Beyoncé wins Best Album of the Year for 'Cowboy Carter' at the Grammy Awards

Tuesday, 4 February 2025 12:23

By Ali Hill

All the winners & highlights for this Year's Grammy Awards

It was a huge night for the music world at the 67th Annual Grammy Awards yesterday – with some big stars filling the seats at the Crypto Theatre in LA… Host Trevor Noah used every opportunity to raise awareness and funds for the victims of the LA wildfires.

The night was packed with electric performances, surprise wins, and major moments!

But the biggest moment belonged to Beyonce who finally got her hands on the top honour - Album of the Year for - Cowboy Carter. 
Queen B also won Grammys for Best Country Album & Best Country Duo.


Record of the Year was claimed by Kendrick Lamar for Not Like Us, along with 4 other Grammys including Song of the Year, showing he’s still the king rap.


Doechii made history becoming the 3rd woman to ever win Best Rap with Alligator Bites Never Heal. 


Aussie Band Tame Impala took home their first Grammy for Best Dance Recording with Justice in Neverender.


With Best Rock Album going to the Rolling Stones for Hackney Diamonds.


Best New Artist was awarded to Chappell Roan, the rising star whose eclectic music has taken the world by storm.


Best Pop Vocal Album was snagged by Sabrina Carpenter for her infectious album Short & Sweet.

And gave the sweetest performance with a medley of her biggest hits.


Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars won Best Pop Duo for their absolute banging track Die With A Smile.

Gaga also unveiled a new single from her upcoming album Mayhem called ‘Abracadabra’.

A special mention to the incredible tribute for Quincy Jones with artists like Herbie Hancock, Stevie Wonder, Cynthia Erivo. Janelle Monae and more honouring the late composer. 

FULL LIST OF WINNERS

Album Of The Year 

New Blue Sun – André 3000

COWBOY CARTER – Beyoncé [WINNER]

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) – Sean Cook, Jerrel Jones, Joe Kent, Chibueze Collins Obinna, Nevin Sastry & Mark Williams, songwriters (Shaboozey) 

BIRDS OF A FEATHER – Billie Eilish O’Connell & Finneas O’Connell, songwriters (Billie Eilish) 

Die With A Smile – Dernst “D’Mile” Emile II, James Fauntleroy, Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars & Andrew Watt, songwriters (Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars) 

Fortnight – Jack Antonoff, Austin Post & Taylor Swift, songwriters (Taylor Swift Featuring Post Malone)

Good Luck, Babe! – Kayleigh Rose Amstutz, Daniel Nigro & Justin Tranter, songwriters (Chappell Roan) 

Not Like Us – Kendrick Lamar, songwriter (Kendrick Lamar) [WINNER]

Please Please Please – Amy Allen, Jack Antonoff & Sabrina Carpenter, songwriters (Sabrina Carpenter) 

TEXAS HOLD ‘EM – Brian Bates, Beyoncé, Elizabeth Lowell Boland, Megan Bülow, Nate Ferraro & Raphael Saadiq, songwriters (Beyoncé) 

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 

Not Like Us – Kendrick Lamar [WINNER]

Good Luck, Babe! – Chappell Roan 

Fortnight – Taylor Swift featuring Post Malone

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance

us. – Gracie Abrams Featuring Taylor Swift

LEVII’S JEANS – Beyoncé Featuring Post Malone

Guess – Charli xcx & Billie Eilish

the boy is mine – Ariana Grande, Brandy & Monica

Die With A Smile – Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars [WINNER]

Best Latin Pop Album

Funk Generation – Anitta 

El Viaje – Luis Fonsi 

GARCÍA – Kany García

Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran – Shakira [WINNER]

ORQUÍDEAS – Kali Uchis

Best New Artist 

Benson Boone 

Sabrina Carpenter 

Doechii 

Khruangbin 

RAYE 

Chappell Roan [WINNER]

Shaboozey 

Teddy Swims

Best Country Album 

COWBOY CARTER – Beyoncé [WINNER]

F-1 Trillion – Post Malone 

Deeper Well – Kacey Musgraves 

Higher – Chris Stapleton 

Whirlwind – Lainey Wilson 

Best Pop Vocal Album

Short n’ Sweet – Sabrina Carpenter [WINNER]

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 Rap Album

Might Delete Later — J. Cole

The Auditorium, Vol. 1 — Common & Pete Rock

Alligator Bites Never Heal — Doechii (WINNER)

The Death Of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce) — Eminem

We Don’t Trust You — Future & Metro Boomin

Best Pop Solo Performance

Bodyguard – Beyoncé

Espresso – Sabrina Carpenter (WINNER)

Apple – Charli xcx 

BIRDS OF A FEATHER – Billie Eilish 

Good Luck, Babe! – Chappell Roan 

Best Dance/Electronic Recording

She’s Gone, Dance On — Disclosure

Loved — Four Tet

leavemealone — Fred Again.. & Baby Keem

Neverender — Justice & Tame Impala (WINNER)

Witchy — KAYTRANADA Featuring Childish Gambino

Best Dance Pop Recording 

Make You Mine – Madison Beer 

Von dutch – Charli xcx (WINNER)

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 (WINNER)

Three — Four Tet

Hyperdrama — Justice

TIMELESS — KAYTRANADA

Telos — Zedd

Best Remixed Recording

Alter Ego – KAYTRANADA Remix — KAYTRANADA, remixer (Doechii Featuring JT)

A Bar Song (Tipsy) [Remix] — David Guetta, remixer (Shaboozey & David Guetta)

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

Jah Sees Them – Amapiano Remix — Alexx Antaeus, Footsteps & MrMyish, remixers (Julian Marley & Antaeus)

Von dutch — A.G. Cook, remixer (Charli xcx & A.G. Cook Featuring Addison Rae)

Best Rock Performance

Now and Then — The Beatles (WINNER)

Beautiful People (Stay High) — The Black Keys

The American Dream Is Killing Me — Green Day

Gift Horse — IDLES

Dark Matter — Pearl Jam

Broken Man — St. Vincent

Best Metal Performance

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

Crown of Horns — Judas Priest

Suffocate — Knocked Loose Featuring Poppy

Screaming Suicide — Metallica

Cellar Door — Spiritbox

Best Rock Song

Beautiful People (Stay High) – Dan Auerbach, Patrick Carney, Beck Hansen & Daniel Nakamura, songwriters (The Black Keys)

Broken Man – Annie Clark, songwriter (St. Vincent) (WINNER)

Dark Matter – Jeff Ament, Matt Cameron, Stone Gossard, Mike McCready, Eddie Vedder & Andrew Watt, songwriters (Pearl Jam)

Dilemma – Billie Joe Armstrong, Tré Cool & Mike Dirnt, songwriters (Green Day)

Gift Horse – Jon Beavis, Mark Bowen, Adam Devonshire, Lee Kiernan & Joe Talbot, songwriters (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 (WINNER)

No Name — Jack White

Best Alternative Music Performance

Neon Pill — Cage The Elephant

Song Of The Lake — Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Starburster — Fontaines D.C.

BYE BYE — Kim Gordon

Flea — St. Vincent (WINNER)

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 (WINNER)

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 (WINNER)

Saturn — SZA

Best Traditional R&B Performance

Wet — Marsha Ambrosius

Can I Have This Groove — Kenyon Dixon

No Lie — Lalah Hathaway Featuring Michael McDonald

Make Me Forget — Muni Long

That’s You — Lucky Daye (WINNER)

Best R&B Song

After Hours – Diovanna Frazier, Alex Goldblatt, Kehlani Parrish, Khris Riddick-Tynes & Daniel Upchurch, songwriters (Kehlani)

Burning – Ronald Banful & Temilade Openiyi, songwriters (Tems)

Here We Go (Uh Oh) – Sara Diamond, Sydney Floyd, Marisela Jackson, Courtney Jones, Carl McCormick & Kelvin Wooten, songwriters (Coco Jones)

Ruined Me – Jeff Gitelman, Priscilla Renea & Kevin Theodore, songwriters (Muni Long)

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

Best Progressive R&B Album

So Glad to Know You – Avery*Sunshine (WINNER – TIE)

En Route – Durand Bernarr

Bando Stone And The New World – Childish Gambino

CRASH – Kehlani

Why Lawd? – NxWorries (Anderson .Paak & Knxwledge) (WINNER – TIE)

Best R&B Album

11:11 (Deluxe) — Chris Brown (WINNER)

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 Featuring Posdnuos 

NISSAN ALTIMA – Doechii

Houdini – Eminem

Like That – Future, Metro Boomin, & Kendrick Lamar

Yeah Glo! – GloRilla

Not Like Us – Kendrick Lamar (WINNER)

Best Melodic Rap Performance

KEHLANI — Jordan Adetunji Featuring Kehlani

SPAGHETTII — Beyoncé Featuring Linda Martell & Shaboozey

We Still Don’t Trust You — Future & Metro Boomin Featuring The Weeknd

Big Mama — Latto

3 — Rapsody Featuring Erykah Badu (WINNER)

Best Rap Song

Asteroids — Marlanna Evans, songwriter (Rapsody Featuring Hit-Boy)

Carnival — Jordan Carter, Raul Cubina, Grant Dickinson, Samuel Lindley, Nasir Pemberton, Dimitri Roger, Ty Dolla $ign, Kanye West & Mark Carl Stolinski Williams, songwriters (¥$ (Kanye West & Ty Dolla $Ign) Featuring Rich The Kid & Playboi Carti)

Like That — Kendrick Lamar Duckworth, Kobe “BbyKobe” Hood, Leland Wayne & Nayvadius Wilburn, songwriters (Future & Metro Boomin Featuring Kendrick Lamar)

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

Yeah Glo! — Ronnie Jackson, Jaucquez Lowe, Timothy McKibbins, Kevin Andre Price, Julius Rivera III & Gloria Woods, songwriters (GloRilla)

Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical 

Alissia Dernst 

“D’Mile” Emile II 

Ian Fitchuk 

Mustard 

Daniel Nigro (WINNER)

Songwriter Of The Year, Non-Classical 

Jessi Alexander 

Amy Allen (WINNER)

Edgar Barrera 

Jessie Jo Dillon 

RAYE

 

Source: YouTube/TheRecordingAcademy/ Instagram/TheGrammys

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