The nominees for the 2025 Grammy Award for Album of the Year have been announced. By Beyoncé Cowboy Carter will compete with the latest of fellow Recording Academy veterans—Billie Eilish's Hit with hard and soft and Taylor Swift The part of the tortured poet—and newcomers to the Charli XCX category (candidates for Brat), Sabrina Carpenter (Short n' Sweet), and Chappell Roan (The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess). Jacob Collier's Djesse Vol. 4 is also in the running, as is Outkast musician André 3000's solo debut, the worldly woodwind jazz record New Blue Sun.
With her seventh nod in the category, Swift is now the female artist with the most nominations for album of the year, breaking her previous tie with Barbara Streisand. Swift is already the winningest mainstream artist in the category's history.
Beyoncé, despite being the winningest artist in Grammy history, is still looking for her first win for album of the year. He most recently lost the category to Harry Styles in 2023 after being nominated for Renaissance.
Charli XCX came into the day with two career Grammy nominations and no wins. Like Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan, he's looking to become a first-time winner.
All three of Billie Eilish's studio albums have now been nominated for album of the year, but she only won the category for her debut album. When we all fall asleep, where do we go? That year, 2020, Eilish swept all four major categories.
André 3000 won two Grammys earlier this year — for best rap song and best rap performance, for his work with Killer Mike on “Scientists & Engineers” — and has now been nominated five times for album of the year. He won the category in 2004 for the album Outkast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below.
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Album of the Year
André 3000 – New Blue Sun
Beyoncé – Cowboy Carter
Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft
Chappell Roan – The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
Charli XCX – Brat
Jacob Collier – Djesse Vol. 4
Sabrina Carpenter – Short n' Sweet
Taylor Swift – The Tortured Poets Department
