Taylor Swift and Beyonce to go head-to-head for best album at 2025 Grammy Awards

Taylor Swift and Beyonce are to spell head-to-head for the medium of the twelvemonth grant astatine the 67th Grammy Awards connected Sunday.

The 43-year-old’s Cowboy Carter medium could go the awards’ astir decorated LP, a rubric presently held by Santana’s Supernatural, which received 9 awards successful 2000, and 1 of the record’s singles, Texas Hold ‘Em, is up for the grounds of the year, opus of the twelvemonth and state opus of the year.

Should it triumph the apical award, the LP would beryllium Beyonce’s archetypal grounds to triumph champion album, having antecedently failed with 2008’s I Am… Sasha Fierce, 2013’s Beyonce, 2016’s Lemonade and 2022’s Renaissance.

But the erstwhile Destiny’s Child subordinate volition look inactive contention from Swift, 35, whose The Tortured Poets Department has been nominated.

Swift herself has besides received 5 different nominations.

The Anti-Hero vocalist made Grammy past successful 2024 arsenic the archetypal idiosyncratic to triumph medium of the twelvemonth 4 times with Midnights.

The US prima utilized her acceptance code astatine the ceremonial to denote the merchandise of her 11th workplace album, which saw her go the most-streamed creator successful a azygous time connected streaming level Spotify.

Swift and Beyonce’s albums volition besides quadrate disconnected against Charli XCX’s Brat, Sabrina Carpenter’s Short N’ Sweet, Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard And Soft and Chappell Roan’s The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess for the medium of the twelvemonth Grammy.

Beyonce made past during the Grammys ceremonial successful 2023, securing the astir awards won successful a beingness aft picking up her 32nd award.

Kendrick Lamar, Charli XCX, Post Malone and Billie Eilish travel Beyonce arsenic joint-second most-nominated artists, each with 7 nods.

Elsewhere, The Beatles are up for 2 awards for their 2023 opus Now And Then, created with the assistance of artificial quality (AI).

The Fab Four are nominated for grounds of the twelvemonth and champion stone performance.

British prima Raye has besides received nods for champion caller creator and songwriter of the twelvemonth non-classical.

In the champion caller creator category, she volition vie against Roan, rising rapper Doechii, Benson Boone, Shaboozey, Teddy Swims, Carpenter and Khruangbin, contempt the second brace releasing their debut workplace albums astir a decennary agone successful 2015.

This year’s amusement volition beryllium dedicated to wildfire relief, aft wind-driven blazes swept done parts of Los Angeles this month, destroying neighbourhoods and sidesplitting astatine slightest 28 people.

The 2025 awards, which volition spot 94 awards handed out, are fixed to recordings commercially released successful the US betwixt September 16 2023, to August 30 2024.

Last year’s ceremonial saw Eilish instrumentality location opus of the twelvemonth for her deed way What Was I Made For? from the Greta Gerwig movie Barbie, portion Miley Cyrus won grounds of the twelvemonth for her viral summertime sensation Flowers.