The Recording Academy has revealed the 67th Annual GRAMMY® nominations! The awards will take place on February 2nd, 2025 at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, CA. Congratulations to The Orchard’s labels and partners on 45+ nominations!
RAYE (Human Re Sources) has earned 2 GRAMMY® nominations for Best New Artist and Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical. This is the first time RAYE has received GRAMMY® nominations as a solo artist. Raye also became the first artist to simultaneously receive nominations for Best New Artist and Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical.
Country star Kelsea Ballerini (Black River Entertainment), received her 5th GRAMMY® nomination for Best Country Duo/Group Performance for her collaboration with Noah Kahan on “Cowboys Cry Too.”
Bad Bunny (Rimas Entertainment) gained a nomination for Best Música Urbana Album for nadie sabe lo que va a pasar mañana making this his 10th GRAMMY® nomination.
Béla Fleck earned a total of 5 nominations for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Best Contemporary Instrumental Album, Best Instrumental Composition, Best Jazz Performance, and Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella. He received nominations for his album Remembrance alongside Chick Corea and his solo project Rhapsody in Blue.
Maverick City Music received 4 nominations under the Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song and Best Contemporary Christian Music Album categories.
Find the full list of nominations for this year’s GRAMMY® Awards here and The Orchard distributed artists and labels below.
Best New Artist
RAYE (Human Re Sources)
Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical
RAYE (Human Re Sources)
Best Remixed Recording
Julian Marley & Antaeus – “Jah Sees Them – Amapiano Remix” (Monom Records)
Best Metal Performance
Knocked Loose Featuring Poppy – “Suffocate” (Pure Noise Records)
Best Rock Album
The Black Crowes – Happiness Bastards (Silver Arrow Records/MRI Entertainment)
Best Jazz Performance
Chick Corea & Béla Fleck – “Juno” (Béla Fleck Productions/Thirty Tigers)
Best Jazz Vocal Album
Kurt Elling & Sullivan Fortner – Wildflowers Vol. 1 (Edition Records)
Best Jazz Instrumental Album
Chick Corea & Béla Fleck – Remembrance (Béla Fleck Productions/Thirty Tigers)
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
Orrin Evans & The Captain Black Big Band – Walk A Mile In My Shoe (Burnside Distribution)
Miguel Zenón – Golden City (MRI Entertainment)
Best Latin Jazz Album
Horacio ‘El Negro’ Hernández, John Beasley & José Gola – El Trio: Live in Italy (Challenge Music Rights BV)
Best Contemporary Instrumental Album
Taylor Eigsti – Plot Armor (GroundUP Music)
Béla Fleck – Rhapsody In Blue (Béla Fleck Productions/Thirty Tigers)
Mark Guiliana – Mark (Edition Records)
Best Country Duo/Group Performance
Kelsea Ballerini With Noah Kahan – “Cowboys Cry Too” (Black River Entertainment)
Best Americana Album
Charley Crockett – $10 Cowboy (Thirty Tigers)
Best Traditional Blues Album
Little Feat – Sam’s Place (MRI Entertainment)
Best Gospel Performance/Song
Tasha Cobbs Leonard – “One Hallelujah” (Tribl Records)
Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song
Honor & Glory, Disciple – “Firm Foundation (He Won’t)” (Tooth & Nail / BEC Recordings)
JWLKRS Worship, Maverick City Music – “In The Name Of Jesus” (Tribl Records)
Maverick City Music – “In The Room” (Tribl Records)
Best Contemporary Christian Music Album
Maverick City Music – The Maverick Way Complete (Tribl Records)
Best Roots Gospel Album
Authentic Unlimited – The Gospel Sessions, Vol 2 (Billy Blue Records / New Day)
Best Música Urbana Album
Bad Bunny – nadie sabe lo que va a pasar mañana (Rimas Entertainment)
Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album
Cimafunk – Pa’ Tu Cuerpa (Terapia Productions / Thirty Tigers)
Best Música Mexicana Album (Including Tejano)
Peso Pluma – ÉXODO (Double P Records)
Best Tropical Latin Album
Juan Luis Guerra 4.40 – Radio Güira (Rimas Entertainment)
Tony Succar, Mimy Succar – Alma, Corazón y Salsa (Live at Gran Teatro Nacional) (Unity Entertainment Corp.)
Best Global Music Album
Matt B, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – ALKEBULAN II (Hitskope Records)
Best Comedy Album
Jim Gaffigan – The Prisoner (The Nacelle Company, LLC dba Comedy Dynamics)
Best Immersive Audio Album
Trondheim Symphony Orchestra – Henning Sommerro: Borders (Lindberg Lyd AS)
Ensemble 96 – Pax (Lindberg Lyd AS)
Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media
Pinar Toprak, composer – Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora (Soundtrack Records, Inc. (prev. Lakeshore Records))
Best Recording Package
The Avett Brothers – The Avett Brothers (Thirty Tigers)
Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package
Alpha Wolf – Half Living Things (Civilians Australia PTY LTD)
Best Instrumental Composition
Pascal Le Boeuf, composer (Akropolis Reed Quintet, Pascal Le Boeuf & Christian Euman) – “Strands” (Bright Shiny Things/MRI Entertainment)
Chick Corea, composer (Chick Corea & Béla Fleck) – “Remembrance” (Béla Fleck Productions/Thirty Tigers)
Shelly Berg – At Last (ArtistShare)
Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella
Béla Fleck & Ferde Grofé, arrangers (Béla Fleck Featuring Michael Cleveland, Sierra Hull, Justin Moses, Mark Schatz & Bryan Sutton) – “Rhapsody In Blue(Grass)” (Béla Fleck Productions/Thirty Tigers)
Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals
Erin Bentlage, Sara Gazarek, Johnaye Kendrick & Amanda Taylor, arrangers (säje Featuring Regina Carter) – “Alma (feat. Regina Carter)” (sajevoices/MRI Entertainment)
Best Choral Performance
Jeannette Sorrell, conductor (Margaret Carpenter Haigh, Daniel Moody, Molly Netter, Jacob Perry & Edward Vogel; Apollo’s Fire; Apollo’s Singers) – “Handel: Israel in Egypt” (AVIE Records/Music Company London)
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street – “Sheehan: Akathist” (Bright Shiny Things/MRI Entertainment)
Best Classical Instrumental Solo
Curtis Stewart; James Blachly, conductor (Experiential Orchestra) – “Perry: Concerto For Violin & Orchestra” (Experiential Orchestra/MRI Entertainment)
Best Classical Compendium
Sangeeta Kaur, Omar Najmi, Hilá Plitmann, Robert Thies & Danaë Xanthe Vlasse; Michael Shapiro, conductor; Jeff Atmajian, Emilio D. Miler, Hai Nguyen, Robert Thies, Danaë Xanthe Vlasse & Kitt Wakeley, producers – Mythologies II (Hitskope Records)
Curtis Stewart; James Blachly, conductor; Blanton Alspaugh, producer – American Counterpoints (Experiential Orchestra/MRI Entertainment)
Best Contemporary Classical Composition
Valerie Coleman, composer (Decoda) – “Coleman: Revelry” (Bright Shiny Things/MRI Entertainment)
Andrea Casarrubios – Casarrubios: Seven for Solo Cello (Odradek/Membran Digital)
Please check out our noteworthy Honorable Mentions of artists not distributed by The Orchard, who also received nominations at this year’s GRAMMY® Awards!
Best African Music Performance
Chris Brown, Davido, Lojay – “Sensational” (RCA Records)
Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella
Michael League, arranger (Snarky Puppy) – “Baby Elephant Walk – Encore” (Primary Wave via Henry Mancini)
Erin Bentlage, Sara Gazarek, Johnaye Kendrick & Amanda Taylor, arrangers (säje) – “Silent Night” (sajevoices/MRI Entertainment)
Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
Rachel Keen (RAYE) as Engineer – Algorithm (Lucky Daye) (RCA Records)