The GRAMMY Awards 2025: The Winners

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As one of music’s most prestigious accolades, the GRAMMYs celebrate excellence across the industry. Downtown is proud to support the songwriters, artists, and businesses behind over 35% of this year’s winners.

Best Latin Jazz Album

Zaccai Curtis – Cubop Lives! | Zaccai Curtis [CD Baby]

Producer of the Year, Classical

Shachar Israel – Stranger At Home | Shachar Israel [CD Baby]

Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package

Simon Hilton & Sean Ono Lennon – Mind Games | John Lennon [Downtown Music Publishing]

Best Jazz Instrumental Album

Chick Corea & Béla Fleck – Remembrance | Béla Fleck [Downtown Music Publishing]

Best Música Urbana Album

Residente – LAS LETRAS YA NO IMPORTAN | Ibeyi [Downtown Music Publishing]

Best Spoken Word Poetry Album

Tank and the Bangas – The Heart, The Mind, The Soul | Tank and the Bangas [Downtown Music Publishing]

Best Rock Performance

The Beatles – Now and Then | John Lennon [Downtown Music Publishing]

Best American Roots Performance

Sierra Ferrell – Lighthouse | Rounder Records / Concord [found.ee]

Best American Roots Song

Sierra Ferrell & Melody Walker – American Dreaming | Rounder Records / Concord [found.ee]

Best Americana Album

Sierra Ferrell – Trail of Flowers | Rounder Records / Concord [found.ee]

Best Americana Performance

Sierra Ferrell – American Dreaming | Rounder Records / Concord [found.ee]

Best Bluegrass Album

Billy Strings – Live Vol. 1 | Hank & Ed Management [found.ee]

Best Engineered Album, Classical

Manfred Honeck & Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra – Bruckner: Symphony No. 7; Bates: Resurrexit | Naxos [FUGA]

Best Americana Performance

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings – Empty Trainload of Sky | Acony Records, Wixen Music Pubslishing [FUGA + FUGA UGC]

Best Folk Album

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings – Woodland | Acony Records, Wixen Music Pubslishing [FUGA + FUGA UGC]

Best Alternative Music Album

St. Vincent – All Born Screaming | Hipgnosis Songs [FUGA UGC]

Best Alternative Music Performance

St. Vincent – Flea | Hipgnosis Songs [FUGA UGC]

Best Contemporary Christian Music Album

DOE – Heart of a Human | Essential Music Publishing [FUGA UGC]

Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song

CeCe Winans – That’s My King | Taylor Agan [FUGA UGC]

Best Country Solo Performance

Chris Stapleton – It Takes a Woman | Spirit Music [FUGA UGC]

Best Gospel Performance/Song

Tasha Cobbs Leonard, Erica Campbell & Israel Houghton Featuring Jonathan McReynolds & Jekalyn Carr – One Hallelujah | Capitol CMG [FUGA UGC]

Best Pop Solo Performance

Sabrina Carpenter – Espresso | Hipgnosis Song [FUGA UGC]

Best Pop Vocal Album

Sabrina Carpenter – Short n’ Sweet | Hipgnosis Song [FUGA UGC]

Best R&B Album

Lalah Hathaway – Vantablack | Peer Music Publishing, Hipgnosis Songs [FUGA UGC]

Best Remixed Recording

Sabrina Carpenter – Espresso (Mark Ronson x FNZ Working Late Remix) | Hipgnosis Songs [FUGA UGC]

Best Rock Song

St. Vincent – Broken Man | Hipgnosis Songs [FUGA UGC]

Best Song Written for Visual Media

Jon Batiste – It Never Went Away [From “American Symphony”] | Hipgnosis Songs [FUGA UGC]

Album of the Year

Beyoncé – COWBOY CARTER | Peer Music Publishing, Scion Three Music [FUGA UGC, Downtown Music Publishing]

Best Country Album

Beyoncé – COWBOY CARTER | Peer Music Publishing, Scion Three Music [FUGA UGC, Downtown Music Publishing]

Best Progressive R&B Album

NxWorries (Anderson .Paak & Knxwledge) – Why Lawd? | Peer Music Publishing, Empire Music, Stones Throw Publishing [FUGA UGC, Downtown Music Publishing]

Best R&B Album

Chris Brown – 11:11 (Deluxe) | Spirit Music, Empire Music, Elijah Ross, Samm Vataleni Niingungo, Jeremiah Green [FUGA UGC, Songtrust]

Best Latin Pop Album

Shakira – Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran | Sergio Robledo Arango [Songtrust]

Best Melodic Rap Performance

Rapsody feat. Erykah Badu – 3:AM | Maurice Nichols [Songtrust]

Best R&B Performance

Muni Long – Made For Me (Live On BET) | Jordan Orvosh [Songtrust]

Best New Age, Ambient or Chant Album

Wouter Kellerman – Triveni | Wouter Kellerman [Sheer Publishing Africa]

Trustee’s Award

Erroll Garner | Octave Music Licensing [Downtown Music Publishing]