15-03-2025
Grammy watch: Listen to awards contenders from Chappell Roan, Playboi Carti, Haim, Lil Nas X, Lizzo
New music drops every Friday. Here are some of the noteworthy awards contenders that debuted on or around March 14, 2025.
The sister band's first new single in three years puts them back in the awards conversation five years after their last studio album, 2020's Women in Music Pt. III, which was nominated for Album of the Year. To date, Haim have been nominated four times, also including Best New Artist in 2015 and Best Rock Performance for "The Steps" in 2021. They were also nominated for Album of the Year as featured artists on Taylor Swift's Evermore in 2022. They haven't won yet, but their profile may be higher than ever thanks to their side projects. Alana Haim ventured into acting, earning Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations for 2021's Licorice Pizza. Meanwhile, Este Haim branched out into composing on projects including Maid, Do Revenge, and Anyone but You. Look for them in rock and/or alternative categories at the very least.
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It's been an up-and-down few years for Lil Nas X. He exploded on the scene with "Old Town Road," which won him two Grammys to go along with an Album of the Year nom for his EP 7. Then he released a critically acclaimed, double-platinum studio album, Montero, which was also nominated for Album of the Year. His output since then, however, has failed to catch on. His 2024 single "J Christ" generated controversy, but didn't make a lot of noise on the charts. Nothing he has released since then has even charted. But that didn't stop him from releasing five singles over the course of the last five days: "Dreamboy," "Big Dummy," "Swish," "Right There," and now "Hotbox." He'll need bona fide hits to put him back on the Recording Academy's radar, though. It has been four years since his last top-10.
Grammy voters may put a question mark on that title: still bad? Like Lil Nas X, Lizzo is aiming for a comeback, but legal trouble has cast a shadow over her career. In 2023 three former backup dancers sued her for sexual harassment and creating a hostile work environment, among other offenses. Have fans and industry colleagues forgiven and forgotten? "Still Bad" is her second new song in two weeks, following "Love in Real Life" on Feb. 28. Will either of them match the success of No. 1 blockbuster "Truth Hurts" or Grammy-winning Record of the Year "About Damn Time"? Or has she been well and truly cancelled?
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The week's highest-profile new album, Music comes five years after Playboi Carti's last release, the chart-topping Whole Lotta Red. The rapper has never won a Grammy despite two nominations as a featured artist and songwriter: Album of the Year in 2022 for Kanye West's Donda and Best Rap Song in 2025 for West and Ty Dolla $ign's "Carnival." He has had other successful collabs since Red, including "Timeless" with The Weeknd, "Fein" with Travis Scott, and "Type Shit" with Future, Metro Boomin, and Scott, all top-10 hits. So expect a strong debut for this solo effort, especially with a whopping 30 tracks to fuel his streaming numbers. Much will depend on how long it sticks around.
Chappell Roan has been teasing this song for a while, but she has finally released "The Giver" as a single. It's her first since 2024's "Good Luck, Babe!," which earned Grammy noms for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Pop Solo Performance to go along with her Album of the Year bid for The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess. The new song is a genre departure for the industry's latest pop queen, so the reigning Best New Artist may just follow Beyoncé and Post Malone into the awards' country categories. Perhaps we'll even get a new album before the eligibility period ends.
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