Grammy Awards: All the Artists Who’ve Been Nominated in the Big 4 Categories in the Same Year

For only the third time in Grammy history, two artists are nominated in each of the “Big Four” categories – album, record and song of the year plus best new artist – in the same year. Two red-hot pop stars, Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter, both achieved the feat for the 2025 awards. Olivia Rodrigo and FINNEAS both achieved it three years earlier. Billie Eilish and Lizzo both achieved it five years earlier.

This has happened more often in recent years because the number of nominees in each of the Big Four categories has expanded. Until the Grammy ceremony held in 2019, there were generally five nominees in each of those categories. The upcoming 67th annual Grammy Awards, set for Feb. 2, will mark the seventh year in a row there have been eight or more nominees in each of those categories. (There were 10 at the ceremonies in 2022 and 2023, but the Recording Academy brought it back down to eight in each of the least two years.)

Since 1959, when the Grammys introduced their best new artist category, just 16 artists have been nominated in each of the “Big Four” categories in the same year. Remarkably, 12 of those 16 artists are women. How to account for that? Grammy voters seem to like to give extra encouragement to talented young women artists.

Here’s a complete list of artists who have been nominated in each of the top four Grammy categories in the same year. The years shown are the years of the Grammy ceremonies.