See The Full 2025 Grammy Nominees List Here
On Thursday November 8th, The nominees for the 2025 Grammy Awards were officially announced. The 67th GRAMMY Awards will take place at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles CA on Sunday, February 2nd, 2025 broadcast live on CBS, as well as live and on demand on Paramount+.
Beyoncé received the most nominations this year with eleven, followed closely by Billie Eilish, Charli XCX, Kendrick Lamar, and Post Malone (each received seven). Taylor Swift also made history as the first woman artist to ever earn seven total career nominations for Album of The Year, with the release of this year’s The Tortured Poet’s Department. Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter has also become the oldest nominee in history at the age of 100 to be nominated for a Grammy, being nominated for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording.
You can view the full nominations list below. Who do you think is going to win? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
Record of the Year
”Now and Then” - The Beatles
”TEXAS HOLD ‘EM” - Beyoncé
”Espresso” - Sabrina Carpenter
”360” - Charli XCX
”Birds of a Feather” - Billie Eilish
”Kendrick Lamar” - Not Like Us"
”Good Luck, Babe!” - Chappell Roan
”Fortnight” - Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone
Album of the Year
New Blue Sun - André 3000
COWBOY CARTER - Beyoncé
Short n’ Sweet - Sabrina Carpenter
BRAT - Charli XCX
Djesse Vol. 4 - Jacob Collier
HIT ME HARD AND SOFT - Billie Eilish
The Rise and Fall Of A Midwest Princess - Chappell Roan
THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT - Taylor Swift
Song of the Year
”A Bar Song (Tipsy) - Shaboozey
”BIRDS OF A FEATHER” - Billie Eilish
”Die With A Smile” - Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars
”Fortnight” - Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone
”Good Luck, Babe!” - Chappell Roan
”Not Like Us” - Kendrick Lamar
”Please Please Please” - Sabrina Carpenter
”TEXAS HOLD ‘EM” - Beyoncé
Best New Artist
Benson Boone
Sabrina Carpenter
Doechii
Khruangbin
Raye
Chappell Roan
Shaboozey
Teddy Swims
Producer of the Year, Non-Classical
Alissia
Dernst “D’Mile” Emile II
Ian Fitchuk
Mustard
Daniel Nigro
Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical
Jessi Alexander
Amy Allen
Edgar Barrera
Jessie Jo Dillon
RAYE
Best Pop Solo Performance
”BODYGUARD” - Beyoncé
”Espresso” - Sabrina Carpenter
”Apple” - Charli XCX
”BIRDS OF A FEATHER” - Billie Eilish
”Good Luck, Babe!” - Chappell Roan
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
”us.” - Gracie Abrams feat. Taylor Swift
”LEVII’S JEANS” - Beyoncé feat. Post Malone
”Guess” - Charli XCX & Billie Eilish
”the boy is mine” - Ariana Grande, Brandy & Monica
”Die With A Smile” - Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars
Best Pop Vocal Album
Short n’ Sweet - Sabrina Carpenter
HIT ME HARD AND SOFT - Billie Eilish
eternal sunshine - Ariana Grande
Chappell Roan The Rise and Fall Of A Midwest Princess - Chappell Roan
THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT - Taylor Swift
Best Dance/Electronic Recording
”She’s Gone, Dance On” - Disclosure
”Loved” - Four Tet
”leavemealone” - Fred Again.. & Baby Keem
”Neverender” - Justice & Tame Impala
”Witchy” - KAYTRANADA feat. Childish Gambino
Best Dance Pop Recording
”Make You Mine” - Madison Beer
”Von dutch” - Charli XCX
”L’AMOUR DE MA VIE [OVER NOW EXTENDED EDIT] - Billie Eilish
”yes, and?” - Ariana Grande
”Got Me Started” - Troye Sivan
Best Dance/Electronic Album
BRAT - Charli XCX
Three - Four Tet
Hyperdrama - Justice
TIMELESS - KAYTRANADA
Telos - Zedd
Best Remixed Recording
”Alter Ego - KAYTRANADA Remix” - KAYTRANADA [Doechii feat. JT]
”A Bar Song (Tipsy) [Remix] - David Guetta [Shaboozey & David Guetta]
”Espresso (Mark Ronson x FNZ Working Late Remix) - FNZ & Mark Ronson [Sabrina Carpenter]
”Jah Sees Them - Amapiano Remix” - Alexx Antaeus, Footsteps & MrMyish (Julian Marley & Antaeus]
”Von dutch” - A.G. Cook [Charli XCX & A.G. Cook feat. Addison Rae]
Best Rock Performance
”Now and Then” - The Beatles
”Beautiful People (Stay High) - The Black Keys
”The American Dream Is Killing Me” - Green Day
”Gift Horses” - IDLES
”Dark Matter” - Pearl Jam
”Broken Man” - St. Vincent
Best Metal Performance
”"Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!)” - Gojira, Marina Viotti, & Victor Le Masne
”Crown of Horns” - Judas Priest
”Suffocate” - Knocked Loose feat. Poppy
”Screaming Suicide” - Metallica
”Cellar Door” - Spiritbox
Best Rock Song
”Beautiful People (Stay High) - The Black Keys
”Broken Man” - St. Vincent
”Dark Matter” - Pearl Jam
”Dilemma” - Green Day
”Gift Horse” - IDLES
Best Rock Album
Happiness Bastards - The Black Crowes
Romance - Fontaines D.C.
Saviors - Green Day
TANGK - IDLES
Dark Matter - Pearl Jam
Hackney Diamonds - The Rolling Stones
No Name - Jack White
Best Alternative Music Performance
”Neon Pill” - Cage The Elephant"
”Song of the Lake” - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
”Starbuster” - Fontaines D.C.
”BYE BYE” - Kim Gordon
”Flea” - St. Vincent
Best Alternative Music Album
Wild God - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Charm - Clairo
The Collective - Kim Gordon
What Now - Brittany Howard
All Born Screaming - St. Vincent
Best R&B Performance
”Guidance” - Jhené Aiko
”Residuals” - Chris Brown
”Here We Go (Uh Oh)” - Coco Jones
”Made For Me (Live on BET) - Muni Long
”Saturn” - SZA
Best Traditional R&B Performance
”Wet” - Marsha Ambrosius
”Can I Have This Groove” - Kenyon Dixon
”No Lie” - Lalah Hathaway feat. Michael McDonald
”Make Me Forget” - Muni Long
”That’s You” - Lucky Daye
Best R&B Song
”After Hours” - Kehlani
”Burning” - Tems
”Here We Go (Uh Oh)” - Coco Jones
”Ruined Me” - Muni Long
”Saturn” - SZA
Best Progressive R&B Album
So Glad To Know You - Avery*Sunshine
En Route - Durand Bernarr
Bando Stone & The New World - Childish Gambino
Crash - Kehlani
Why Lawd? - NxWorries (Anderson .Paak & Knxwledge)
Best R&B Album
11:11 (Deluxe) - Chris Brown
VANTABLACK - Lalah Hathaway
Revenge - Muni Long
Algorithm - Lucky Daye
COMING HOME - Usher
Best Rap Performance
”Enough (Miami)” - Cardi B
”When The Sun Shines Again” - Common & Pete Rock feat. Posdnuos
”NISSAN ALTIMA” - Doechii
”Houdini” - Eminem
”Like That” - Future & Metro Boomin’ Feat. Kendrick Lamar
”Yeah Glo!” - GloRilla
”Not Like Us” - Kendrick Lamar
Best Melodic Rap Performance
”KEHLANI” - Jordan Adetunji feat. Kehlani
”SPAGHETTI” - Beyoncé feat. Linda Martell & Shaboozey
”We Still Don’t Trust You” - Future & Metro Boomin feat. The Weeknd
”Big Mama” - Latto
”3” - Rapsody feat. Erykah Badu
Best Rap Song
”Asteroids” - Rapsody feat. Hit-Boy
”Carnival” - Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign feat. Rich The Kid & Playboi Carti
”Like That” - Future & Metro Boomin feat. Kendrick Lamar
”Not Like Us” - Kendrick Lamar
”Yeah Glo!” - GloRilla
Best Rap Album
Might Delete Later - J. Cole
The Auditorium, Vol 1. - Common & Pete Rock
Alligator Bites Never Heal - Doechii
The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce) - Eminem
We Don’t Trust You - Future & Metro Boomin
Best Spoken Word Poetry Album
CIVIL WRITES: The South Got Something To Say - Queen Sheba
cOncrete & wHiskey Act II Part 1: A Bourbon 30 Series - Omari Hardwick
Good M.U.S.I.C. Universe Sonic Sinema Episode 1: In The Beginning Was The Word - Malik Yusef
The Heart, The Mind, The Soul - Tank and the Bangas
The Seven Number Ones - Mad Skillz
Best Jazz Vocal Album
Journey In Black - Christie Dashiell
Wildflowers Vol. 1 - Kurt Elling & Sullivan Fortner
A Joyful Holiday - Samara Joy
Milton + esperanza - Milton Nascimento & esperanza spalding
My Ideal - Catherine Russell & Sean Mason
Best Jazz Instrumental Album
Owl Song - Ambrose Akinmusire feat. Bill Frisell & Herlin Riley
Beyond This Place - Kenny Barron feat. Kiyoshi Kitagawa, Johnathan Blake, Immanuel Williams, Steve Nelson
Phoenix Reimagined (Live) - Lakecia Benjamin
Remembrance - Chick Corea & Béla Fleck
Solo Game - Sullivan Fortner
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
Returning To Forever - John Beasley & Frankfurt Radio Big Band
And So It Goes - The Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra
Walk A Mile In My Shoes - Orrin Evans & The Captain Black Big Band
Bianca Reimagined: Music for Paws & Persistence - Dan Pugach Big Band
Golden City - Migeul Zenón
Best Latin Jazz Album
Spain Foreer Again - Michel Camilo & Tomatito
Cubop Lives! - Zaccai Curtis
COLLAB - Hamilton de Holanda & Gonzalo Rubalcaba
Time And Again - Eliane Elias
El Trio: Live In Italy - Horacio ‘El Negro’ Hernández, John Beasley, José Gola
Cuba And Beyond - Chucho Valdés & Royal Quartet
As I Travel - Donald Vega feat. Lewis Nash, John Patitucci & Luisito Quintero
Best Alternative Jazz Album
Night Reign - Arooj Aftab
New Blue Sun - André 3000
Code Derivation - Robert Glasper
Foreverland - Keyon Harrold
No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
À Fleur De Peau - Cyrille Aimée
Visions - Norah Jones
Good Together - Lake Street Dive
Impossible Dream - Aaron Lazar
Christmas Wish - Gregory Porter
Best Contemporary Instrumental Album
Plot Armor - Taylor Eigsti
Rhapsody In Blue - Béla Fleck
Orchestras (Live) - Bill Frisell feat. Alexander Hanson, Brussels Philharmonic, Rudy Royston, Thomas Morgan
Mark - Mark Guiliana
Speak To Me - Julian Lage
Best Musical Theater Album
Hell’s Kitchen
Merrily We Roll Along
The Notebook
The Outsiders
Suffs
The Wiz
Best Country Solo Performance
”16 CARRIAGES” - Beyoncé
”I Am Not Okay” - Jelly Roll
”The Architect” - Kacey Musgraves
”A Bar Song (Tipsy)” - Shaboozey
”It Takes A Woman” - Chris Stapleton
Best Country Duo/Group Performance
”Cowboys Cry Too” - Kelsea Ballerini feat. Noah Kahan
”II MOST WANTED” - Beyoncé feat. Miley Cyrus
”Break Mine” - Brothers Osborne
”Bigger Houses” - Dan + Shay
”I Had Some Help” - Post Malone feat. Morgan Wallen
Best Country Song
”The Architect” - Kacey Musgraves"
”A Bar Song (Tipsy)” - Shaboozey
”I Am Not Okay” - Jelly Roll
”I Had Some Help” - Post Malone feat. Morgan Wallen
”TEXAS HOLD ‘EM” - Beyoncé
Best Country Album
COWBOY CARTER - Beyoncé
F-1 Trillion - Post Malone
Deeper Well - Kacey Musgraves
Higher - Chris Stapleton
Whirlwind - Lainey Wilson
Best American Roots Performance
”Blame It On Eve” - Shemekia Copeland
”Nothing In Rambling” - The Fabulous Thunderbirds feat. Bonnie Raitt, Keb’ Mo’, Taj Mahal & Mick Fleetwood
”Lighthouse” - Sierra Ferrell
”The Ballad of Sally Anne” - Rhiannon Giddens
Best Americana Performance
”YA YA” - Beyoncé
”Subtitles” - Madison Cunningham
”Don’t Do Me Good” - Madi Diaz feat. Kacey Musgraves
”American Dreaming” - Sierra Ferrell
”Runaway Train” - Sarah Jarosz
”Empty Trainload Of Sky” - Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
Best American Roots Song
”Ahead of the Game” - Mark Knopfler
”All In Good Time” - Iron & Wine feat. Fiona Apple
”All My Friends” - Aofie O’Donovan"
”American Dreaming” - Sierra Ferrell
”Blame It On Eve” - Shemekia Copeland
Best Americana Album
The Other Side - T-Bone Burnett
$10 Cowboy - Charley Crockett
Trail Of Flowers - Sierra Ferrell
Polaroid Lovers - Sarah Jarosz
No One Gets Out Alive - Maggie Rose
Tigers Blood - Waxahatchee
Best Bluegrass Album
I Built A World - Bronwyn Keith-Hynes
Songs of Love and Life - The Del McCoury Band
No Fear - Sister Sadie
Live Vol. 1 - Billy Strings
Earl Jam - Tony Trischka
Dan Tyminski: Live From The Ryman - Dan Tyminski
Best Traditional Blues Album
Hill Country Love - Cedric Burnside
Struck Down - The Fabulous Thunderbirds
One Guitar Woman - Sue Foley
Sam’s Place - Little Feat
Swingin’ Live at The Church in Tulsa - The Taj Mahal Sextet
Best Contemporary Blues Album
Blues Deluxe Vol. 2 - Joe Bonamassa
Blame It On Eve - Shemekia Copeland
Friendlytown - Steve Cropper & The Midnight Hour
Mileage - Ruthie Foster
The Fury - Antonio Vergara
Best Folk Album
American Patchwork Quartet - American Patchwork Quartet
Weird Faith - Madi Diaz
Bright Future - Adrianne Lenker
All My Friends - Aoife O’Donovan
Woodland - Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
Best Regional Roots Music Album
25 Back To My Roots - Sean Ardoin And Kreole Rock And Soul
Live at the 2024 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival - Big Chief Monk Boudreaux & The Golden Eagles Featuring J’Wan Boudreaux
Live at the 2024 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival - New Breed Brass Band feat. Trombone Shorty
Kuini - Kalani Pe’a
Stories From The Battlefield - The Rumble feat. Chief Joseph Boudreaux Jr.
Best Gospel Performance/Song
”Church Doors” - Yolanda Adams
”Yesterday” - Melvin Crispell III
”Hold On (Live)” - Ricky Dillard
”Holy Hands” - DOE
”One Hallelujah” - Tasha Cobbs Leonard, Erica Campbell & Israel Houghton feat. Jonathan McReynolds & Jekalyn Carr
Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song
”Holy Forever (Live) - Bethel Music, Jenn Johnson feat. CeCe Winans
”Praise” - Elevation Worship feat. Brandon Lake, Chris Brown, Chandler Moore
”Firm Foundation (He Won’t) - Honor & Glory feat. Disciple
”In The Name of Jesus” - JWLKRS Worship & Maverick City Music feat. Chandler Moore
”In The Room” - Maverick City Music, Naomi Raine & Chandler Moore feat. Tasha Cobbs Leonard
”That’s My King” - CeCe Winans
Best Gospel Album
Covered Vol 1 - Melvin Crispell III
Choirmaster II (Live) - Ricky Dillard
Father’s Day - Kirk Franklin
Still Karen - Karen Clark Sheard
More Than This - CeCe Winans
Best Contemporary Christian Music Album
Heart of a Human - DOE
When Wind Meets Fire - Elevation Worship
Child of God - Forrest Frank
Coat of Many Colors - Brandon Lake
The Maverick Way Complete - Maverick City Music, Naomi Raine & Chandler Moore
Best Roots Gospel Album
The Gospel Sessions, Vol 2 - Authentic Unlimited
The Gospel According To Mark - Mark D. Conklin
Rhapsody - The Harlem Gospel Travelers
Church - Cory Henry
Loving You - The Nelons
Best Latin Pop Album
Funk Generation - Anitta
El Viaje - Luis Fonsi
GARCÍA - Kany García
Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran - Shakira
ORQUÍDEAS - Kali Uchis
Best Música Urbana Album
nadie sabe lo que va a pasar mañana - Bad Bunny
Rayo - J Balvin
FERXXOCALIPSIS - Feid
LAS LETRAS YA NO IMPORTAN - Residente
att. - Young Miko
Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album
Compita del Destino - El David Aguilar
Pa’ Tu Cuerpa - Cimafunk
Autopoiética - Mon Laferte
GRASA - NATHY PELUSO
?Quién trae las cornetas? - Rawayana
Best Música Mexicana Album (including Tejano)
Diamentes - Chiquis
Boca Chueca, Vol. 1 - Carín León
ÉXODO - Peso Pluma
De Lejitos - Jessi Uribe
Best Tropical Latin Album
MUEVENSE - Marc Anthony
Bailar - Sheila E.
Radio Güira - Juan Luis Guerra 4.40
Alma, Corazón y Salsa (Live at Gran Teatro Nacional) - Tony Succar, Mimy Succar
Vacilón Santiaguero - Kiki Valera
Best Global Music Performance
”Raat Ki Rani” - Arooj Aftab
”A Rock Somewhere” - Jacob Collier feat. Anoushka Shankar & Varijashree Venugopal
”Rise” - Rocky Dawuni
”Bemba Colorá” - Sheila E. feat. Gloria Estefan & Mimy Succar
”Sunlight To My Soul” - Angélique Kidjo feat. Soweto Gospel Choir
”Kashira” - Masa Takumi feat. Ron Korb, Noshir Mody, Dale Edward Chung
Best African Music Performance
”Tomorrow” - Yemi Alade
”MMS” - Asake & Wizkid
”Sensational” - Chris Brown feat. Davido & Lojay
”Higher” - Burna Boy
”Love Me JeJe” - Tems
Best Global Music Album
ALKEBULAN II - Matt B Feat. Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Paisajes - Ciro Hurtado
Heis - Rema
Historias de un Flamenco - Antonio Rey
Born In The Wild - Tems
Best Reggae Album
Take It Easy - Collie Buddz
Party With Me - Vybz Kartel
Never Gets Late Here - Shenseea
Bob Marley: One Love - Music Inspired By The FIlm (Deluxe) - Various Artists
Evolution - The Wailers
Best New Age, Ambient or Chant Album
Break of Dawn - Ricky Kej
Triveni - Wouter Kellerman, Éru Matsumoto, Chandrika Tandon
Visions of Sounds De Luxe - Chris Redding
Opus - Ryuichi Sakamoto
Chapter II: How Dark It Is Before Dawn - Anoushka Shankar
Warriors of Light - Radhika Vekaria
Best Children’s Music Album
Brillo, Brillo! - Lucky Diaz And The Family Jam Band
Creciendo - Lucky Kalantari & The Jazz Cats
My Favorite Dream - John Legend
Solid Rock Revival - Rock For Children
World Wide Playdate - Divinity Roxx and Divi Roxx Kids
Best Comedy Album
Armageddon - Ricky Gervais
The Dreamer - Dave Chappelle
The Prisoner - Jim Gaffigan
Someday You’ll Die - Nikki Glaser
Where Was I - Trevor Noah
Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
All You Need Is Love: The Beatles In Their Own Words (Various Artists) - Guy Oldfield, producer
…And Your Ass Will Follow - George Clinton
Behind The Seams: My Life In Rhinestones - Dolly Parton
Last Sundays in Plains: A Centennial Celebration - Jimmy Carter
My Name is Barbara - Barbara Streisand
Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media
The Color Purple
Deadpool & Wolverine
Maestro: Music by Leonard Bernstein
Saltburn
Twisters: The Album
Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media (Includes Film and Television)
American Fiction - Laura Karpman
Challengers - Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
The Color Purple - Kris Bowers
Dune: Part Two - Hans Zimmer
Shōgun - Nick Cuba, Atticus Ross, Leopold Ross
Best Score Soundtrack For Video Games and Other Interactive Media
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora - Pinar Toprak
God of War Ragnarök: Valhalla - Bear McCreary
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 - John Paesano
Star Wars Outlaws - Wilbert Roget, II
Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord - Winifred Phillips
Best Song Written For Visual Media
”Ain’t No Love In Oaklahoma” (from Twisters: The Album) - Luke Combs
”Better Place (from TROLLS Band Together) - *NSYNC & Justin Timberlake
”Can’t Catch Me Now (from The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes) - Olivia Rodrigo
”It Never Went Away (from American Symphony) - Jon Batiste
”Love Will Survive (from The Tattooist of Auschwitz) - Barbara Streisand
Best Music Video
”Tailor Swif” - A$AP Rocky
”360” - Charli XCX
”Houdini” - Eminem
”Not Like Us” - Kendrick Lamar
”Fortnight” - Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone
Best Music FIlm
”American Symphony” - Jon Batiste
”June” - (June Carter Cash)
”Kings From Queens” - Run DMC
”Stevie Van Zandt: Disciple - Steven Van Zandt
”The Greatest Night In Pop” - Various Artists
Best Recording Package
The Avett Brothers - The Avett Brothers
Baker Hotel - William Clark Green
BRAT - Charli XCX
F-1 Trillion - Post Malone
Hounds of Love The Baskerville Edition - Kate Bush
Jug Band Millionaire - The Muddy Basin Ramblers
Pregnancy, Breakdown, and Disease - iWhoiWhoo
Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package
Half Living Things - Alpha Wolf
Hounds of Love The Boxes of Lost At Sea - Kate Bush
In Utero - Nirvana
Mind Games - John Lennon
Unsuk Chin - Unsuk Chin & Berliner Philarmoniker
We Blame Chicago - 90 Day Men
Best Album Notes
After Midnight - Ford Dabney’s Syncopated Orchestra
The Carnegie Hall Concert - Alice Coltrane
Centennial - King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band & Various Artists
John Culshaw - John Culshaw
SONtrack Original De La Película “Al Son De Beno” - Various Artists
Best Historical Album
Centennial - King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band And Various Artists
Diamonds and Pearls: Super Deluxe Edition - Prince & The New Power Generation
Paul Robeson - Paul Robeson
Pepito y Paquito - Pepe De Lucía and Paco De Lucía
The Sound of Music (Original Soundtrack Recording - Super Deluxe Edition) - Rodgers & Hammerstein & Julie Andrews
Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
Algorithm - Lucky Daye
Cyan Blue - Charlotte Day Wilson
Deeper Well - Kacey Musgraves
empathogen - WILLOW
i/o - Peter Gabriel
Short n’ Sweet - Sabrina Carpenter
Best Engineered Album, Classical
Adams: Girls Of the Golden West
Andres: The BLind Banister
Bruckner: Symphony No. 7: Bates: Resurrexit
Clear Voices in the Dark
Ortiz: Revolución Diamantino
Producer of the Year, Classical
Erica Brenner
Christoph Franke
Morten Lindberg
Dmitriy Lipay
Elaine Martone
Dirk Sobotka
Best Immersive Audio Album
Avalon - Roxy Music
Genius Loves Company - Ray Charles w/ Various Artists
Henning Sommerro: Borders - Trondheim Symphony Orchestra
i/o (In-Side Mix) - Peter Gabriel
Pax - Ensemble 96 & Current Saxophone Quartet
Best Instrumental Composition
”At Last” - Shelly Berg
”Communion” - Christopher Zuar Orchestra
”I Swear, I Really Wanted To Make a “Rap” Album But This Is Literally The Way The Wind Blew Me This Time” - André 3000
”Remembrance” - Chick Corea & Béla Fleck"
”Strands” - Akropolis Reed Quintet, Pascal Le Boeuf, Christian Euman
Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella
”Baby Elephant Walk - Encore” - Snarky Puppy
”Bridge Over Troubled Water” - Jacob Collier feat. John Legend & Tori Kelly"
”Rhapsody in Blue(Grass) - Béla Fleck feat. Michael Cleveland, Sierra Hull, Justin Moses, Mark Schatz, Bryan Sutton
”Rose Without The Thorns” - Scott Hoying feat. säje & Tonality
”Silent Night” - säje
Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals
”Alma” - säje feat. Regina Carter
”Always Come Back” - John Legend
”b i g f e e l i n g s” - WILLOW
”Last Surprise (From “Persona 5”)” - The 8-Bit Big Band Feat. Jonah Nilsson & Button Masher
”The Sound of Silence” - Cody Fry feat. Sleeping At Last"
Best Orchestra Performance
”Adams: City Noir, Fearful Symmetries & Lola Montez Does The Spider Dance” - ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
”Kodály: Háry János Suite: Summer Evening & Symphony in C Major” - Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
”Ortiz: Revolución Diamantina” - Los Angeles Philharmonic
”Sibelius: Karelia Suite, Rakastava, & Kemminkäinen - Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
”Stravinsky: The Firebird” - San Francisco Symphony
Best Opera Recording
”Adams: Girls of the Golden West” - Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Master Chorale
”Catán: Florencia En Al Amazonas” - The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, The Metropolitan Opera Chorus
”Moravec: The Shining” - Kansas City Symphony, Lyric Opera Of Kansas City Chorus
”Puts: The Hours” - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Metropolian Opera Chorus
”Saariaho: Adriana Mater” - San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Symphony Chorus, Timo Kurkikangas"
Best Choral Performance
”Clear Voices In The Dark”
”A Dream So Bright: Choral Music of Jake Runestad"
”Handel: Israel In Egypt”
”Ochre”
”Sheehan: Akathist”
Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
”Adamsn, J.L.: Waves & Particles” - JACK Quartet
”Beethoven For Three: Symphony No. 4 and Op. 97, ‘Archduke’” - Yo-Yo Ma, Leonidas Kavakos & Emanuel Ax
”Cerrone: Beaufort Scales” - Beth Willer, Christopher Cerrone, Lorelei Ensemble
”Home” - Miró Quartet
”Rectangles and Circumstance” - Caroline Shaw & Sō Percussion
Best Classical Instrumental Solo
”Akiho: Longing” - Andy Akiho
”Bach: Goldberg Variations” - Víkingur Ólafsson
”Eastman: The Holy Presence of Joan D’Arc” - Seth Parker Woods
”Entourer” - Mak Grgić
”Perry": Concerto For Violin & Orchestra” - Curtis Stewart
Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
Beyond The Years: Unpublished Songs of Florence Price
A Change Is Gonna Come
Newman: Bespoke Songs
Show Me The Way
Wagner: Wasendonck Lieder
Best Classical Compendium
Akiho: BeLonging
American Counterpoints
Foss: Symphony No 1; Renaissance Concerto, Three American Pieces; Ode
Mythologies II
Ortiz: Revolución Diamantina
Best Contemporary Classical Composition
”Casarrubios: Seven For Solo Cello” - Andrea Casarrubios
”Coleman: Revelry” - Decoda
”Lang: Composition As Explanation” - David Lang
”Ortiz: Revolución Diamantina - Gabriela Ortiz
Saariaho: Adriana Mater - Kaija Saariaho
