The nominees for the 2025 Grammy Award for Album of the Yr have been introduced. Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter will compete in opposition to the newest from fellow Recording Academy veterans—Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Arduous and Smooth and Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poet’s Division—and class newcomers Charli XCX (nominated for Brat), Sabrina Carpenter (Brief n’ Candy), and Chappell Roan (The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess). Jacob Collier’s Djesse Vol. 4 can be within the operating, as is Outkast musician André 3000’s solo debut, the cosmic jazz woodwind file New Blue Solar.
Together with her seventh nod within the class, Swift is now the feminine artist with essentially the most Album of the Yr nominations, breaking her earlier tie with Barbara Streisand. Swift is already the winningest main artist within the class’s historical past.
Beyoncé, regardless of being the winningest artist in all of Grammys historical past, remains to be looking for her first Album of the Yr victory. She most lately misplaced the class to Harry Kinds, 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 in search of to turn out to be a first-time winner.
All three of Billie Eilish’s studio albums have now been nominated for Album of the Yr, however she’s received the class just for her debut, When We All Fall Asleep, The place Do We Go? That 12 months, 2020, Eilish swept the massive 4 classes.
André 3000 received two Grammy Awards earlier this 12 months—for Greatest Rap Music and Greatest Rap Efficiency, for his work with Killer Mike on “Scientists & Engineers”—and he’s now been nominated 5 occasions for Album of the Yr. He received the class in 2004 for the Outkast album Speakerboxxx/The Love Under.
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Album of the Yr
André 3000 – New Blue Solar
Beyoncé – Cowboy Carter
Billie Eilish – Hit Me Arduous and Smooth
Chappell Roan – The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
Charli XCX – Brat
Jacob Collier – Djesse Vol. 4
Sabrina Carpenter – Brief n’ Candy
Taylor Swift – The Tortured Poets Division
