Kendrick Lamar took home gramophones for song of the year, record of the year, best rap song, best rap performance and best music video for "Not Like Us." Kevin Mazur/Getty Images hide caption
Charli XCX ENTER TEASER
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Beyoncé accepts the award for best country album during the 67th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025. She won two other awards, including album of the year, for COWBOY CARTER. Kevin Winter/Getty Images hide caption
Chappell Roan, performing during the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards on Sept. 11, 2024, is up for six Grammy Awards, which will be handed out Feb. 2 in Los Angeles. Roan, along with Sabrina Carpenter, is nominated for album, song and record of the year, as well as best new artist. Noam Galai/Getty Images hide caption
Nala Sinephro's Endlessness — produced, arranged and engineered by the English harpist — arrived in 2024 lacking any narrative baggage, forcing listeners to uncover its secrets on their own. Tofjan/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Madi Diaz's Weird Faith, a welcome Grammy nominee in the awards' folk and Americana categories, wrestles with big ideas about love, spirituality and fear. Muriel Margaret hide caption
Sabrina Carpenter, seen here at Coachella earlier this year, is nominated in each of The Big Four categories at the 2025 Grammy Awards: album, song and record of the year, plus best new artist. Frazer Harrison/Getty Images North America hide caption
The 2025 Grammy nominations are out. Here are the big takeaways
Beyoncé, seen here accepting the best dance/electronic music album award for Renaissance during the 65th Grammy Awards in 2023, is nominated for 11 awards at the 2025 Grammys. Frazer Harrison/Getty Images hide caption
Omar Apollo's latest album, God Said No, includes "Plane Trees (feat. Mustafa)," one of the songs we can't stop playing this week. Aitor Laspiur/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Charli XCX and Lorde sure did make the internet go crazy
Kaytranada's new album, Timeless, is out Friday. Jevi Emir/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Kamasi Washington, Tyla and Iron & Wine. B+ / Jeremy Soma / Kim Black. Illustration by Jackie Lay./Courtesy of the artists. hide caption
Pianist and composer Kelly Moran translates her love of figure skating into the luxuriant "Butterfly Phase." YouTube hide caption
Saba (left), Lizzo (center) and Rosalía have released some of our favorite songs of the year so far. Collage by Estefanía Mitre / NPR/Photos courtesy of the artists hide caption
Roséwave is light and breezy, but not necessarily unsophisticated — the sound of an experience kissed by sweet summer heat. Vanessa Leroy/NPR hide caption
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"There's been quite a lot of tension between the way I've chosen to do things and the way a major label expects female pop artists to do things," Charli XCX tells NPR. Rob Kim/Getty Images hide caption
'I love selling out': Charli XCX on the volatile pop of 'Crash'
Rosalía's highly anticipated MOTOMAMI tops our shortlist of the best albums out on March 18. Daniel Sannwald/Courtesy of the artist hide caption