By Abigail Philip David
At the 67th Grammy Awards held on February 2, 2025, at Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Arena, Nigerian standout Tems emerged as the star of the night, while heavyweights Davido, Wizkid, and Burna Boy missed out on the top honor. Despite strong nominations for other Nigerian artists such as Asake and Yemi Alade in the Best African Music Performance category, Tems’ win further cements her status as a two-time Grammy winner.
The evening was a celebration of global talent, with electrifying performances and a slew of prestigious awards. Tems’ victory in the Best African Music Performance category not only highlighted her artistry but also marked a significant moment for Nigerian music on the international stage.
Tems’ landmark win underscores her growing influence on the global stage, even as established Nigerian stars fell short of taking home the Grammy in their respective categories. The 2025 ceremony not only celebrated a diverse array of musical genres but also highlighted the evolving landscape of international music, with Nigerian artists playing a pivotal role in shaping its future.
Below is the full list of winners from the 2025 Grammy Awards:
**Best Pop Vocal Album**
– **Winner:** Sabrina Carpenter – *Short n’ Sweet*
– Billie Eilish – *Hit Me Hard and Soft*
– Ariana Grande – *Eternal Sunshine*
– Chappell Roan – *The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess*
– Taylor Swift – *The Tortured Poets Department*
**Best Rap Album**
– J. Cole – *Might Delete Later*
– Common and Pete Rock – *The Auditorium, Vol. 1*
– **Winner:** Doechii – *Alligator Bites Never Heal*
– Eminem – *The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce)*
– Future and Metro Boomin – *We Don’t Trust You*
**Best Pop Solo Performance**
– Beyoncé – *Bodyguard*
– **Winner:** Sabrina Carpenter – *Espresso*
– Charli XCX – *Apple*
– Billie Eilish – *Birds of a Feather*
– Chappell Roan – *Good Luck, Babe!*
**Best Dance/Electronic Music Album**
– **Winner:** Charli XCX – *Brat*
– Four Tet – *Three*
– Justice – *Hyperdrama*
– Kaytranada – *Timeless*
– Zedd – *Telos*
**Best Rock Performance**
– **Winner:** The Beatles – *Now and Then*
– The Black Keys – *Beautiful People (Stay High)*
– Green Day – *The American Dream Is Killing Me*
– Idles – *Gift Horse*
– Pearl Jam – *Dark Matter*
– St. Vincent – *Broken Man*
**Best Rap Performance**
– Cardi B – *Enough (Miami)*
– Common and Pete Rock featuring Posdnuos – *When the Sun Shines Again*
– Doechii – *Nissan Altima*
– Eminem – *Houdini*
– Future and Metro Boomin featuring Kendrick Lamar – *Like That*
– GloRilla – *Yeah Glo!*
– **Winner:** Kendrick Lamar – *Not Like Us*
**Best Rap Song**
– Rapsody featuring Hit-Boy – *Asteroids*
– [Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign] featuring Rich the Kid and Playboi Carti – *Carnival*
– Future and Metro Boomin featuring Kendrick Lamar – *Like That*
– **Winner:** Kendrick Lamar – *Not Like Us*
– GloRilla – *Yeah Glo!*
**Best Alternative Music Album**
– Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – *Wild God*
– Clairo – *Charm*
– Kim Gordon – *The Collective*
– Brittany Howard – *What Now*
– **Winner:** St. Vincent – *All Born Screaming*
**Best Country Solo Performance**
– Beyoncé – *16 Carriages*
– Jelly Roll – *I Am Not Okay*
– Kacey Musgraves – *The Architect*
– Shaboozey – *A Bar Song (Tipsy)*
– **Winner:** Chris Stapleton – *It Takes a Woman*
**Best Country Duo/Group Performance**
– Kelsea Ballerini with Noah Kahan – *Cowboys Cry Too*
– **Winner:** Beyoncé featuring Miley Cyrus – *II Most Wanted*
– Brothers Osborne – *Break Mine*
– Dan + Shay – *Bigger Houses*
– Post Malone featuring Morgan Wallen – *I Had Some Help*
**Best Melodic Rap Performance**
– Jordan Adetunji featuring Kehlani – *Kehlani*
– Beyoncé featuring Linda Martell and Shaboozey – *Spaghettii*
– Future and Metro Boomin featuring The Weeknd – *We Still Don’t Trust You*
– Latto – *Big Mama*
– **Winner:** Rapsody featuring Erykah Badu – *3:AM*
**Best Dance Pop Recording**
– Madison Beer – *Make You Mine*
– **Winner:** Charli XCX – *Von Dutch*
– Billie Eilish – *L’Amour de Ma Vie (Over Now Extended Edit)*
– Ariana Grande – *Yes, And?*
– Troye Sivan – *Got Me Started*
**Best Dance/Electronic Recording**
– Madison Beer – *Make You Mine*
– **Winner:** Charli XCX – *Von Dutch*
– Billie Eilish – *L’Amour de Ma Vie (Over Now Extended Edit)*
– Ariana Grande – *Yes, And?*
– Troye Sivan – *Got Me Started*
**Best Dance/Electronic Recording**
– Disclosure – *She’s Gone, Dance On*
– Four Tet – *Loved*
– Fred Again.. and Baby Keem – *Leavemealone*
– **Winner:** Justice and Tame Impala – *Neverender*
– Kaytranada featuring Childish Gambino – *Witchy*
**Best R&B Performance**
– Jhené Aiko – *Guidance*
– Chris Brown – *Residuals*
– Coco Jones – *Here We Go (Uh Oh)*
– **Winner:** Muni Long – *Made for Me (Live on BET)*
– SZA – *Saturn*
**Best Traditional R&B Performance**
– Marsha Ambrosius – *Wet*
– Kenyon Dixon – *Can I Have This Groove*
– Lalah Hathaway featuring Michael McDonald – *No Lie*
– Muni Long – *Make Me Forget*
– **Winner:** Lucky Daye – *That’s You*
**Best Comedy Album**
– Ricky Gervais – *Armageddon*
– **Winner:** Dave Chappelle – *The Dreamer*
– Jim Gaffigan – *The Prisoner*
– Nikki Glaser – *Someday You’ll Die*
– Trevor Noah – *Where Was I*
**Best R&B Song**
– Kehlani – *After Hours*
– Tems – *Burning*
– Coco Jones – *Here We Go (Uh Oh)*
– Muni Long – *Ruined Me*
– **Winner:** SZA – *Saturn*
**Best Progressive R&B Album**
– **Winner (tie):** Avery*Sunshine – *So Glad to Know You*
– Durand Bernarr – *En Route*
– Childish Gambino – *Bando Stone and the New World*
– Kehlani – *Crash*
– **Winner (tie):** NxWorries (Anderson .Paak and Knxwledge) – *Why Lawd?*
**Best R&B Album**
– **Winner:** Chris Brown – *11:11 (Deluxe)*
– Lalah Hathaway – *Vantablack*
– Muni Long – *Revenge*
– Lucky Daye – *Algorithm*
– Usher – *Coming Home*
**Best Folk Album**
– American Patchwork Quartet – *American Patchwork Quartet*
– Madi Diaz – *Weird Faith*
– Adrianne Lenker – *Bright Future*
– Aoife O’Donovan – *All My Friends*
– **Winner:** Gillian Welch and David Rawlings – *Woodland*
**Best Música Urbana Album**
– Bad Bunny – *Nadie Sabe lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana*
– J Balvin – *Rayo*
– Feid – *Ferxxocalipsis*
– **Winner:** Residente – *Las Letras Ya No Importan*
– Young Miko – *Att.*
**Best Metal Performance**
– **Winner:** Gojira, Marina Viotti and Victor Le Masne – *Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!)*
– Judas Priest – *Crown of Horns*
– Knocked Loose featuring Poppy – *Suffocate*
– Metallica – *Screaming Suicide*
– Spiritbox – *Cellar Door*
**Best African Music Performance**
– Yemi Alade – *Tomorrow*
– Asake and Wizkid – *MMS*
– Chris Brown featuring Davido and Lojay – *Sensational*
– Burna Boy – *Higher*
– **Winner:** Tems – *Love Me JeJe*
**Best Rock Song**
– The Black Keys – *Beautiful People (Stay High)*
– **Winner:** St. Vincent – *Broken Man*
– Pearl Jam – *Dark Matter*
– Green Day – *Dilemma*
– Idles – *Gift Horse*
**Best Rock Album**
– The Black Crowes – *Happiness Bastards*
– Fontaines DC – *Romance*
– Green Day – *Saviors*
– Idles – *Tangk*
– Pearl Jam – *Dark Matter*
– **Winner:** The Rolling Stones – *Hackney Diamonds*
– Jack White – *No Name*
**Best Alternative Music Performance**
– Cage the Elephant – *Neon Pill*
– Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – *Song of the Lake*
– Fontaines DC – *Starburster*
– Kim Gordon – *Bye Bye*
– **Winner:** St. Vincent – *Flea*
**Best Global Music Album**
– **Winner:** Matt B Featuring Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – *Alkebulan II*
– Ciro Hurtado – *Paisajes*
– Rema – *Heis*
– Antonio Rey – *Historias de Un Flamenco*
– Tems – *Born in the Wild*
**Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording**
– Various Artists; Guy Oldfield, producer – *All You Need Is Love: The Beatles in Their Own Words*
– George Clinton – *…And Your Ass Will Follow*
– Dolly Parton – *Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones*
– **Winner:** Jimmy Carter – *Last Sundays in the Plains: A Centennial Celebration*
– Barbra Streisand – *My Name Is Barbra*
**Best Country Song**
– **Winner:** Kacey Musgraves – *The Architect*
– Shaboozey – *A Bar Song (Tipsy)*
– Jelly Roll – *I Am Not Okay*
– Post Malone featuring Morgan Wallen – *I Had Some Help*
– Beyoncé – *Texas Hold ’Em*
**Best Song Written for Visual Media**
– Luke Combs – *Ain’t No Love in Oklahoma* (from *Twisters: The Album*)
– ’N Sync and Justin Timberlake – *Better Place* (from *Trolls Band Together*)
– Olivia Rodrigo – *Can’t Catch Me Now* (from *The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes*)
– **Winner:** Jon Batiste – *It Never Went Away* (from *American Symphony*)
– Barbra Streisand – *Love Will Survive* (from *The Tattooist of Auschwitz*)
**Best Música Mexicana Album (including Tejano)**
– Chiquis – *Diamantes*
– **Winner:** Carín León – *Boca Chueca, Vol. 1*
– Peso Pluma – *Éxodo*
– Jessi Uribe – *De Lejitos*
**Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical**
– Jessi Alexander
– **Winner:** Amy Allen
– Edgar Barrera
– Jessie Jo Dillon
– Raye
**Producer of the Year, Non-Classical**
– Alissia
– Dernst “D’Mile” Emile II
– Ian Fitchuk
– Mustard
– **Winner:** Daniel Nigro
**Best Musical Theater Album**
– **Winner:** *Hell’s Kitchen*
– Merrily We Roll Along
– The Notebook
– The Outsiders
– Suffs
– The Wiz
