Grammy Awards 2025 winners: Beyoncé wins 'Album of the Year', Kendrick Lamar takes 'Song and Record of the Year', Chappell Roan named 'Best New Artist'

Beyoncé won her first career Album of the Year award tonight at the 67th Annual Grammy Awards. Diana Ross, accompanied onstage by personnel from the Los Angeles County Fire Department, surprised her with the statuette. The event was devoted to individuals who were touched by the wildfire disaster last month.

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Cowboy Carter's win, which also included Country Album of the Year, adds to Queen Bey's historic career total, bringing her 35th Grammy and third of the night. "I'd like to thank, acknowledge, and praise all of the firefighters for keeping us safe," Beyoncé stated as she accepted the top prize. "I just feel very full and very honored." 

Meanwhile, Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us" won Song, Record, and Rap Song of the Year, and he addressed Los Angeles and several of its communities after winning Record. "I can't give enough thanks to these places that I rolled around since high school, and most importantly to the people and the families out in the Palisades and Altadena."

Lamar went 5-for-5 today, winning every category in which he was nominated. He was twice nominated for Best Rap Song and Best Music Video. It was quite a difference from last year, when Music's Biggest Night became Ladies Night, with women sweeping the four marquee categories of Album, Record, and Song of the Year, as well as Best New Artist, with Taylor Swift winning Album of the Year for the record fourth time with Midnights.

Swift, who won Best Country Album two years ago, presented this year's award to Beyoncé for Cowboy Carter, her maiden foray into that genre. Onstage, the singer, who appeared astonished by her triumph, said, "I think genre is a code word to keep us in our place as artists, and I just want to encourage people to do what they're passionate about."

The Beyoncé-Swift encounter onstage brought up memories of the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, when Swift won Best Female Video for "You Belong with Me" and had her acceptance speech hijacked by Kanye West, who protested that Beyoncé should have won for "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)."

Chappell Roan won Best New Artist and delivered a passionate statement. "I told myself, if I ever won a Grammy and I got to stand up here in front of the most powerful people in music, I would demand that labels and the industry profiting millions of dollars off of artists would offer a livable wage and health care, especially to developing artists." She received another standing ovation as she concluded with, "Labels. — we got you, but do you got us."

Trevor Noah, the event's host, said that just a few weeks ago, it was uncertain whether the show would go place. This city has recently experienced one of the biggest natural disasters in American history, as you are already aware. Tonight, we're not just celebrating our favorite music, but also the city that gave us so much of it.

He then introduced Dawes, who sang the local anthem "I Love L.A.," written by native Angeleno and seven-time Grammy winner Randy Newman. Some of the band's backing musicians, including John Legend, Sheryl Crow, Brad Paisley, Brittany Howard, and St. Vincent, may be familiar names. Near the end of the night, Noah said more than $7 million had been raised by viewers alone.

Sabrina Carpenter won Best Pop Vocal Album for Short n' Sweet. When Anthony Kiedis and Chad Smith of the L.A. band Red Hot Chili Peppers took the stage to present the category, they collaborated on the key opening verse from their breakout hit "Under the Bridge": "Sometimes I feel like I don't have a partner/Sometimes I feel like my only friend/Is the city I live in, the City of Angels/Lonely as I am, together we cry."

The first winner during the telecast was Doechii, who won Best Rap Album for Alligator Bites Never Heal. The Tampa native noted on stage that only two women have won before her since the category was founded in 1989: Lauryn Hill and Cardi B, who presented the prize.

In terms of those performances, which are an annual Grammy highlight, The Weeknd surprised everyone with his rendition of "Timeless." It was his first Grammy performance since declaring a boycott of the awards event in 2020. Back then, he said on social media, "Collaboratively arranging a performance for weeks and not getting invited? In my perspective, zero nominations means you are not invited!"

The second performance of the night came from Los Angeles resident Billie Eilish, who sang her Song and Record of the Year candidate "Birds of a Feather" on a set that resembled a rural setting from the nearby mountains. Carpenter subsequently performed her Record of the Year nominee, "Espresso," which had previously won some awards during the preshow. Charli XCX performed an underwear-laden "Guess."

The Grammys opted to feature all of the Best New Artist nominees in performance.

Roan, the category winner, performed her "Pink Pony Club," backed by rodeo clown dancers and occasionally seated atop a 6-foot-high pink horse. Khruangbin later performed a bare-bones rendition of "May Ninth."

Benson Boone completed the New Artist nominee performance, performing "Beautiful Things" - replete with a spectacular dismount from atop the piano. Doechii performed an intricately choreographed "Denial Is a River," followed by Teddy Swims' somber "Lose Control," backed by strings.

Shaboozey followed with the biggest hit of 2024, "A Bar Song (Tipsy)," which topped the Billboard Hot 100 for a record-tying 19 weeks. He closed with a brief, "We love you, L.A.," before handing over to Raye, who sang a soaring version of "Oscar Winning Tears" backed by elegantly dressed band and dancers.

After the New Artist award was given, there was a heartbreaking montage depicting the unimaginable damage caused by the Los Angeles wildfires last month. Along with the pictures of destruction, there were testimony from those who had lost everything but were still looking forward.

Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars next performed a duet on the L.A.-centric classic "California Dreamin'," which was equal parts melancholy, joyous, and all in.

That couple eventually had an onstage mutual-respect moment after winning Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for "Die with a Smile." Gaga then informed the crowd, "Trans people are not invisible."

Shakira scored her fourth career Grammy, this time for Best Latin Pop Album with Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran. Later, she appeared on the Grammy stage for the first time since 2007, doing a high-energy medley that had many of the VIPs on the stadium floor up and dancing.

Will Smith returned to an awards show stage for the first time since "The Slap," when he introduced an homage to the late music maestro Quincy Jones. Herbie Hancock joined Cynthia Erivo on "Fly Me to the Moon," from the Grammy-winning 1964 Frank Sinatra and Count Basie album It Might as Well Be Swing, which Jones arranged. Lainie Wilson then sang "Let the Good Times Roll," and Stevie Wonder joined Hancock onstage for a harmonica and piano-fueled musical homage.

The two then shared some intimate memories of Jones, including a look back and performance of the breakthrough 1985 famine relief song "We Are the World," which Jones produced. Wonder and Hancock were joined by a massive chorus of young vocalists in identical "Heart LA" uniforms from two schools that were devastated in the fires.

The tribute concluded with Janelle Monáe channeling Michael Jackson on the Jones-produced No. 1 song "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough." Jones, a 28-time Grammy-winning producer, arranger, film and television composer, arranger, conductor, and trumpeter, died in November at age 91.

Not mentioned in the part were Peter, Paul, and Mary's Peter Yarrow, Brenton Wood, Mike Pinder of the Moody Blues, Greg Kihn, Dick Asher, "Screamin' Scott" Simon of Sha Na Na, early Bee Gees drummer Colin Peterson, Moby Grape's Jerry Miller, and Mojo Nixon.

During the pre-telecast Premiere show, Beyoncé won her 33rd Grammy for Best Country Duo/Group Performance for her and Miley Cyrus' "II Most Wanted" from Cowboy Carter, her debut country album. She enters the day with a career-high 11 nominations, bringing her total to 99.

Sierra Ferrell swept the Americana categories, winning Song, Album, and Performances for a total of four Grammys, while Kendrick Lamar won three out of seven for his blockbuster "Not Like Us" (Rap Song, Performance, and Music Video). St. Vincent also won three awards, including Best Alternative Album, Song, and Performance.

Jon Batiste and his American Symphony, Carpenter, and Charli XCX all won twice, with Charli XCX's album Brat also winning Best Recording Package. Amy Allen, a Key Carpenter songwriter, received Songwriter of the Year (Non-Classical), while Daniel Nigro, the producer of Roan and Olivia Rodrigo, won Producer of the Year (Non-Classical).

Other significant awards from the preshow were Jimmy Carter's posthumous Grammy for Last Sundays in Plains: A Centennial Celebration in the Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording category, as well as Dave Chappelle's The Dreamer for Best Comedy Album. It was Chappelle's sixth career win in the category, one behind Bill Cosby's record of seven. In a mini-British invasion, The Beatles, who were also nominated for Record of the Year tonight, won Best Rock Performance for "Now and Then," while The Rolling Stones won Best Rock Album for Hackney Diamonds.

In the film, television, and theater categories, Hans Zimmer won for his Dune: Part Two score, while Bradley Cooper won a Compilation Soundtrack Grammy with the London Symphony Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin for Maestro: Music by Leonard Bernstein from Cooper's Oscar-nominated Bernstein biopic. Hell's Kitchen, by Alicia Keys, received the award for Best Musical Theater Album.

This year's Lifetime Achievement Award honorees were Prince, The Clash, Frankie Valli, Frankie Beverly, Dr. Bobby Jones, Taj Mahal, and Roxanne Shante.The 2025 Trustees Award winners are Erroll Garner, Glyn Johns, and Tania León.Dr. Leo Beranek, whose early work in acoustics helped establish the framework for contemporary engineering, will be honored with the 2025 Technical Grammy Award.

Alicia Keys was presented with the Grammys' Global Impact Awards.

Here are the winners at the 2025 Grammy Awards, including the Premiere preshow, which you can watch at the bottom of this post:

Album of the Year

Cowboy Carter – Beyoncé

Beyoncé, Terius "The-Dream" Gesteelde-Diamant & Dave Hamelin, producers; Matheus Braz, Brandon Harding, Hotae Alexander Jang, Dani Pampuri & Stuart White, engineers/mixers; Ryan Beatty, Beyoncé, Camaron Ochs, Terius "The-Dream" Gesteelde-Diamant, Dave Hamelin, S. Carter & Raphael Saadiq, songwriters; Colin Leonard, mastering engineer

Song of the Year

"Not Like Us" — Kendrick Lamar, songwriter (Kendrick Lamar)

Record of the Year

"Not Like Us" – Kendrick Lamar

Sean Momberger, Mustard & Sounwave, producers; Ray Charles Brown Jr. & Johnathan Turner, engineers/mixers; Nicolas de Porcel, mastering engineer

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance

"Die with a Smile" — Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars

Best Latin Pop Album

Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran — Shakira

Best New Artist

Chappell Roan

Best Country Album

Cowboy Carter — Beyoncé

Best Pop Vocal Album

Short n' Sweet — Sabrina Carpenter

Best Rap Album

Alligator Bites Never Heal — Doechii

Best Contemporary Classical Composition

Ortiz: Revolución Diamantina — Gabriela Ortiz, composer (Gustavo Dudamel, Los Angeles Philharmonic & Los Angeles Master Chorale)

Best Classical Compendium

Ortiz: Revolución Diamantina — Gustavo Dudamel, conductor; Dmitriy Lipay, producer

Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals

"Alma" — Erin Bentlage, Sara Gazarek, Johnaye Kendrick & Amanda Taylor, arrangers (säje Featuring Regina Carter)

Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella

"Bridge Over Troubled Water" — Jacob Collier, Tori Kelly & John Legend, arrangers (Jacob Collier Featuring John Legend & Tori Kelly)

Best Musical Theater Album

Hell's Kitchen — Shoshana Bean, Brandon Victor Dixon, Kecia Lewis & Meleah Joi Moon, principal vocalists; Adam Blackstone, Alicia Keys & Tom Kitt, producers (Alicia Keys, composer & lyricist) (Original Broadway Cast)

Best Spoken Word Poetry Album

The Heart, The Mind, The Soul — Tank and The Bangas

Best Classical Solo Vocal Album

Beyond The Years – Unpublished Songs Of Florence Price — Karen Slack, soloist; Michelle Cann, pianist

Best Classical Instrumental Solo

"Bach: Goldberg Variations" — Víkingur Ólafsson

Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance

"Rectangles and Circumstance" — Caroline Shaw & Sō Percussion

Best Choral Performance

"Ochre" — Donald Nally, conductor (The Crossing)

Best Opera Recording

"Saariaho: Adriana Mater" — Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor; Fleur Barron, Axelle Fanyo, Nicholas Phan & Christopher Purves; Jason O’Connell, producer (San Francisco Symphony; San Francisco Symphony Chorus; Timo Kurkikangas)

Best Orchestral Performance

|"Ortiz: Revolución Diamantina" — Gustavo Dudamel, conductor (Los Angeles Philharmonic)

Best Instrumental Composition

"Strands" — Pascal Le Boeuf, composer (Akropolis Reed Quintet, Pascal Le Boeuf & Christian Euman)

Best Immersive Audio Album

i/o (In-Side Mix) — Hans-Martin Buff, immersive mix engineer; Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel & Richard Russell, immersive producers (Peter Gabriel)

Producer of the Year, Classical 

(A Producer's Award. Artist names appear in parentheses. S stands for Single, T for Track and A for Album)

Elaine Martone

Bartók: String Quartet No.3; Suite From 'The Miraculous Mandarin' (Franz Welser-Möst & The Cleveland Orchestra) (A)

The Book Of Spells (Merian Ensemble) (A)

Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 (Franz Welser-Möst & The Cleveland Orchestra) (A)

Divine Mischief (Julian Bliss, J. Eric Wilson & Baylor University Wind Ensemble) (A)

Joy! (John Morris Russell & Cincinnati Pops) (A)

Prokofiev: Symphony No. 6 (Franz Welser-Möst & The Cleveland Orchestra) (A)

Schubert: The Complete Impromptus (Gerardo Teissonnière) (A)

Stranger At Home (Shachar Israel) (A)

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 (Franz Welser-Möst & The Cleveland Orchestra) (A)

Best Engineered Album, Classical

Bruckner: Symphony No. 7; Bates: Resurrexit — Mark Donahue & John Newton, engineers; Mark Donahue, mastering engineer (Manfred Honeck & Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra)

Best New Age, Ambient, or Chant Album

Triveni — Wouter Kellerman, Éru Matsumoto & Chandrika Tandon

Best Reggae Album

Bob Marley: One Love – Music Inspired By The Film (Deluxe) — (Various Artists)

Best Global Music Album

Alkebulan II — Matt B Featuring Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Best African Music Performance

"Love Me JeJe" — Tems

Best Global Music Performance

"Bemba Colorá" — Sheila E. Featuring Gloria Estefan & Mimy Succar

Best Contemporary Instrumental Album

Plot Armor — Taylor Eigsti

Best Alternative Jazz Album

No More Water: The Gospel Of James Baldwin — Meshell Ndegeocello

Best Latin Jazz Album

Cubop Lives! — Zaccai Curtis

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album

Bianca Reimagined: Music for Paws and Persistence — Dan Pugach Big Band

Best Jazz Instrumental Album

Remembrance — Chick Corea & Béla Fleck

Best Jazz Vocal Album

A Joyful Holiday — Samara Joy

Best Jazz Performance

"Twinkle Twinkle Little Me" — Samara Joy Featuring Sullivan Fortner

Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical

i/o — Tchad Blake, Oli Jacobs, Katie May & Dom Shaw, engineers; Matt Colton, mastering engineer (Peter Gabriel)

Best Song Written For Visual Media

It Never Went Away [From "American Symphony"] — Jon Batiste & Dan Wilson, songwriters (Jon Batiste)

Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media

Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord — Winifred Phillips, composer

Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media (Includes Film And Television)

Dune: Part Two — Hans Zimmer, composer

Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media

Maestro: Music By Leonard Bernstein — London Symphony Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Bradley Cooper

Best Alternative Music Album

All Born Screaming — St. Vincent

Best Alternative Music Performance

"Flea" — St. Vincent

Best Rock Album

Hackney Diamonds — The Rolling Stones

Best Rock Song

"Broken Man" — Annie Clark, songwriter (St. Vincent)

Best Metal Performance

"Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!)" — Gojira, Marina Viotti & Victor Le Masne

Best Rock Performance

"Now and Then" — The Beatles

Producer of the Year, Non-Classical (A Producer’s Award. 

Artist names appear in parentheses. S stands for Single, T for Track and A for Album)

Daniel Nigro

"Can't Catch Me Now (From The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes)" (Olivia Rodrigo) (S)

Chappell Roan The Rise and Fall Of A Midwest Princess (Chappell Roan) (A)

"girl i've always been" (Olivia Rodrigo) (T)

“Good Luck, Babe!" (Chappell Roan) (S)

"so american" (Olivia Rodrigo) (T)

"stranger" (Olivia Rodrigo) (T)

Best Historical Album

Centennial — Meagan Hennessey & Richard Martin, compilation producers; Richard Martin, mastering engineer (King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band And Various Artists)

Best Album Notes

Centennial — Ricky Riccardi, album notes writer (King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band & Various Artists)

Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package

Mind Games — Simon Hilton & Sean Ono Lennon, art directors (John Lennon)

Best Recording Package

Brat — Brent David Freaney & Imogene Strauss, art directors (Charli xcx)

Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording

Last Sundays in Plains: A Centennial Celebration — Jimmy Carter

Best Comedy Album

The Dreamer — Dave Chappelle

Best Children's Music Album

Brillo, Brillo! — Lucky Diaz And The Family Jam Band

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album

Visions — Norah Jones

Best Music Film

"American Symphony" — Jon Batiste

Matthew Heineman, video director; Lauren Domino, Matthew Heineman & Joedan Okun, video producers

Best Music Video

"Not Like Us" — Kendrick Lamar

Dave Free & Kendrick Lamar, video directors; Jack Begert, Sam Canter & Jamie Rabineau, video producers

Best Rap Song

"Not Like Us" — Kendrick Lamar, songwriter (Kendrick Lamar)

Best Melodic Rap Performance

"3" — Rapsody Featuring Erykah Badu

Best Rap Performance

"Not Like Us" — Kendrick Lamar

Best R&B Album

11:11 (Deluxe) — Chris Brown

Best Progressive R&B Album (tie)

So Glad to Know You — Avery*Sunshine

Why Lawd? — NxWorries (Anderson .Paak & Knxwledge)

Best R&B Song

"Saturn" — Rob Bisel, Carter Lang, Solána Rowe, Jared Solomon & Scott Zhang, songwriters (SZA)

Best Traditional R&B Performance

"That's You" — Lucky Daye

Best R&B Performance

"Made For Me (Live On BET)" — Muni Long

Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical

A Songwriter's Award. (Artists' names appear in parentheses.) (S) stands for Single, (T) stands for Track

Amy Allen

"Chrome Cowgirl" (Leon Bridges) (S)

"Espresso" (Sabrina Carpenter) (S)

"High Road" (Koe Wetzel & Jessie Murph) (S)

"Please Please Please" (Sabrina Carpenter) (S)

"run for the hills" (Tate McRae) (S)

"scared of my guitar" (Olivia Rodrigo) (T)

"Selfish" (Justin Timberlake) (S)

"Sweet Dreams" (Koe Wetzel) (S)

"Taste" (Sabrina Carpenter) (S)

Best Tropical Latin Album

Alma, Corazón y Salsa (Live at Gran Teatro Nacional) — Tony Succar, Mimy Succar

Best Música Mexicana Album (Including Tejano)

Boca Chueca, Vol. 1 — Carín León

Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album

¿Quién trae las cornetas? — Rawayana

Best Música Urbana Album

Las Letras Ya No Importan — Residente

Best Contemporary Blues Album

Mileage — Ruthie Foster

Best Traditional Blues Album

Swingin' Live at The Church in Tulsa — The Taj Mahal Sextet

Best American Roots Performance

"Lighthouse" — Sierra Ferrell

Best Country Song

"The Architect" — Shane McAnally, Kacey Musgraves & Josh Osborne, songwriters (Kacey Musgraves)

Best Country Duo/Group Performance

"II Most Wanted" — Beyoncé Featuring Miley Cyrus

Best Country Solo Performance

"It Takes A Woman" — Chris Stapleton

Best Roots Gospel Album

Church — Cory Henry

Best Contemporary Christian Music Album

Heart Of A Human — DOE

Best Gospel Album

More Than This — CeCe Winans

Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song

"That's My King" — CeCe Winans; Taylor Agan, Kellie Gamble, Llyod Nicks & Jess Russ, songwriters

Best Gospel Performance/Song

"One Hallelujah" — Tasha Cobbs Leonard, Erica Campbell & Israel Houghton Featuring Jonathan McReynolds & Jekalyn Carr; G. Morris Coleman, Israel Houghton, Kenneth Leonard, Jr., Tasha Cobbs Leonard & Naomi Raine, songwriters

Best Regional Roots Music Album

Kuini — Kalani Pe'a

Best Folk Album

Woodland — Gillian Welch & David Rawlings

Best Bluegrass Album

Live Vol. 1 — Billy Strings

Best Americana Album

Trail Of Flowers — Sierra Ferrell

Best American Roots Song

"American Dreaming" — Sierra Ferrell & Melody Walker, songwriters (Sierra Ferrell)

Best Americana Performance

"American Dreaming" — Sierra Ferrell

Best Remix Recording

"Espresso (Mark Ronson x FNZ Working Late Remix)" — FNZ & Mark Ronson, remixers (Sabrina Carpenter)

Best Dance Pop Recording

"Von dutch" — Charli xcx

Best Pop Solo Performance

"Espresso" – Sabrina Carpenter

Best Dance/Electronic Album

BRAT — Charli xcx

Best Dance/Electronic Recording

"Neverender" — Justice & Tame Impala