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2025 Country GRAMMY Winners – Updated In Real Time

Country music shines in the 2025 67th GRAMMY Awards handed out in Los Angeles today (2/2). A full list of the country music nominations and winners is below, along with…

Chris Stapleton at the 2024 Grammy Awards.
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Country music shines in the 2025 67th GRAMMY Awards handed out in Los Angeles today (2/2).

A full list of the country music nominations and winners is below, along with the General Field categories. (Winners will be updated in real-time as they are announced.)

WINNER will be bolded next to winner in the nomination list.

Best Country Album

Cowboy Carter - Beyonce - WINNER

F-1 Trillion - Post Malone

Deeper Well - Kacey Musgraves

Higher - Chris Stapleton

Whirlwind - Lainey Wilson

(Awarded to the artist, producer, and engineer/mixer of an album with at least 51% new recordings.)

Last year's 66th Annual GRAMMY winner - Lainey Wilson - Bell Bottom Country

Best Country Solo Performance

"16 Carriages" - Beyonce

"I Am Not Okay" - Jelly Roll

"The Architect" - Kasey Musgraves

"A Bar Song (Tipsy)" - Shaboozey

"It Takes A Woman" - Chris Stapleton - WINNER

Last year's 66th Annual GRAMMY winner - Chris Stapleton - "White Horse"

Best Country Duo/Group Performance

"Cowboys Cry Two" - Kelsea Ballerini with Noah Kahan

"II Most Wanted" - Beyonce featuring MIley Cyrus - WINNER

"Break Mine" - Brothers Osborne

"Bigger Houses" - Dan + Shay

"I Had Some Help" - Post Malone featuring Morgan Wallen

Last year's 66th Annual GRAMMY winner - Zach Bryan Featuring Kacey Musgraves - "I Remember Everything"

Best Country Song

"The Architect" - Kasey Musgraves - WINNER

"I Am Not Okay" - Jelly Roll

"A Bar Song (Tipsy)" - Shaboozey

"I Had Some Help" - Post Malone featuring Morgan Wallen

"Texas Hold 'Em" - Beyonce

Last year's 66th Annual GRAMMY winner - "White Horse" - Chris Stapleton

(Awarded to the songwriters of a song, unless the artist is also the songwriter.)

Best New Artist

Gracie Abrams
Benson Boone
Sabrina Carpenter
Doechii
Khruangbin
Raye
Chappell Roan - WINNER
Shaboozey

Record of the Year

The Beatles, "Now and Then"
Beyoncé, "Texas Hold ’Em"
Billie Eilish, "Birds of a Feather"
Chappell Roan, "Good Luck, Babe!"
Charli XCX, "360"
Kendrick Lamar, "Not Like Us" - WINNER
Sabrina Carpenter, "Espresso"
Taylor Swift Featuring Post Malone, "Fortnight:

Album of the Year

André 3000, New Blue Sun
Beyoncé, Cowboy Carter - WINNER
Billie Eilish, Hit Me Hard and Soft
Chappell Roan, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
Charli XCX, Brat
Jacob Collier, Djesse Vol. 4
Sabrina Carpenter, Short n’ Sweet
Taylor Swift, The Tortured Poets Department

Song of the Year

Beyoncé, "Texas Hold ’Em"
Billie Eilish, "Birds of a Feather"
Chappell Roan, "Good Luck, Babe!"
Kendrick Lamar, "Not Like Us" - WINNER
Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars, "Die With a Smile"
Sabrina Carpenter, "Please Please Please"
Shaboozey, "A Bar Song (Tipsy)"
Taylor Swift Featuring Post Malone, "Fortnight"

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.