Los Angeles, CA – February 9, 2025 – The music industry’s most sacred night returned to the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles for the 67th Annual Grammy Awards. If the previous year was a celebration of hip-hop’s 50th anniversary and the mainstreaming of women in rock, 2025 was the year the future officially clocked in.
No Grammy show is complete without a scandal. The 2025 ceremony was haunted by the absence of The Weeknd. Despite a blockbuster year with After Hours: Dawn FM Part II, the singer refused to submit his work, citing the Academy’s opaque “nomination review committees” which he claims cost him a nod in 2021. This boycott forced the Academy to address its credibility in real-time. Host Trevor Noah quipped, “We invited him. He left us on ‘read’—which is, frankly, a very Grammy thing to do to artists.” The joke landed awkwardly, highlighting the generational divide between the Academy’s older voting bloc and younger, streaming-native artists who see the Grammys as increasingly irrelevant. The 67th Annual Grammy Awards -2025-2025
dominated the general field, winning both Record of the Year and Song of the Year for his track "Not Like Us" [6, 23]. In total, he took home five awards, including Best Rap Performance and Best Music Video [8, 20]. Chappell Roan The 67th Annual Grammy Awards (2025): A Night