Female pop is the sound of the year and the Grammy Award nominations They have certified this Friday the complete dominance of the singers in commercial music.
The new faces of American pop Sabrina Carpenter y Chappell Roan They are the surprise of a year in which Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish and are again multi-nominated. Beyoncéwho leads the list of nominations for the 2025 Grammys with 11 nominations for his album Cowboy Carter.
Reviewing the nominations for the four big Grammy 2025 awards (Best Album, Best Song, Best Recording and Best New Artist) leaves no doubt about what a song needs to be a hit for several years: pop soundlyrics of dull sincerity, an appearance of personal authenticity, an undercurrent of vulnerability, a lot of empathy, an attitude without complexes and a certain air of fun.
Many of the nominated songs and artists, favorites to share the victory at the US music industry awards, fit into this profile. in fact They function as the great showcase of Western music. The 67th Grammy Awards ceremony It will be held on February 2, 2025 in Los Angeles.
Sabrina Carpenter and Chappel Roan compete for the four grand prizestwo plenary sessions that remember Billie Eilish’s historic triumph in 2020, when she made that poker with her debut album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
For its part, with the 11 candidates this Friday Beyoncé She has already been nominated 99 times for the Grammy Awards. If she were to win Album of the Year, she would be the first black artist to do so this century (the last was Lauryn Hill in 1999 for The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill).
Taylor Swift He will compete in six categories and could break his own record again. In the last edition of the Grammys he became the first artist in history to win Best Album of the Year four times; Now he is competing for that award again with The Tortured Poets Department.
Among the most notable curiosities, in addition, are the four nominations it has achieved Kendrick Lamar con Not Like Us one of his songs against Drake: best recording of the year, best song of the year, best video and best rap performance. In total, Lamar has seven nominations, the same as Billie Eilish, Charli XCX y Post Malonethe other male artist who can overshadow the female reign.
The Spanish-Argentine artist Nathy Peluso is the only Spanish artist who will be eligible for a Grammy in this edition, thanks to the inclusion of Fat among the five candidates for Best Latin Rock or Alternative Music Album.
The four great prizes
The four main categories of the Grammys are as follows:
Best Album of the Year
André 3000: New Blue Sun
Beyoncé: Cowboy Carter
Sabrina Carpenter: Short n’ Sweet
Charli xcx: Brat
Taylor Swift: The Tortured Poets Department
Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft
Chappell Roan: The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
Jacob Collier: Djesse Vol. 4
Best Recording of the Year
The Beatles: Now and Then
Beyoncé: Texas Hold ‘Em
Sabrina Carpenter: Espresso
Charli xcx: 360
Billie Eilish: Birds of a Feather
Kendrick Lamar: Not Like Us
Chappell Roan: Good Luck, Babe!
Taylor Swift & Post Malone: Fortnight
Best Song of the Year
Shaboozey: A Bar Song (Tipsy)
Billie Eilish: Birds of a Feather
Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars: Die With A Smile
Taylor Swift & Post Malone: Fortnight
Chappell Roan: Good Luck, Babe!
Kendrick Lamar: Not Like Us
Sabrina Carpenter: Please Please Please
Beyoncé: Texas Hold Em
Best New Artist
Benson Boone
Sabrina Carpenter
Doechii
Khruangbin
Raye
Chappell Roan
Shaboozey
Teddy Swims
Female pop, the sound of the moment
While Anglo-Saxon pop singers have defined the most listened to music of 2024, the announcement of the Grammy nominations serves as a glimpse a 2025 full of songs starring female singers from the US, above all, but also from the United Kingdom. The public dances and sings these songs and the brands have connected and promoted this type of characters, young and independent girls with a personal, but not disruptive, message.
The last edition of the Grammy Awards, which were presented in February, was already a great party for female soloists, with Taylor Swift as empress Below her, the spotlight was shared Billie EilishMiley Cyrus, Victoria Monét, Olivia Rodrigo, SZA and Boygenius, all of them women, all of them American and all of them dazzlingly young (under 32).
Pop in general and women’s pop in particular is experiencing a commercial peak on a global level. The list of songs recorded by female soloists that have surpassed 500 million views on Spotify This is demonstrated: Espresso y Please Please Please by Sabrina Carpenter, Birds of a Feather, Lunch y Chihiro de Billie Eilish, We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love) y Yes, And? by Ariana Grande, Die With A Smile of Lady Gaga, Fortnight y I Can Do It With a Broken Heart de Taylor Swift, If I had met you before de Karol G, Saturn but SZA y Texas Hold ‘Em by Beyoncé.
To this it is necessary to add the phenomenon carried out by Charli XCX and the very viral Brat Summer and the no less important impact of the tours led by female singers, with the Eras Tour de Taylor Swift become the most lucrative tour in the history of music, with gross income of almost 2,000 million euros, according to the calculation of the specialized magazine Pollstar (when the tour is not over yet: it will end in a month). Will we see more big tours from female stars in 2025? You can bet on it. One track, the Primavera Sound poster with Charli XCX, Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan as its three headliners.