Charli XCX and Post Malone each received an additional nomination for the 2025 Grammys as art directors of their albums Brat and F-1 Trillion, respectively, on Friday (Dec. 20). The albums were included in the best recording package category when the nominations were announced on Nov. 8, but the artists weren’t credited as art directors. As a result of updated and resubmitted credits, they have been.
This hikes the nominations totals for both Charli XCX and Post Malone from seven to eight, which puts them just behind nominations leader Beyoncé (11). They pull ahead of Billie Eilish and Kendrick Lamar, who each have seven nominations.
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These updates are reflected in a running list of changes to the nominations list that the Recording Academy maintains at the Grammy Award Update Center.
Kate Bush is also nominated for art direction in this category, though her nomination was on the list when it was first announced. Bush is nominated as one of two art directors of Hounds of Love: The Baskerville Edition, a reissue of her 1985 album, Hounds of Love. That album featured “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God),” which became a 2022 smash-hit.
Recording artists are taking a larger role in the art direction of their albums. In the Grammys’ first 32 years, just one artist won a Grammy as the art director of his own album – Frank Sinatra, who won in 1959, at the first Grammy ceremony, as the sole artist director of his album Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely.
In the last 34 years, nine artists have won as art directors (or co-art directors) in the best recording package category – Suzanne Vega for Days of Open Hand (1991); Joni Mitchell for Turbulent Indigo (1996); Ray Benson of Asleep at the Wheel for that band’s Ride With Bob (2000); Ani DiFranco for Evolve (2004); Aimee Mann for The Forgotten Arm (2006); Adam Jones of Tool for that band’s 10,000 Days (2007); Michael Carney of The Black Keys for that band’s Brothers (2011); Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam for that band’s Lightning Bolt (2015); and Josh Tillman, better known as Father John Misty, for Pure Comedy (Deluxe Edition) (2018).
