Sabrina Carpenter, Shakira and Charli XCX had the crowd on its feet when they performed some of their biggest hits at the 2025 Grammy Awards on Sunday. Sabrina, 25, channeled Marilyn Monroe in a stunning mashup of her hits Please Please Please and Espresso. Later, Shakira, 48, turned up the temperature with medley of her 1998 hit Ojos Así, as well as her recent viral hit Shakira: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53.

And Charli, 32, kept the party going with a revealing, raunchy performance of her Grammy-winning Brat single Von Dutch. They were joined by some of the biggest artists at the ceremony, including Billie Eilish, Janelle Monáe, Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars, with the latter two performing as a duo. This year's Grammys were hosted by Trevor Noah for the fifth consecutive year and held at LA's Crypto.com Arena.

Sabrina Carpenter, Shakira and Charli XCX had the crowd on its feet when they performed some of their biggest hits at the 2025 Grammy Awards on Sunday. Sabrina, 25, channeled Marilyn Monroe in a stunning mashup of her hits Please Please Please and Espresso. Later, Shakira, 48, turned up the temperature with medley of her 1998 hit Ojos Así, as well as her recent viral hit Shakira: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53.

And Charli, 32, kept the party going with a revealing, raunchy performance of her Grammy-winning Brat single Von Dutch. Sabrina opened her performance as she descended an ornate staircase in a sequence that recalled Marilyn Monroe's iconic performance of Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, in which she also descends a red-carpet staircase while surrounded by male suitors. But Sabrina took a more comic approach at first, when she emerged at the top of her steps in a tuxedo-like black-and-white outfit.

As she sang a jazzy version of Please Please Please, she had trouble sinking up with the spotlight, which kept missing her. Then she looked as if she was about to perform a dance routine with a bejeweled cane, but just as she started to twirl it she accidentally tossed it away. Even the set was created with comedy in mind. As Sabrina appeared to be reaching a flat level, it was revealed to just be an optical illusion, as she kept walking into a pit until only her head popped out.

Then she stripped out of the the outfit to reveal a stunning blue bejeweled bodysuit that highlighted her curves and marked the start of Espresso. Sabrina put on a leggy display while male backup dancers twirled her in the air. Sabrina opened her performance as she descended an ornate staircase in a sequence that recalled Marilyn Monroe's iconic performance of Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

But Sabrina took a more comic approach at first, when she emerged at the top of her steps in a tuxedo-like black-and-white outfit. As she sang a jazzy version of Please Please Please, she had trouble sinking up with the spotlight, which kept missing her. Then she stripped out of the the outfit to reveal a stunning blue bejeweled bodysuit that highlighted her curves and marked the start of Espresso. The show raised funds to support fire relief efforts after the devastation caused by the LA blazes which began on January 7 in Pacific Palisades.

Superstar singer Beyonce dominates the list of Grammy Award contenders with 11 nods, including an Album Of The Year nomination for her venture into country music, Cowboy Carter. Behind Beyonce, Billie Eilish, Charli XCX, Kendrick Lamar and Post Malone tie with seven nominations each. Pop phenomenon Taylor Swift and newcomers Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter scored six each. Women dominated the Album of the Year category, the top Grammy honor.

Beyonce, winner of more Grammys over her career than any other artist, has never taken home the album trophy. Swift has won the honor four times and is in the running again with her breakup album The Tortured Poets Department. Beyonce got 11 nods for her album Cowboy Carter; seen on October 25 in Houston. At the awards ceremony in February, the Beyonce and Swift records will compete with Carpenter's 'Short n' Sweet,' 'Brat' from Charli XCX, Eilish's 'Hit Me Hard and Soft,' and Roan's 'The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess.'.

The two male artists nominated in the album field were rapper Andre 3000 with 'New Blue Sun' and jazz artist Jacob Collier for 'Djesse Vol. 4.'. Winners will be chosen by the roughly 13,000 singers, songwriters, producers, engineers and others who make up the Recording Academy. Beyonce's Cowboy Carter was viewed by experts and fans as a reclamation and homage to an overlooked legacy of Black Americans within country music and culture.

It became the first album by a Black woman to land at No. 1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart when it was released last spring. The Beyonce album was snubbed, however, by voters for the Country Music Awards in September. Beyonce's other Grammy nods included record and song of the year for single 'Texas Hold 'Em.' Her 11 nominations brought her lifetime total to 99, more than any other artist. Prior to Friday, she had been tied for the lead with her husband, rapper Jay-Z, who has 88.