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The Grammy nominations just dropped, and as usual, LGBTQ+ musicians are taking it in almost every category.
The Recording Academy announced the nominees for the 2025 awards in a livestream event on Friday morning. There are out queer nominees in most of the top categories, but some of the ones we’re most excited about are Billie Eilish, Chappell Roan, Troye Sivan, and arbiter of gay bops Charli XCX. Eilish and Roan are in the elite club of artists who have been nominated for all three of the most major categories — record, song, and album of the year, per Variety.
Eilish is also in a four-way tie for the second-highest number of nominations — with Kendrick Lamar, Post Malone, and, in exciting news for gays who have been waiting for impeccable taste in pop music to be vindicated for years, Charli XCX. Each of those artists accrued seven nominations each, an especially notable feat for Charli, who previously was nominated for two Grammys for 2015’s “Fancy” featuring Iggy Azalea (lol). We’ll say it — a nomination for the “Guess” remix with Billie Eilish is a vast improvement.
For Roan’s first Grammys, she (to put it lightly) didn’t do bad at all, with five nominations in total. In addition to record, song, and album of the year, she’s also up for Best Pop Solo Performance, Best New Artist, and Best Pop Vocal Album. Variety additionally reports that if either wins best new artist in addition to the aforementioned golden trifecta, she would be the first to accomplish that feat since Christopher Cross in 1981. (Sabrina Carpenter is also up for that potentially historic feat.)
Out and proud bisexual rapper Doechii also joins Roan and Carpenter as a contender for Best New Artist, with an additional two (and a half) nominations. She’s nominated for Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Album, and Kaytranada’s remix of “Alter Ego” by Doechii featuring City Girls’ JT is up for Best Remixed Recording.
Sivan, meanwhile, gets his third Grammy nomination for Best Dance Pop Recording for “Got Me Started,” after being nominated for two Grammys last year.
You can check out the full list, with even more LGBTQ+ nominees, here.
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