Only 28% of nominees for the 2025 GRAMMY Awards are women, report finds

Women account for just 28% of this year’s GRAMMY nominees, according to a report from consultancy AKAS.

Titled Missing Voices of Women in Music and Music News, the report highlights the disparity between news of women’s successes within music and the realities of GRAMMY nods.

Findings suggest that men make up 69% of those nominated ahead of the 2025 ceremony, with only 20% of nominations in the “Big Four” – ie: Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist – were women.

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It notes that despite media coverage of “clean sweeps” by artists such as Taylor Swift, Adele and Billie Eilish in past ceremonies, In 2024 women only received 22% of the awards in those leading categories due to the prominence of male songwriters, producers and more behind the scenes.

From 2017 to 2024, only one in five nominations and awards from the GRAMMYs went to women.

And though there has been some progress, with women’s wins going up from 12% in 2017 to 32% in 2024, the reality is that last year’s GRAMMYS were male dominated — with three in four nominees, and more than two in three winners, being men.

The report argues that the media promotes a “who run the world, girls” narrative that makes it sound as though women are reign supreme, with around a quarter of women and GRAMMYS-related headlines in 2024 including the words “dominate” and “rule”.

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Reflecting on the findings, the report’s author Luba Kassova said: “Going forward, I would love reporting on this issue to fully align with reality.”

“The Recording Academy’s greatest contribution to this would be to open up its database of nominations and winners for gender analysis and clearly state women’s representation across all categories in its press releases.”

“For their part, the news media need to delve deeper, fact-checking press releases and asking investigative questions to uncover the true state of women’s success,” She added.

You can read the full report from AKAS, here.

Henrietta Taylor is Mixmag’s Digital Intern, follow her on Twitter