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Beyoncé and her album, Cowboy Carter, led all Grammy nominees on Friday with 11, beating her own personal record of 10 set in 2009. 

Beyoncé now is the Grammys’ most-nominated artist with 99, and she already was the most-winning artist with 32 Grammys, a lead she will likely extend come February. Still, the big prize – Album of the Year – has continued to elude Queen Bey, despite four previous nominations in the category. That’s much to the chagrin of her husband, Jay Z, who chastised the Academy last year for never giving it to her, and of her fans, known as the BeyHive. 

This could be Beyoncé’s year, though, since she’s nominated for Album, Record and Song of the year. She’s one of five women to have achieved that honor, with Sabrina Carpenter, Billie Eilish, Taylor Swift and Chappelle Roan joining her. Carpenter and Roan also are nominated for Best New Artist and if either of them manage to sweep all four categories, they will be the first to do so since Eilish ran the table in 2020. 

Competition is stiff, however. For Album of the Year, Beyoncé faces Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department –  which Swift announced from the stage at last February’s Grammy ceremony; Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet; Charli XCX’s Brat; Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft; and Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess. Those six – all performed by women – are joined by two less well-known nominees: Jacob Collier’s Djesse Vol. 4, and New Blue Sun, a flute-focused album by André 3000, known for being one-half of hip-hop group Outkast.

While it seems like Beyoncé and Swift are always going up against each other, they’ve actually only faced each other once in the Album of the Year competition: In 2010, when Swift won for Fearless, beating Beyoncé’s I Am … Sasha Fierce. Various tracks off of Cowboy Carter are also up for awards in pop, rap, country and Americana categories. 

The album as a whole is nominated for best country album, even though it was largely ignored by much of country radio. In that category, it will compete against Cowboy Carter contributor Post Malone and his album F-1 Trillion;  country staple Chris Stapleton’s Higher, Lainey Wilson’s Whirlwind, and a previous album of the year winner, Kacey Musgraves with Deeper Well. 

Nominees for Record of the Year, which represent single recordings, are Beyoncé’s “Texas Hold ‘Em,” Carpenter’s long-running chart-topper “Espresso,” Charli XCX’s “360,” Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather,” Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!” and Swift’s “Fortnight,” featuring Malone, who himself scored seven nominations on Friday.

And nominees for Song of the Year, which is a songwriting award, are Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” written by Sean Cook, Jerrel Jones, Joe Kent, Chibueze Collins Obinna, Nevin Sastry and Mark Williams; Eilish and her brother, Finneas for “Birds of a Feather;” Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars, Dernst Emile II, James Fauntleroy and Andrew Watt for “Die with a Smile,” Swift with Jack Antonoff and Austin Post for “Fortnight;” Kayleigh Rose Amstutz, Daniel Nigro and Justin Tranter for “Good Luck, Babe!;” Lamar for “Not Like Us;” Carpenter, Antonoff and Amy Allen for “Please Please Please;” and Beyoncé, Brian Bates, Elizabeth Lowell Boland, Megan Bülow, Nate Ferraro and Raphael Saadiq for “Texas Hold ‘Em.”

Of those nominees in major categories, Carpenter, Roan and Shaboozen will join singer-songwriter Teddy Swims, British songwriter and performer Raye, Florida-born rapper Doechii, Texas trio Khruangbin, and rock singer Benson Boone in the race for Best New Artist. 

Following Beyoncé’s 11 nominations, Eilish, Lamar and Charlie XCX join Malone with seven nominations each. Close behind with six nods each are Swift, Roan and Carpenter.

The 67th annual Grammy Awards will be broadcast live from the Crypto.com Arena on Sunday, February 2 and be broadcast on CBS and streamed on Paramount+. Starting in 2027, the Grammys will move to Disney’s ABC, Hulu and Disney+, after having aired for more than 50 years on CBS. 

The full list of 2025 Grammy nominations are available here. 

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