The 2025 Grammy Awards are underway, and there are four highly contested country music categories: Best Country Solo Performance, Best Country Duo/Group performance, Best Country song and Best Country album. All except for the best country album have been announced.
The nominees extend from Beyoncé and Post Malone to Chris Stapleton and Kelsea Ballerini. Who will take the trophies home with them? We covered them with the full collapse.
The price rental show will be broadcast on Sunday, February 2, at 8 p.m. EST/7 p.m. CST, but three of the categories were announced in the advance. Taylor Swift had the honor to present Beyoncé the best country album. Taylor won the 2010 award for 2010 for Fearless.
Best country solo performance
- Beyoncé, “16 carriages”
- Jelly Roll, “I'm not doing well”
- Kacey Musgraves, “The Architect”
- Shaboozey, “a bar song (spipping)” “
- Chris Stapleton, “It needs a woman “(winner)
Best country duo/group performance
- Kelsea Ballerini with Noah Kahan, “Cowboys cry too”
- Beyoncé with Miley Cyrus, “II Most Wanted” (winner)
- Brothers Osborne, “Break Mine”
- Dan + Shay, “Larger Houses”
- Post Malone with Morgan Wallen, “I had some help”
Best country song
- “The architect”, Shane Mcanally, Kacey Musgraves & Josh Osborne, Songwriter (Kacey Musgraves) (winner)
- “A bar -song (Tipsy)”, Sean Cook, Jerrel Jones, Joe Kent, Chibueze Collins Obinna, Nevin Sastry & Mark Williams, Songwriter (ShabooZey)
- “I'm not doing well,” Casey Brown, Jason Deford, Ashley Gorley & Taylor Phillips, Songwriter (Jelly Roll)
- “I had help”, Louis Bell, Ashley Gorley, Hoskins, Austin Post, Ernest Smith, Ryan Vojtesak, Morgan Wallen and Chandler Paul Walters, Songwriter (Post Malone with Morgan Wallen)
- “Texas Hold 'Em”, Brian Bates, Beyoncé, Elizabeth Lowell Boland, Megan Bülow, Nate Ferraro & Raphael Saadiq, Songwriter (Beyoncé)
Best country album
- Cowboy CarterBeyoncé (winner)
- F-1 trillionsPost Malone
- DeeperKacey Musgraves
- HigherChris Stapleton
- WhirlwindLainey Wilson
Katie Bowlby is a digital director at Country Living, where she covers gift guides, product reviews, handicrafts and television programs such as Yellowstone. She is currently approaching a cross stitch pattern for the next issue of the magazine