Welcome to Beyonc country. When it comes to the 2025 Grammy Award nominations, Cowboy Carter rules the nation. She leads the nods with 11, bringing her career total to 99 nominations. That makes her the most-nominated artist in Grammy history.Cowboy Carter is up for album and country album of the year, and Texas Hold Em is nominated for record, song and country song of the year. She also received nominations in a wide swath of genres, including pop, country, Americana and melodic rap performance categories.This is her first time receiving nominations in the country and Americana categories.RELATED STORY | Beyonc receives 0 Country Music Award nominations despite 'Cowboy Carter' successIf Beyonc wins the album of the year, shell become the first Black woman to do so in the 21st century. Lauryn Hill last won in 1999 for The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, joining Natalie Cole and Whitney Houston as the only Black women to take home the Grammys top prize.Post Malone also received his first ever nominations in the country categories this year, having released his debut country album F-1 Trillion" in August. That one is up for country album and I Had Some Help, his collaboration with Morgan Wallen, is nominated for country song and country duo/group performance. They are Wallens first ever Grammy nominations.Malone is just behind Beyonc, with seven nominations, tied with Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar and Charli XCX, who earned her first nominations as a solo artist.Lamars ubiquitous diss track released during his feud with Drake, Not Like Us, is nominated for record and song of the year, rap song, music video as well as best rap performance. He has two simultaneous entries in the latter category, a career first: Future & Metro Boomin featuring Lamar, Like That is up for best rap performance and best rap song.This is his third time receiving two simultaneous nominations for best rap song.RELATED STORY | Taylor Swift's 'Tortured Poets Department' title track is perfect beat for CPRTaylor Swift and first-time nominees Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan boast of six nominations each.Last year, women artists dominated the major categories. This year, that continues somewhat, but the main trend seems to be a variance of genre. In the album of the year category, alongside Cowboy Carter is Andr 3000s new age, alt-jazz New Blue Sun and multi-instrumentalist Jacob Colliers Djesse Vol. 4. Rising pop stars Carpenter and Roan round it out, with Short n Sweet and The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess respectively, as well as Swifts The Tortured Poets Department, Eilishs Hit Me Hard and Soft, and Charli XCXs rave-ready BRAT.Eilish is the only artist to have her first three albums become nominated for album of the year.Last year, Swift won album of the year for Midnights, breaking the record for most wins in the category with four. This year, she becomes the first ever woman to seven career nominations in the category.The breadth and the variety of genres represented in the general field feels new and really exciting, says the Recording Academy CEO and President Harvey Mason jr. He credits an active and evolving voting body for its success. Weve been very intentional in how we looked at and tried to rebalance our membership. So not just gender or people of color, different racial makeup, but also genre equity and trying to make sure that all different types of music in different regions and different locations are being represented in every way possible.Only recordings commercially released in the U.S. between Sept. 16, 2023 through Aug. 30, 2024 were eligible for nominations. The final round of Grammy voting, which determines its winners, will take place Dec. 12 through January 3.In the best new artist category, Carpenter and Roan will go head-to-head, alongside Benson Boone, Doechii, Khruangbin, RAYE, Shaboozey and Teddy Swims.In the song of the year category, Beyonc is joined by Eilish with Birds of a Feather, Swift and Post Malone with Fortnight, Roans Good Luck, Babe!, Carpenters Please Please Please, Lamars Not Like Us, Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars Die With A Smile, and Shaboozeys A Bar Song (Tipsy).Shaboozey is also a first-time nominee. His A Bar Song (Tipsy) is the biggest song of the year, having spent more weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 than any other it is so popular, a remix of the track is also up for remixed recording.Elsewhere, Shaboozey is nominated in the melodic rap performance category for his feature on Beyoncs SPAGHETTII. Linda Martell, the first commercially-successful Black woman musician in country, is also featured on the song, delivering the 83-year-old artist her first Grammy nomination.For record of the year, Texas Hold Em will compete against Swift and Post Malones Fortnight, Eilishs Birds of a Father, Lamars Not Like Us, Roans Good Luck, Babe!, Carpenters Espresso, Charli XCXs 360, and the Beatles last new song, the AI-assisted Now and Then.Were trying to make sure were keeping up with how music creators and our community are using technology. And in this case, AI enhanced the record and allowed it to be eligible in the categories that it was eligible in, Mason jr explains.So, whats missing? Like last year, theres a huge dearth of Latin music the fastest growing streaming genre in the United States across the board, and no representation in the major categories. There are also only four entries in the best Msica Mexicana album category, despite it also being one of the fastest growing genres.And K-pop, too, seems to be absent. There are no nominations for the BTS members whove released solo material this year: RMs Right Place, Wrong Person, J-Hopes Hope on the Street, Vol. 1, and Jimins Muse. As a boy band, BTS has received five nominations across their career.I definitely see room for improvement across many genres and we are continuing to invite people to be a part of the academy, Mason jr. says. Without the right representation we dont get the right results. When I say right, I mean reflective and representative of whats happening in music today. So, the work continues.The 2025 Grammy Awards will air Feb. 2 live on CBS and Paramount+ from the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.