The nominees for the 2025 Grammy Award for Album of the 12 months have been introduced. Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter will compete in opposition to the most recent from fellow Recording Academy veterans—Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft and Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poet’s Department—and class newcomers Charli XCX (nominated for Brat), Sabrina Carpenter (Short n’ Sweet), and Chappell Roan (The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess). Jacob Collier’s Djesse Vol. 4 can be within the working, as is Outkast musician André 3000’s solo debut, the cosmic jazz woodwind report New Blue Sun.
Along with her seventh nod within the class, Swift is now the feminine artist with probably the most Album of the 12 months nominations, breaking her earlier tie with Barbara Streisand. Swift is already the winningest primary artist within the class’s historical past.
Beyoncé, regardless of being the winningest artist in all of Grammys history, continues to be trying to find her first Album of the 12 months victory. She most lately lost the category to Harry Styles, in 2023, after being nominated for Renaissance.
Charli XCX got here into the day with two profession Grammy nominations and no victories. Like Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan, she is searching for to change into a first-time winner.
All three of Billie Eilish’s studio albums have now been nominated for Album of the 12 months, however she’s won the category just for her debut, When We All Fall Asleep, The place Do We Go? That 12 months, 2020, Eilish swept the big four categories.
André 3000 gained two Grammy Awards earlier this 12 months—for Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance, for his work with Killer Mike on “Scientists & Engineers”—and he’s now been nominated 5 occasions for Album of the 12 months. He won the category in 2004 for the Outkast album Speakerboxxx/The Love Under.
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Album of the 12 months
André 3000 – New Blue Solar
Beyoncé – Cowboy Carter
Billie Eilish – Hit Me Laborious and Mushy
Chappell Roan – The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
Charli XCX – Brat
Jacob Collier – Djesse Vol. 4
Sabrina Carpenter – Quick n’ Candy
Taylor Swift – The Tortured Poets Division
