Grammys 2025: A Night of Historic Wins and Stellar Performances

The 67th Annual Grammy Awards celebrated the biggest names in music on February 2, 2025, in Los Angeles. The night was filled with historic wins, emotional speeches, and electrifying performances, despite the challenges posed by the Los Angeles wildfires. The ceremony highlighted the resilience of the city and honored first responders, with host Trevor Noah dedicating his opening speech to those affected by the disaster.

Beyoncé, who led the nominations with 11 wins for her album Cowboy Carter, kicked off the night with an early win alongside Miley Cyrus for Best Country Duo or Group Performance. She later made history by winning Album of the Year and Best Country Album, cementing her legacy as the most awarded artist in Grammy history. Other top contenders for Album of the Year included Taylor Swift (The Tortured Poets Department) and Billie Eilish (Hit Me Hard and Soft). Indian-American vocalist Chandrika Tandon won the Grammy Award for Best New Age, Ambient, or Chant Album for her album Triveni, triumphing over nominees such as Ricky Kej and Anoushka Shankar. She shared this prestigious honor with her collaborators—South African flautist Wouter Kellerman and Japanese cellist Eru Matsumoto.

During the event ‘In Memoriam’ segment was a deeply emotional moment as the music industry honored the legendary artists who passed away in the past year. Chris Martin, the frontman of Coldplay, led the tribute with a heartfelt performance, paying respects to the icons who left a lasting impact on the world of music. The screen behind him displayed a montage of late artists, producers, and industry professionals, reminding the audience of their contributions to music, whose legacies continue to inspire musicians and fans alike. The emotional tribute was met with a standing ovation, as artists, fans, and industry members reflected on the profound loss of musical talent over the past year.

About Grammy Awards

The Grammys are one of the most prestigious honors in the music industry, presented annually by the Recording Academy to recognize outstanding achievements in music. Established in 1959, the Grammys celebrate excellence across various genres, rewarding artists, producers, and industry professionals for their contributions to music. The Grammys feature awards in over 90 categories, covering genres like pop, rock, R&B, country, classical, jazz, and more.

Grammy winners are chosen through a voting process conducted by members of the Recording Academy, who are professionals in the music industry. The selection involves:

1. Submission – Artists, producers, and labels submit their work for consideration.
2. Screening – Entries are reviewed to ensure eligibility and category placement.
3. Voting – Academy members vote in their areas of expertise.
4. Final Ballot – Winners are selected from the final nominations.

The Grammy Awards ceremony is a globally televised event featuring high-profile performances, tributes, and historic collaborations. The show is known for its memorable moments, such as live duets between legendary artists, surprise album announcements, and milestone wins. Winners receive the iconic Gramophone trophy, symbolizing musical excellence. The trophy is made of gold-plated metal, and each is individually handcrafted.

Winning a Grammy is considered a career-defining achievement. It boosts an artist’s credibility, increases record sales, and elevates their influence in the industry. The Grammys also recognize lifetime achievements, technical contributions, and global impact, making them a vital part of the music world. So, let’ s take a look at all the award winners at the 67th Annual Grammy Awards 2025.

Grammy Award 2025 Winners

Album of the year

• Winner: Beyoncé – Cowboy Carter
• André 3000 – New Blue Sun
• 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

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

Song of the year

• Winner: Kendrick Lamar – Not Like Us
• Beyoncé – Texas Hold ‘Em
• Sabrina Carpnter – Please Please Please
• Billie Eilish – Birds Of A Feather
• Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars – Die With a Smile
• Chappel Roan – Good Luck, Babe!
• Shaboozey – A Bar Song (Tipsy)
• Taylor Swift ft Post Malone – Fortnight

Best new artist

• Winner: Chappell Roan
• Benson Boone
• Sabrina Carpenter
• Doechii
• Khruangbin
• Raye
• Shaboozey
• Teddy Swims

Pop and dance

Best pop vocal album

• Winner: Sabrina Carpenter – Short n’ Sweet
• Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard And Soft
• Ariana Grande – Eternal Sunshine
• Chappell Roan – The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
• Taylor Swift – The Tortured Poets Department

Best pop solo performance

• Winner: Sabrina Carpenter – Espresso
• Beyoncé – Bodyguard
• Charli XCX – Apple
• Billie Eilish – Birds of a Feather
• Chappell Roan – Good Luck, Babe!

Best pop duo/group performance

• Winner: Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars – Die With A Smile
• Gracie Abrams ft Taylor Swift – Us
• Beyoncé ft Post Malone – Levii’s Jeans
• Charli XCX & Billie Eilish – Guess
• Ariana Grande, Brandy & Monica – The Boy Is Mine

Best dance/electronic recording

• Winner: Justice & Tame Impala – Neverender
• Disclosure – She’s Gone, Dance On
• Four Tet – Loved
• Fred Again & Baby Keem – Leavemealone
• Kaytranada ft Childish Gambino – Witchy

Best dance/electronic album

• Winner: Charli XCX – Brat
• Four Tet – Three
• Justice – Hyperdrama
• Kaytranada – Timeless
• Zedd – Telos

Best dance/pop recording

• Winner: Charli XCX – Von Dutch
• Madison Beer – Make You Mine
• Billie Eilish – L’Amour De Ma Vie [Over Now Extended Edit]
• Ariana Grande – Yes, and?
• Troye Sivan – Got Me Started

Best traditional pop vocal album

• Winner: Norah Jones – Visions
• Cyrille Aimée – À Fleur De Peau
• Lake Street Dive – Good Together
• Aaron Lazar – Impossible Dream
• Gregory Porter – Christmas Wish

Best Latin pop album

• Winner: Shakira – Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran
• Anitta – Funk Generation
• Luis Fonsi – El Viaje
• Kenny García – García
• Kali Uchis – Orquídeas

Rock and metal

Best rock performance

• Winner: The Beatles – Now And Then
• The Black Keys – Beautiful People (Stay High)
• Green Day – The American Dream Is Killing Me
• Idles – Gift Horse
• Pearl Jam – Dark Matter
• St. Vincent – Broken Man

Best rock song

• Winner: St Vincent – Broken Man
• The Black Keys – Beautiful People (Stay High)
• Pearl Jam – Dark Matter
• Green Day – Dilemma
• Idles – Gift Horse

Best rock album

• Winner: The Rolling Stones – Hackney Diamonds
• The Black Crowes – Happiness B******s
• Fontaines DC – Romance
• Green Day – Saviors
• Idles – TANGK
• Pearl Jam – Dark Matter
• Jack White – No Name

Best alternative music album

• Winner: St Vincent – All Born Screaming
• Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Wild God
• Clairo – Charm
• Kim Gordon – The Collective
• Brittany Howard – What Now

Best alternative music performance

• Winner: St Vincent – Flea
• Cage The Elephant – Neon Pill
• Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Song of the Lake
• Fontaines D.C. – Starburster
• Kim Gordon – Bye Bye

Best metal performance

• Winner: Gojira, Marina Viotti & Victor Le Masne – Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!)
• Judas Priest – Crown of Horns
• Knocked Loose Featuring Poppy – Suffocate
• Metallica – Screaming Suicide
• Spiritbox – Cellar Door

Rap

Best rap performance

• Winner: Kendrick Lamar – Not Like Us
• Cardi B – Enough (Miami)
• Common & Pete Rock ft Posdnuos – When The Sun Shines Again
• Doechii – Nissan Altima
• Eminem – Houdini
• Future, Metro Boomin & Kendrick Lamar – Like That
• GloRilla – Yeah Glo!

Best melodic rap performance

• Winner: Rapsody ft Erykah Badu – 3:AM
• Jordan Adetunji ft Kehlani – Kehlani
• Beyoncé ft Linda Martell & Shaboozey – Spaghettii
• Future & Metro Boomin ft The Weeknd – We Still Don’t Trust You
• Latto – Big Mama

Best rap song

• Winner: Kendrick Lamar – Not Like Us
• Rapsody ft Hit-Boy – Asteroids
• Kanye West & Ty Dolla $Ign – Carnival
• Future & Metro Boomin ft Kendrick Lamar – Like That
• GloRilla – Yeah Glo!

Best rap album

• Winner: Doechii – Alligator Bites Never Heal
• J Cole – Might Delete Later
• Common & Pete Rock – The Auditorium, Vol 1
• Eminem – The Death Of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce)
• Future & Metro Boomin – We Don’t Trust You

Country

Best country solo performance

• Winner: Chris Stapleton – It Takes A Woman
• Beyoncé – 16 Carriages
• Jelly Roll – I Am Not Okay
• Kacey Musgraves – The Architect
• Shaboozey – A Bar Song (Tipsy)

Best country duo/group performance

• Winner: Beyoncé ft Miley Cyrus – II Most Wanted
• Kelsea Ballerini With Noah Kahan – Cowboys Cry Too
• Brothers Osborne – Break Mine
• Dan + Shay – Bigger Houses
• Post Malone ft Morgan Wallen – I Had Some Help

Best country song

• Winner: Kacey Musgraves – The Architect
• Shaboozey – A Bar Song (Tipsy)
• Jelly Roll – I Am Not Okay
• Post Malone ft Morgan Wallen – I Had Some Help
• Beyoncé – Texas Hold ‘Em

Best country album

• Winner: Beyoncé – Cowboy Carter
• Post Malone – F-1 Trillion
• Kacey Musgraves – Deeper Well
• Chris Stapleton – Higher
• Lainey Wilson – Whirlwind

R&B and Afrobeats

Best R&B performance

• Winner: Muni Long – Made For Me (Live On BET)
• Jhené Aiko – Guidance
• Chris Brown – Residuals
• Coco Jones – Here We Go (Uh Oh)
• SZA – Saturn

Best R&B song

• Winner: SZA – Saturn
• Kehlani – After Hours
• Tems – Burning
• Coco Jones – Here We Go (Uh Oh)
• Muni Long – Ruined Me

Best progressive R&B album

• Joint Winner: Avery*Sunshine – So Glad to Know You
• Joint Winner: NxWorries (Anderson .Paak & Knxwledge) – Why Lawd?
• Durand Bernarr – En Route
• Childish Gambino – Bando Stone And The New World
• Kehlani – Crash

Best R&B album

• Winner: Chris Brown – 11:11 (Deluxe)
• Lalah Hathaway – Vantablack
• Muni Long – Revenge
• Lucky Daye – Algorithm
• Usher – Coming Home

Best African music performance

• Winner: Tems – Love Me JeJe
• Yemi Alade – Tomorrow
• Asake & Wizkid – MMS
• Chris Brown ft Davido & Lojay – Sensational
• Burna Boy – Higher

Production and songwriting

Producer of the Year, Non-Classical

• Winner: Daniel Nigro
• Alissia
• Dernst “D’Mile” Emile II
• Ian Fitchuk
• Mustard

Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical

• Winner: Amy Allen
• Edgar Barrera
• Jessi Alexander
• Jessie Jo Dillon
• Raye

Film and TV

Best comedy album

• Winner: Dave Chappelle – The Dreamer
• Ricky Gervais – Armageddon
• Jim Gaffigan – The Prisoner
• Nikki Glaser – Someday You’ll Die
• Trevor Noah – Where Was I

Best compilation soundtrack for visual media

• Winner: Maestro: Music By Leonard Bernstein – London Symphony Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Bradley Cooper
• The Color Purple – Various Artists
• Deadpool & Wolverine – Various Artists
• Saltburn – Various Artists
• Twisters: The Album – Various Artists

Best score soundtrack for visual media (includes film and televison)

• Winner: Hans Zimmer – Dune: Part Two
• Laura Karpman – American Fiction
• Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross – Challengers
• Kris Bowers – The Color Purple
• Nick Chuba, Atticus Ross & Leopold Ross – Shōgun

Best score soundtrack for video games and other interactive media

• Winner: Winifred Phillips – Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord
• Pinar Toprak – Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
• Bear McCreary – God of War Ragnarök: Valhalla
• John Paesano – Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
• Wilbert Roget, II – Star Wars Outlaws

Best song written for visual media

• Winner: Jon Batiste – It Never Went Away (From American Symphony)
• Luke Combs – Ain’t No Love In Oklahoma (From Twisters: The Album)
• *NSYNC & Justin Timberlake – Better Place (From Trolls Band Together)
• Olivia Rodrigo – Can’t Catch Me Now (From The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes)
• Barbra Streisand – Love Will Survive (From The Tattooist of Auschwitz)

Best audio book narration

• Winner: Jimmy Carter – Last Sunday in Plains: A Centennial Celebration
• George Clinton – …And Your Ass Will Follow
• Guy Oldfield – All You Need Is Love: The Beatles In Their Own Words
• Dolly Parton – Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones
• Barbra Streisand – My Name Is Barbra

Best music video

• Winner: Kendrick Lamar – Not Like Us
• A$AP Rocky – Tailor Swif
• Charli XCX – 360
• Eminem – Houdini
• Taylor Swift ft Post Malone – Fortnight

Best music film

• Winner: American Symphony
• June
• Kings From Queens
• Stevie Van Zandt: Disciple
• The Greatest Night In Pop

Jazz and classical

• Winner: Samara Joy – A Joyful Holiday
• Christie Dashiell – Journey In Black
• Kurt Elling & Sullivan Fortner – Wildflowers Vol 1
• Milton Nascimento & Esperanza Spalding – Milton + Esperanza
• Catherine Russell & Sean Mason – My Ideal

Best jazz instrumental album

• Winner: Chick Corea & Béla Fleck – Remembrance
• Ambrose Akinmusire ft Bill Frisell & Herlin Riley – Owl Song
• Kenny Barron ft Kiyoshi Kitagawa, Johnathan Blake, Immanuel Wilkins & Steve Nelson – Beyond This Place
• Lakecia Benjamin – Phoenix Reimagined (Live)
• Sullivan Fortner – Solo Game

Best alternative jazz album

• Winner: Meshell Ndegeocello – No More Water: The Gospel Of James Baldwin
• Arooj Aftab – Night Reign
• André 3000 – New Blue Sun
• Robert Glasper – Code Derivation
• Keyon Harrold – Foreverland

Best jazz performance

• Winner: Samara Joy feat. Sullivan Fortner – Twinkle Twinkle Little Me
• The Baylor Project – Walk With Me, Lord
• Lakecia Benjamin feat. Randy Brecker, Jeff “Tain” Watts, & John Scofield – Phoenix Reimagined (Live)
• Chick Corea & Béla Fleck –Juno
• Dan Pugach Big Band feat. Nicole Zuraitis & Troy Roberts – Little Fears

Best musical theatre album

• Winner: Hell’s Kitchen
• Merrily We Roll Along
• The Notebook
• The Outsiders
• Suffs
• The Wiz

Best opera recording

• Winner: Saariaho: Adriana Mater – Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor (San Francisco Symphony; San Francisco Symphony Chorus; Timo Kurkikangas)
• Adams: Girls Of The Golden West – John Adams, conductor (Los Angeles Philharmonic; Los Angeles Master Chorale)
• Catán: Florencia En El Amazonas – Yannick Nézet-Séguin (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus)
• Moravec: The Shining – Gerard Schwarz, conductor (Kansas City Symphony; Lyric Opera Of Kansas City Chorus)
• Puts: The Hours – Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor (Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; Metropolitan Opera Chorus)

Best orchestral performance

• Winner: Ortiz: Revolución Diamantina – Gustavo Dudamel, conductor (Los Angeles Philharmonic)
• John Adams: City Noir – Fearful Symmetries & Lola Montez Does The Spider Dance – Marin Alsop, conductor (ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra)
• Kodály: Háry János Suite; Summer Evening & Symphony In C Major – JoAnn Falletta, conductor (Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra)
• Sibelius: Karelia Suite, Rakastava, & Lemminkäinen – Susanna Mälkki, conductor (Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra)
• Stravinsky: The Firebird – Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor (San Francisco Symphony)

The Grammy 2025 Awards proved to be a celebration of musical evolution, diversity, and talent. With Beyoncé’s groundbreaking win, Kendrick Lamar’s record-breaking success, and stunning performances, the night will be remembered as a defining moment in music history.