The 2025 Grammy Awards are on Sunday, and the nominations seize a pop music universe maybe experiencing metamorphosis.
Beyoncé has essentially the most nods, 11 — no shock there, as she is essentially the most awarded artist in Grammys historical past. Charli XCX and Publish Malone have eight nominations every; Billie Eilish and Kendrick Lamar have seven; Chappell Roan, Sabrina Carpenter and Taylor Swift every have six.
That could be a mixture of Grammy favorites and younger upstarts, which implies this yr’s ceremony would possibly find yourself as a altering of the guard, or an implicit rebuke of inevitable change.
On this week’s Popcast, a dialog about whether or not the Grammys have lastly aligned themselves with the cultural second, how they’re prone to cope with the ascendancy of Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter, and whether or not this would be the yr that Beyoncé lastly takes residence the prize for album of the yr.
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