Kendrick Lamar Leading 2025 American Music Awards Nominations, Beyoncé Up For 3 Country Awards

Kendrick Lamar  is leading 2025 American Music Awards nominations with 10. Post Malone has eight nominations, and Billie Eilish, Chappell Roan and Shaboozey have seven nominations each.  Taylor Swift — the winningest artist in AMA history — was nominated in six categories this year, including Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, Collaboration of the Year, Favorite Touring Artist, Favorite Female Pop Artist and Favorite Pop Album.  Beyoncé is in the running for Favorite Female Country Artist, Favorite Country Album and Album of the Year. First-time nominees include Doechii, Jelly Roll and Tommy Richman, among others. The show will be hosted by Jennifer Lopez and air live on Memorial Day.

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Favorite Hip-Hop Album

• Eminem, “The Death Of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce)”
• Future & Metro Boomin, “WE DON’T TRUST YOU”
• Gunna, “one of wun”
• Kendrick Lamar, “GNX”
• Tyler, The Creator, “CHROMAKOPIA”

Favorite Hip-Hop Song

• Future, Metro Boomin & Kendrick Lamar, “Like That”
• GloRilla, “TGIF”
• GloRilla & Sexyy Red, “WHATCHU KNO ABOUT ME”
• Kendrick Lamar, “Not Like Us”
• Kendrick Lamar & SZA, “Luther”

Favorite R&B Album

• Bryson Tiller, “Bryson Tiller”
• PARTYNEXTDOOR, “PARTYNEXTDOOR 4 (P4)”
• PARTYNEXTDOOR & Drake, “$ome $exy $ongs 4 U”
• SZA, “SOS Deluxe: LANA”
• The Weeknd, “Hurry Up Tomorrow”

Favorite R&B Song

• Chris Brown, “Residuals”
• Muni Long, “Made For Me”
• SZA, “Saturn”
• The Weeknd & Playboi Carti, “Timeless”
• Tommy Richman, “Million Dollar Baby”

The full list of nominees can be viewed on the AMAs website.

Source: CBS News