Beyoncé makes history (again) with 11 nominations for 2025 Grammy Awards
LA TimesWhen Beyoncé took the prize for best dance/electronic album at the Grammy Awards last year with “Renaissance,” the pop superstar became the winningest artist in the nearly seven-decade history of music’s most prestigious awards show. Billie Eilish also scored a nod for the album award with “Hit Me Hard and Soft,” making her the first artist to be nominated for the Grammys’ equivalent of best picture with her first three LPs; she’s up for record and song of the year too with her single “Birds of a Feather.” But in a year long on fresh talent, Grammy voters also showered nominations on several of the upstart pop acts who’ve dominated concert stages, streaming platforms and social-media feeds in 2024. In this case, he said, AI was “really like an editing tool” that enabled the Beatles to isolate a John Lennon vocal recording from the late ’70s “that was previously maybe unusable.” In the best new artist category, Carpenter and Roan will vie against Khruangbin, a Texas psych-rock trio that’s been releasing albums since 2015, along with Benson Boone, Doechii, Raye, Teddy Swims and the ascendant country singer Shaboozey, who’s also up for song of the year with “A Bar Song,” which just logged its 16th week atop Billboard’s Hot 100. LPs nominated for rock album are the Black Crowes’ “Happiness Bastards,” Fontaines D.C.’s “Romance,” Green Day’s “Saviors,” Idles’ “Tangk,” Pearl Jam’s “Dark Matter,” the Rolling Stones’ “Hackney Diamonds” and Jack White’s “No Name.” Looking ahead to next year’s show — the first of two remaining in the academy’s half-century-long deal with CBS before the Grammys show moves to Disney’s ABC network in 2027 — Mason laughed when asked if the Beatles’ nomination might induce Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr to perform together on the telecast.