American Music Awards: Kendrick Lamar Lands a Leading 10 Nominations, Followed by Post Malone, Billie Eilish, Chappell Roan and Shaboozey

Kendrick Lamar is the leading contender for the 2025 American Music Awards , with 10 nominations in results announced Wednesday. The nearest runner-up is Post Malone , who has something else to celebrate besides his just-wrapped Coachella headlining stint, with eight noms. Billie Eilish , Chappell Roan and Shaboozey are tied for third in the nominations count with seven apiece.

Close behind them is Taylor Swift, described as “the winningest artist in AMAs history,” who has six opportunities this year to add to her historic total of 40. Swift is far from the only one with six nominations; sharing that number are Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga, Morgan Wallen, Sabrina Carpenter and SZA. Landing five noms apiece are Benson Boone, Hozier and Zach Bryan.



(Scroll down for a complete list of nominees.) Nominations are based on a combination of sales, streaming, airplay and touring data points from Billboard and Luminate, but the final awards are fan-voted. Voting is already open via VoteAMAs.

com and the show’s Instagram page, closing at the end of the day on May 15. The show, produced by Dick Clark Productions and broadcast from Las Vegas, airs live coast-to-coast on May 26, Memorial Day, at 8 p.m.

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Jennifer Lopez is hosting. Lamar only has three AMAs to his name so far, and he has a shot at nearly quadrupling that amount by the time the night is up, with 10 nods in eight categories. He’s up for Artist of the Year, Album of the Year (“GNX”), Song of the Year (“Not Like Us”), Collaboration of the Year (“Luther” with SZA), Favorite Music Video (“Not Like Us”), Favorite Male Hip-Hop Artist, Favorite Hip-Hop Album (“GNX”), and Favorite Hip-Hop Song (where he scored three nominations, for “Like That” with Future and Metro Boomin, “Not Like Us” and “Luther” with SZA).

Producers point out that if he should go the distance and win in all eight categories he’s up for, he would tie Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston for most awards in a single year. The top prize, Artist of the Year, will have 10 contenders vying: Ariana Grande, Billie Eilish, Chappell Roan, Kendrick Lamar, Morgan Wallen, Post Malone, Sabrina Carpenter, SZA, Taylor Swift and Zach Bryan. New Artist of the Year will be picked from a field of a mere six, with Roan up against Benson Boone, Gracie Abrams, Shaboozey, Teddy Swims and Tommy Richman.

The American Music Awards were last held in November 2022, not counting a 50th anniversary special that aired last fall. The AMAs have added several new categories for the 51st annual edition, including a couple of divisions that are staples of most other music awards shows: all-genre Album of the Year and Song of the Year awards, on top of the album and song trophies given out in individual genres. (The show briefly had a Single of the Year category in the mid-2010s but discontinued it.

) Also added for 2025 is another all-genre category, but in a less traditional vein: Social Song of the Year. Since the last AMAs show, categories for Favorite Inspirational Artist and Favorite Gospel Artist have been dropped, as the awards do without any specific recognition for religious genres for the first time since an inspirational award was added in 2003. The complete list of 2025 nominations: ARTIST OF THE YEAR Ariana Grande Billie Eilish Chappell Roan Kendrick Lamar Morgan Wallen Post Malone Sabrina Carpenter SZA Taylor Swift Zach Bryan NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR Benson Boone Chappell Roan Gracie Abrams Shaboozey Teddy Swims Tommy Richman ALBUM OF THE YEAR Beyoncé “Cowboy Carter” Billie Eilish “Hit Me Hard and Soft” Chappell Roan “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess” Charli xcx “BRAT” Gracie Abrams “The Secret of Us” Future & Metro Boomin “We Don’t Trust You” Kendrick Lamar “GNX” Post Malone “F-1 Trillion” Sabrina Carpenter “Short n’ Sweet” Taylor Swift “The Tortured Poets Department” SONG OF THE YEAR Benson Boone “Beautiful Things” Billie Eilish “Birds of a Feather” Chappell Roan “Good Luck, Babe!” Hozier “Too Sweet” Kendrick Lamar “Not Like Us” Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars “Die With A Smile” Post Malone Featuring Morgan Wallen “I Had Some Help” Sabrina Carpenter “Espresso” Shaboozey “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” Teddy Swims “Lose Control” COLLABORATION OF THE YEAR Kendrick Lamar & SZA “Luther” Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars “Die With A Smile” Marshmello & Kane Brown “Miles on It” Post Malone Featuring Morgan Wallen “I Had Some Help” ROSÉ & Bruno Mars “APT.

” Taylor Swift Featuring Post Malone “Fortnight” SOCIAL SONG OF THE YEAR Chappell Roan “Hot to Go!” Djo “End of Beginning” Doechii “Anxiety” Lola Young “Messy” Shaboozey “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” Tommy Richman “Million Dollar Baby” FAVORITE TOURING ARTIST Billie Eilish Luke Combs Morgan Wallen Taylor Swift Zach Bryan FAVORITE MUSIC VIDEO Benson Boone “Beautiful Things” KAROL G “Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido” Kendrick Lamar “Not Like Us” Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars “Die With A Smile” Shaboozey “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” FAVORITE MALE POP ARTIST Benson Boone Bruno Mars Hozier Teddy Swims The Weeknd FAVORITE FEMALE POP ARTIST Billie Eilish Chappell Roan Lady Gaga Sabrina Carpenter Taylor Swift FAVORITE POP ALBUM Billie Eilish “Hit Me Hard and Soft” Chappell Roan “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess” Charli xcx “Brat” Sabrina Carpenter “Short n’ Sweet” Taylor Swift “The Tortured Poets Department” FAVORITE POP SONG Benson Boone “Beautiful Things” Billie Eilish “Birds of a Feather” Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars “Die With A Smile” Sabrina Carpenter “Espresso” Teddy Swims “Lose Control” FAVORITE MALE COUNTRY ARTIST Jelly Roll Luke Combs Morgan Wallen Post Malone Shaboozey FAVORITE FEMALE COUNTRY ARTIST Beyoncé Ella Langley Kacey Musgraves Lainey Wilson Megan Moroney FAVORITE COUNTRY DUO or GROUP Dan + Shay Old Dominion Parmalee The Red Clay Strays Zac Brown Band FAVORITE COUNTRY ALBUM Beyoncé “Cowboy Carter” Jelly Roll “Beautifully Broken” Megan Moroney “Am I Okay?” Post Malone “F-1 Trillion” Shaboozey “Where I’ve Been, Isn’t Where I’m Going” FAVORITE COUNTRY SONG Jelly Roll “I Am Not Okay” Koe Wetzel & Jessie Murph “High Road” Luke Combs “Ain’t No Love in Oklahoma” Post Malone Featuring Morgan Wallen “I Had Some Help” Shaboozey “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” FAVORITE MALE HIP-HOP ARTIST Drake Eminem Future Kendrick Lamar Tyler, The Creator FAVORITE FEMALE HIP-HOP ARTIST Doechii GloRilla Latto Megan Thee Stallion Sexyy Red 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 MALE R&B ARTIST Bryson Tiller Chris Brown PARTYNEXTDOOR The Weeknd Usher FAVORITE FEMALE R&B ARTIST Kehlani Muni Long Summer Walker SZA Tyla 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” FAVORITE MALE LATIN ARTIST Bad Bunny Feid Peso Pluma Rauw Alejandro Tito Double P FAVORITE FEMALE LATIN ARTIST Becky G Karol G Natti Natasha Shakira Young Miko FAVORITE LATIN DUO or GROUP Calibre 50 Fuerza Regida Grupo Firme Grupo Frontera Julión Álvarez y su Norteño Banda FAVORITE LATIN ALBUM Bad Bunny “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS” Fuerza Regida “Dolido Pero No Arrepentido” Peso Pluma “ÉXODO” Rauw Alejandro “Cosa Nuestra” Tito Double P “INCÓMODO” FAVORITE LATIN SONG Bad Bunny “DtMF” FloyyMenor X Cris Mj “Gata Only” Karol G “Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido” Oscar Maydon & Fuerza Regida “Tu Boda” Shakira “Soltera” FAVORITE ROCK ARTIST Hozier Linkin Park Pearl Jam Twenty One Pilots Zach Bryan FAVORITE ROCK ALBUM Hozier “Unreal Unearth: Unending” Koe Wetzel “9 lives” The Marías “Submarine” Twenty One Pilots “Clancy” Zach Bryan “The Great American Bar Scene” FAVORITE ROCK SONG Green Day “Dilemma” Hozier “Too Sweet” Linkin Park “The Emptiness Machine” Myles Smith “Stargazing” Zach Bryan “Pink Skies” FAVORITE DANCE/ELECTRONIC ARTIST Charli XCX David Guetta John Summit Lady Gaga Marshmello FAVORITE SOUNDTRACK Arcane League of Legends: Season 2 Hazbin Hotel (Original Soundtrack) Moana 2 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) • Auliʻi Cravalho, Dwayne Johnson and Cast Twisters: The Album Wicked: The Soundtrack • Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande and Cast FAVORITE AFROBEATS ARTIST Asake Rema Tems Tyla Wizkid FAVORITE K-POP ARTIST Ateez Jimin RM ROSÉ Stray Kids Variety parent company PMC owns Dick Clark Productions in a joint venture with Eldridge..