Nominees for the 2025 Grammy Awards were announced Friday morning. Beyonce has 11 in both country and multi-genre categories. Post Malone has seven and Shaboozey has six nominations. The awards will be handed out February 2nd. Here are some of the nominees:
Record of the Year:
Beyonce - "Texas Hold 'Em"
Taylor Swift featuring Post Malone - "Fortnight"
Album of Year:
Beyonce - Cowboy Carter
Song of the Year:
Beyonce - "Texas Hold 'Em"
Shaboozey - "A Bar Song (Tipsy)"
Taylor Swift featuring Post Malone - "Fortnight"
Best New Artist:
Shaboozey
Best Melodic Rap Peformance:
Beyonce, Linda Martell and Shaboozey - "Spaghetti"
Best Country Solo Performance:
Beyonce - "16 Carriages"
Chris Stapleton - "It Takes a Woman"
Jelly Roll - "I Am Not Okay"
Kacey Musgraves - "The Architect"
Shaboozey - "A Bar Song (Tipsy)"
Best Country Duo/Group Performance:
Beyonce and Miley Cyrus - "II Most Wanted"
Brothers Osborne - "Break Mine"
Dan + Shay - "Bigger Houses"
Kelsea Ballerini and Noah Kahan - "Cowboys Cry Too"
Post Malone featuring Morgan Wallen - "I Had Some Help"
Best Country Song:
Beyonce - "Texas Hold 'Em"
Jelly Roll - "I Am Not Okay"
Kacey Musgraves - "The Architect"
Post Malone featuring Morgan Wallen - "I Had Some Help"
Shaboozey - "A Bar Song (Tipsy)"
Best Country Album:
Beyonce - Cowboy Carter
Chris Stapleton - Higher
Kacey Musgraves - Deeper Well
Lainey Wilson - Whirlwind
Post Malone - F-1 Trillion
Best Audio Book, Narration and Storytelling Recording:
Dolly Parton - Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones
Best Song Written for Visual Media:
Luke Combs - "Ain't No Love in Oklahoma (Twisters: The Album)
Best Recording Package:
Post Malone - F-1 Trillion
Luke Combs had to make a change to his cover of Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car." In the recording, Luke sings, "Still gotta make a decision/Leave tonight or live and die this way." Well, apparently, he had the words wrong. Luke learned of the mistake when Tracy corrected him. "She said, 'So, when you recorded the song, you said 'Still gotta make a decision' instead of 'We gotta make a decision.' And that was the first time that I knew that I recorded the song incorrectly," Luke told the crowd at a recent show. Tracy was "awesome" about his mistake, but Luke says he still feels the embarrassment of getting the words wrong to a song he loves.
Carly Pearce was enjoying some downtime in Florida recently when she decided to face one of her childhood fears. During a visit to Walt Disney World, she challenged herself to ride the Tower of Terror. "I'm at Hollywood Studios at Disney World," Carly says in a video posted to social media. "When I was 11, the last time I was here, I was too afraid to ride the Tower of Terror, so we're going to face a fear." The video shows her screaming the entire time the ride is moving. "I hate it," Carly says at the end of the video. At least she did it.
Jelly Roll likes to visit jail facilities while he's on tour to perform for the inmates. He did things a little differently during a recent visit to a jail in Chesterfield, Va. Jelly Roll had some of the inmates perform for him, and he was really impressed. When he was leaving to get ready for his arena show in Charlottesville, Va., he decided to call the sheriff to see if they could arrange to have four men from the facility come to his show to play onstage with him. They were able to make it work, and the men showed up dressed in street clothes and performed with Jelly Roll. The musicians who showed off their talents are members of the Helping Addicts Recover Progressively (HARP) program. Jelly Roll has been involved with the program in the past.
Bailey Zimmerman just surprised his grandma with a brand-new Cadillac for her birthday. "Happy birthday to the sweetest soul I know. GRANDMA GOT A NEW CADDY BABY," he wrote in the caption of his post, which featured several pictures of his grandma with her new ride.
Kelsea Ballerini played songs from her new album, Patterns, to a sold-out crowd at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday night. The most moving moment of the night happened when she fell apart as she was singing "Penthouse," a song from her Rolling Up the Welcome Mat EP. As Kelsea sang the line, "I bought the house with a fence/ Enough room for some kids, a backyard for Dibs," she started to cry. It was in August that Kelsea let her fans know that her dog, Dibs, has cancer in his heart. Unable to finish the song, the crowd finished it for her. Kelsea just stood back and let the tears flow.
Bailey Zimmerman recently welcomed a second dog to his family when he adopted a new puppy named Pie. After he brought her home, he noticed that she wasn't acting right and they rushed her to the vet. Pie was diagnosed with parvovirus or parvo, which is a "highly contagious disease" that "attacks white blood cells and the gastrointestinal tract of dogs." Dogs who have parvo need immediate medical attention because it can lead to severe illness or death. Thankfully Bailey was able to get her to the vet on time and Pie is doing much better. He decided to adopt another golden retriever because he wanted Marely to have a "best friend to grow up with." According to Bailey's update, the two dogs are "best buds" and play and nap together constantly.