In recent times, the Grammys have served up a number of decisive sweeps (and head scratching omissions) which have dominated the dialog and led to some report labels celebrating big wins within the Huge 4 classes of report of the yr, track of the yr, album of the yr and greatest new artist. Inside the previous decade, Interscope Information emerged victorious in all 4 classes when Billie Eilish swept the highest honors in 2020, whereas Atlantic’s Bruno Mars took three of the 4 in 2018, Columbia’s Adele did the identical in 2017 and Capitol, by Beck (AOTY) and Sam Smith (BNA, ROTY and SOTY), swept all of them in 2015.
What makes the complete Huge 4 sweep notably tough is the very best new artist side, in that hardly ever does an artist make such an impression with their preliminary breakthrough that they’ll win, and even get nominated in, the report, track and album of the yr classes. It’s not extraordinary — Eilish, Smith, Lizzo, Olivia Rodrigo, Amy Winehouse and Norah Jones have all been nominated within the Huge 4 classes in a single yr this century, with Eilish and Jones sweeping the wins — nevertheless it’s not precisely widespread, both.
Which makes this yr notably notable: Each Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan obtained nominations in every of the Huge 4 classes for the 2025 Grammy Awards, marking simply the second time that two artists have achieved that in the identical yr. (Eilish and Lizzo each obtained them in 2020.) Much more, they’re each signed to Island Information, a historic achievement for a historic label.
With these eight nods — for Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!” (report and track); Roan’s The Rise & Fall of a Midwest Princess (album); Carpenter’s Brief N Candy (album); Carpenter’s “Please Please Please” (track); Carpenter’s “Espresso” (report); and BNA for each — Island leads all labels in Huge 4 nominations, an enormous second for a label that had not been at that desk in any respect in years.
Following Island is Interscope, which racked up seven Huge 4 nominations by a mix of Kendrick Lamar (report and track for “Not Like Us”), Billie Eilish (report and track for “Birds of a Feather,” album for Hit Me Onerous And Gentle), Jacob Collier (Interscope distributes his Hajanga label, which put out his album of the year-nominated Djesse Vol. 4), and Bruno Mars and Girl Gaga’s “Die With a Smile” (track), which got here out on Interscope (Mars’ label Atlantic did play a job, however Interscope is the credited label).
Past Island and Interscope, most of the remainder of the nominations have been unfold out amongst a number of labels. Receiving three nods apiece have been Republic (album, report and track for Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Division and “Fortnite”) and Columbia (album, report and track for Beyoncé’s COWBOY CARTER and “TEXAS HOLD ‘EM”). Elsewhere, EMPIRE (greatest new artist for Shaboozey and track for Shaboozey’s “A Bar Music (Tipsy)”) obtained two, as did Warner (greatest new artist for each Benson Boone and Teddy Swims), Atlantic (album for Charli XCX’s BRAT and report for Charli’s “360”) and Capitol (greatest new artist for Doechii and report of the yr for the Beatles’ AI-assisted “Now and Then”). Lastly, Epic (album for Andre 3000’s New Blue Solar), lifeless oceans (greatest new artist for Khruangbin) and Human Re Sources (greatest new artist for RAYE) all obtained one nomination every.
Among the many label teams, that signifies that the Common Music Group — house to Island, Interscope, Republic and Capitol — racked up 20 of these Huge 4 nominations, far and away main the sector. (Given UMG’s latest reorganization, the REPUBLIC Corps Collective claimed 11 nominations, whereas the Interscope Capitol Labels Group had 9.) Lastly, Sony Music had 5, Warner Music landed 4, whereas the indie sector claimed three.
