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- Nominations for the 2025 Grammy Awards were announced on Friday.
- Rising stars like Reneé Rapp and Tyla were shut out, while Ariana Grande came up short.
- Other nominees seem ill-suited or out of place, like Taylor Swift’s “Fortnight.”
Nominations for the 67th annual Grammy Awards were announced on Friday morning, heralding good news for many top artists — plus a few decisions that are sure to raise eyebrows.
Despite getting shut out of the 2024 Country Music Association Awards earlier this year, Beyoncé leads the pack of 2025 Grammy nominees with 11 nods for “Cowboy Carter” across pop, rap, country, and Americana categories, plus album, song, and record of the year.
Beyoncé will compete against familiar faces for all three major prizes, including Billie Eilish, who’s nominated for her third album “Hit Me Hard and Soft,” and, of course, Taylor Swift, who could win her record-extending fifth album of the year award with “The Tortured Poets Department.”
In fact, it’s a big day for pop stars across the board. After failing to secure a nod for best new artist last year, Sabrina Carpenter is nominated in every “Big Four” category thanks to a massive breakthrough year, which yielded a pair of hit songs and her first No. 1 album, “Short n’ Sweet.” Queer-pop darling Chappell Roan will join her, seeking the cherry on top of a remarkable debut album rollout. Dance music veteran Charli XCX, whose sixth album “Brat” dominated political and cultural discourse all summer, received a whopping nine nominations across pop, dance, and general-field categories.
But this year’s slate of nominations isn’t all predictable pop-star fare. Some fan-favorite singers were excluded from key categories, while other artists received surprise nods.
Keep reading for a roundup of the biggest snubs, surprises, and missteps.
