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Will Taylor Swift Find ‘Tortured Poets’ Has Grammy Alchemy?

Taylor Swift's 'The Tortured Poets Department' will likely be nominated at the Grammys for album of the year. Billboard looks at its chances to win.

While Swift has already triumphed among some strong fields this decade, it’s likely that the category’s 2025 slate of nominees — with its expected mix of huge critical and commercial successes from veteran A-listers and emergent superstars — will be the most formidable she has faced yet. Cowboy did only a fraction of Poets ’ flabbergasting first-week numbers — though at press time, it still had the year’s second-highest debut total, at 375,000 units — but it received widespread acclaim, as well as immense media attention for its genre explorations and for the music history Beyoncé illuminated on it. “I think that there’s a feeling in the industry, which was certainly encouraged via last year’s Grammys ” — when her husband, Jay-Z, called attention to her AOTY shutout in a televised speech — “that [Beyoncé] has been overlooked for too long,” the member says.

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