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The Beatles and Rolling Stones Win 2025 Grammy Awards

by Paul Cashmere on February 3, 2025

in News,Noise Pro

The 2025 Grammy Awards are underway in Los Angeles. The Beatles and The Rolling Stones have so far both won awards.

The Beatles won Best Rock Performance for ‘Now and Then’ beating The Black Keys, Green Day, Idles, Pearl Jam and St Vincent.

This is the eighth Grammy for The Beatles. They previously won Best New Artist in 1965, Best Performance By A Vocal Group for ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ in 1965, Album of the Year for ‘Revolver’ in 1967, Best Contemporary Album for ‘Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ in 1967, Best Music Video, Long Form for ‘The Beatles Anthology’ in 1997, Best Music Video, Short Form for ‘Free As A Bird’ in 1997 and Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal in 1997 for ‘Free As A Bird’.

The Beatles were also granted a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014.

The Rolling Stones have won Best Rock Album for ‘Hackney Diamonds’ beating The Black Crowes, Fontaines DC, Green Day, Idles, Pearl Jam and Jack White.

This is only the fourth Grammy Award for The Rolling Stones. In 1995 they won two awards, Best Rock Album for ‘Voodoo Lounge’ and Best Music Video for ‘Love Is Strong’. In 2018 they won Best Traditional Blues Album for ‘Blue & Lonesome’.

The Stones were also awards the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1987.

The Grammy Awards 2025 Winners List

Best pop solo performance
Beyoncé – Bodyguard
Sabrina Carpenter – Espresso – WINNER
Charli xcx – Apple
Billie Eilish – Birds of a Feather
Chappell Roan – Good Luck, Babe!

Best dance/electronic music album
Charli xcx – Brat – WINNER
Four Tet – Three
Justice – Hyperdrama
Kaytranada – Timeless
Zedd – Telos

Best rock performance
The Beatles – Now and Then – WINNER
The Black Keys – Beautiful People (Stay High)
Green Day – The American Dream Is Killing Me
Idles – Gift Horse
Pearl Jam – Dark Matter
St Vincent – Broken Man

Best rap performance
Cardi B – Enough (Miami)
Common and Pete Rock featuring Posdnuos – When the Sun Shines Again
Doechii – Nissan Altima
Eminem – Houdini
Future and Metro Boomin featuring Kendrick Lamar – Like That
GloRilla – Yeah Glo!
Kendrick Lamar – Not Like Us – WINNER

Best rap song
Rapsody featuring Hit-Boy – Asteroids
¥$ [Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign] featuring Rich the Kid and Playboi Carti – Carnival
Future and Metro Boomin featuring Kendrick Lamar – Like That
Kendrick Lamar – Not Like Us – WINNER
GloRilla – Yeah Glo!

Best alternative music album
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Wild God
Clairo – Charm
Kim Gordon – The Collective
Brittany Howard – What Now
St Vincent – All Born Screaming – WINNER

Best country solo performance
Beyoncé – 16 Carriages
Jelly Roll – I Am Not Okay
Kacey Musgraves – The Architect
Shaboozey – A Bar Song (Tipsy)
Chris Stapleton – It Takes a Woman – WINNER

Best country duo/group performance
Kelsea Ballerini with Noah Kahan – Cowboys Cry Too
Beyoncé featuring Miley Cyrus – II Most Wanted – WINNER
Brothers Osborne – Break Mine
Dan + Shay – Bigger Houses
Post Malone featuring Morgan Wallen – I Had Some Help

Best melodic rap performance
Jordan Adetunji featuring Kehlani – Kehlani
Beyoncé featuring Linda Martell and Shaboozey – Spaghettii
Future and Metro Boomin featuring the Weeknd – We Still Don’t Trust You
Latto – Big Mama
Rapsody featuring Erykah Badu – 3:AM – WINNER

Best dance pop recording
Madison Beer – Make You Mine
Charli xcx – Von Dutch – WINNER
Billie Eilish – L’Amour de Ma Vie (Over Now Extended Edit)
Ariana Grande – Yes, And?
Troye Sivan – Got Me Started

Best dance/electronic recording
Disclosure – She’s Gone, Dance On
Four Tet – Loved
Fred Again.. and Baby Keem – Leavemealone
Justice and Tame Impala – Neverender – WINNER
Kaytranada featuring Childish Gambino – Witchy

Best R&B performance
Jhené Aiko – Guidance
Chris Brown – Residuals
Coco Jones – Here We Go (Uh Oh)
Muni Long – Made for Me (Live on BET) – WINNER
SZA – Saturn

Best traditional R&B performance
Marsha Ambrosius – Wet
Kenyon Dixon – Can I Have This Groove
Lalah Hathaway featuring Michael McDonald – No Lie
Muni Long – Make Me Forget
Lucky Daye – That’s You – WINNER

Best comedy album
Ricky Gervais – Armageddon
Dave Chappelle – The Dreamer – WINNER
Jim Gaffigan – The Prisoner
Nikki Glaser – Someday You’ll Die
Trevor Noah – Where Was I

Best R&B song
Kehlani – After Hours
Tems – Burning
Coco Jones – Here We Go (Uh Oh)
Muni Long – Ruined Me
SZA – Saturn – WINNER

Best progressive R&B album
Avery*Sunshine – So Glad to Know You – WINNER – tie
Durand Bernarr – En Route
Childish Gambino – Bando Stone and the New World
Kehlani – Crash
NxWorries (Anderson .Paak and Knxwledge) – Why Lawd? – WINNER – tie

Best R&B album
Chris Brown – 11:11 (Deluxe) – WINNER
Lalah Hathaway – Vantablack
Muni Long – Revenge
Lucky Daye – Algorithm
Usher – Coming Home

Best folk album
American Patchwork Quartet – American Patchwork Quartet
Madi Diaz – Weird Faith
Adrianne Lenker – Bright Future
Aoife O’Donovan – All My Friends
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings – Woodland – WINNER

Best música urbana album
Bad Bunny – Nadie Sabe lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana
J Balvin – Rayo
Feid – Ferxxocalipsis
Residente – Las Letras Ya No Importan – WINNER
Young Miko – Att.

Best metal performance
Gojira, Marina Viotti and Victor Le Masne – Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!) – WINNER
Judas Priest – Crown of Horns
Knocked Loose featuring Poppy – Suffocate
Metallica – Screaming Suicide
Spiritbox – Cellar Door

Best African music performance
Yemi Alade – Tomorrow
Asake and Wizkid – MMS
Chris Brown featuring Davido and Lojay – Sensational
Burna Boy – Higher
Tems – Love Me JeJe – WINNER

Best rock song
The Black Keys – Beautiful People (Stay High)
St Vincent – Broken Man – WINNER
Pearl Jam – Dark Matter
Green Day – Dilemma
Idles – Gift Horse

Best rock album
The Black Crowes – Happiness Bastards
Fontaines DC – Romance
Green Day – Saviors
Idles – Tangk
Pearl Jam – Dark Matter
The Rolling Stones – Hackney Diamonds – WINNER
Jack White – No Name

Best alternative music performance
Cage the Elephant – Neon Pill
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Song of the Lake
Fontaines DC – Starburster
Kim Gordon – Bye Bye
St Vincent – Flea – WINNER

Best global music album
Matt B Featuring Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Alkebulan II – WINNER
Ciro Hurtado – Paisajes
Rema – Heis
Antonio Rey – Historias de Un Flamenco
Tems – Born in the Wild

Best audio book, narration, and storytelling recording
Various Artists; Guy Oldfield, producer – All You Need Is Love: The Beatles in Their Own Words
George Clinton – …And Your Ass Will Follow
Dolly Parton – Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones
Jimmy Carter – Last Sundays in the Plains: A Centennial Celebration – WINNER
Barbra Streisand – My Name Is Barbra

Best country song
Kacey Musgraves – The Architect – WINNER
Shaboozey – A Bar Song (Tipsy)
Jelly Roll – I Am Not Okay
Post Malone featuring Morgan Wallen – I Had Some Help
Beyoncé – Texas Hold ’Em

Best song written for visual media
Luke Combs – Ain’t No Love in Oklahoma from Twisters: The Album
’N Sync and Justin Timberlake – Better Place from Trolls Band Together
Olivia Rodrigo – Can’t Catch Me Now from The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
Jon Batiste – It Never Went Away from American Symphony – WINNER
Barbra Streisand – Love Will Survive from The Tattooist of Auschwitz

Best música Mexicana album (including Tejano)
Chiquis – Diamantes
Carín León – Boca Chueca, Vol 1 – WINNER
Peso Pluma – Éxodo
Jessi Uribe – De Lejitos

Songwriter of the year, non-classical
Jessi Alexander
Amy Allen – WINNER
Edgar Barrera
Jessie Jo Dillon
Raye

Producer of the year, non-classical
Alissia
Dernst “D’Mile” Emile II
Ian Fitchuk
Mustard
Daniel Nigro – WINNER

Best musical theater album
Hell’s Kitchen – WINNER
Merrily We Roll Along
The Notebook
The Outsiders
Suffs
The Wiz

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