Beyonce Dominates the 2025 Grammy Awards With 1st Ever Album of the Year Win and More

As the most-nominated artist at the 2025 Grammy Awards, Beyoncé was bound to have a memorable night.

The singer, 43, ultimately won a total of three awards during the Sunday, February 2, ceremony at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, taking home Album of the Year, Best Country Album and Best Country/Duo Group Performance for “II Most Wanted” With Miley Cyrus. The evening represented several major milestones for Beyoncé, who finally won her first Album of the Year trophy, becoming only the fourth Black woman in Grammys history to receive the honor. She also became the first Black woman ever to win Best Country Album and the first Black woman in 50 years to win in any country category with “II Most Wanted.”

“I just feel very full and very honored,” Beyoncé said while accepting her Album of the Year award. “It’s been many, many years. I just want to thank the Grammys, every songwriter, every collaborator, every producer, all of the hard work. I wanna dedicate this to Ms. Martell and I hope we just keep pushing forward, opening doors. God bless y’all, thank you so much.”

Prior to the 2025 awards show, Beyoncé received more Grammy nominations than any other artist. In addition to her three wins, her 11 nods included Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Country Song for “Texas Hold ‘Em,” Best Pop Solo Performance for “Bodyguard,” Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for “Levii’s Jeans” featuring Post Malone, Best Melodic Rap Performance for “Spaghettii” featuring Linda Martell and Shaboozey, Best Country Solo Performance for “16 Carriages” and Best Americana Performance for “Ya Ya.”

Prior to Sunday’s ceremony, Beyoncé had the most Grammy wins of any artist ever, with 32 trophies earned throughout her career.

In the Album of the Year category, Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter faced off 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.

For Record of the Year, “Texas Hold ‘Em” went up against The Beatles’ “Now and Then,” Carpenter’s “Espresso,” Charli’s “360,” Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather,” Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!” and Swift and Malone’s “Fortnight.”

“Texas Hold ‘Em” competed against “Birds of a Feather,” “Fortnight,” “Good Luck, Babe!” and “Not Like Us” again in the Song of the Year category, with Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With a Smile” and Carpenter’s “Please Please Please” rounding out the nominees.

In the country division, Beyoncé vied for multiple awards amid a field of country music mainstays and new acts. For Best Country Album, she faced Malone’s F-1 Trillion, Kacey Musgraves’ Deeper Well, Chris Stapleton’s Higher and Lainey Wilson’s Whirlwind, while “Texas Hold ‘Em” was up against “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” Musgraves’ “The Architect,” Jelly Roll’s “I Am Not Okay” and Malone and Morgan Wallen’s “I Had Some Help” for Best Country Song. In the Best Country Solo Performance category, Beyoncé competed against “I Am Not Okay,” “The Architect,” “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” and Stapleton’s “It Takes a Woman,” and for Best Country Duo/Group Performance, she went up against “I Had Some Help,” Kelsea Ballerini and Noah Kahan’s “Cowboys Cry Too,” Brothers Osborne’s “Break Mine” and Dan + Shay’s “Bigger Houses.”

The rest of Beyoncé’s nominations were scattered throughout various genres. In her two pop categories, she competed against “Espresso,” “Birds of a Feather,” “Good Luck, Babe!” and Charli’s “Apple” for Best Pop Solo Performance and “Die With a Smile,” Charli and Eilish’s “Guess,” Gracie Abrams and Swift’s “Us.” and Ariana Grande, Brandy and Monica’s “The Boy Is Mine” for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance.

For Best Melodic Rap Performance, Beyoncé faced Jordan Adetunji and Kehlani’s “Kehlani,” Future, Metro Boomin and The Weeknd’s “We Still Don’t Trust You,” Latto’s “Big Mama” and Rapsody and Erykah Badu’s “3.” For Best Americana Performance, she competed against Madison Cunningham’s “Subtitles,” Madi Diaz and Musgraves’ “Don’t Do Me Good,” Sierra Ferrell’s “American Dreaming,” Sarah Jarosz’s “Runaway Train” and Gillian Welch and David Rawlings’ “Empty Trainload of Sky.”