2025 Grammy nominees: Kaytranada, the Weeknd among Canadians with nods

A number of Canadian artists received nominations for the 2025 Grammy Awards, ranging from singers and songwriters to engineers, producers and more.

From previous Grammy winners including the Weeknd and Serban Ghenea to first-time nominees who worked on Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter album, below are the Canadians up for golden gramophones.

Montreal's Kaytranada, Yannick Nézet-Séguin tied with 3 nominations

DJ and producer Kaytranada, who previously won two Grammys in 2021, earned three nominations. He is up for best remixed recording for his remix of Doechii's song "Alter Ego," as well best dance/electronic music album for Timeless and best dance/electronic recording for his Childish Gambino-assisted song "Witchy."

Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin also received three nominations, earning nods for Maestro: Music by Leonard Bernstein with London Symphony Orchestra and Bradley Cooper in the best compilation soundtrack for visual media category, and two nominations in the best opera recording category: Catan: Florencia en el Amazonas and Puts: the Hours, both with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.

Canadians recognized for work on Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter

Beyoncé is the most-nominated artist this year with 11 nods for her album Cowboy Carter, and several Canadian songwriters including Elizabeth Lowell Boland, Nathan Ferraro and Megan Bülow earned nominations for their contributions. Boland, also known as Lowell, worked on two of the album's tracks: she was a writer on "Bodyguard," which is up for best pop solo performance, as well as "Texas Hold 'Em," which she co-wrote with Ferraro and Bülow. "Texas Hold 'Em" is up for best country song, record of the year and song of the year, and Cowboy Carter is nominated for album of the year and best country album.

Boland, Ferraro and Bülow won a SOCAN Award earlier this year for their work on "Texas Hold 'Em," and Boland shared her excitement on being involved with the album: "Being a part of history — in the small way that I was — was the most amazing part of my life to date," she said.

Dave Hamelin, known for fronting the rock band the Stills, also worked on Cowboy Carter on the song "16 Carriages." He is credited as a producer, guitarist, organist and recording engineer on the track, which is nominated for best country solo performance.

Jack Rochon, a producer and songwriter, co-produced and co-wrote the track "Protector" on the album.

Producer and engineer Shawn Everett also contributed production and mixing to Cowboy Carter. He earned additional nominations for his mixing work on Kacey Musgraves's album Deeper Well, which has nods for best country album, best country solo performance, best country song and best engineered album, non-classical.

Shania Twain, Avril Lavigne and Arcade Fire on nominated soundtracks

Canadians dominated the best compilation soundtrack for visual media category: aside from Nézet-Séguin's nomination for Maestro: Music by Leonard Bernstein, artists Shania Twain, Avril Lavigne and Arcade Fire also featured in three nominations.

Twain and Breland's song "Boots Don't" was featured on Twisters: The Album, while Lavigne's 2002 hit "I'm With You" appeared on the Deadpool & Wolverine soundtrack. Arcade Fire's song "No Cars Go" was featured on the compilation soundtrack for Saltburn.

Noteable Grammy winners also recognized

Previous Canadian Grammy winners also picked up nominations: audio engineer and mixer Serban Ghenea, a 21-time Grammy winner, earned a best engineered album nomination for his work on Sabrina Carpenter's Short n' Sweet. He also earned two nominations in the album of the year category: one for Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department, and another for Short n' Sweet.

The Weeknd, a four-time Grammy winner — who has also boycotted the Grammys in the past — scored one nomination in the best melodic rap performance category for featuring on Future and Metro Boomin's Drake diss track "We Still Don't Trust You."

R&B singer Charlotte Day Wilson, who was featured on Daniel Caesar's Grammy-winning album Freudian and Kaytranada's Grammmy-winning album Bubba, earned her first solo Grammy nomination. Her album Cyan Blue will compete for best engineered album, non-classical.

The full list of Canadians nominated is below:

Album of the year: 

Beyoncé, Cowboy Carter (Elizabeth Lowell Boland, Megan Bülow, Jack Rochon and Nathan Ferraro, songwriters; Dave Hamelin and Jack Rochon, producers)

Sabrina Carpenter, Short n' Sweet (Serban Ghenea, mixing engineer)

Taylor Swift, The Tortured Poets Department (Serban Ghenea, mixing engineer)

Charli XCX, Brat (Cirkut, songwriter and producer)

Song of the year:

Beyoncé, "Texas Hold 'Em" (Elizabeth Lowell Boland, Megan Bülow and Nathan Ferraro, songwriters)

Record of the year:

Beyoncé, "Texas Hold 'Em" (Elizabeth Lowell Boland, Megan Bülow and Nathan Ferraro, songwriters)

Charli XCX, "360" (Cirkut, producer)

Best dance/electronic album:

Kaytranada, Timeless 

Best country album:

Kacey Musgraves, Deeper Well (Shawn Everett, audio mixer)

Beyoncé, Cowboy Carter (Shawn Everett, audio mixer; Elizabeth Lowell Boland, Jack Rochon, Megan Bülow and Nathan Ferraro, songwriters; Dave Hamelin, producer)

Best country solo performance:

Beyoncé, "16 Carriages" (Dave Hamelin, producer)

Best reggae album:

Jessie Reyez, Daniel Caesar and various other artists, Bob Marley: One Love - Music Inspired By the Film (Deluxe) 

Best musical theatre album:

Deborah Cox, The Wiz

Best traditional blues album:

Sue Foley, One Guitar Woman

Best classical solo vocal album:

Fotina Naumenko, Bespoke Songs (Marika Bournaki, pianist)

Best country song:

Beyoncé, "Texas Hold 'Em" (Elizabeth Lowell Boland, Megan Bülow and Nathan Ferraro, songwriters)

Best rap song:

Y$ featuring Rich the Kid and Playboi Carti, "Carnival" (Grant Dickinson, songwriter)

Best R&B song: 

SZA, "Saturn" (Scott Zhang, songwriter)

Coco Jones, "Here We Go (Uh Oh)" (Sara Diamond, songwriter)

Best melodic rap performance:

Future and Metro Boomin featuring the Weeknd, "We Still Don't Trust You"

Best pop solo performance:

Beyoncé, "Bodyguard" (Elizabeth Lowell Boland, songwriter)

Best metal performance:

Spiritbox, "Cellar Door"

Best dance/electronic recording:

Kaytranada, "Witchy" featuring Childish Gambino

Best remixed recording:

Kaytranada, "Alter Ego" by Doechii, JT

Best opera recording:

The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & The Metropolitan Opera Chorus, "Catán: Florencia en el Amazonas" (Yannick Nezet-Seguin)

The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & The Metropolitan Opera Chorus, "Puts: The Hours" (Yannick Nezet-Seguin)

Best compilation soundtrack for visual media:

Deadpool & Wolverine (Avril Lavigne, "I'm With You")

Saltburn (Arcade Fire, "No Cars Go")

Twisters: The Album (Shania Twain and Breland, "Boots Don't")

Maestro: Music by Leonard Bernstein (Yannick Nezet-Seguin with London Symphony Orchestra and Bradley Cooper)

Best engineered album, non-classical: 

Charlotte Day Wilson, Cyan Blue (Charlotte Day Wilson, Jack Emblem and Jack Rochon, engineers)

Kacey Musgraves, Deeper Well (Shawn Everett, audio mixer) 

Sabrina Carpenter, Short n' Sweet (Serban Ghenea, engineer) 

Lucky Daye, Algorithm (Charles Moniz, engineer)

Best pop vocal album:

Ariana Grande, Eternal Sunshine (Aaron Paris, producer)

Best progressive R&B album:

Kehlani, Crash (Aaron Paris and Jack Rochon, producers)

Best rock album:

Idles, Tangk (Aaron Paris, strings and string arrangement)