Beyoncé, Post Malone country crossovers dominate Grammy Award nominees. The Nashville highlights to watch
Beyoncé, Post Malone, Shaboozey and Morgan Wallen are among a dynamic field of 2024 country Grammy nominees for Feb. 2, 2024's Los Angeles ceremony.
The Grammy Nominations released on Friday morning only confirmed the tunes that dominated the 2024 music scene and cultural zeitgeist: Pop-to-country crossovers are all the rage.
Among the Grammy's leading nominees were pop-gone-country stars Beyoncé with 11 nominations and Post Malone, who garnered 7 nods. Between them, they've been nominated 18 times for work on their albums "Cowboy Carter" and "F-1 Trillion."
Beyoncé's nominations lead the Grammy field overall, while Malone's nominations (some for his pairing on Taylor Swift's single "Fortnight") tie him with Charli XCX, Billie Eilish and Kendrick Lamar — all of whom have 7 nods.
It's 2024, so the two stars are already the Nashville country industry's most hotly-discussed crossover acts.
Country's pop-crossover moment, alongside Charli xcx's "brat" summer, Kendrick Lamar's battle rap moment, Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan's breakouts and Taylor Swift taking her "Tortured Poets" era worldwide are some of the defining stories of the 67th Grammy Awards nominations.
Read on for more about the Nashville stars who are nominated for this year's Grammy Awards.
Grammy Awards 2025 country music nominees: Beyoncé, Post Malone, Lainey Wilson, Kacey Musgraves, Morgan Wallen
In the Best Country Album category, Post Malone's "F-1 Trillion" is nominated alongside "COWBOY CARTER," country's reigning Entertainer of the Year Lainey Wilson's "Whirlwind," Musgraves' "Deeper Well" and Chris Stapleton's "Higher."
The success of Post Malone's mega-collaborative "F-1 Trillion" allows for not just the Texas native, but numerous Nashville favorites, to earn nominations.
The writers of the Malone and Morgan Wallen collaboration "I Had Some Help," including producer Louis Bell, Ashley Gorley, Hoskins, ERNEST, Ryan Vojtesak and Chandler Walters, earned a nod for Best Country Song.
The track is up against alongside Kacey Musgraves' "The Architect," "TEXAS HOLD 'EM," Shaboozey's "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" and Jelly Roll's "I Am Not Okay" for Best Country Song.
The unprecedented reach of Nashville's country industry over the past decade is represented in the Best Country Solo Performance and Best Country Duo/Group Performance categories.
In the former, newcomers Beyoncé ("16 CARRIAGES), previously Grammy-nominated Jelly Roll ("I Am Not Okay") and Shaboozey ("A Bar Song (Tipsy)") compete against 10-time Grammy winner Chris Stapleton ("It Takes A Woman") and 7-time Grammy winner Musgraves ("The Architect").
The latter category highlights both Brothers Osborne, Dan + Shay, Beyoncé and Miley Cyrus and Malone and Wallen as well as Kelsea Ballerini and Noah Kahan's work on "Cowboys Cry Too."
Beyoncé's "YA YA" is competing against Americana's 2024 Artist of the Year, Sierra Ferrell's "American Dreaming" and Madi Diaz and Kacey Musgraves' duet "Don't Do Me Good" for Best Americana Performance.
Beyoncé, Linda Martell and Shaboozey's "SPAGHETTI" is up against Jordan Adetunji and Kehlani, Rapsody and Erykah Badu, Future, Metro Boomin and The Weeknd and Latto for Best Melodic Rap Performance.
Other Nashville, Tennessee Grammy Award nominations 2024
Other nominees with Nashville ties include The Black Keys' 2024 track "Beautiful People (Stay High)" in the Best Rock Song and Performance categories.
The Black Crowes album "Happiness Bastards" and Jack White's "No Name" also both took home nominations for Best Rock Album.
Nashville alt-rockers Cage The Elephant nabbed a nomination for "Neon Pill" for Best Alternative Music Performance and Brittany Howard is nominated for Best Alternative Music Album for her record "What Now."
The Best Americana Album category is almost entirely Nashville nominees, including T Bone Burnett for "The Other Side," Charley Crockett's "$10 Cowboy," Sierra Ferrell's "Trail Of Flowers," Sarah Jarosz's "Polaroid Lovers," Maggie Rose for "No One Gets Out Alive" and Nashville stage frequenter, Waxahatchee for "Tigers Blood."
Folk singers Gillian Welch and David Rawlings were nominated in the Best Folk Album ("Woodland") section and Best Americana Performance category ("Empty Trainload Of Sky").
Folk-Americana singer Madi Diaz took home two nominations as well, one for Best Folk Album for "Weird Faith" and another for her previously-mentioned collab with Kacey Musgraves "Don't Do Me Good."
Aoife O'Donovan received nods in the Best American Roots Song ("All My Friends") and Best Folk Album categories.
Memphis rapper GloRilla is also nominated twice for her track "Yeah Glo!" for Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song.
Grammy Awards 2025 Gospel, Christian music nominees
Nashville's CeCe Winans garnered three nominations, two of which were in the same category: Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song. One nomination is for her feature in Bethel Music song "Holy Forever (Live)" with Jenn Johnson and another for her track "That's My King."
Her third nomination falls in the Best Gospel Album category for "More Than This."
Brandon Lake received two nominations, one in the Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song and another category in the Best Contemporary Christian Music Album section.
Other nominees in the Christian and gospel music categories include Melvin Crispell III, Ricky Dillard, Kirk Franklin and The Nelons.
Shaboozey breaks out with 5 nominations
Shaboozey's breakout year finds him nominated for Best New Artist against another artist gaining in Nashville and country acclaim, "Lose Control" vocalist Teddy Swims, along with Benson Boone, Sabrina Carpenter, Doechii, Khruangbin, RAYE and Chappell Roan.
Shaboozey is bringing home nominations in the Song of the Year, Best New Artist, Best Melodic Rap Performance, Best Country Solo Performance and Best Country Song.
Two-time Grammy-winning pop and house producer and remixer David Guetta is also nominated for a remix of "A Bar Song (Tipsy)."
Will Beyonce dominate the 2024 Grammy Awards?
Her track "TEXAS HOLD 'EM" will turn a year old since being teased during Super Bowl 56 in February and could mark the night with a victory for Record or Song of the Year (it competes against her collaborator Shaboozey's "A Bar Song").
"Cowboy Carter" is an Album of the Year nominee, a category that Queen Bey has not won in her two-decade-long solo career.
Any victories by Beyoncé on Feb. 2, 2025 at Los Angeles' Crypto.com Arena would extend her most wins in Grammy history tally past the record of 32 set in 2023.
Beyoncé also has now achieved 99 total career nominations, now allowing her to stand alone as the most nominated and most awarded artist in Grammy history.
The 67th Grammy Awards in 2025, how-to-watch
The 67th Annual GRAMMY Awards will return to Los Angeles' Crypto.com Arena on Sun, Feb. 2, 2025,and will broadcast live on CBS and stream live and on-demand on Paramount+ from 8-11:30 p.m. ET/5-8:30 p.m. PT.
More than 13,000 Recording Academy voting members — reflecting music professionals across all genres and disciplines, including recording artists, songwriters, producers, and engineers — are eligible to vote during the Grammy Awards process on material released between Sept. 16, 2023 – Aug. 30, 2024.
The final round of Grammy voting, which will determine Grammy recipients, occurs between Dec. 12, 2024 – Jan. 3, 2025.
For a complete nomination list, visit GRAMMY.com.
This story was updated to add more information about nominees.
Marcus K. Dowling and Audrey Gibbs are music reporters for The Tennessean. You can reach them at mdowling@tennessean.com and agibbs@tennessean.com.