Grammy Awards 2025: Who will win and who should win?
31.01.2025 - 14:35
/ euronews.com
/ Bob Dylan
/ Kendrick Lamar
/ Michael Jackson
/ Billie Eilish
/ David Mouriquand
The 67th Grammy Awards are coming and it’s a particularly competitive year.
Beyoncé leads the 2025 nominees and looks set to make history... However, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar, Charli XCX and Chappell Roan are all vying for their moment in the spotlight.
So, who will be victorious and take home the coveted gramophone-shaped trophies on Sunday?
It’s tough to predict, as the Grammy Awards are infamous for getting it wrong. After all, this is the awards body who chose Bob Dylan’s 'Time Out of Mind' over Radiohead’s 'OK Computer' in 1998; championed Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ 'The Heist' instead of Kendrick Lamar’s ‘good kid, m.A.A.d. city’ in 2014; and decided Beyoncé's 'Lemonade' wasn’t worth Album of the Year in 2017.
You can forgive, but forgetting is harder.
Still, any excuse to get our crystal ball out... Here are Euronews Culture’s predictions in the “big four” categories this year.
Nominees:
Queen Bey is up for 11 awards thanks to 'Cowboy Carter', tying with Michael Jackson’s 'Thriller' for most nominations for a single album. She's also the most awarded artist in Grammys' history, and if she does win Album of the Year, she’ll become the first Black woman to do so in the 21st century.
So, has the time finally come for Beyoncé to take home the top prize?
It is overdue. However, she does have some strong competition this year, which could lead the Beyhive to riot. Taylor Swift is the most prolific winner of the award, having won it four times; if she nabs it again, she'll become the first female artist to win the prize in consecutive years... Charli XCX could continue her Brat domination... And then there’s Grammys darling Billie Eilish, who could very well end up dashing Bey’s hopes - as well as Chappell Roan’s, whose debut album 'The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess' is a strong contender for the top prize.
All we know is that it won’t be André 3000’s flute-led album.
Will win: Beyoncé
Should win: Charli XCX
Nominees:
In case you were unsure, Grammy guidelines state that Record of the Year recognises the producers and engineers who contributed to the recording, while Song of the Year rewards the songwriters behind the track.
While there is a difference, most of the time the two go hand in hand.
While it’s tempting to give it to The Beatles for ‘Now And Then’, as the band have never won Record of the Year, the fact that the track was AI-assisted might send the wrong message.
Chappell Roan’s hit song ‘Good Luck, Babe!’ is superb and could be a worthy winner, while Sabrina Carpenter’s perfectly calibrated pop earworm ‘Espresso’ seems like a safe bet.
However, for our money, it’s between Kendrick Lamar and Billie Eilish for this category. Lamar’s diss track which essentially tanked Drake’s career and