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With Taylor, Beyoncé and Billie Likely to Lead 2025 Grammys, Will Men Be Shut Out of Album of the Year for the First Time?
No men are among the likely contenders for album of the year, as Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Billie Eilish and Chappell Roan lead a strong candidates list.
With just a month to go in the eligibility period for the Feb. 2, 2025 awards, it’s hard to find any album from a male artist that seems like a shoo-in, as women’s long-players continue to dominate the intersection of popular zeitgeist and tastemaker picks that the Grammys typically represent. Lainey Wilson’s “Whirlwind,” which comes out a week before the close of eligibility, could finally land country’s current leading lady the kind of love from the Grammys that she’s already enjoyed from every Nashville organization and fan-voted honor. At the Gold Derby site, users have been voting on what they think will be nominated, and the top dozen picks there include just three male or male-fronted acts: Stapleton, Vampire Weekend (with “Only God Was Above Us”) and Jacob Collier (for “Djesse Volume 4”).
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