Grammys 2025: the winners, the losers, the performances – reside | Grammy awards 2025

Olivia Rodrigo introduces tonight’s third greatest new artist frontrunner (together with Sabrina Carpenter and Doechii): Chappell Roan, whom Rodrigo knew when Roan was nonetheless a struggling artist working at a donut store in LA’s Highland Park.

With a rodeo clown-themed efficiency that concerned, naturally, a jumbo pink pony, the Willard, Missouri native sand Pink Pony Membership – a music she recorded and launched in 2021 earlier than getting dropped by her label and dealing at mentioned donut store. The music, as she mentioned in a pre-recorded phase, is a “love letter to LA”, a spot that “gave me the braveness to be myself.”

WINNER: Sabrina Carpenter, Quick n’ Candy – greatest pop vocal album

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All the pieces is arising roses for Sabrina Carpenter, who wins greatest pop vocal album in a stacked class that included Billie Eilish, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande and fellow greatest new artist nominee Chappell Roan.

“I actually was not anticipating this,” mentioned Carpenter, nonetheless out of breath from her efficiency a couple of minutes in the past. She thanked her mother “for driving me to each voice lesson”, her dad, sisters and all of the producers on Quick n’ Candy.

Carpenter additionally shouted out LA, as did presenters Chad Smith and Anthony Kiedis of the Purple Scorching Chili Peppers, who sang an a cappella part of Below the Bridge in tribute to their dwelling metropolis.

WINNER: Doechii, Alligator Bites By no means Heal – greatest rap album

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Oh wow, an enormous win for the ladies of rap and the up-and-comers: Doechii, the 26-year-old Florida-based rapper additionally nominated for greatest new artist, wins greatest album, as introduced by an on-form Cardi B.

“I don’t need to make this lengthy however this class was launched in 1989 and two ladies have gained – three ladies have gained! – Lauryn Hill, Cardi B and Doechii,” she mentioned via tears.

The “Swamp Princess” thanked her mom, with whom she shared the stage, in addition to her hometown of Tampa, Florida. “Every time individuals take into consideration Florida, they consider Miami however … there’s a lot expertise in Tampa,” she mentioned.

And she or he ended with a triumphant name to Black ladies: “I’m telling you, you are able to do it. Something is feasible … you’re precisely who that you must be to be proper the place you’re and I’m a sworn statement.”

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2024 was a large 12 months for the pop ladies, and Sabrina Carpenter reminds everybody why. The pint-sized greatest new artist nominee, one of many breakout stars of the 12 months, introduced her pin-up type to the Grammys for a jazzy, characteristically cheeky tackle her summer time smash Espresso and follow-up Please Please Please with a set impressed by – naturally – Gents Choose Blondes.

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It’s becoming for tonight’s theme that the primary nominee efficiency of the night comes from native legends Billie Eilish and Finneas, the siblings from Highland Park. The duo and a band carry out their inescapable hit Birds of a Feather with an LA-based background, which (unsurprisingly) will get Taylor Swift to her ft and ends with a candy be aware of “I like you, LA.”

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Following Doorways, Noah will get proper again on the mic to reply everybody’s burning query: is Beyoncé right here? Not but, however possibly quickly? “Sure, Beyoncé shall be right here tonight,” he mentioned. “Effectively, I hope she’ll be right here. I can’t make her do something.”

Roving in regards to the crowd, notably hovering round Taylor Swift and Chappell Roan, Noah took the lightest of digs on the night time’s massive stars, beginning with the most important. Beyoncé has 11 nominations and simply introduced her 2025 Cowboy Carter tour: “Beyoncé, there’s tariffs,” mentioned Noah. “We are able to’t afford a brand new tour. Maple syrup is about to be $50.”

Noah joked in regards to the “energy of AI”: “possibly sooner or later, we might get one other Rihanna album” – and Swift’s Eras Tour. “She bought extra People touring than these Turkish hair transplants,” he joked.

And he alluded to Trump’s presidency as “modifications” in Washington DC. “I’m going to get pleasure from tonight, as a result of this can be the final time I’m allowed to host something on this nation,” he joked. Effectively … oof.

Right here we go!

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And we’re off! Host Trevor Noah kicks issues off by acknowledging the elephant within the room: it’s bizarre to have an award present in LA so near the devastating wildfires. “This metropolis has simply been via one of many largest pure disasters in American historical past,” he mentioned.

Due to heroic firefighters, “the fires have now been contained”, he continued. “And regardless of all of the devastation, the spirit of the town has endured.”

Noah summarily defined the mission of the night: rejoice music, sure, but in addition “the town that introduced us a lot of that music”. He shouted out the LA inspirations for hometown heroes Billie Eilish and Snoop Dogg, in addition to Chappell Roan and Stevie Surprise, earlier than introducing native band Doorways, who misplaced a number of houses and their studio within the fires, for a gap efficiency with an all-star band together with John Legend, Sheryl Crow, St Vincent, Brad Paisley and Brittany Howard. Repeating the mantra “We Love LA,” they carry the group to their ft.

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Tonight will characteristic a starry tribute to Quincy Jones who died final November. Right here’s a glance again to an amazing tribute from Alexis Petridis:

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It’s shut to point out time, so the A-list pop stars are lastly right here, led by Taylor Swift in a shiny crimson mini costume paying homage to her Eras Tour stage costumes.

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Greatest new artist nominees taking advantage of their Grammy second: