Sabrina Carpenter has received the primary Grammy Award of 2025, taking house greatest pop solo efficiency for her percolating summer time anthem, Espresso.
British star Charli XCX additionally received a clutch of early prizes – together with greatest dance/pop album for her razor sharp membership album Brat; and greatest dance/pop music for its lead single Von Dutch. They’re the star’s first ever Grammys as a solo act.
The prizes are being handed out on the Grammys’ “premiere ceremony”, which precedes the principle occasion at 5pm Los Angeles / 1am London time.
The present began with an all-star rendition of Simon & Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water, devoted to the victims of the LA Wildfires.
Yolanda Adams and Angelique Kidjo had been among the many artists performing a uncooked, gospel-infused model of the 60s traditional, devoted to the primary responders who risked their lives to deal with the inferno and defend the susceptible.
Grammys CEO Harvey Mason Jr advised the viewers on the Crypto.com enviornment that the awards would “honour music’s nice energy to encourage, to heal and to unite”.
He added: “Due to the current fires that devastated Los Angeles, we’re additionally going to recognise the resilience of our neighborhood and have a good time our first responders and do our easiest to raise up this metropolis that we love.”
Beyoncé is the principle nominee at this yr’s ceremony, along with her country-adjacent album Cowboy Carter shortlisted for 11 awards.
She has already received greatest nation efficiency by a duo or group, for her duet with Miley Cyrus, II Most Needed.
Nonetheless, she was overwhelmed to greatest nation music by Kacey Musgraves, whose music The Architect questions the existence of God after a college capturing.
Taking to the stage, Musgraves mentioned: “There’s a lot darkness on this planet proper now, and it simply feels so good to have the ability to struggle a few of that darkness by means of music”.
Musgraves beforehand received album of the yr in 2019 for Golden Hour.
The nominees for that prize this yr embody Billie Eilish, Beyoncé (who has by no means received the class, regardless of 4 earlier nominations) Taylor Swift, Chappell Roan and rapper André 3000, who’s nominated for his religious jazz flute album New Blue Solar.
Charli XCX and Sabrina Carpenter are additionally up for the award – and followers might be speculating whether or not their early wins enhance their odds of taking the night time’s important prize.
Neither artist was there in particular person to gather their preliminary trophies, as they’re as a result of carry out on the headline ceremony later within the night.
Nonetheless Charli’s producer, Finn Keane, accepted the award for Von Dutch on her behalf, calling her an “superb collaborator”.
“She has been making this sort of music for 10 years, however everybody’s simply caught as much as it,” he added.