Beyoncé’s shift into the world of country music paid off Friday with a leading 11 nominations for the 67th annual Grammy Awards, while both Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter made a major splash, scoring nods in all four of the top categories of Album, Record and Song of the Year and Best New Artist.
Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” scored her a nomination for the top prize of Album of the Year, a category that also includes “New Blue Sun” by André 3000, “Short n’ Sweet” by Sabrina Carpenter, “Brat” by Charli XCX, “Hit Me Hard and Soft” by Billie Eilish, “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess” by Chappell Roan and “The Tortured Poets Department” by Taylor Swift.
Beyoncé, Eilish and Swift all scored spots in the categories of Album, Record and Song of the Year, along with Roan and Carpenter.
The Record of the Year category also featured a nomination for a little band known as The Beatles, who were nominated for their recently released track “Now and Then.”
Also nominated in the category were “Texas Hold ‘Em” by Beyoncé, “Espresso” by Carpenter, “360” by Charli XCX, “Birds of a Feather” by Eilish, “Not Like Us” by Kendrick Lamar, “Good Luck, Babe!” by Roan, and “Fortnight” by Swift and Post Malone.
Nominations for Song of the Year, a prize awarded to the songwriters, went to Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather,” Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die with a Smile,” Swift and Malone’s “Fortnight,” Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!,” Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” Carpenter’s “Please Please Please” and Beyoncé’s “Texas Hold `Em.”
Charli XCX, Eilish, Lamar and Malone each collected seven nominations, while Carpenter, Roan and Swift all earned six.
Carpenter and Roan will compete in the best new artist category with Benson Boone, Doechii, Khruangbin, RAYE, Shaboozey and Teddy Swims.
The Grammy nominations were announced in livestream led by Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr., joined by Grammy winners Brandy Clark, Kirk Franklin, David Frost, Robert Gordon, Kylie Minogue, Victoria Monét, Gaby Moreno, Deanie Parker, Ben Platt, Mark Ronson, and Hayley Williams, along with Grammy-nominated comedian Jim Gaffigan and “CBS Mornings” host Gayle King.
The 67th Grammy Awards will be presented Feb. 2 at the Crypto.com Arena in downtown Los Angeles.