Charli XCX and Post Malone received additional 2025 Grammy nominations on Friday (December 20) for their work as art directors on the albums Brat and F-1 Trillion, respectively. When nominations were announced on November 8, these albums were included in the Best Recording Package category, but the artists were not credited as art directors. They have changed as a result of updated and resubmitted credits.
As a result, Charli XCX and Post Malone’s total number of nominations has increased from seven to eight, putting them close to Nomination Leader Beyoncé (11). They are ahead of Billie Eilish and Kendrick Lamar, who each received seven nominations.
These updates will be reflected in the Running List of Nomination List Changes maintained by the Recording Academy in the Grammy Awards Update Center.
Kate Bush is also nominated in this category for art direction, but her nomination was on the list when it was first announced. Bush has been named one of two art directors for Hounds of Love: The Baskerville Edition, a reissue of the 1985 album Hounds of Love. This album includes “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God),” which became a huge hit in 2022.
Recording artists play a large role in the art direction of an album. In the first 32 years of the Grammy Awards, only one artist has won a Grammy Award for being the art director of his or her own album. Frank Sinatra won the award at the first Grammy Awards in 1959 as the sole artist director for the album Frank Sinatra Sings for Only. lonely person
Over the past 34 years, nine artists have won as Art Director (or Co-Art Director) in the Best Recording Package category. Joni Mitchell’s “Turbulent Indigo” (1996) The same band’s “Ride With Bob” (2000) featured Ray Benson of “Asleep at the Wheel.” Ani DiFranco in “Evolve” (2004). Aimee Mann, The Forgotten Arm (2006). Tool’s Adam Jones appears on the band’s “10,000 Days” (2007). Michael Carney of The Black Keys joined the band’s Brothers (2011). Pearl Jam’s Jeff Ament was responsible for the band’s Lightning Bolt (2015). and Pure Comedy (Deluxe Edition) (2018) by Josh Tillman, better known as Father John Misty.
