The 2025 Grammy nominations are out. Here are the big takeaways
NPRThe 2025 Grammy nominations are out. Appropriately enough, each of the aforementioned artists — except Drake, who stopped submitting his music for Grammy consideration a while back — received loads of nominations when next year's Grammy Awards contenders were announced Friday. As it turns out, so are Grammy voters, who heard Shaboozey's chart-topping "A Bar Song " and nominated it for song of the year, but not record of the year. Six of the eight nominees for album of the year were pretty much mortal locks: Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter, Sabrina Carpenter's Short n' Sweet, Charli xcx's Brat, Billie Eilish's Hit Me Hard and Soft, Chappell Roan's The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess and Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department. Getting left out of a field of five, six or eight nominees isn't technically a "snub" — it's just math, really — but there were still surprises among this year's Grammy omissions.