When the 2025 Grammy nominations are unveiled on Friday, there’s a world where the year’s biggest pop stars dominate the storyline.
Billboard awards editor Paul Grein has shared his final Big Four predictions ahead of Friday’s announcement, and he thinks pop women will lead the biggest categories, including Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter, Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department, Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet, Charli XCX’s Brat and Chappell Roan’s The Rise & Fall of a Midwest Princess.
On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are talking through Paul’s predictions before we learn the Big Four contenders on Friday.
Also on the show, we’ve got chart news on how Tyler, the Creator lands his third No. 1 album, all in a row, on the Billboard 200 chart, how Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With a Smile” surges to a new peak on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, and how the much-buzzed-about new cast recording of Sunset Blvd., starring Nicole Scherzinger, debuts at No. 1 on our Cast Albums chart.
