After years of perceived snubs, Beyoncé has officially won the Grammy for Album of the Year at the 2025 Grammys. It is her first time winning this particular award.
Her latest album, Cowboy Carter, was up against André 3000’s New Blue Sun, Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet, Charli xcx’s BRAT, Jacob Collier’s Djesse Vol. 4, Billie Eilish’s HIT ME HARD AND SOFT, Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess and Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department. She won Best Country Album for Cowboy Carter earlier in the night.
Including Cowboy Carter, Beyoncé has been nominated for Album of the Year five times: in 2010 for I Am… Sasha Fierce, 2015 for Beyoncé, 2017 for Lemonade and 2023 for Renaissance. She has won 32 Grammys and has been nominated for 99, making her the most-awarded and most-nominated artist in Grammy history.
In November last year, Harvey Mason Jr. the CEO of the Recording Academy (which puts on the Grammys), gave a diplomatic response when asked of Beyoncé’s chances of winning the highly coveted Album of the Year honor.
“You never know. I believe she has a really good one-in-eight chance. That’s the best answer I can give, only because the voters, you don’t know what they’re going to gravitate to,” he told The Hollywood Reporter. “It is tough. Beyoncé has definitely been in the category before, [and she has] some other great competition there. But at the end of the day, the albums in that category are flat out amazing to me. I love all of them, and I’m so happy about where we are. I know somebody’s going to be mad. I know seven people won’t win, and I look forward to seeing the result.”
