shared how the 26-year-old's breakout hit Pink Pony Club was originally rejected by Atlantic Records.
According to Nigro, 42, executives at the label 'were not impressed' when they heard the tune for the first time.
'I was convinced the song was incredible and then they told me it wasn't,' he said.
The label suggested ditching the song's guitar solos - played by Dave Stewart's son Sam - but Nigro refused.
Pink Pony Club was eventually released by Atlantic, but it flopped and led to Roan being dropped by the label.
Refusing to give up on Roan's talent, Nigro then launched his own independent label called Amusement Records and reunited with the singer to give her music another push.
Pink Pony Club was re-released in 2023 and quickly started climbing the charts, becoming Roan's breakout hit.
She followed it up with hits like Hot to Go and Good Luck Babe, and her debut album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess - released on Nigro's Amusement Records - peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200.
'Dan always believed in me,' Roan told the New York Times.
'He has been there from the beginning, and brought me into realizing what makes me feel good to perform, what makes me feel good to sing, to write about.'
Andre 3000
André 3000, whose real name is André Lauren Benjamin, is up for album of the year, best alternative jazz album and best instrumental composition for New Blue Sun.
The 49-year-old rapper and singer-songwriter has had an incredible year with his hit album which has been nominated for three awards; the best album of the year, the best alternative jazz album, and the song I Swear, I Really Wanted to Make a ‘Rap’ Album but This Is Literally the Way the Wind Blew Me This Time has been nominated for best instrumental composition.
However the singer will be unable to attend Sunday night’s 2025 Grammy Awards ceremony, the Outkast member announced Saturday.
The artist announced in an Instagram post on Saturday that he was unfortunately unable to attend the event.
He wrote: 'Unfortunately I won't be able to attend the Grammys tomorrow but some of the New Blue Sun musicians, friends and supporters will be in attendance.
'Our album was conceived and recorded in Los Angeles with spirit of openness and creative collaboration.
'We hope that the rebound of Los Angeles is swift and renewing. Congrats to all the musicians and collaborators being acknowledged. Keep playing.'
André is no stranger to the awards show, having already won nine awards previously and nominated for 28.
He was nominated for his first Grammy in 1999 for Rosa Parks, a song with his former signing partner Big Boi (Antwan Patton) when they formed the group Outkast.
Jacob Collier
Jacob would be a more controversial win should the Grammys decide to honour a male artist over the pop queens who dominated 2024.
The English singer, songwriter is also up for the sought-after award despite a somewhat ambivalent critical reception to his contender Djesse Vol 4.
To date, Jacob Collier, who has been dubbed 'the Mozart of Gen Z', has been nominated for 11 Grammy Awards, and won six.
He won his first five awards between 2017 and 2021, following up with his latest win in 2024 for Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals for In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning.
He has even made history as the first British artist to win a Grammy Award for each of his first four albums.
The 30-year-old Londoner has been playing virtuoso-level jazz piano and singing opera since he has been 10-years-old.
His mother is renowned violinist-conductor Suzie Collier so musical talent definitely runs in the family.
The singer made a YouTube splash in 2011 with complex vocal and video panel arrangements of Pure Imagination and Don’t You Worry Bout a Thing, and racked up 4.6 million views.
He has also worked with British powerhouses Stormzy, and last December performed a version of Last Christmas at the Princess of Wales's Carol concert.
Jacob, who grew up in Finchley, has said that he found music as a 'second language' and was experimenting with instruments from a very young age, thanks to his mother's work as a violinist, conductor and teacher at the Royal Academy of Music.
'I've always believed that you don't need a lot to be creative, just a space where it's safe for the ideas to come to the surface, and time to mess about,' he told British Vogue.
'Having Logic [a music software] and a piano and a microphone was just unbelievable. How I started my YouTube career was just by extending my musical limbs in a visual way.
'My life really changed because those videos started to get picked up by people I thought of as the greatest musicians in the world, like Herbie Hancock and Quincy Jones, who has been this amazing godfather figure to me.'
Jacob - who in 2014 signed to Quincy Jones's company - recently penned a heartfelt post to his late mentor, promising the musician will be 'in every note he plays'.
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