Music’s Biggest Night: The Grammys

Throughout the year millions of Americans and international fans watch award shows like the Oscars, Tonys, Emmys, and various music awards. Arguably one of the largest and most important is happening on February 2, 2025. The Grammys are one of the highest musical achievements. This show honors various artists, collective works, and more. Grammys are awarded to many genres such as pop, country, rap, and others. The Grammys are also distributed for best songwriting, producing, music video, and a coveted lifetime achievement award with past winners being people like Prince and Tammy Wynette. In total there are 94 awards to be won, this may seem high but in 2009 there was a total of 105 awards given out. This year will be the 67th Grammys, proving its importance and prestige throughout the music industry.

Dominating Award Season

Even though there are many awards to be won it is common for categories to be dominated by a few musical artists. This statement is especially true this year, popular artists Billie EIlish, Kendrick Lamar, Charli XCX, and Post Malone have garnered 7 nominations each in the largest categories of the show. Trailing close behind Taylor Swift has six nominations under her belt, while this isn’t the most number of nominations she’s gotten before Swift has already won 14 Grammy awards in her career. 

The Big 4

The Grammys has many prestigious awards spanning from writing to producing but there are four awards known as the big 4: album of the year, record of the year, song of the year, and best new artist. These 4 are actual awards and also categories for most of the other awards to be put under, for example there is another award like album of the year which is best pop vocal album. The following lists are the nominations for the big 4 at the 2025 Grammys.

Album of the Year

André 3000 – New Blue Sun, Beyoncé – Cowboy Carter, Sabrina Carpenter – Short n’ Sweet, Charli XCX – Brat, Jacob Collier – Djesse Vol 4, Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft, Chappell Roan – The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, Taylor Swift – The Tortured Poets Department

Record of the Year

The Beatles – “Now And Then”, Beyoncé – “Texas Hold ’Em”, Sabrina Carpenter – “Espresso”, Charli XCX – “360”, Billie Eilish – “Birds of a Feather”, Kendrick Lamar – “Not Like Us”, Chappell Roan – “Good Luck, Babe!”, Taylor Swift ft. Post Malone – “Fortnight”

Song of the Year

Beyoncé – “Texas Hold ’Em”, Sabrina Carpenter – “Please Please Please”, Billie Eilish – “Birds Of A Feather”, Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars – “Die With a Smile”, Kendrick Lamar – “Not Like Us”, Chappell Roan – “Good Luck, Babe!”, Shaboozey – “A Bar Song (Tipsy)”, Taylor Swift ft. Post Malone – “Fortnight”

Best New Artist

Benson Boone, Sabrina Carpenter, Doechii, Khruangbin, Raye, Chappell Roan, Shaboozey, Teddy Swims

The Grammys isn’t just an award show talking about music, there are also performances by many of the nominees. This year the named performers are Sabrina Carpenter, Teddy Swims, Billie Eilish, Chappell Roan, Charli XCX, Doechii, Raye, Shakira, and Benson Boone. These performers are mostly those nominated for best new artist or previous winners. In addition to these performers the show will be hosted by Trevor Noah. He has previously hosted many times with this year being his fifth time. The Grammys are hosted by CBS and can be streamed on their channel or Paramount+. The show is on Sunday, February 2 and will air from 8-11:30pm EST. Tune into music’s most enjoyable and distinguished on Sunday and find out who dominated this year’s music charts.